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अर्जुन उवाच परं ब्रह्म परं धाम पवित्रं परमं भवान्। पुरुषं शाश्वतं दिव्यमादिदेवमजं विभुम्।।10.12।।

arjuna uvācha paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān puruṣhaṁ śhāśhvataṁ divyam ādi-devam ajaṁ vibhum

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 10, Verse 12
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Arjuna said, "You are the Supreme Brahman, the supreme abode, the supreme purifier, eternal, divine Person, the primeval God, unborn, and omnipresent."

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Why: Arjuna responds by calling Krishna the Supreme Brahman, the supreme abode, the purest, the eternal divine person, describing an intensified, more personal recognition after everything just explained.

In life: sometimes understanding accumulates gradually until a moment where you suddenly feel the full weight and reality of something you'd only partly grasped intellectually before.

Teaching: notice when your gradual understanding of something important reaches a tipping point into felt, personal conviction, that shift from intellectual to felt understanding is itself meaningful and worth acknowledging.

arjunaḥ uvāchaArjun said
paramSupreme
brahmaBrahman
paramSupreme
dhāmaAbode
pavitrampurifier
paramamSupreme
bhavānyou
puruṣhampersonality
śhāśhvatamEternal
divyamDivine
ādi-devamthe Primal Being
ajamthe Unborn
vibhumthe Great

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
10.12 परम् supreme? ब्रह्म Brahman? परम् supreme? धाम abode? पवित्रम् purifier? परमम् supreme? भवान् Thou? पुरुषम् Purusha? शाश्वतम् eternal? दिव्यम् divine? आदिदेवम् primeval God? अजम् unborn? विभुम् omnipresent.Commentary Param Brahma The highest Self. The word Param indicates the pure and attributeless Absolute? free from the limiting adjuncts. It is Satchidananda Brahman. The inferior Brahman is the Brahman with alities (Saguna) or Isvara? Brahman with the limiting adjuncts or the chosen object of meditation by the devotees.Param Dhama means Param Tejah or the supreme light. From the Creator down to the blade of grass the Supreme Being is the support or substratum. Therefore He is known as the supreme abode.Adideva The primeval God or the original God Who existed before all other gods. This God is Para Brahman Itself. It is selfluminous.Pavitram Paramam Supreme purifier. The sacred rivers and holy places of pilgrimage can remove only the sins but Para Brahman can destroy all sins and ignorance? the root cause of all sins. Therefore Para Brahman or the Supreme Self is the supreme purifier.