Shrimad Bhagavad-gita

by Narayana Gosvami | 2013 | 327,105 words

The Bhagavad-gita Verse 13.28, English translation, including the Vaishnava commentaries Sarartha-varsini-tika, Prakashika-vritti and Rasika-ranjana (excerpts). This is verse Verse 13.28 from the chapter 13 called “Prakriti-purusha-vibhaga-yoga (Yoga through Understanding the distinctions between Material Nature and the Enjoyer)”

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 13.28:

समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम् ।
विनश्यत्स्व् अविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति ॥ २८ ॥

samaṃ sarveṣu bhūteṣu tiṣṭhantaṃ parameśvaram |
vinaśyatsv avinaśyantaṃ yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati
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samam–equally; sarveṣu–in all; bhūteṣu–beings; tiṣṭhantam–situated; parama-īśvaram–the Supreme Controller; vinaśyatsu–among the perishable; avinaśyantam–imperishable; yaḥ–who; paśyati–sees; saḥ–he; paśyati–sees.

Only one who sees the Supreme Controller, who is equally disposed toward all beings, as the imperishable Lord situated within the perishable material elements actually sees.

Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Ṭīkā

(By Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura; the innermost intention of the commentary named ‘the shower of essential meanings’)

Śrī Bhagavān says, “Understand that Paramātmā is situated in all perishable bodies. Those who see in this way are real jñānīs.”

Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Prakāśikā-vṛtti

(By Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja; the explanation that illuminates the commentary named Sārārtha-varṣiṇī)

Those who are jñānīs in the real sense simultaneously experience the body, the embodied soul (the ātmā) and Paramātmā, who is the friend of the ātmā, by the influence of associating with a self-realized soul, who has seen the Truth. On the contrary, those who are bereft of such saintly association are truly ignorant. They can only see the perishable body and consider it to be their self. When the body is destroyed, they think that everything is lost. A jñānī, however, experiences the existence of the ātmā and Paramātmā even after the body is destroyed. When one body is destroyed, the ātmā enters another body along with the senses and subtle body. His friend, Paramātmā, also remains with the jīvātmā as a witness. Those who actually understand this are indeed jñānīs.

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