satyaḥ svayaṁ-jyotir ajaḥ purāṇaḥ
satyaḥ svayaṁ-jyotir ajaḥ purāṇaḥ
dhatte 'sya janmādy ajayātma-śaktyā
tāṁ vidyayodasya nirīha āste
The Lord has the universe as his body. He is called by many names. He is the controller. He is truth, and is self-revealing, unborn, and without beginning. He carries out the creation and destruction of the universe by his māyā-śakti, and rejecting her by his internal energy, remains indifferent to her.
This verse describes how the Lord is everything. He has many names (puru-hūtaḥ).
yatra vidyāvidye na vidāmo vidyāvidyābhyāṁ bhinno vidyāmayo hi yaḥ sa kathaṁ visayī-bhavati
We do not see vidyā or avidyā in the Lord. He is different from vidyā and avidyā. How can one know this Lord made of cit-śakti (vidyā)? Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad
This quotation shows that vidyā also means the Lord’s cit-śakti. By this auspicious energy, which is like a queen, the material energy (tām) is rejected (udasya).
tvam ādyaḥ puruṣaḥ sākṣād īśvaraḥ prakṛteḥ paraḥ |
māyāṁ vyudasya cic-chaktyā kaivalye sthita ātmani ||
You are the original Lord, the controller, beyond material energy. You are situated in your spiritual form, being one with your spiritual energy, and separate from the material energy. SB 1.7.23
|| 8.1.14||
athāgre ṛṣayaḥ karmāṇ-
īhante 'karma-hetave
īhamāno hi puruṣaḥ
prāyo 'nīhāṁ prapadyate
Therefore, the sages first perform actions in order to be free of action. A person by regulated action generally attains inaction.
Not able to understand how the Lord can simultaneously act and not act, the sages attempt to accomplish this at different times. Therefore, the sages first perform actions, in order to attain non-action, naiṣkarmyam. Another version has karma-hantave instead of akarma-hetave: for the destruction of action.
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