CC Madhya 25.52
Madhya-līlā, Chapter 25, Text 52
‘পাতঞ্জল’ কহে, — ‘ঈশ্বর হয় স্বরূপ-জ্ঞান’ ।
বেদমতে কহে তাঁরে ‘স্বয়ংভগবান্’ ॥ ৫২ ॥
বেদমতে কহে তাঁরে ‘স্বয়ংভগবান্’ ॥ ৫২ ॥
‘pātañjala’ kahe, — ‘īśvara haya svarūpa-jñāna’
veda-mate kahe tāṅre ‘svayaṁ-bhagavān’
veda-mate kahe tāṅre ‘svayaṁ-bhagavān’
Word by word
pātañjala kahe — the Pātañjala philosophers say; īśvara haya — the Supreme Lord is; svarūpa-jñāna — self-realization; veda-mate — in the Vedic version; kahe — they say; tāṅre — to Him; svayam-bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Translation
“The Pātañjala philosophers say that when one is self-realized, he understands the Lord. Similarly, according to the Vedas and Vedic principles, the original cause is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”