Chapter 15: Purushottama-yoga:: Verse 12
यदादित्यगतं तेजो जगद्भासयतेऽखिलम् ।
यच्चन्द्रमसि यच्चाग्नौ तत्तेजो विद्धि मामकम् ॥
yad-ādityagataṃ tejo
jagad-bhāsayate’khilam
yaccandramasi yac-cāgnau
tat-tejo viddhi māmakam – 15.12
Know the brilliance of the sun that illumines the entire world, the brilliance in the moon and also in the fire, to be from Me (the Supreme).
Chapter 15: Purushottama-yoga: - Verse 12
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Krishna removes all shades of doubt about the nature and potential of the Self. The world is what our senses see and show. All its variety is wrought by our five senses. To the objects, eyes bestow brilliance, ears bestow sound, nose smell, tongue taste and skin touch. Objects have no independent status or potential. Their potentials are imparted to them by senses in our body.
Wherefrom does the sun have its brilliance? Our eyes alone show the sun as brilliant. That brilliance is from the Self. How does the inner Self bestow external brilliance?
Self alone has evolved our body, of which senses are a part. It imbues each sensory organ with its power. Eyes gift colour and brilliance to the objects. Nothing besides the eye can bestow luminosity. Eyes reveal the sun. The inner mind reveals the eyes. The inmost ‘I’ is what reveals the intelligence, through it the eyes and through the eyes the sun. Thus the one source of all outer and inner brilliances is the Self.
