| 10. By Me presiding,
Prakriti produces the moving and the unmoving ; because of this, O son of
Kunti, the world revolves. By Me presiding: as a mere viewer on every side
and the immutable witness. My Maya i.e the Avidya, composed of the three
gunas, produces the universe comprising the moving and the unmoving objects.
So says the chant: The one, the illuminous, hidden in all beings, allpervading,
the Inner Self of all, the superintendent of all acts, the abode of all
beings, the witness, the perceiver, alone, and free from qualities: Because
I am the witness, because I preside, this universe comprising the moving
and the unmoving objects, the manifested and the unmanifested, moves on
through all stages Indeed, all activity in the worldsuch as I shall enjoy
this, I see this, I hear this, I feel pleasure, I feel pain, To gain this
I shall do it, I shall learn this arises by way of forming an object of
consciousness ; it has its being in consciousness and has its end in consciousness.
Such chants as Who in the Supreme Heaven (of the heart) is the witness of
this ; point only to this view. Accordingly as there is no conscious entity
other than the One Divine Being, there cannot be a separate enjoyer and
it is therefore irrelevant to ask or to answer the question, Of what purpose
is this creation by the One, the Divine, the pure allwitnessing Spirit or
Consciousness, having really no concern with any enjoyment whatever ? So
says the sruti: Who could perceive (It) directly, and who could declare
whence born and why this variegated creation ? The Lord has also said: Wisdom
is enveloped by unwisdom ; thereby mortals arc deluded. The life of the
impious. Though I am thus eternal, pure, wise, and free, by nature, Omniscient,
the Self of all. |
