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Chapter 16
INTRODUCTION
Lord Krsna, in the fifteenth verse of the. seventh chapter, explained in brief, the traits of a person possessing the demoniac nature, by declaring that those evil-doers who are foolish and who have embraced the demoniac ,nature, do not, worship Him. In the sixteenth verse, He explained in brief that those possessing divine nature such virtuous men, worship Him. In the beginning of the eighth chapter, Arjuna put seven question based on the last two verses of the seventh chapter. The Lord answered those questions, in the whole of eighth chapter.
The Lord at the beginning of the seventh chapter, had promised that He would unfold to him the knowledge, together with realization. So He started the ninth chapter. In the twelfth verse of the ninth chapter, He explains that senseless persons, with vain hopes, futile actions and fruitless knowledge, embrace a nature which is demoniac, while in the thirteenth verse He declared that great souls, who know Him as the prime cause of creation and worship Him, constantly with undivided mind, possess a divine nature. Then the Lord, upto the eleventh verse of the tenth chapter, described the topic of knowledge and of realization.
After the eleventh verse of the tenth chapter, the Lord should have described the divine and demoniac natures in detail, but Arjuna having been influenced by His grace, offered praises to Him and prayed to Him to tell him of His divine glories. While explaining His divine glories, the Lord in the last verse of the tenth chapter declared, "What need is there, 0 Arjuna, for detailed knowledge? I stand supporting the whole universe with a single fragment of Myself." So Arjuna, at the beginning of the eleventh chapter, out of curiosity prayed to the Lord, to reveal to him, that cosmic form.
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