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Questions & crisisChapter 10 · The Opulence of the Absolute
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Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 10.14

Arjuna accepts and asks to hear more

सर्वमेतदृतं मन्ये यन्मां वदसि केशव ।

न हि ते भगवन्व्यक्तिं विदुर्देवा न दानवा: ॥ १४ ॥

sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye

yan māṁ vadasi keśava

na hi te bhagavan vyaktiṁ

vidur devā na dānavāḥ

Translation

O Kṛṣṇa, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me. Neither the demigods nor the demons, O Lord, can understand Your personality.

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Accepting Kṛṣṇa’s Words

  1. 1Arjuna accepts all Kṛṣṇa’s words as true. Neither demigods nor demons can understand Kṛṣṇa’s personality.
  2. 2By Kṛṣṇa’s grace, Arjuna understood Him as the perfect Supreme Truth. The Gītā should be understood through disciplic succession.
  3. 3Follow Arjuna by accepting Kṛṣṇa’s words to understand the Gītā and know Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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Chapter 10, The Opulence of the Absolute: arjuna accepts and asks to hear more.

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Honest questions open the way to wisdom.

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Key ideas: saṁśaya, viṣāda.

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Related verses

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