Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 8
रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययो: ।
प्रणव: सर्ववेदेषु शब्द: खे पौरुषं नृषु ॥
raso’ham-apsu kaunteya
prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayo:
praṇava: sarva-vedeṣu
śabda: khe pauruṣaṃ nṛṣu – 7.8
O Kaunteya (Arjuna), I am the taste in waters, brilliance in the sun and the moon, the praṇava (Om) in all the Vedas, the primordial sound in space, and will power in humans.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 8
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna explains in detail how the one Soul manifests many things with manifold properties.
He first refers to taste. A child, when born, first experiences taste. Without food, none can live, and the tongue senses and differentiates all tastes.
Sight can be only in the presence of light. And sunlight is the most pronounced, revealing the whole world around us.
Krishna then goes to Vedas, the immortal literature we have evolved, saying he is the Om in them, which marks the beginning and the end of Veda-sūktas. Om is a combination of the three fundamental syllables A, U and M, and represents the entire gamut of knowledge the human has gained and employs. Ākāśa, space, is the most extensive presence, the quality of which is sound.
Human achieves everything by virtue of his paurusha (will power), the most creative factor in the world.
