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त्वमादिदेवः पुरुषः पुराण स्त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्। वेत्तासि वेद्यं च परं च धाम त्वया ततं विश्वमनन्तरूप।।11.38।।

tvam ādi-devaḥ puruṣhaḥ purāṇas tvam asya viśhvasya paraṁ nidhānam vettāsi vedyaṁ cha paraṁ cha dhāma tvayā tataṁ viśhvam ananta-rūpa

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 11, Verse 38
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
You are the primal God, the ancient Purusha, the supreme refuge of this universe, the knower, the knowable, and the supreme Abode. Through You, the universe is pervaded, O Being of infinite forms.

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Why: Arjuna calls Krishna the first of the gods, the ancient Person, the ultimate resting place of the universe, the knower and the known, and the supreme abode, by whom the universe is pervaded, continuing to build a comprehensive, reverent description.

In life: fully processing an overwhelming experience sometimes means eventually being able to describe it comprehensively and with genuine reverence, not just react to it in fragments as it was happening.

Teaching: after a significant experience settles, try describing it comprehensively, in full, rather than only in the scattered fragments you managed during the experience itself, that fuller description is part of actually integrating what happened.

tvamyou
ādi-devaḥthe original Divine God
puruṣhaḥpersonality
purāṇaḥprimeval
tvamyou
asyaof (this)
viśhwasyauniverse
paramSupreme
nidhānamresting place
vettāthe knower
asiyou are
vedyamthe object of knowledge
chaand
paramSupreme
chaand
dhāmaAbode
tvayāby you
tatampervaded
viśhwamthe universe
ananta-rūpaposessor of infinite forms

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
11.38 त्वम् Thou? आदिदेवः the primal God? पुरुषः Purusha? पुराणः the ancient? त्वम् Thou? अस्य of (this)? विश्वस्य of Universe? परम् the Supreme? निधानम् Refuge? वेत्ता Knower? असि (Thou) art? वेद्यम् to be known? च and? परम् the Supreme? च and? धाम abode? त्वया by Thee? ततम् is pervaded? विश्वम् the Universe? अनन्तरूप O Being of infinite forms.Commentary Primal God? because the Lord is the creator of the universe.Purusha? because the Lord lies in the body (Puri Sayanat).Nidhaanam That in which the world rests during the great deluge or cosmic dissolution.The pot comes out of the clay and gets merged in clay. Even so the world has come out of the Lord and gets dissolved or involved in the Lord. So the Lord is the material cause of the world. Therefore? He is the primal God and the supreme refuge also.Vetta Knower of the knowable things. As the Lord is omniscient? He knows all about the world? and He is the instrumental or the efficient cause of this world.Param Dhama Supreme Abode of Vishnu. Just as the rope (the substratum for the superimposed snake) pervades the snake? so also Brahman or Vishnu through His Nature as ExistenceKnowledgeBliss Absolute pervades the whole universe.Moreover --