🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.43

Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 43 of 55

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🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition

11.43 For Thou art the Father of all things movable and immovable, the Worshipful, the Master of Masters! In all the worlds there is none equal to Thee, how then superior, O Thou who standeth alone, Supreme.

Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society

11.43 Thou art the Father of this world, moving and unmoving. Thou art to be adored by this world, Thou, the greatest Guru; (for) none there exists who is eal to Thee; how then could there be another superior to Thee in the three worlds, O Being of unealled power?

Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school

11.43 Asi, You are; pita, the Father, the Progenitor; lokasya, off all beings; cara-acarasya, moving and nonmoving. Not only are Yur are Father of this world, You are also pujyah, worthy of worship; since You are the guruh, Teacher; [He is the Teacher since He introduce the line of teachers of what is virtue and vice, and of the knowledge of the Self. And He is greater than a teacher because He is the teacher even of Hiranyagarbha and others.] gariyan, greater (than a teacher). How are You greater? In answer he says: Asti, there is; na, none other; tvat-samah, eal to You; for there is no possibility of two Gods. Because all dealings will come to naught if there be many Gods! When there is no possibility of another being eal toYou, kutah eva, how at all; can there be anyah, anyone; abhyadhikah, greater; api, even; loka-traye, in all the three worlds; apratima-prabhavah, O you of unrivalled power? That by which something is measured is pratima. You who have no measure for Your power (prabhava) are a pratima-prabhavah. Apratima-prabhava means 'O You of limitless power!' Since this is so,

Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school

11.43 O Being of matchless greatness! You are the father of this world, of all that moves and does not move. You are the teacher of this world. Therefore You are the one most worthy of reverence in this world of mobile and immobile entities. There is none eal to You. How then could there be in the three worlds another greater than You? No other being is eal to You in point of any attribute like compassion etc. How could there be any one greater? Inasmuch as You are the father of all, the most worthy of reverence, teacher and exalted over all by virtue of attributes like compassion etc.,

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly

11.43. You are the father of the world of the moving and unmoving; You are the great preceptor of this universe; in the triad of worlds there is no one eal to You-How can there be anyone else superior ? - having greatness not comprehended.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · a high-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition. (→ Full Mahāpurusha-detail page for the 102-year-living Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī Mahātmā.)

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading

।।11.43।। आप ही इस चराचर संसारके पिता हैं, आप ही पूजनीय हैं और आप ही गुरुओंके महान् गुरु हैं। हे अनन्त प्रभावशाली भगवन् ! इस त्रिलोकीमें आपके समान भी दूसरा कोई नहीं है, फिर अधिक तो हो ही कैसे सकता है !

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors

11.43 पिता Father? असि (Thou) art? लोकस्य of the world? चराचरस्य of the moving and unmoving? त्वम् Thou? अस्य of this? पूज्यः to be reserved? च and? गुरुः the Guru? गरीयान् weightier? न not? त्वत्समः eal to Thee? अस्ति is? अभ्यधिकः surpassing? कुतः whence? अन्यः other? लोकत्रये in the three worlds? अपि also? अप्रतिमप्रभाव O Being of unealled power.Commentary There exists none who is eal to Thee There cannot be two or more Isvaras. If there were? the world will not get on as it does now. All the Isvaras may not be of one mind? as they would all be independent of one another. What one wishes to create? another may wish to destroyWhen there does not exist one who is eal to Thee? how could there be one superior to TheeFather Creator. As the Lord is the creator of this world He is fit to be adored. He is the greatest Guru also. Therefore there is no one who is eal to the Lord.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)

Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship

11.43 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.

Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching

।।11.43।। हम यहाँ देखते हैं कि भावावेश के कारण अवरुद्ध कण्ठ से अर्जुन श्रीकृष्ण के प्रति अत्यादर के साथ कहता है कि आप इस चराचर जगत् के पिता हैं। निसन्देह ही? जाग्रत् स्वप्न? और सुषुप्ति अवस्थाओं के अनुभव लोक भी? आत्मतत्त्व की स्थूल? सूक्ष्म और कारण उपाधियों के द्वारा अभिव्यक्ति से ही विद्यमान प्रतीत होते हैं। उन सबका प्रकाशक आत्मचैतन्य सर्वत्र एक ही है।स्वाभाविक है कि अर्जुन के कथन के अनुसार भगवान् अप्रतिम प्रभाव से सम्पन्न हैं और उनके समान भी जब कोई नहीं है? तो उनसे अधिक श्रेष्ठ कौन हो सकता हैक्योंकि वास्तविकता ऐसी है

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor

।।11.43।। व्याख्या--'पितासी लोकस्य चराचरस्य'--अनन्त ब्रह्माण्डोंमें मनुष्य, शरीर, पशु, पक्षी आदि जितने जङ्गम प्राणी हैं, और वृक्ष, लता आदि जितने स्थावर प्राणी हैं, उन सबको उत्पन्न करनेवाले और उनका पालन करनेवाले पिता भी आप हैं, उनके पूजनीय भी आप हैं तथा उनको शिक्षा देनेवाले महान् गुरु भी आप ही हैं -- 'त्वमस्य पूज्यश्च गुरुर्गरीयान्।'

🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā

This is verse 43 of 55 in Chapter 11 · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga (The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision)
Chapter theme: Krishna reveals His universal-form · BG 11.5 paśya me pārtha rūpāṇi
Ṣaṭka grouping: TAT-Ṣaṭka (BG 7-12 · the Lord)
Chapter hub: /visvarupa-kala
⭐ Mahābhārata anchor: this verse is also MBh 6.33.43 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)

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