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Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya
Chapter-10 Vibhūti Yogaḥ
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aham ātmā guḍākeśa sarva bhūtāśaya sthitaḥ | CommentaryI am the ātman seated in the hearts of all beings who constitute My corporeal manifestation (sharira). This is later confirmed in verses 15:15 & 18:61. The Vedas also declare this [1]. Thus, I exist as the Self of all beings and I am their beginning, their middle and also their end which means I am the cause of their origination, sustentation and dissolution. Thus, Sri Krishna explains the grammatical rule of Samānādhikaraṇya or co-ordinate predication by demonstrating His immanence in all beings, which are His manifestations having Him, as their Self. Sri Krishna proceeds to present some specific or distinguished manifestations in the same style of co-ordinate predication. As the Lord abides as the Self in all things, the final significance of all nouns culminates in Him alone. Nouns such as god, human, bird, tree etc., though signifying the respective physical forms of those objects, ultimately refer to the Selves (atman) of those objects. Similarly, Krishna being the immanent Over-Self of each one of them is the basis for describing them in the manner of co-ordinate predication. Concluding the discourse of Vibhūtis, Krishna says:— “There is nothing, moving or unmoving, that can exist apart from Me” [2]. The fact that they are inseparable from Krishna and cannot exist independently because of being under His control has already been declared in the words “Everything proceeds from Me” [3]. |
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