Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 37

कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन् गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे । अनन्त देवेश जगन्निवास त्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत्

kasmācca te na nameranmahātman garīyase brahmaṇo'pyādikartre | ananta deveśa jagannivāsa tvamakṣaraṃ sadasattatparaṃ yat

Translation

And how should they not, O Mighty Being, bow to Thee, Greater (than all else), the Primal Cause even of Brahmā, 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.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

kasmāt

wherefore

ca

and

te

they

na

not

nameran

may prostrate

mahātman

O Mahātmā

garīyase

to the greater teacher

brahmaṇaḥ

of Brahmā

api

also

ādikartre

to the first maker

ananta

O endless one

deveśa

O Lord of Gods

jagannivāsa

O dwelling of the worlds

tvam

thou

akṣaram

imperishable

sat

Being

asat

non-being

tat

that

param

highest

yat

which

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Brahmā: the Hiraṇyagarbha. (Because Thou art the Mighty Being), therefore Thou art the proper object of delight and worship. Thou art the Supreme Being, as revealed in the Vedāntas (Upaniṣads): Thou art the Sat and the A-sat. The existent, as well as the non-existent — i.e., that with reference to which arises our consciousness of non-existence, — form the upādhis (conditions) of the Akṣara, on account of which He is spoken of as the Sat or the A-sat, the existent or the non-existent. In reality, the Imperishable (Akṣara) whom the Veda-knowers speak of transcends the Sat and the A-sat, and He is Thyself and none else.