कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन्गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे ।अनन्त देवेश जगन्निवासत्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत् ॥
kasmācca te na nameranmahātmangarīyase brahmaṇo'pyādikartre |ananta deveśa jagannivāsatvamakṣaraṃ sadasattatparaṃ yat ||
And why should they not bow to you, O great-souled one, the first creator, greater even than Brahma? O Infinite One, Lord of the gods, abode of the universe, you are the imperishable, the being and the non-being, and that which is beyond both.
Explanation
Arjuna, awed by the universal form, explains why the perfected beings and others bow to Krishna: he is the source even of Brahma, the creator god. He calls Krishna the imperishable (akṣara), the existent (sat) and the non-existent (asat), and what lies beyond both. Commentators differ on the terms: some read sat and asat as the manifest and unmanifest world, with the imperishable beyond them, while others read the imperishable as Brahman itself.