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āhus tvām ṛṣayaḥ sarve / devarṣir nāradas tathā
asito devalo vyāsaḥ / svayaṁ caiva bravīṣi me

“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ul -
mate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth. You are the eternal, tran-
scendental, original person, the unborn, the greatest. All the great sag-
es such as Nārada, Asita, Devala and Vyāsa confirm this truth about
You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.” (Bg 10. 12-13)

ma aḥ parataraṁ nānyat / kiñcid as dhanañ-jaya
mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ / sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva

“O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything
rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.” (Bg 7.7)

Purport: “There is a common controversy over whether the Supreme
Absolute Truth is personal or impersonal. As far as Bhagavad-gītā is
concerned, the Absolute Truth is the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa,
and this is confirmed in every step. In this verse, in par cular, it is
stressed that the Absolute Truth is a person. That the Personality of
Godhead is the Supreme Absolute Truth is also the affirma on of
the Brahma-saṁhitā: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-
vigrahaḥ; that is, the Supreme Absolute Truth Personality of Godhead
is Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is the primeval Lord, the reservoir of all pleasure,
Govinda, and the eternal form of complete bliss and knowledge. These
authori es leave no doubt that the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Per-
son, the cause of all causes. The impersonalist, however, argues on the
strength of the Vedic version given in the Śvetāśvatara
Upaniṣad (3.10): tato yad u ara-taraṁ tad arūpam anāmayam/ ya
etad vidur amṛtās te bhavan athetare duḥkham evāpiyan . “In the
material world Brahmā, the primeval living en ty within the universe,
is understood to be the supreme amongst the demigods, human beings
and lower animals. But beyond Brahmā there is the Transcendence,
who has no material form and is free from all material contamina ons.
Anyone who can know Him also becomes transcendental, but those
who do not know Him suffer the miseries of the material world.”

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