Summary of chapter
- Vibhuti Yoga : All is Manifestation of God
- Manifestation of Divine Glories
- The opulence of the Absolute
- God is all powerful, amazing, and only God fully knows God
- God in in Good, but eventually we learn is every where & in everything
- Example for making a cup of coffee do we recognise the manifestation of God in the cup, water, milk, coffee, the sweetness in sugar, in the stove, the heat in fire, ones ability to mix and prepare....
- Four topics covered
- Intro to subject
- Glories of cosmic conciousness
- Doubts & Q's of Arjuna
- Examples & elaboration
- Ekroop : one God, Anekroop : God in many forms & everywhere & A-roop : formless, eternal
- Know, understand & contemplate about God
Shlokas references
- 42 shlokas
- 1-11 : Contemplation on divine excellence
- 12-42 : The Vibhutis.
- 10.10 & 10.11 : Self effort plus Grace ; Budhi Yoga . Lamp of wisdom :
- Oil is Bhakti & love.
- Wick is one soaked in oil
- Fire / Light : Grace
- Flame : Oil + Wick + Oxygen ( Viveka)
- And Rag & Dwesh are the winds/distractions trying to blow & flicker the flame
- 10.12 -10.18 : Arjun asks various questions and seeks clarifications. Asks God to describe himself
- 10.19 -10.20 : Lord begins to tell & says I am the beginning , the end, the middle, before the begining & after the end....
- 10.21- 10.39 : God gives various examples : Is A amongst letters, Is Om amongst sounds & words, Is Gayatri amongst Mantras, Ganga amongst rivers, Ocean, King, Death and so on.
- 10.40 to 10.42 : God's manifestation is everywhere and limitless. Above was a very brief description
Key message from the chapter
- "The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation"
- Can one see or find the tree in a seed? But a seed gives birth to the tree!
- Can a child attend/experience the parents wedding?
- No one can know God completely as he is the originator
Summary in poetry
I am the Truth and the unborn
With my power everything is born
Men who know that I am the Creator
Are in delight and enlighten one another
To such men who worship with love so dear
I provide them with intellect to come so near
You are the Divine and all pervading
But how can I know thy in every being?
There is no end to my eminence
Wherever there is magnificence
Glorious, Splendor, brilliance or excellence
A story related to the message
The Four Blind Men
Four blind men went to see an elephant.
One touched the leg of the elephant and said, “The elephant is like a pole.”
The second touched the trunk and said, “The elephant is like a thick club.”
The third touched the belly and said, “The elephant is like a big jar.”
The fourth touched the ear and said, “The elephant is like a big hand fan.”
Thus they began to quarrel amongst themselves as to the shape of the elephant.
A passer-by, seeing them thus quarrelling, said, “Why are you all quarrelling?” They told him the problem and asked him to be the judge.
The man said: “None of you has seen the elephant. The elephant is not like a pole; its legs are like poles. It is not like a thick club; its trunk is like a thick club. It is not like a big jar; its belly is like a big jar. It is not like a fan; its ear is like a fan. The elephant is all these---legs, trunk, belly, ears and much more.”
In the same way, those who argue about the nature of God have known only a small part of His Reality. That’s why sages say God is “neither this, nor that.”
( This story highlights for Gita readers that we all may know a bit, and that is a little bit about God)
( This story highlights for Gita readers that we all may know a bit, and that is a little bit about God)
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