Chapter 7: Jñāna-vijñāna-yoga: – Knowledge and its ActualizationVerse 10
बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम् ।
बुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम् ॥
English Transliteration
bījaṃ māṃ sarva-bhūtānāṃ
viddhi pārtha sanātanam
buddhir-buddhimatām-asmi
tejas-tejasvinām-aham – 7.10
Translation
Know Me, O Partha, as the eternal seed of all beings. I am the intelligence of the intelligent. I am the brilliance of the brilliant.
Chanting Audio
Chapter 7: Jñāna-vijñāna-yoga: – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 10
Ma Gurupriya
Commentary
Creation consists of mobile and immobile entities. Both inhere in the same source, displaying a charming order. Creatures are assorted – from one to many, ranging from the huge whale to the minute bacterium.
Earth, water and air are inert material substances, with various beings thriving on them. What earth and water lack, how can beings evolved from them have? Thus sentience is latent in pañca-bhūtas, wherefrom are all beings born. Sentience is not matter, nor energy. It is the source of all. Krishna, the Soul, is sentience, the progenitor of all.
Intelligence is the highest human faculty. In fact, in creation too, Intelligence alone has shaped the Universe. Thinking and knowing, which are functions associated with brain, do not belong to brain, which is but grey matter. Remember, the ‘brain-dead’ can also breathe!
From material plane, Krishna enters the spiritual dimension, mind and intelligence being its expressions. Consciousness, says Krishna, is the seed of all!
