Of those who bear weapons I am Rāma, Dasaratha’s son.
सर्गाणामादिरन्तश्च मध्यं चैवाहमर्जुन ।
अध्यात्मविद्या विद्यानां वादः प्रवदतामहम् ॥ ३२ ॥
sargāṇāmādirantaśca madhyaṃ caivāhamarjuna .
adhyātmavidyā vidyānāṃ vādaḥ pravadatāmaham .. 32 ..
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I am the source, the stay and the end of all evolution.—At the commencement (x. 20) it was said that He is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all sentient existence; but here the whole creation in general is referred to. The knowledge of the Self is the chief among all knowledges, because it leads to moksha. By ‘disputants’ we should here understand the several kinds of disputation,—vada, jalpa, vitanda,* etc. Vada is the chief of them, as it is a means of determining truth.
Vada is that way of arguing, of which the object is to arrive at truth regarding a certain question. ‘Jalpa’ is an argument in which a disputant tries to assert his own opinion and to refute that of his adversary by an overbearing reply or a wrangling rejoinder, ‘Vitanda’ consists in idly carping at the arguments or assertions of another without attempting to establish the opposite side of the question.