47. All Words Are Names

Adhyaya 3 Pada 3 AdhikaraNa 10

All Words Are Names of the Supreme Personality of Godhead


Introduction by shrIla Baladeva VidyAbhUShaNa


Here someone may object: Is it not so that if Lord Hari is
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all, and the
all-pervading Supersoul, then the names of all that is
moving and inert would also be names of Him? However, this is not
so, for words are primarily the names of the various moving and
inert things.
Thinking that someone may accept this idea that words are
primarily names of various things and only secondarily names of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the author of the sUtras
gives the following explanation.


SUtra 15


carAcara-vyapAshrayas tu syAt tad-vyapadesho .abhAktas tad-
bhAva-bhAvitvAt

cara - moving; acara - and unmoving; vyapAshrayaH - theabode;
tu - indeed; syAt - may be; tat - of that;vyapadeshaH - name;
abhAktaH - not figurative; tat - of Him; bhAva - the nature;
bhAvitvAt - because of being in the future.


Indeed, He resides in all that move and does not move.
Therefore it will be learned that every word is one of His names.

Purport by shrIla Baladeva VidyAbhUShaNa


The word "tu" (indeed) is used here to dispel doubt.
The word "carAcara-vyapAshrayaH" means that the
Supreme Personality of Godhead resides in all moving and unmoving
beings. The word "tad-vyapadeshaH" means "the
names of the moving and unmoving beings". The word
abhAktaH" means "these names are primarily names of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead". Why is that? The sUtra
explains: "bhAva-bhAvitvAt" (the real meaning of names
will be learned in the future). This means that by studying the
scriptures one will come to understand that all words are names
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The shruti-shAstras explain:


so .akAmayata bahu syAm


"The Supreme Personality of Godhead desired: Let Me
become many. Let me create the material world."


sa vAsudevo na yato .anyad asti


"He is the all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nothing isdifferent from Him."

In the ViShNu PurANa (3.7.16) it is said:


kaTaka-mukuTa-karNikAdi-bhedaiH
kanakam abhedam apIShyate yathaikam
sura-pashu-manujAdi-kalpanAbhir
harir akhilAbhir udIryate tathaikaH


"As golden bracelets, crowns, earrings, and other
golden ornaments are all one because they are all made of gold,
so all demigods, men, and animals are one with Lord because they
are all made of Lord Hari.as potencies."

The meaning is this: Names of potencies are primarily the
names of the master of these potencies. This is so because the
master is the very self of His potencies.