The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Viṣṇusahasranāmastotram

Verse 273

न जायते इति अजः, 'न जातो न जनिष्यते' इति श्रुतेः ।'न हि जातो न जायेय न जनिष्ये कदाचन ।क्षेत्रज्ञः सर्वभूतानां तस्मादहमजः स्मृतः' इति महाभारते ।सर्वेषामीश्वराणामीश्वरः सर्वेश्वरः, 'एष सर्वेश्वरः' इति श्रुतेः ।नित्यनिष्पन्नरूपत्वात् सिद्धः ।सर्ववस्तुषु संविद्रूपत्वात्, निरतिशयरूपत्वाद्वा सिद्धिः ।स्वर्गादीनां विनाशित्वादफलत्वम् ।सर्वभूतानामादिकारणत्वात् सर्वादिः ।स्वरूपसामर्थ्यात् न च्युतो न च्यवते न च्यविष्यते इति अच्युतः, 'शाश्वतं शिवमच्युतम्' इति श्रुतेः ।तथा

In plain words

He is unborn because He is never born, as the śruti declares: 'He is neither born nor will He ever be born.' And the Mahābhārata says: 'I was never born, I am not born, I shall never be born at any time; as the knower of the field of all beings, I am known as Aja.' He is the supreme lord of all lords, Sarveśvara, for the śruti states: 'This is the lord of all.' He is established because His nature is eternally fulfilled, and because He is pure consciousness shining within all things, possessing unsurpassable reality. Heavenly joys are fruitless because they perish. He is the first cause of all beings, hence Sarvādi. Because His essential power suffers no decline—past, present, or future—He is Acyuta, as the śruti affirms: 'Eternal, auspicious, and infallible.' Likewise,

Close to the Sanskrit

Not born therefore Aja, because of the śruti 'neither born nor will be born'. 'Indeed, not born, nor might be born, nor will be born ever, the knower of the field of all beings, therefore I am remembered as Aja' in the Mahābhārata. The lord of all lords is Sarveśvara, because of the śruti 'this is Sarveśvara'. Established because of having an eternally accomplished form. Establishment because of being of the nature of consciousness in all objects, or because of having unsurpassed nature. The fruitlessness of heavenly things because of their destructibility. Sarvādi because of being the primal cause of all beings. Acyuta because from the power of His essential nature He has not fallen, does not fall, and will not fall, because of the śruti 'eternal, auspicious, infallible [acyutam]'. Likewise