अतोऽस्मि लोके वेदे च प्रथितः पुरुषोत्तमः ॥
मैं क्षरसे अतीत हूँ और अक्षरसे भी उत्तम हूँ, इसलिये लोकमें और वेदमें पुरुषोत्तम नामसे प्रसिद्ध हूँ ॥
एक घोषणा · विराट भाव · गहरे अर्थ वाला
“The highest reality lies beyond both change and permanence.”
मैं क्षरसे अतीत हूँ और अक्षरसे भी उत्तम हूँ, इसलिये लोकमें और वेदमें पुरुषोत्तम नामसे प्रसिद्ध हूँ ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर जाकर उसे देखें।
शब्दशःbecause · the perishable · beyond · I · than the imperishable · also · and · higher · therefore · I am · in the world · in the Veda · and · well known · Purushottama
Krishna says he is beyond both the changing world and the unchanging principle behind it. That is why he is called the Supreme Self.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "पुरुषोत्तम योग" में।
श्लोक 18 भगवद् गीता के 15वें अध्याय में है — पुरुषोत्तम योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 20 श्लोक हैं।
You finally reach the thing you thought would settle everything — the title, the relationship, the achievement — and it still feels incomplete. Krishna points beyond every stopping place.
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It shifts the mind from settling for any limited identity to recognising the highest reality beyond all categories.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
Krishna says he is beyond both the changing world and the unchanging principle behind it. That is why he is called the Supreme Self.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna is frozen, and Krishna has been leading him through the deepest levels of reality. After explaining the perishable, the imperishable, and the supreme being beyond both, Krishna now names himself as that highest reality.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
You finally reach the thing you thought would settle everything — the title, the relationship, the achievement — and it still feels incomplete. Krishna points beyond every stopping place.
“Reality is larger than both what fades and what seems permanent.”
संबंधित विषय: purushottama (14 श्लोक), akshara (12 श्लोक)