Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 43
पितासि लोकस्य चराचरस्य त्वमस्य पूज्यश्च गुरुर्गरीयान् । न त्वत्समोऽस्त्यभ्यधिकः कुतोऽन्यो लोकत्रयेऽप्यप्रतिमप्रभाव
pitāsi lokasya carācarasya tvamasya pūjyaśca gururgarīyān | na tvatsamo'styabhyadhikaḥ kuto'nyo lokatraye'pyapratimaprabhāva
Translation
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?
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- pitā
- father
- asi
- (thou) art
- lokasya
- of the world
- carācarasya
- of moving, of unmoving, and
- tvam
- thou
- asya
- (of) this
- pūjyaḥ
- to be reverenced
- ca
- and
- guruḥ
- the guru
- garīyān
- weightier
- na
- not
- tvatsamaḥ
- of thee, the equal
- asti
- is
- abhyadhikaḥ
- surpassing
- kutaḥ
- whence
- anyaḥ
- other
- lokatraye
- in the world triplet
- api
- also
- apratimaprabhāva
- unrivalled, might, whose, he
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Thy equal exists not: for there cannot be two Īśvaras or Lords; if there were more than one Īśvara, the world could not get on as it now does. When even Thy equal exists not, how can there exist a being superior to Thee?