Mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya, mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva
O conqueror of wealth (Arjuna), there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread. This verse establishes the absolute supremacy of God as the ultimate reality, the substratum on which all existence depends.
- •There is no reality higher than the Supreme
- •All existence is connected through God like beads on a string
- •God is the invisible thread underlying all manifestation
Yac capi sarva-bhutanam bijam tad aham arjuna, na tad asti vina yat syan maya bhutam characaram
I am the generating seed of all existences, O Arjuna. There is no being, moving or unmoving, that can exist without Me. The Lord declares Himself to be the very seed — the fundamental creative principle — without which nothing in creation, animate or inanimate, could exist or function.
- •God is the seed of all existence — the creative principle in everything
- •Nothing in creation, moving or still, exists independently of the Divine
- •Recognising God as the ultimate cause leads to seeing divinity everywhere
Yavat sanjayate kinchit sattvam sthavara-jangamam, kshetra-kshetrajña-samyogat tad viddhi bharatarshabha
Know, O Arjuna, that whatever being, moving or non-moving, is born, it is from the union between the field and the knower of the field.
- •All creation stems from consciousness and matter
- •The interplay of spirit and material
- •Understanding the basis of existence