البهاغافاد غيتا

[This is a paurawic verse speaking of the Antaryamin, the Inner Guide and Regulator of all souls. It is quoted here by the commentator in order that he may begin his important work, after the orthodox fashion, with the con* templation of his favourite God (Ishifa-Devata), namely, N&~ r&ya«a, and further with a view to shew that the Pura«a (archaic history), the Itihasa (ancient tradition) and the Gtt& teach one and the same doctrine. NEtr&yarca is, In the popular conception, the Creator who was brooding over the waters just before the "beginning of Creation. Cf. Manu I. 10. According to a subtler conception, N&r&yawa is the Antaryamin, the Divine Being in whom all embodied souls have their being. He is not a creature of the Avyakta, but far transcends it. It is the Avyakta,— the Avyaknta, Maya» the undifferentiated matter, — out of which, when in apparent union with Isvara, is evolved the principle of Hira/jyagarbba, here spoken of as Attda or the Mundane Egg, which is composed of the five simple rudimentai elements of matter. An intermingling of the five rudimentai elements of matter gives rise to the principle of the Viraj, of which are formed the Earth and all the 2 THE BHAGAVAD-GITA