Word meanings
- verseyaḥ
- who
- mām
- me
- ajam
- unborn
- anādim
- beginningless
- ca
- and
- vetti
- know
- loka
- of the universe
- mahā-īśvaram
- the Supreme Lord
- asammūḍhaḥ
- undeluded
- saḥ
- they
- martyeṣu
- among mortals
- sarva-pāpaiḥ
- from all evils
- pramucyate
- are freed from-3
Translations
He who knows Me as unborn and beginningless, as the great Lord of the worlds, he among mortals is undeluded and is liberated from all sins.
He who knows Me as the unborn, without beginning, the Lord of the universe, he, stripped of his delusions, becomes free from all conceivable sins.
He who knows Me—the birthless, beginningless, and great Lord of the worlds—he, the undeluded one among mortals, becomes freed from all sins.
जो मनुष्य मुझे अजन्मा, अनादि और सम्पूर्ण लोकोंका महान् ईश्वर जानता है अर्थात् दृढ़तासे मानता है, वह मनुष्योंमें असम्मूढ़ (जानकार) है और वह सम्पूर्ण पापोंसे मुक्त हो जाता है।Commentary
As the Supreme Being is the cause of all the worlds? He is beginningless. As He is the source of the gods and the great sages, there is no source for His existence. As He is beginningless He is unborn. He is the great Lord of all the worlds. Asammudhah Undeluded. He who has realised that his own innermost Self is not different from the Supreme Self is an undeluded person. Through the removal of ignorance the delusion which is of the form of mutual superimposition between the Self and the not-Self is also removed.
He is freed from all sins done consciously or unconsciously in the three periods of time. The ignorant man removes his sins through the performance of expiatory acts (Prayaschitta) and enjoyment of the results. But he is not completely freed from all sins because he continues to do sinful actions through the force of evil Samskaras or impressions because he has not eradicated ignorance, the root cause of all sins, and its effect, egoism and superimposition or the feeling of I in the physical body.
As he dies, swayed by the forces of evil Samskaras, he engages himself in doing sinful actions in the next birth. But the sage of Selfrealisation is completely liberated from, all sins because ignorance, the root cause of all sins, and its effect, viz., the mistaken notion that the body is the Self on account of mutual superimposition between the Self and the not-Self, is eradicated in toto along with the Samskaras and all the sins. The Samskaras are burnt completely like roasted seeds.
Just as burnt seeds cannot germinate, so also the burnt Samskaras cannot generate further actions or future births. For the following reason also? I am the great Lord of the worlds.