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Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 10.16

Arjuna accepts and asks to hear more

वक्तुमर्हस्यशेषेण दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतय: ।

याभिर्विभूतिभिर्लोकानिमांस्त्वं व्याप्य तिष्ठसि ॥ १६ ॥

vaktum arhasy aśeṣeṇa

divyā hy ātma-vibhūtayaḥ

yābhir vibhūtibhir lokān

imāṁs tvaṁ vyāpya tiṣṭhasi

Translation

Please tell me in detail of Your divine opulences by which You pervade all these worlds.

What this verse is saying, and where it sits in the story.

1Arjuna asks Kṛṣṇa to describe in detail His divine opulences by which He pervades all worlds.
2By Kṛṣṇa’s grace, Arjuna already understands without doubt that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
3Understand that Arjuna asks how Kṛṣṇa pervades everything through His energies on behalf of common people.

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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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