Chapter 10: Vibhūti-yoga / Verse 19

Chapter 10: Vibhūti-yoga: Verse 19

श्रीभगवानुवाच ।
हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतय: ।
प्राधान्यत:कुरुश्रेष्ठ नास्त्यन्तो विस्तरस्य मे ॥

śrī bhagavān-uvāca
hanta te kathayiṣyāmi divyā hy-ātma-vibhūtaya:
prādhānyata: kuru-śreṣṭha nāsty-anto vistarasya me – 10.19

Lord Krishna said: Ah, I shall tell you about some prominent divine attributes of the Self, the Supreme. O best among the Kurus (Arjuna), there is no end to my vast manifoldness.

Chapter 10: Vibhūti-yoga - Verse 19

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
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Krishna agrees, but prefaces his description with the words that he can recount only a small part of the glorious infinitude of the Self. The grandeur the Self holds within is endless, multitudinously extensive. And none can describe it amply by any means.

The visible world around clearly indicates the Self’s majesty and magnificence. The far point of our eye is infinity! The naked eye can see a sizable object at infinite distance! What should then be the multi-faceted infinitude the Self can unfold through the senses, designed and cast in the mother’s womb? None can think of accessing the full magnitude of the Self’s innate greatness! Modern science also, with the advancement of research, finds the Universe more and more baffling!

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