Chapter 10

Vibhūti (विभूति)

Wherever something is splendid, that splendor is his.

Summary

Chapter 10 is splendor. Arjuna asks to hear the divine extents. Whatever is splendid, mighty, or beautiful, that splendor is his. The list is not a census of the world. It is a way of seeing one source in the outstanding thing. The chapter ends: a single portion of him supports the whole.

नेपालीमा

अध्याय १० विभूति हो। अर्जुनले दिव्य विस्तार सुन्न माग्छन्। जे भव्य, शक्तिशाली वा सुन्दर छ, त्यो उहाँकै श्री हो। यो सूची संसारको गणना होइन। यो उत्कृष्ट वस्तुमा एउटै स्रोत देख्ने तरिका हो। अध्याय यसरी टुङ्गिन्छ: उहाँको एउटै अंशले सारा संसारलाई धान्छ।

1–11 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · How he is to be known

Summary

How he is to be known. The gods and the sages do not know his origin. One who knows him unborn and the lord of the world is freed from all sins. Insight, knowledge, and non delusion come from him. The section is the promise of the list that follows. The splendors are ways he is entered, not decorations.

नेपालीमा

उहाँलाई कसरी जानिन्छ। देवता र ऋषिले उहाँको उत्पत्ति जान्दैनन्। उहाँलाई अजन्मा र लोकका स्वामी जान्ने सबै पापबाट मुक्त हुन्छ। बुद्धि, ज्ञान र असम्मोह उहाँबाटै आउँछन्। यो खण्ड पछि आउने सूचीको प्रतिज्ञा हो। विभूतिहरू उहाँमा प्रवेश गर्ने बाटा हुन्, सजावट होइनन्।

10.1The blessed lord said: Hear again, mighty-armed one, my supreme word, which I will speak to you, who take delight in it, from the wish for your welfare.10.2Neither the hosts of gods nor the great sages know my origin, for I am, in every way, the beginning of the gods and of the great sages.10.3Whoever knows me as unborn and beginningless, and as the great lord of the worlds, he, undeluded among mortals, is released from all pāpa (पाप).10.4He names understanding, knowledge, freedom from confusion, patience, truth, restraint, calm, pleasure and pain, arising and ceasing, fear and fearlessness.10.5Non-harm, evenness, contentment, austerity, giving, fame and disgrace — the states of beings, in their distinct kinds, come to be from me alone.10.6The seven great sages of old, and the four Manus likewise, mind-born, have come to be as states of me; of them are this world and these creatures.10.7He who knows this splendor and this yoga of mine as it truly is, he is yoked by an unwavering yoga; there is no doubt in this.10.8I am the source of all; from me everything proceeds; thinking thus, the knowing ones, endowed with that state, worship me.10.9With their minds on me and their life gone to me, awakening one another and always telling of me, they are content and they delight.10.10To them, constantly yoked and worshipping with love first, I give that buddhi-yoga by which they come to me.10.11For them, out of compassion, I, standing in the being of the self, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.QuizFive questions on How he is to be known.

12–18 Arjuna (अर्जुन) · Arjuna asks for the splendors

Summary

Arjuna asks for the splendors. He has heard the secret. Neither the gods nor the demons know Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण)'s person. Tell, he says, the divine extents by which he stands pervading the worlds. How, contemplating, is he to be known? The section is the request. The answer is the next group.

नेपालीमा

अर्जुनले विभूति माग्छन्। उनले गुह्य कुरा सुनेका छन्। देवता र दानवले पनि कृष्णको पुरुष रूप जान्दैनन्। उनी भन्छन्, उहाँ जुन दिव्य विस्तारले लोकहरू व्यापेर उभिनुहुन्छ, ती भनिदिनुहोस्। कसरी ध्यान गरेर जानिन्छ? यो खण्ड माग हो। जवाफ अर्को समूहमा आउँछ।

19–42 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · Whatever is splendid

Summary

Whatever is splendid. The self seated in the heart, the beginning and the middle and the end of beings, Viṣṇu (विष्णु) among the Ādityas (आदित्य), the Sāmaveda (सामवेद) among the Vedas, the mind among the senses. The list is long and it is one claim repeated. Whatever being has glory, splendour, or strength, that is a portion of his splendor. There is no end to the telling. One part of him supports the world.

