kapilas tattva-saṅkhyātā
Chapter Twenty-five
Kapila Teaches Bhakti
|| 3.25.1||
śaunaka uvāca
kapilas tattva-saṅkhyātā
bhagavān ātma-māyayā
jātaḥ svayam ajaḥ sākṣād
ātma-prajñaptaye nṛṇām
Śaunaka said: The Supreme Lord Kapila, unborn, who enumerated the elements, appeared by his own energy to give spiritual knowledge to mankind.
In the Twenty-fifth Chapter, on inquiry from his mother, Kapila speaks about bhakti, its qualities, its power and its excellence. Kapila is the founder of enumeration of elements (tattva), the Sāṅkhya philosophy. Though he is by nature unborn, by his own energy, he appears to be born. He appeared by his inconceivable potency and performed the pastime of birth, since it is not possible to say that the Lord has a material birth. Gītā say:
janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ |
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so ’rjuna ||
He who understands in truth my spiritual birth and activities, attains me on giving up his body, and does not take birth again janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvataḥ. (BG 4.9)
|| 3.25.2 ||
na hy asya varṣmaṇaḥ puṁsāṁ
varimṇaḥ sarva-yoginām
viśrutau śruta-devasya
bhūri tṛpyanti me 'savaḥ
Because I delight in hearing, my senses can never be fully satisfied with topics about the form Kapila, greatest among the great persons such as puruṣāvatāras, and the great yogīs such as Dattātreya.
My life air and senses can not be fully satisfied with the topics of the Supreme Lord, Kapila, greatest among the puruṣas such as Kṣīrodakaśāyī and greatest among the yogīs such as Dāttatreya. I delight in hearing (śruta-devasya). Or śruta-devasya along with bhūri can refer to the topics of “the Lord who is heard about, plentifully.”
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yad yad vidhatte bhagavān
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