Since I am beyond the perishing, since I have gone past the tree of the māyā of transmigration named the aśvattha, and since I am the highest, the most excellent, the topmost, even above the imperishable, even above that which is the seed of the tree of the form of the māyā of transmigration: because I am the highest of those two, the perishing and the imperishable, I am, in the world and in the Veda, renowned, well known, as the supreme Puruṣa. So My devotees know Me; and the seer-poets bind this name in their poems and the rest, and address Me by this name, 'supreme Puruṣa'. Now the fruit is told for one who knows the Self as has been explained.

Since by the natures described I transcend the perishable Person, and am, by the reasons told, the most excellent even above the imperishable, the freed one, therefore in the world and in the Veda I am renowned as the highest Person, Purushottama. By the keeping-in-view of the meaning of the Veda, remembered scripture is here called 'the world'; the meaning is, in revelation and in remembered scripture. In revelation, in such texts as 'attaining the supreme light, he is brought forth with his own form; he is the highest Person'; and in remembered scripture too, in such texts as 'the portion-descent of Purushottama, of the unborn Vishnu, free of beginning, middle, and end'.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.