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<p>Added {content_identifier} content</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>English Translation By Swami Gambirananda<br /> 8.3 The Blessed Lord said The Immutable is the supreme Brahman; self-hood is said to the entity present in the individual plane. By action is meant the offerings which bring about the origin of the existence of things.<br /> English Translation By Swami Sivananda<br /> 8.3 The Blessed Lord said Brahman is the Imperishable, the Supreme; Its essential nature is called Self-knowledge; the offering (to the gods) which causes existence and manifestation of beings and which also sustains them is called action.<br /> English Translation Of Sri Shankaracharya&#039;s Sanskrit Commentary By Swami Gambirananda<br /> 8.3 Aksaram means that which does not perish (na ksarati), the supreme Self. This agrees with the Upanisadic text, &#039;Under the mighty rule of this Immutable, O Gargi৷৷.&#039; (Br. 3.8.9). And (the letter) Om is not accept here [as the meaning of aksara (lit. letter)], because of its being mentioned (as a letter) later on in, &#039;The single letter Om, which is Brahman&#039; (13). Besides, the adjective &#039;supreme&#039; is more apporpriate with regard to the absolute, immutable Brahman.<br /> By svabhava, self-hood, is meant the eixtence of that very supreme Brahman in every body as the indwelling Self. Svabhavah ucyate, self-hood is said to be, is referred to by the word; adhyatmam, the entity which, as the indwelling Self, exists in the body (atma) by making it its habitat (adhikrtya), and which in the ultimate analysis is the supreme Brahman.<br /> Visargah, the offerings, the giving away to gods of things like porridge [Caru: An oblations of rice, barley and pulse boiled-together to be offered to gods.], cake, etc.; bhuta-bhava-udbhava-karah, which bring about the origin of the existence of things; is karma-sanjnitah, meant by action. This sacrifice consisting in pouring of oblations is called action. The existence (bhava) of (moving and nonmoving) things (bhuta) is bhuta-bhava. The coming into being (udbhava) of that (existence) is bhuta-bhava-udbhavah. That which causes (karoti) this is bhuta-bhava-udbhava-karah, i.e. the originator of existing things. It is needed from this source that all bengs, moving and non-moving, originate thorugh the successive processes of railfall etc. (see 3.14-15).</div>

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