ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं वचो वाच्यं तमो ज्योतिस्त्वयं स्वयम् ॥५७॥
ÄdÄv ante janÄnÄá¹ sad
bahir antaḥ parÄvaram
jñÄnaá¹ jñeyaá¹ vaco vÄcyaá¹
tamo jyotis tv ayaá¹ svayam
Ädau - in the beginning; ante - at the end; janÄnÄm - of all living entities; sat - always existing; bahiḥ - externally; antaḥ - internally; para - transcendental; avaram - material; jñÄnam - knowledge; jñeyam - the objective; vacaḥ - expression; vÄcyam - the ultimate object; tamaḥ - darkness; jyotiḥ - light; tu - indeed; ayam - this one (the Supreme Lord); svayam - Himself.
He who exists internally and externally, at the beginning and end of everything and of all living beings, as that which is enjoyable and as the enjoyer of everything, superior and inferior, is the Supreme Truth. He always exists as knowledge and the object of knowledge, as expression and the object of understanding, as darkness and as light. Thus He, the Supreme Lord, is everything.
Here the Vedic aphorism sarvaá¹ khalv idaá¹ brahma is explained. It is also explained in the catuḥ-Å›lokÄ« BhÄgavatam. Aham evÄsam evÄgre. The Supreme Lord existed in the beginning, He exists after the creation and maintains everything, and after destruction everything merges in Him, as stated in Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (praká¹›tiá¹ yÄnti mÄmikÄm). Thus the Supreme Lord is actually everything. In the conditioned state, we are bewildered in our understanding, but in the perfect stage of liberation we can understand that Kṛṣṇa is the cause of everything.
īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-Änanda-vigrahaḥ
anÄdir Ädir govindaḥ
sarva-kÄraṇa-kÄraṇam
“Kṛṣṇa, who is known as Govinda, is the supreme controller. He has an eternal, blissful, spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin, for He is the prime cause of all causes.†(Brahma-saá¹hitÄ 5.1) This is the perfection of knowledge.
