na yasya sakhyaṁ puruṣo 'vaiti sakhyuḥ
na yasya sakhyaṁ puruṣo 'vaiti sakhyuḥ
sakhā vasan saṁvasataḥ pure 'smin
guṇo yathā guṇino vyakta-dṛṣṭes
tasmai maheśāya namaskaromi
I offer respects to the great Lord, the friend residing within the body, who allows the jīva to manifest knowledge, and whom the jīva, though living with him, does not recognize as a friend, just as the sense objects do not know the revealing power of the senses.
This verse elaborates on the unseen form of the Lord. The jīva (puruṣaḥ) does not know that the Lord is his friend, the person who allows his senses to operate. The Lord lives in the body as a friend. Though he is ātmārāma, he allows the jīva to enjoy sense objects out of his friendship. And the jīva, though his friend, living in the body and experiencing the Lord’s friendship, does not know him. The Lord reveals knowledge of sense objects to the jīva through manifesting his intelligence and senses (vyakta-dṛṣteḥ). Another version is vyakta-dṛṣṭiḥ. Then it refers to the jīva by whom knowledge is revealed. It is like the sense objects which do not know the senses’ ability to reveal sweetness and other qualities of the sense objects.
|| 6.4.25 ||
deho 'savo 'kṣā manavo bhūta-mātrām
ātmānam anyaṁ ca viduḥ paraṁ yat
sarvaṁ pumān veda guṇāṁś ca taj-jño
na veda sarva-jñam anantam īḍe
The body, life airs, senses, internal senses, gross elements and sense objects do not know themselves or other things or the jīva. The jīva knows all of these items and the guṇas which cause them. He also can know Paramātmā, but does not really know the omniscient Lord. I worship that Lord with infinite qualities.
“The sense objects cannot know since they are material. But the jīva is conscious. Why does the jīva not know the Lord?” Though the jīva is conscious, he is unconscious of the Lord. The body, the life airs in the body, the sense and the internal senses (manavaḥ), the five gross elements (bhūta) and the sense objects (mātrām), do not know their own form or the form of other things, or the form of the jīva different from all other ātmās. The jīva however, because it is conscious, knows everything—the self, the body and the guṇas of matter, which are the root of all those items. In the liberated state the jīva also knows the Paramātmā (taj-jñaḥ). But he does not know the Supreme Lord. “But you said the jīva knows the Paramātmā. Why do you say he does not know the Lord?” He does not know because the Lord’s spiritual qualities are unlimited (anantam). It is said:
dyupataya eva te na yayur antam anantatayā
tvam api yad antarāṇḍa-nicayā nanu sāvaraṇāḥ
kha iva rajāṁsi vānti vayasā saha yac chrutayas
tvayi hi phalanty atannirasanena bhavan-nidhanāḥ
My Lord, you are unlimited, and no one has estimated the extent of your potencies. I think that even you do not know the range of your potential energies. Unlimited planets float in the sky just like atoms, and great Vedāntists, who are engaged in research to find you, discover that everything is different from you. Thus they finally decide that you are everything. SB 10.87.41
|| 6.4.26 ||
yadoparāmo manaso nāma-rūpa-
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