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cause of all causes, from whom all manifested universes arise, in whom they dwell
and by whom they are destroyed. | meditate upon that eternally effulgent Lord
who is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations and yet is fully inde-
pendent.” The Supreme Personality of Godhead knows very well how to do every-
thing perfectly. He is abhijfiah, always fully conscious. The Lord therefore says in
Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 7.26) that He knows everything, past, present and future, but no
one but a devotee knows Him as He is. Therefore, the Absolute Truth, the Person-
ality of Godhead, is at least partially understood by devotees of the Lord, but the
Mayavadi philosophers who unnecessarily speculate to understand the Absolute
Truth simply waste their time.
TEXT 128
‘aise’ CH aetatey — cacwa fawta |
Saat 64 AAP TA-UHT 1 sQv-
‘pranava’ se mahavakya—-vedera nidana
isvara-svarupa pranava sarva-visva-dhama
SYNONYMS
pranava—the omkara; se—that; maha-vakya—transcendental sound vibration;
vedera—of the Vedas; nidana—basic principle; iSvara-svarupa—direct representation
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pranava—omkara; sarva-vigva—of all uni-
verses; dhama—is the reservoir.
TRANSLATION
“The Vedic sound vibration omkara, the principle word in the Vedic literatures,
is the basis of all Vedic vibrations. Therefore one should accept omkara as the sound
representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the reservoir of the
cosmic manifestation.
PURPORT
In Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 8.13) the glories of ormkara are described as follows:
om ity ekaksaram brahma
vyaharan mam anusmaran
yah prayati tyajan deham
sa yati paramam gatim
This verse indicates that omkara, or pranava, is a direct representation of the Su-
preme Personality of Godhead. Therefore if at the time of death one simply remem-
bers omkara, he remembers the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is therefore
immediately transferred to the spiritual world. Ormkara is the basic principle of all
