Chapter 11 · Verse 37
विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग
कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन् गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे | अनन्त देवेश जगन्निवास त्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत् ||११-३७||
kasmācca te na nameranmahātman garīyase brahmaṇo.apyādikartre . ananta deveśa jagannivāsa tvamakṣaraṃ sadasattatparaṃ yat ||11-37||
11.37 (a) And why should they not, O Mahatman, bow down to You who are great, being the first Creator, even of Brahma? (b) O Infinite, Lord of gods, O You who have the universe for Your abode! You are the imperishable individual self, the existent and the non-existent, and that which is beyond both.
The Lord is Mahatma. He is greater than all else. He is the imperishable. So He is the proper object of worship love and delight. That which exists in the three periods of time is Sat. Brahman is Sat. That which does not exist in the three periods of time is Asat. This world is Asat. This body is Asat. The words Sat and Asat mean here the manifested and the unmanifested which form the adjuncts of the Akshara (imperishable). In reality the Akshara transcends both these. The word Akshara is applied in the Gita sometimes to the Unmanifest (Nature) and sometimes to the Supreme Being. Ananta is He Who is free from the three kinds of limitations (of time space and thing) which have already been explained. Arjuna again praises the Lord thus
कस्मात् why च and ते they न not नमेरन् may prostrate महात्मन् O greatsouled One गरीयसे greater ब्रह्मणः of Brahma अपि also आदिकर्त्रे the primal cause अनन्त O Infinite Being देवेश O Lord of the gods जगन्निवास O Abode of the universe त्वम् Thou अक्षरम् Imperishable सत् the Being असत् nonbeing तत् That परम् the Supreme यत् which.