Word meanings
- jñāna-yajñena
- yajña of cultivating knowledge
- ca
- and
- api
- also
- anye
- others
- yajantaḥ
- worship
- mām
- me
- upāsate
- worship
- ekatvena
- undifferentiated oneness
- pṛthaktvena
- separately
- bahudhā
- various
- viśwataḥ-mukham
- the cosmic form
Translations
Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the All-Faced, as one, distinct, and manifold.
Others worship Me with full consciousness as the One, the Manifold, the Omnipresent, and the Universal.
Others indeed worship Me by exclusively adoring through the sacrifice of the knowledge of oneness; (others worship Me) in many ways, and (others) as the multiform existing in various forms.
दूसरे साधक ज्ञानयज्ञके द्वारा एकीभावसे (अभेद-भावसे) मेरा पूजन करते हुए मेरी उपासना करते हैं और दूसरे कई साधक अपनेको पृथक् मानकर चारों तरफ मुखवाले मेरे विराट्ररुपकी अर्थात् संसारको मेरा विराट्ररुप मानकर (सेव्य-सेवकभावसे) मेरी अनेक प्रकारसे उपासना करते हैं।Commentary
Others too sacrificing by the wisdomsacrifice, i.e., seeing the Self in all, adore Me the One and the manifold, present everywhere. They regard all the forms they see as the forms of God, all sounds they hear as the names of God. They give all objects they eat as offerings unto the Lord in vaious ways. Some adore Him with the knowledge that there is only one Reality, the Supreme Being Who is Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. They identify themselves with the Truth or Brahman. This is the Monistic view of the Vedantins.
Some worship Him making a distinction between the Lord and themselves with the attitude of master and servant. This is the view of the Dualistic School of philosophy. Some worship Him with the knowledge that He exists as the various divinities? Brahma? Vishnu? Rudra? Siva, etc. Visvatomukham Others worship Him who has assumed all the manifold forms in the world? Who exists in all the forms as the Allfaced (the one Lord exists in all the different forms with His face on all sides, as it were).
(Cf.IV.33)