Sri Hari, the One and Only Supreme Truth
ब्रह्म वा इदमग्र आसीत्तदेकं सन्न व्यभवत्
says Brihadaranyakopanishad. All this originally was Brahma. One and only one Brahma. Being one, he could not flourish, increase.
नान्योऽतोऽस्ति द्रष्टा – There is no seer other than him.
अनेजदेकं मनसो जवीयः – says Ishavasyopanishad. It is stationary, unmoving, still faster than mind.
तत्र को मोहः कः शोक एकत्वमनुपश्यतः – For someone who realizes this oneness, where is the chance of falling into any delusion? Can there be any grief for him?
Rigveda says –
सर्वेषां भूतानामन्तरः पुरुषः सम आत्मेति विद्यात् – The Supreme Lord should be known as the Purusha inside all beings.
आत्मा वा इदमेक एवाग्र आसीन्नान्यत्किंचन – Originally, this Atma, Paramatma, Sri Hari alone was there. Nothing else.
एकं सद्विप्रा बहुधा वदन्ति – That Sat, that ultimate truth alone, that one and only truth is described by the scholars using different terms.
एकं सन्तं बहुधा कल्पयन्ति – One and only, but perceived as many.
एको दाधार भुवनानि विश्वा – The one and only support for all the worlds.
एक एवाग्निर्बहुधा समिद्धः – One and only Agni, burning/blazing in several forms.
Chandogya Upanishad says –
सदेव सोम्येदमग्र आसीदेकमेवाद्वितीयम् – Only that Sat was there at first. Nothing else. No second. Only one.
सर्वभूतस्थितं यो मां भजत्येकत्वमास्थितः
सर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि स योगी मयि वर्तते –
The yogi who has realized and affirmed oneness and sees me in everything, he lives in me only. Externally, he may do multiple things; his actions may not show that he has realized me. The realization of oneness – Ekatva – is the realization that it is me alone who is present in everything.
विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि
शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः –
The real scholar, the jnani, doesn’t differentiate between the learned and humble Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, or an outcaste. For him, they are all the same because it is the same Supreme Reality that is within all of them.
अहमात्मा गुडाकेश सर्वभूताशयस्थितः
अहमादिश्च मध्यं च भूतानामन्त एव च –
‘Gudaaka’ means the indriyas, senses – their ‘isha’, one who has command over the senses. Arjuna is being addressed by Sri Hari as Gudakeshaha. I alone am in the hearts of all beings. I am the beginning, the middle, and end of all.
यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकत्वमनुपश्यति
तत एव च विस्तारं ब्रह्म संपद्यते तदा –
Brahma is attained when one realizes that this manifold, this multitude that we see around, has sprung out of, spread out of a single source, single entity.
यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः
क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत –
Just as the single Sun illuminates the whole world, the Lord Sri Hari alone gives chetana to all the beings.
सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज
अहं त्वा सर्वपापेभ्यः मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः –
Arjuna was perturbed by his dharma – his obligations, traditional and ethical – as the battle was going on. Sri Hari tells him: Leave everything aside. Have full confidence in me. When you do that, your responsibilities cease to exist. Then it is my responsibility to take you ahead.
अश्चर्यं खलु देवानामेकस्त्वं पुरुषोत्तम
धन्यश्चासि महाबाहो लोके नान्योऽस्ति कश्चन –
Oh! Purushottama, among all the Devas you are the most wonderful and blissful. There is no comparison to you.
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