BHAGAVAD-GITA 15:19

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 15:19

 

yo mam evam asammudho

janati purusottamam

sa sarva-vid bhajati mam

sarva-bhavena bharata

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

yah--anyone who; mam--Me; evam--thus; asammudhah--without a doubt;

janati--knows; purusa-uttamam--the Supreme Personality of Godhead;

sah--he; sarva-vit--the knower of everything; bhajati--renders

devotional service; mam--unto Me; sarva-bhavena--in all respects;

bharata--O son of Bharata.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without

doubting, is the knower of everything. He therefore engages himself in

full devotional service to Me, O son of Bharata.

 

PURPORT

 

There are many philosophical speculations about the constitutional

position of the living entities and the Supreme Absolute Truth. Now in

this verse the Supreme Personality of Godhead clearly explains that

anyone who knows Lord Krsna to be the Supreme Person is actually the

knower of everything. The imperfect knower goes on simply speculating

about the Absolute Truth, but the perfect knower, without wasting his

valuable time, engages directly in Krsna consciousness, the devotional

service of the Supreme Lord. Throughout the whole of Bhagavad-gita,

this fact is being stressed at every step. And still there are so many

stubborn commentators on Bhagavad-gita who consider the Supreme

Absolute Truth and the living entities to be one and the same.

 

Vedic knowledge is called sruti, learning by aural reception. One

should actually receive the Vedic message from authorities like Krsna

and His representatives. Here Krsna distinguishes everything very

nicely, and one should hear from this source. Simply to hear like the

hogs is not sufficient; one must be able to understand from the

authorities. It is not that one should simply speculate academically.

One should submissively hear from Bhagavad-gita that these living

entities are always subordinate to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Anyone who is able to understand this, according to the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, knows the purpose of the Vedas; no

one else knows the purpose of the Vedas.

 

The word bhajati is very significant. In many places the word bhajati

is expressed in relationship with the service of the Supreme Lord. If

a person is engaged in full Krsna consciousness, in the devotional

service of the Lord, it is to be understood that he has understood all

the Vedic knowledge. In the Vaisnava parampara it is said that if one

is engaged in the devotional service of Krsna, then there is no need

for any other spiritual process for understanding the Supreme Absolute

Truth. He has already come to the point, because he is engaged in the

devotional service of the Lord. He has ended all preliminary processes

of understanding. But if anyone, after speculating for hundreds of

thousands of lives, does not come to the point that Krsna is the

Supreme Personality of Godhead and that one has to surrender there,

all his speculation for so many years and lives is a useless waste of

time.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

permission.