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Chapter 10
pavanah pavatamasmi small sastrabhrtamaham
jhasanam makarascasmi srotasamasmi jahnavi
Among purifiers, I am the wind; among warriors, I am Rama. Among fish, I am an alligator; and among rivers, I am the Ganges. 31
Comment:-
Pavanah pavatamasmi:- Wind is capable of purifying all things. It makes bodies healthy, so it reveals Lord's glory.
Raman sastrabhitamaham:- Though Rama, is an incarnation of God, yet as far as the wielders of weapon, are concerned, Rama is the best of all of them. So the Lord has mentioned, Rama, as one of His divine glories.
JnasIpam makarascasmi:- Among fish, the alligator is most powerful. Therefore the Lord names it as His divine glory.
Srotasamasmi jahnavi:- Among rivers, streams and waterfalls etc., the Ganges, is the most sacred. Its water is holy, because it flows from the feet of Lord Visnu. Believers by beholding or touching it, or drinking its water or bathing in, attain salvation. If a dead man's bones are dropped into her, she leads him to salvation. So she is the Lord's divine glory.
A striver instead of attaching importance to the Lord's divine glories, should attach importance to Him. In the seventeenth verse of this chapter, Arjuna put two questions to Lord Krsna "How may I know You," and "In what aspects are You to be thought of, by me?" The answer is, that he should think of the Lord, in all His divine glories. The result of that thinking will be, that he will come to know that, He is the root or origin, of all the divine glories. Thus, he will come to know the reality, about Him.
When a man, beholds any distinction, singularity or beauty in the universe, he gets entangled in it But if he regards it as the Lord's, he will think only of Him, and thus will come to know the reality, about Him. By knowing the reality, of His glory and power, one is endowed with unwavering devotion, to Him (Gita 1017).
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