Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 11 · The Vision of the Universal Form

    Verse 37

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 11, Verse 37

    कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन् गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे। अनन्त देवेश जगन्निवास त्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत्।।11.37।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    kasmāch cha te na nameran mahātman garīyase brahmaṇo ’py ādi-kartre ananta deveśha jagan-nivāsa tvam akṣharaṁ sad-asat tat paraṁ yat

    Translation

    (a) And why should they not, O Mahatma, bow down to You who are great, being the first Creator, even of Brahma? (b) O Infinite, Lord of gods, O You who have the universe as Your abode! You are the imperishable individual self, the existent and the non-existent, and that which is beyond both.
    — Swami AdidevanandaFeatured

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