Chapter 11, Verse 43
पितासि लोकस्य चराचरस्य त्वमस्य पूज्यश्च गुरुर्गरीयान्। न त्वत्समोऽस्त्यभ्यधिकः कुतोऽन्यो लोकत्रयेऽप्यप्रतिमप्रभाव।।11.43।।
pitāsi lokasya carācarasya tvamasya pūjyaśca gururgarīyān। na tvatsamo'styabhyadhikaḥ kuto'nyo lokatraye'pyapratimaprabhāva॥11.43॥
Word by word
- pitā
- the father
- asi
- you are
- lokasya
- of the world
- carācarasya
- of the moving and unmoving (animate and inanimate)
- tvam
- you
- asya
- of this (world)
- pūjyaḥ
- worthy of worship/reverence
- ca
- and
- guruḥ
- the teacher/preceptor
- garīyān
- greater/more venerable (than a guru)
- na
- not
- tvat-samaḥ
- equal to you
- asti
- exists/there is
- abhyadhikaḥ
- one who is superior/greater
- kutaḥ
- how could there be/whence
- anyaḥ
- another (one)
- loka-traye
- in the three worlds
- api
- even/also
- apratima-prabhāva
- O one whose power/glory is unequalled/incomparable
Commentary
43. Thou art the Father of this world, moving and unmoving. Thou art to be adored by this (world), Thou the Greatest Guru ; (for) Thy equal exists not ; whence another, superior to Thee, in the three worlds, O Being of unequalled greatness ?
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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