नेपालीमा

जे भव्य छ, त्यो उहाँको हो। उहाँ हृदयमा बसेको आत्मा, प्राणीहरूको आदि, मध्य र अन्त्य, आदित्यहरूमा विष्णु, वेदहरूमा सामवेद र इन्द्रियहरूमा मन हुनुहुन्छ। सूची लामो छ, तर दाबी एउटै हो र दोहोरिन्छ। जुन प्राणीमा श्री, शोभा वा बल छ, त्यो उहाँको विभूतिको अंश हो। भन्दै जाँदा अन्त्य हुँदैन। उहाँको एक अंशले संसारलाई धान्छ।

10.19The blessed lord said: Well then, I will tell you my divine splendors, the chief ones, best of the Kurus; there is no end of my extent.10.20I am the self, seated in the heart of all beings.10.21Of the Ādityas I am Viṣṇu, of lights the rayed sun; of the Maruts I am Marīci, of the constellations the moon.10.22Of the Vedas I am the Sāma Veda; of the gods I am Vāsava; of the senses I am the mind, and of beings I am consciousness.10.23Of the Rudras I am Śaṅkara, and of yakṣas and rakṣases the lord of wealth; of the Vasus I am Pāvaka, and of peaked mountains I am Meru.10.24And know me, Pārtha, as the chief of the household priests, Bṛhaspati; of army-leaders I am Skanda; of lakes I am the ocean.10.25Of the great sages I am Bhṛgu; of words I am the one syllable; of sacrifices I am the muttered sacrifice; of the unmoving I am Himālaya.10.26The aśvattha among all trees, and Nārada (नारद) among the divine sages; Citraratha among gandharvas; Kapila the sage among the accomplished.10.27Know me among horses as Uccaiḥśravas, born of the nectar; among the lords of elephants as Airāvata; and among men as the lord of men.10.28Of weapons I am the vajra; of cows I am the wish-milking cow; I am generation, Kandarpa; of serpents I am Vāsuki.10.29Of nāgas I am Ananta; of the creatures of the waters I am Varuṇa; of the ancestors I am Aryaman; of those who restrain I am Yama.10.30Of the daityas I am Prahlāda; of those who reckon I am time; of beasts I am the lord of beasts, and of birds the son of Vinatā (विनता).10.31Of those who purify I am the wind; of those who bear weapons I am Rāma; of fish I am the makara; of streams I am the Jāhnavī.10.32Of creations I am the beginning and the end and the middle, Arjuna; of knowledges I am the knowledge of the self; of those who speak I am argument.10.33Of letters I am the letter a (अ), and of compounds the dvandva; I am undecaying time, and I am the ordainer, faced every way.10.34I am death, the seizer of all, and the arising of what will be; of women I am fame, fortune, speech, memory, intelligence, firmness, and patience.10.35Of the sāmans I am the Bṛhat-sāman, and of meters the Gāyatrī; of months I am Mangsir, of seasons the abundance of flowers.10.36Of those who cheat I am the dice-game; of the brilliant I am brilliance; I am victory; I am resolve; of those who have sattva (सत्त्व) I am sattva (सत्त्व).10.37Of the Vṛṣṇis I am Vāsudeva; of the Pāṇḍavas I am Dhanañjaya; of the munis I am also Vyāsa; of poets I am Uśanas the poet.10.38Of those who discipline I am the rod; of those who desire victory I am right conduct; of secrets I am silence; of those who know I am knowledge.10.39And whatever is the seed of all beings, that I am, Arjuna; there is no being, moving or unmoving, that could exist without me.10.40There is no end of my divine splendors, scorcher of the foe; this extent of the splendor has been declared by me only by way of pointing.10.41Whatever being is glorious, splendid, or strong, know it as born of a portion of my splendor.10.42Or what use is all this knowing to you, Arjuna? I stand pervading this whole world with a single portion.QuizFive questions on Whatever is splendid.