SB 01.02.11 vadanti tat tattva-vidas... cited (Lec)

Expressions researched:
"Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan" |"Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth" |"bhagavan iti sabdyate" |"brahmeti paramatmeti" |"call this nondual substance" |"tattvam yaj jnanam advayam" |"vadanti tat tattva-vidas"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "1.2.11" or "Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan" or "Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth" or "bhagavan iti sabdyate" or "brahmeti paramatmeti" or "call this nondual substance" or "tattvam yaj jnanam advayam" or "vadanti tat tattva-vidas"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Lecture on BG 1.15 -- London, July 15, 1973:

Realization of the Absolute Truth are three features, Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān.

vadanti tat tattva-vidas

tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam

brahmeti paramātmeti

bhagavān iti śabdyate

(SB 1.2.11)

Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. The same object. So the Brahman realization is impersonal realization. Just like the sun, the sun globe, and the sunshine. They are one, but the sunshine, realization of the sunshine, is not realization of the sun globe. Or realization of the sun globe is not realization of the sun god who is within the sun globe. Vivasvān. His name is Vivasvān. The present predominating Deity in the sun planet, his name is Vivasvān. And his son Manu is called Vaivasvata Manu. This is the age of Vaivasvata Manu. So at the... This is very nice example, that the sunshine, the sun globe and the sun god. They are all one, but still, the sun globe is not the person, sun god; neither the sunshine is not the person sun, although they are one. This is called acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, inconceivably one and different simultaneously.