Puruṣottama, All-pervading Energy Behind Life (15.17-15.20)🔗

Kṛṣṇa says that beyond these two aspects of puruṣa, the perishable body-mind energy and the imperishable spirit energy, lies the Surpreme energy, Supreme puruṣa. He is that Supreme puruṣa, Puruṣottama.

Puruṣa is the energy that pervades us. Puruṣottama is the energy that pervades the entire Universe. The Universe is imperishable. The energy behind the Universe is imperishable. Kṛṣṇa says that He is that energy, the Puruṣottama, that drives the Universe eternally—prathitaḥ puruṣottamaḥ (15.18). He is talking about Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the Īśvara. He is saguṇa, the universal form and nirguṇa, the formless energy.

He is the Brahman into whom six-billion humans and countless billion living beings on Earth, and countless entities in all the Universes merge. May that Puruṣottama, that Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, bless us all!

Know Me as the Supreme and Know Everything

Now, Kṛṣṇa presents the great truths about His true representation as the Supreme Self.

We are a part of the Whole. If we fall in tune with the Whole, the Whole behaves as a friend. The moment we think, discriminate with the Whole, it acts like an enemy. The Whole is not here to kill or violate us.

We are deeply, totally connected to the whole Universe. If we disappear into collective consciousness, we open infinite possibilities of life. Life is not restricted to animate forms. Life is happening in everything. Learn to complete with everything! I tell you, the state of completion is the best way to prepare yourself for life.

When we complete with everything, animate and inanimate, we experience the space of non-duality, Advaita, where each one is infinitely powerful and infinitely intelligent. Kṛṣṇa declares, 'whoever knows Me as the Supreme, Puruṣottama, without a doubt, is to be understood as the knower of everything, and worships Me with all his being, sarva-bhāvena bhārata (15.19).'

The difference between puruṣa, self and Puruṣottama, Self, perishable and imperishable, are for the 'deluded'. Once one has the awareness of Puruṣottama, Supreme consciousness, one merges into the space of oneness, Advaita. How can we attain or reach Puruṣottama, when we are already a part of Him? We can only gain awareness that we are a part of Him.

This is the profound secret teaching of Kṛṣṇa, the ultimate Master, Guru. Unless the experience of 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAMoham–THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM I Am,' happens, the Master never rests. Once you surrender, allow Him to work on you.

Let us pray to Puruṣottama Kṛṣṇa, Ultimate Energy, the Cosmic Intelligence, to give us the experience of Eternal Consciousness; to make us beings with jñāna cakṣu, eyes of knowledge, and establish us in Nityānanda, eternal bliss.