Gita Satsangh Chapter 10: Verses 41 42 (Concluding verses0

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Gita Satsangh, Chapter 10: The Yoga of Divine Glories(VibhuutiyogaH)

Verses 41 to 42

 

Yadyad vibhootimat sattwam shreemadoorjitameva vaa;

Tattadevaavagaccha twam mama tejom'shasambhavam. 41

 

Whatever being there is that is glorious, prosperous or powerful,

that know thou to be a manifestation of a part of My splendor.

The word `Sattvam', qualified by the adjectives `Vibhutimat',

`Srimat' and `Urjitam' covers all living beings or inanimate objects

that are possessed of virtues like glory, elegance and comeliness

etc, and endowed with strength, energy, valor or any other power.

Every living being or object endowed with all or even one of those

qualities as a fraction of the divine glory exhibits a part

manifestation of the divine effulgence. The electric current gives

us light, turns our fans, draws water for us and works our radio

machine and performs many other functions at various places. It is,

however, a settled fact that wherever any such activity takes place,

it is all due to the electrical power; in fact, it is a manifestation

of a fraction of the electric current. Even so, whatever specialty we

observe in a particular living being or object should be regarded as

a part manifestation of the divine glory.

 

Athavaa bahunaitena kim jnaatena tavaarjuna;

Vishtabhyaahamidam kritsnamekaamshena sthito jagat. 42

 

But of what avail to thee is the knowledge of all these details, O

Arjuna? I exist, supporting this whole world by one part of Myself.

The indeclinable `Athava' introduces an alternate suggestion or

something different from what has been stated above. It is intended

to convey that the Lord is now going to say something different from,

and more remarkable than, what has already been confided to him, viz,

a description of His outstanding glories as contained in verses 20 to

39 and of the various media of His manifestation enumerated in verse

41. Although at the request of Arjuna the Lord described His

conspicuous glories in the foregoing verses, it is not all that he

should know. The most important thing is that which He is now going

to reveal, and which Arjuna is now called upon to grasp thoroughly.

Everything else will then be automatically clear to him, and nothing

more will remain still to be known by him.

 

The word `Jagat', qualified by the adjectives `Idam' and `Krtsnam',

stands for the entire universe consisting of the different worlds and

all animate and inanimate beings inhabiting them with their mind,

senses and body, objects and places of enjoyment etc. That the Lord

holds countless such universes in a fragment of His being through His

own Yogic power are what is sought to be conveyed by the latter half

of this verse.

 

Hari Om Tat Sat

Iti Srimad Bhagavadgeetaasoopanishatsu Brahmavidyaayaam

Yogashaastre Sri Krishnaarjunasamvaade Vibhootiyogo Naama

Dashamo'dhyaayah

 

Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita, the science of

the Eternal, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna

and Arjuna, ends the tenth discourse entitled: "The Yoga of the

Divine Glories"

 

 

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