Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 410

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-13 Prakṛti-Puruṣa-vivek Yogaḥ

Commentary The Supreme Self (Paramātma) consisting of bliss absolute, is declared to be the Overself of the individual Self (Kṣetrajña). Similarly all the three Vedas; (Rig, Saman and Yajur) in their various methods of teaching, affirm the separate and distinctive existence of the Kṣetra and the Kṣetrajña with Brahman as their Overself. Likewise, the same doctrine is taught in the Brahma-Sutra; the aphorisms concerning Brahman, known also as the Shariraka-Sutras, (“the aphorism concerning the embodied one”) which are comprised of cogent, reasoned, logical and irrefutable conclusions. In the Sutras commencing with, ‘Space is not created because there are no Vedic declarations to that effect’ , the nature and the attributes of the Kṣetra are determined. In the Sutras commencing with — ‘The individual Self has no beginning because there are no Scriptural statements to that effect and because of its eternality, [determined] from them (the Vedas)’ , the true nature of the Kṣetrajña is established. In the Sūtras — ‘But from the Supreme, this Being declared by the Vedas’ , it is explained that the Lord is the Overself of the individual Self because He controls it. mahā-bhūtāny-ahaṅkāro buddhir-avyaktam eva ca | indriyāṇi daśaikaṃ ca pañca cendriya gocarāḥ || 6 || 6. The principle elements, the Ahaṅkāra, the Buddhi, the Avyakta, the ten senses and the one besides, and the five objects of the senses;