Devanagari
सर्वासामपि सिद्धीनां हेतु: पतिरहं प्रभु: ।
अहं योगस्य साङ्ख्यस्य धर्मस्य ब्रह्मवादिनाम् ॥ ३५ ॥
Verse text
sarvāsām api siddhīnāṁ
hetuḥ patir ahaṁ prabhuḥ
ahaṁ yogasya sāṅkhyasya
dharmasya brahma-vādinām
Synonyms
sarvāsām
—
of all of them
;
api
—
indeed
;
siddhīnām
—
of the mystic perfections
;
hetuḥ
—
the cause
;
patiḥ
—
the protector
;
aham
—
I am
;
prabhuḥ
—
the Lord
;
aham
—
I
;
yogasya
—
of unalloyed meditation on Me
;
sāṅkhyasya
—
of analytic knowledge
;
dharmasya
—
of work executed without personal desire
;
brahma
—
vādinām — of the learned community of Vedic teachers .
Translation
My dear Uddhava, I am the cause, the protector and the Lord of all mystic perfections, of the yoga system, of analytic knowledge, of pure activity and of the community of learned Vedic teachers.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
I am the cause, the maintainer and the master of all siddhis of the yoga system, of jṣāna, of niṣkāma-karma, and of the searchers for Brahman.
Since all siddhis are achieved by meditation on me, I alone am the cause of those siddhis. Not only am I the cause of the siddhis, I am the maintainer of those siddhis, and the master of them as well. I am the cause, maintainer and master not only of the siddhis, because I am the cause of yoga in which there is meditation upon me. I am also the cause of jṣāna (sāṅkhyasya), and the cause of niṣkāma-karma (dharma), which produces jṣāna.
Purport
According to Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī, the word
yoga
here indicates liberation from material life, and
sāṅkhya
indicates the means of obtaining liberation. Thus Lord Kṛṣṇa is not merely the Lord of material
yoga
perfections, but of the highest liberated perfections as well. One can obtain
sāṅkhya,
or knowledge leading to liberation, by performing pious activities, and Lord Kṛṣṇa is also the cause, protector and Lord of such activities as well as of the learned teachers who instruct ordinary people in the means of piety. In many different ways Lord Kṛṣṇa is the real object of meditation and worship for every living entity. Lord Kṛṣṇa through the expansion of His potencies is everything, and this simple understanding, called Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is the supreme perfection of the
yoga
system.