Bhagavatgita a detailed study-chapter10-the glory of the divine manifestations

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39.yacchaapi

sarvabhoothaanaam beejam thath aham arjuna

na thath asthi vinaa yath syaath mayaa bhootham

charaacharam

What ever is

the seed (origin) of all beings , that

is Me, Arjuna. Nothing which is moving or not moving can exist without Me.

40.naantho

asthi mama dhivyaanaam vibhootheenaam

parantahpa

esha thu

udDhesathaH proktho vibhootheH vistharao mayaa

There is no end

for my divine manifestations, oh

scorcher of foes, What has been said is the expanse of my glories in brief.

41.yath yath

vibhoothimath satthvam Sreemadh oorjitham

eva vaa

thath thath eva avagacCha thvam mam thejo

amSasambhavam

Whatever entity

that is manifested with glory, power and energy is to

42.

aThavaabahunaa ethena kimjnaathena thava arjuna

vishtabhya aham idham krthsnam ekaamSena

sThitho

jagath

Why say more

Arjuna? I am all pervading supporting the universe with just one fragment

of Mine.

be understood

as a fragment of My power.

Arjuna asked

the Lord to tell him about the entities in which he could perceive the

manifestation of Divinity. Krishna specified 54 entities where the divinity could be seen. But He is in

all beings, sentient and insentient and hence His immanence could not be

understood fully. Even after taking into account all beings, still the

manifestation of the Lord could not be exhausted because the whole universe is

only a fraction of Him.

Saying thus Krishna concludes that He is the seed of

all beings and nothing movable or

immovable can exist without Him. He tells Arjuna that there is no end to His

divine manifestations and what has been told so far is only a brief account.

Whatever possesses power, splendour or energy should be viewed as a fragment of

the power of the Lord. Krishna clinches the issue by saying

that He is sustaining the whole universe with a fragment of His power, as

declared in Purushasuktha paadho asya

viSvaa bhoothaani tthripaadhasyaamrtham dhivi, meaning that the whole

universe with all its beings is only one fourth of the power of the Lord while

three fourths are eternally in heaven.

In the next

adhyaya the transcendence of the Lord is displayed by the Cosmic form.