Gita Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten described the feelings that a divine vision of God’s Infinite Universe –engulfing Image and as the Cause of all causes. It also specified His special manifestations and opulence. Arjuna prays to the Lord to describe more of the opulence and the Lord describes those which are most prominent.
Verses 10.1 – 10.12
Neither the demigods nor the great sages know God, the origin of both these. Those who know God as the unborn, as the beginning-less and as the Supreme of all the worlds are freed from all bonds. God is the creator of intellect, knowledge, freedom (from doubt and delusion), forgiveness, truthfulness, self-control and calmness, pleasure and pain, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, nonviolence, equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, fame and infamy. All creatures including all great sages and progenitors of mankind are born out of God’s Consciousness’ or mind. The person in the know of this truth of God’s power offers unalloyed devotional service through desire-detached ego-free activities.
Knowing the truth that God is the source of all spiritual and material worlds and everything emanates from God, the wise engage in devotional service and worship of God with all their hearts. The thoughts of pure devotees dwell in God, their lives are surrendered to God, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss enlightening one another and conversing about God. God imparts the knowledge required to merge with God to those who are constantly devoted and worship God with love. God helps them destroy the darkness of ignorance by constantly dwell in their hearts.
Verses 10.12 – 10.18
God is the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine, the transcendental and original, the unborn and all-pervading beauty. Neither the demigods nor demons comprehend the personality of God. God alone can comprehend Himself. Saying all this Arjuna seeks to know details of God’s divine powers and glories. Your divine powers by which You pervade all these worlds and abide in them.
Verses 10.19 - 10.42
God’s opulence is limitless. As the Self, God is seated in the hearts of all creatures. God is the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings. God is the sun, the moon, the Sama-veda, the demi-god Indra, the mind, the knowledge of living force in living beings, the Lord Siva; the fire, the mountain Meru, the chief priest, Brhaspati, the lord of devotion, Skanda, the lord of war, the ocean of water, the greatest sage Bhrgu, the transcendental vibration om, the chanting of the holy names the immovable Himalayas, the holy fig tree, the sage Narrada, the singer Citraratha, the perfected being sage Kapila, the horse Uccaihsrava born of the elixir of immortality; the lordly elephants Airavata, the monarch among men, the thunderbolt, the cow surabhi giving abundant milk, Kandarpa, the god of love, the serpent chief Vasuki, the chief, the celestial Naga snakeAnanta, the aquatic Varu the departed ancestor Aryama, and Yama the dispensers of justice, Yama, lord of death the devoted Prahlada of demon dynasty, the time, the lion, the bird Garuda, the feathered carrier of Visnu. the wind; Rama the great user of weapons, the shark fish, the Ganges river, the beginning and the end and also the middle, the spiritual science of the self, the conclusive truth, the letter A, the inexhaustible time, the Brahma, whose manifold faces turn everywhere, the all-devouring death, the generator of all things yet to be, the fame, the fortune, the speech, the memory, the intellect and intelligence, the faithfulness and patience, the hymn Brhat-sama sung to the Lord Indra, the Gayatri verse, sung daily by Brahmanas, the winter months, the flower-bearing spring, the gambling of cheats, the splendor, the victory, the adventure, the strength of the powerful, Vasudeva, Arjuna, sage Vyasa, the thinker Usana, the rod of chastisement, the morality, the silence, the wisdom and the generating seed of all existences. No moving or unmoving being can exist without God. All these are just indicative glories and powers of God’s limitless divine manifestations. All beautiful, glorious, and mighty creations spring from but a spark of God’s splendor. But these details are of no consequence because only a single fragment of God pervade and support the entire universe.