Chapter 11, Verse 37
कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन् गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे। अनन्त देवेश जगन्निवास त्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत्।।11.37।।
kasmācca te na nameranmahātman garīyase brahmaṇo'pyādikartre. ananta deveśa jagannivāsa tvamakṣaraṃ sadasattatparaṃ yat.11.37.
Word by word
- kasmāt
- why (for what reason)
- ca
- and/indeed
- te
- to you
- na
- not
- nameran
- they should bow/pay homage
- mahātman
- O great soul
- garīyase
- to the greater/more venerable one
- brahmaṇaḥ
- than Brahmā
- api
- even/also
- ādikartre
- to the original creator
- ananta
- O infinite one
- deveśa
- O lord of gods
- jagannivāsa
- O abode of the universe
- tvam
- you
- akṣaram
- the imperishable
- sat
- the existent (being)
- asat
- the non-existent (non-being)
- tat param
- that which is beyond/supreme
- yat
- which
Commentary
37. And how should they not, O Mighty Beings bow to Thee, Greater (than all else), the Primal Cause even of Brahma, O Infinite Being, O Lord of Gods, O Abode of the Universe ; Thou art the Imperishable, the Being and the non- Being, That which is the Supreme.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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