वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

[SŪ. 2. 1. 1.
270 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 1.]
about Viṣṇu, with eyes like lotus, unchangeable, the creator who is
not created, the origin and dissolution of beings, about Nārāyaṇa,
Hṛṣīkeśa, Govinda, the unconquered, about Keśava, O best among
the Bhāratas!'" (Mahā. 12.7518-19 1), (the answer given was:)
'"The Highest Person, the great-souled one, the soul of beings, fashion-
ed the great elements, the air, the light and likewise the water, and
the ether and the sky"' (Mahā. 12.7825 2). In the Dāna-dharma,
Śiva says: '"Higher than even the reverend Father (i.e. Brahmā)
is Hari, the eternal Person, Kṛṣṇa, of a golden appearance and arisen
like the sun in the cloudless sky, designated as Śrīvatsa, Hṛṣīkeśa
worshipped by all the deities. Brahmā has sprung up from his belly,—
likewise I from his forehead, the lights from the hairs on his head, the
gods and the demons from his body-hairs, the sages have arisen from
his body, likewise, the eternal worlds. He is the veritable abode of
the reverend Father (i e. Brahmā), as well as the abode of all the
gods. He is the creator of this entire world, the Lord of all the three
worlds, the destroyer of all beings, of the immobile as well as of the
mobile. He is directly perceived at all times indeed by one who has
conquered his passions. He is the Lord of the gods and higher
than the high, omniscient, connected with all, moving everywhere
and turned towards all. He is the Supreme Soul, Hṛṣīkeśa, all-
pervading, the Supreme Lord"' (Mahā. 13.6507–6512 3). In that
very section, the omniscient Devavrata, too, says, beginning '"For
I know Kṛṣṇa in truth"' (Mahā. 13.7659 4) and continuing: '"Know
everything, the movable, as well as the immovable, all souls and the
universe as Kṛṣṇa.5 Whatever is honoured in the worlds as a
meritorious act, whatever is auspicious or inauspicious,—all that is
Keśava, the inconceivable, everything else is the reverse. Such a
Keśava is self-born, He is Nārāyaṇa supreme and unchangeable;
the middle, the beginning and the end of the universe which existed;
knowable by all; the origin as well as the dissolution of beings"'
1 P. 631, lines 18-19, vol. 3. 2 Op. cit., line 25.
3 Pp. 237-238, vol. 4. Reading different in some places, viz. ‘Sa hi deva-
varaḥ sākṣād deva-nāthaḥ parantapaḥ. Sarvajñaḥ sa hi saṁśliṣṭaḥ . . .’
Vaṅgavāsī ed. reads sarva-saṁśliṣṭaḥ otherwise it is the same as the above.
P. 2006, vol. 2.
4 P. 256, line 26, vol. 4.
5 Reading: 'Sarvaṁ kṛtsnaṁ . . viśvam enam . . ', P. 258, line 7
Reading in the Vaṅgavāsī ed. exactly similar. P. 2017.