THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER 10, VERSE 41, VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 10

VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS:

VERSE NUMBER 41

Text in Transliteration:

yad-yad vibhootimat sattvam oorjitam eva vaa

tat-tad evaa ‘vagaccha tvam mama tejomsasambhavam

Sanskrit words and phrases and their meaning:

Yad-yat = whatever; vibhootimat = glorious; sattvam = being; sreemat = prosperous; oorjitam = powerful; eva = also;  vaa = or; tat-tat = that; eva = only; avagaccha = know; tvam = thou; mama = my; tejah amsa sambhavam = manifestation of a part of the splendour.

Text in English:

Whatever being there is glorious, prosperous or powerful, know that to have sprung but from a spark of My splendour.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

The sun’s ray spreads everywhere and reveals things in their true perspective. The revealing light here is different from the things revealed. But God is Self-revealed. He manifests Himself as everything. As glory, as brilliance, as splendour, as beauty, as power and as so many other divine attributes, He is expressing Himself. Whatever catches our imagination, draws our attention, sends us into raptures and infuses bliss into us, that is none but the glory of God.

SRIMAT SWAMI RAMAKRISHNA AS QUOTED BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

Do you know what is meant by Brahman with divine attributes? It is like a vast expanse of water with waves, ripples, billows, bubbles, sprays, froth and so on. Forms appearing in Cit-akasa or the Expanse of Consciousness can be experienced. Even the Incarnations of God come within this category.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

While all things are supported by God, things of beauty and splendour reveal Him more than others. Every deed of heroism, every life of sacrifice, every work of genius, is a revelation of the Divine. The epic moments of a man’s life are inexplicably beyond the finite mind of man.