PARABRAHMA SUTRAS (46-48)

46. Edamiti nirdeshaat naabhaavasarvaabhyaam.

Translation: The Lord is denoting His body only by the word ‘this’. If the Lord means the body of every human being, this denoting word must be absent or a word like ‘all’ must have been used there.

Explanation: The Lord says in Gita that Kshetram is ‘this body’. The word ‘this’ denotes only a single body. The word ‘this man’ denotes only one specific person. If the Lord means that the body of every human being is Kshetram, He should not have used the word ‘this’. Then the statement would be ‘body is said to be Kshetram’. Alternatively, the Lord might have used the word ‘every’ before the body so that the statement becomes ‘every body is called as Kshetram’. Both the options do not exist in the verse. Hence, the word ‘this’ denotes the body of the Lord only.

47. Na paarthasya pakshdvayaabhaavaat.

Translation: The word ‘this’ certainly does not indicate the body of Arjuna. Arjuna being one among the several, the above two options must have been selected.

Explanation: The doubt here is that the single body denoted by the word ‘this’ may mean the body of Arjuna and not Krishna. This possibility is rejected because in such case, the above two options should have been selected so that the body of ordinary human being becomes the reference. When ordinary human being stands here by the above two options, naturally the body of Arjuna is also covered since he is also one among the ordinary human beings. Since, the above two options were not selected, the body here referred must be the body of Krishna only, since Krishna is only the specific human being, being the human incarnation, who is different from all human beings.

48. Kshetrajnashchaapi dvirukteratarkyabodhyah.

Translation: The Lord says that God is also the knower. Here the word ‘also’ is stressed by two repeated words. This means that God beyond logic is also knower like the soul, though God is not the soul.

Explanation: The Lord said that God is also a knower like soul. Here the word ‘also’ is very much stressed by repeating words i.e., cha and api. Such repetition indicates that God is not the knower simply by the reason that God is soul. The stress indicates that God is knower not by normal way of being the soul and God is knower by some special way. The normal logic is that the soul is knower because the soul is awareness. The special logic must be that God is knower even though He is not awareness. God is beyond awareness and so if God is knower, the reason is not that God is awareness. The special reason is that since God is the source of everything in the creation and can do anything, God can know anything without being awareness.