Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan

Bg 10.33

akṣarāṇām a-kāro ’smi
dvandvaḥ sāmāsikasya ca
aham evākṣayaḥ kālo
dhātāhaṁ viśvato-mukhaḥ

Word for word: 

akṣarāṇām — of letters; a–kāraḥ — the first letter; asmi — I am; dvandvaḥ — the dual; sāmāsikasya — of compounds; ca — and; aham — I am; eva — certainly; akṣayaḥ — eternal; kālaḥ — time; dhātā — the creator;aham — I am; viśvataḥ–mukhaḥ — Brahmā.

Translation: 

Of letters I am the letter A, and among compound words I am the dual compound. I am also inexhaustible time, and of creators I am Brahmā.

 

akṣarāṇām a-kāro ’smi, there are many letters…now this gives us a vision of Absolute Truth that is actually pervasive, when we look at the letters we normally do not thing about Krishna, language is more technical, Jiva Goswami to help us get devotional vision of language he wrote whole grammar based on rule using names of Krishna and Vishnu, Hari Namamritha Vyakaran, that is to see spiritual within grammatical here BG is telling us the same things in principle, and saying that among the letters some letters are more commonly used, are more important, the alphabet begins with A, in Sanskrit it is AA kaara so among the Akshra among the letter Aa is the beginning and it is said that in all sounds in Sanskrit A sound is present, A sound is universal in all sounds in Sankrit so that sound represents Krishna 

dvandvaḥ sāmāsikasya ca, sāmāsika is compound words for example we have devotee children, devotee scientist etc. in compound words normally one word is heavier it depends on the context what one wanted to emphasize, children or devotees, but there are some special compound words where both the words are equally important, e.g. Rama Krishna this is dvandvaḥ and is representation of Krishna. Krishna Kaviraj Goswami says in CC that in a sentence there should not be more than one word that is necessary, in paragraph there should not be more than one sentence which is necessary, in essay there should not be more than one paragraph which is necessary. So eloquence is truth spoken concisely as. So when we use words in such a way that every word has potency and compound word both words have equal potency then that is the sign of expertise use in language and such dvandvaḥ is opulence of Krishna,     

aham evākṣayaḥ kālo, so here Krishna is repeating about the power of time earlier He has said among subduer I am time but here He is saying aham evākṣayaḥ kālo, ākṣayaḥ is imperishable so eternal, I am inexhaustible time so actually in this world time has a peculiar characteristics, time exhaust everyone but never gets exhausted, time keeps moving-moving at its own pace that is representation of Krishna.

dhātāhaṁ viśvato-mukhaḥ, viśvato-mukhaḥ refers to Brahma Ji, dhātāh so among various creator Brahma Ji represents Krishna’s opulence so this power Brahma Ji gets from Krishna this is an opulence of Krishna.

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