Chapter 11 - Verse 37

कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन्
गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे ।
अनन्त देवेश जगन्निवास
त्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत् ॥ ३७ ॥

kasmācca te na nameranmahātman
garīyase brahmaṇo’pyādikartre .
ananta deveśa jagannivāsa
tvamakṣaraṃ sadasattatparaṃ yat .. 37 ..


And how should they not, O Mighty Being, bow to Thee, Greater (than all else), the Primal Cause even of Brahma, O Infinite Being, O Lord of Gods, O Abode of the Universe; Thou art the Imperishable, the Being and the non-Being, That which is the Supreme.
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Brahma: the Hiraṇyagarbha. (Because Thou art the Mighty Being), therefore Thou art the proper object of delight and worship. Thou art the Supreme Being, as revealed in the Vedāntas (Upaniṣads): Thou art the Sat and the A-sat. The existent, as well as the non-existent—i.e., that with reference to which arises our consciousness of non-existence,—form the upadhis (conditions) of the Akṣara, on account of which He is spoken of as the Sat or the A-sat, the existent or the non-existent. In reality, the Imperishable (Akṣara) whom the Veda-knowers speak of transcends the Sat and the A-sat, and He is Thyself and none else.

He again extols the Lord thus: