Monday, October 10, 2011

Rig Veda says Lord vishnu is supreme

Rig Veda says Lord vishnu is supreme

RV 1.22.20
तद विष्णोः परमं पदं सदा पश्यन्ति सूरयः |
दिवीव चक्षुराततम ||


Saintly people always behold the supreme abode of Lord Vishnu by virtue of their divine vision.

1.22.21
तद विप्रासो विपन्यवो जाग्र्वांसः समिन्धते |
विष्णोर्यत परमं पदम ||


They always sing the holy sublime glories of Lord Vishnu's supreme abode.


Arjuna is referring to Sri Krishna as Sri Vishnu in gita. So Sri Krishna and Sri Vishnu are non different.

BG 11.30
lelihyase grasamānaḥ samantāl

lokān samagrān vadanair jvaladbhiḥ

tejobhir āpūrya jagat samagraḿ

bhāsas tavogrāḥ pratapanti viṣṇo
BG 11.30: O Viṣṇu, I see You devouring all people from all sides with Your flaming mouths. Covering all the universe with Your effulgence, You are manifest with terrible, scorching rays.

BG 11.31: O Lord of lords, so fierce of form, please tell me who You are. I offer my obeisances unto You; please be gracious to me. You are the primal Lord. I want to know about You, for I do not know what Your mission is.


Arjuna asks Sri Krishna as following:

BG 10.15: Indeed, You alone know Yourself by Your own internal potency, O Supreme Person, origin of all, Lord of all beings, God of gods, Lord of the universe!


BG 10.16: Please tell me in detail of Your divine opulences by which You pervade all these worlds.

Towards the end after explaining all his opulences Sri Krishna concludes that

BG 10.39: Furthermore, O Arjuna, I am the generating seed of all existences. There is no being — moving or nonmoving — that can exist without Me.


BG 10.40: O mighty conqueror of enemies, there is no end to My divine manifestations. What I have spoken to you is but a mere indication of My infinite opulences.

BG 10.41: Know that all opulent, beautiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.

BG 10.42: But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe.


BG 10.37

vṛṣṇīnāḿ vāsudevo 'smi

pāṇḍavānāḿ dhanañjayaḥ

munīnām apy ahaḿ vyāsaḥ

kavīnām uśanā kaviḥ


There is no Krishna here .vasudeva in this verse refers to Vasudev or King of Vrishnis.

So entire tenth chapter explains that although everything is manifestation of Sri Krishna opulence still it does not mean that anything and everyone is Krishna.


(Thanks to Haridas)

2 comments:

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  2. Haribol Prabhu,
    Can you share me the pdf of that rig Veda

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