Gita Bhashya (Sri Ramanujacharya) 7.7
Gita Bhashya (Sri Ramanujacharya) 7.7 · 7 · Verse 7
Sanskrit Original
।।7.7।।यथा सर्वकारणस्य अपि प्रकृतिद्वयस्य कारणत्वेन सर्वाचेतनवस्तुशेषिणः चेतनस्य अपि शेषित्वेन कारणतया शेषितया च अहं परतरः तथा ज्ञानशक्तिबलादिगुणयोगेन च अहम् एव परतरः मत्तः अन्यत् मद्व्यतिरिक्तं किञ्चिद् ज्ञानबलादिगुणान्तरयोगि परतरं न अस्ति।सर्वम् इदं चिदचिद्वस्तुजातं कार्यावस्थं कारणावस्थं च मच्छरीरभूतं सूत्रे मणिगणवदात्मतया अवस्थिते मयि प्रोतम् आश्रितम्। यस्य पृथिवी शरीरम् (बृ0 उ0 3।7।3)यस्यात्मा शरीरम् (बृ उ 3।7।22)एष सर्वभूतान्तरात्मापहतपाप्मा दिव्यो देव एको नारायणः (सु0 उ0 7) इति आत्मशरीरभावेन अवस्थानम् च जगद्ब्रह्मणोः अन्तर्यामिब्राह्मणादिषु सिद्धम्।अतः सर्वस्य परमपुरुषशरीरत्वेन आत्मभूतपरमपुरुषप्रकारत्वात् सर्वप्रकारः परमपुरुष एव अवस्थित इति सर्वैः शब्दैः तस्य एव अभिधानम् इति तत्तत्सामानाधिकरण्येन आह रसः अहम् इति चतुर्भिः
7.7 I am absolutely superior to all in two ways: 1) I am the cause of both the Prakrtis and I am also their controlling master (Sesin). This controllership over inanimate nature is exercised through the animate Prakrti (the Jivas) who form the inner controller (Sesin) of their bodies which are constituted of inanimate nature. 2) I am supreme to all in another sense also - as the possessor of knowledge, power, strength etc., in an infinite degree. There is no entity other than Me with such attributes of an eal or superior nature. The aggregate of all the animate and inanimate things, whether in their causal state or in the state of effect, is strung on Me who abides as their Self, as a row of gems on a thread. They depend on Me. And it is proved that the universe of inanimate and animate beings exists as the body with Brahman (i.e. the Supreme Person) as their Self as declared by the Antaryami-brahmana and other texts: 'He whose body is the earth' (Br. U., 3.7-3), 'He whose body is the self' (Br. U. Madh., 3.7.22), and 'He is the inner self of all beings, without evil, He is the Lord in the supreme heaven, He is the one Narayana' (Su. U., 7). Thus, as everything constitutes the body of the Supreme Person forming only a mode of His who is their Self, the Supreme Person alone exists, and all things (which we speak of as diversity) are only His modes. Therefore all terms used in common parlance for different things, denote Him only. Sri Krsna shows this by coordinating some important ones among these entities with Himself.