Chapter 16: Daivāsura-sampad-vibhāga-yoga:: Verse 3
तेज: क्षमा धृति: शौचमद्रोहो नातिमानिता ।
भवन्ति सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातस्य भारत ॥
teja: kṣamā dhṛti: śaucam-adroho nātimānitā
bhavanti sampadaṃ daivīm-abhijātasya bhārata – 16.3
Brilliance, patience-cum-tolerance, will-power, clean-liness, absence of hostility and haughtiness – these are the (twenty six) qualities that grace one born with divine nature, O descendant of Bharata.
Chapter 16: Daivāsura-sampad-vibhāga-yoga: - Verse 3
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Tejas, spiritual splendour, begins to reign in a spiritual seeker, when his sādhanā grows and begins to nourish him, generating inner and outer purity. This spiritual brilliance is something that goes with the sensitivity of the senses, purity of the mind, and sharpness of the intelligence. The intelligence becomes perceptive and subtle, and it begins to instil its qualities to the mind, which, in turn, employs the senses to interact with the objects with enough spiritual inspiration and vigour.
Humility is a unique virtue that graces spiritual seeking and interactional life. Knowledge is meant to bring more and more humility and sublimity to its possessor.
In these three verses (16.1-3), Krishna completes the enumeration of the twenty six divine qualities that every seeker must strive to inculcate in himself. To be divine is to be obviously qualitative in one’s life, inner as well as interactional. Spiritual qualities make one an endearing human model for all around.
