THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER 10, VERSE 13, VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 10

VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS:

VERSE NUMBER 13

Text in Transliteration:

aahus tvaam rshayah sarve devarshir naaradas tathaa

asito devalo vyaasah svayam chai ‘va braveeshi me

Sanskrit words and phrases and their meaning:

ahuh: = (they) declared; tvaam = thee; rshayaah: = the Rishis; sarve = all; devarshih: = Deva Rishi; naaradah: = Narada; tathaa = also; asitaah: = Asita; devalah: = Devala; vyaasah: = Vyasa; svayam = thyself; cha = and; eva = even; bravishee = (thou) sayest; me = to me;

Text in English:

All the Rishis have thus acclaimed You, as also the Deva Rishi Narada; so also Asita, Devala and Vyasa; and now You Yourself say it to me.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

The Rishi is one who has transcended the senses and the intellect and contacted the Reality through intuition.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

Arjuna accepts the truth of what has been declared and proclaims his conviction that Krishna who is speaking to him is the Supreme Godhead, the Absolute, the Ever-free to which we can rise by self-surrender. He gives utterance from his own experience to the truth revealed by the seers who have seen it and become one with it. The secret wisdom is revealed by God, the seers are witnesses to it and Arjuna himself verifies it from his own experience. Abstract truth uttered by the sages become now luminous intuitions, glowing experiences of one’s whole being.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:

Rishi is a holy sage of disciplined mind and senses.

Devarshi: A divine sage more highly evolved than a Rishi.