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Chapter 15
Link:- The Lord having described His identity, with the Supreme Person, now discloses His secret, when He declares:
yasmatksaramadto'hamaksaradapi cottamah
ato'smi like vede ca prathitah purusottamah
As I transcend the perishable and am above the imperishable, I am declared as Purussottama (Supreme Person) in the world, as well as in the Vedas. 18
Comment:-
Yasmatksaramattto'ham:- The Lord, declares, that the perishable (Nature) is kaleidoscopic, while lie remains the same, without undergoing any modifications. So, He transcends the perishable.
Senses are superior to a body, superior to the senses, is mind, superior to the mind, is intellect (Gita 3/42). In spite of the superiority, of one to the other, the body, senses, mind and the intellect are insentient, and belong to the same class. But, God, transcends all of them, as He is sentient, while all of them, are insentient.
Aksaradapi eottamah:- Though, being a fragment of Gad, the soul, (the imperishable) has Its identity with God, yet here the Lord, declares that He is superior even to the soul. How? There are few reasons: (1) The soul in spite of being a fragment of God, assumes Its affinity for the perishable Nature (Gila 15/7) and is deluded by modes of Nature, while God (being beyond Nature) never gets deluded, (Gila 7/13), (2) God, subduing His own Nature, manifests Himself (incarnates), (Gila 4/6) while the embodied soul, being under compulsion by Nature, streams forth into being (Girl 8/19), (3) God ever remains untainted (Gita 4/14; 9/9), while the embodied soul, has to attain the state of untaintedness (GIta 4/18; 7/14).
When the Lord declares, that He transcends the perishable, and is even higher, than the imperishable, He also means to mention, that the perishable and the imperishable, are also different. Had they not been different, the Lord would have declared, "I transcend the perishable and the imperishable, or I am higher than the perishable and the imperishable." It proves that the imperishable, also transcends the perishable, and is higher than it, in the same way as God, transcends the perishable and is higher than, the imperishable.
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