Knows Me: Knowing not merely by emotion but by spiritual understanding achieved through one’s identification with the Self.

Unborn: The Infinite cannot be born because It never expresses Itself in any finite manifestation. The ghost is born and hence it has to die ; but the post cannot be said to have given birth to the ghost nor it has taken birth from the ghost. The post was, is and shall always be a post only. Similarly, The Self is eternal and therefore It is birthless.

Beginningless: Everything is born in the Self, exists in the Self and ends in the Self. Waves are born but ocean is birthless. Every wave – every manifestation- has a beginning and an end but the ocean has none. Hence the Self is beginningless.

Supreme Lord of the Worlds: `World’ includes not only the objective world perceived by our physical senses but also the world of feelings and emotions experienced by us. Experiences of the body, mind and intellect cannot be ours unless we are constantly aware of them. This awareness or Consciousness or Self is that which rules our `world’ which is called the `Supreme Lord of the worlds’.

When we learn to look at things as derived from the One Transcendent Reality, we are delivered from all gropings and bewilderment.

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Yah, he who; vetti, knows; mam, Me; ajam, the birthless; and anadim, the beginningless: Since I am the source of the gods and the great sages, and nothing else exists as My origin, therefore I am birthless and beginningless. Being without an origin is the cause of being birthless. He who knows Me who am thus birthless and beginningless, and loka-maheswaram, the great Lord of the worlds, the transcendental One devoid of ignorance and its effects; sah, he; the asammudhah, undeluded one; martyesu, among mortals, among human beings; pramucyate, becomes freed; sarva-papaih, from all sins-committed knowingly or unknowingly.’For the following reason also I am the great Lord of the worlds:’