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Thou art the primal God, the ancient Purusha, the supreme refuge of this universe, the knower, the knowable and the supreme Abode. By Thee is the universe pervaded, O Being of infinite forms.

You are the first of gods, the ancient person; you are the final resting place of this universe. You are the knower and what is to be known, and the highest abode. By you this universe is pervaded, you of infinite form.

Arjuna gathers more titles: the first god, the ancient person, the ultimate resting place of the world. Then he says something subtle: Krishna is both the knower and what is to be known. The divine is not only the object of Arjuna's vision but also the awareness that sees. He is also the highest dwelling and the one by whom the universe is spread out. Several of these phrases repeat what Arjuna said earlier in the hymn and what Krishna taught in earlier chapters, as if Arjuna is now confirming the teaching from his own experience.