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Chapter 10
vistarenatmano yogam vibhuntim ca janardana
bhayah kathaya trptirhi spnvato nasti me'mrtam
Tell me again in detail, 0 Janardana, Your power or Yoga and Your manifestations; for I am not yet satiated even after hearing your sweet words like nectar. 18
Comment:-
Vistarenatmanoyogam vibhutim ca janardana:—Lord Krsna, explained the topic of knowledge (Wisdom) with realization, in the seventh and the ninth chapters, in detail, but He was not satisfied. So He Himself started the topic again, in the tenth chapter, by asking Arjuna to listen to His supreme word. Arjuna 's attention was drawn particularly towards the Lord's grace, and His glories. So he requests Him to tell him further in detail, of His glories and His power of Yoga, so that he may be endowed, with unfaltering devotion to Him
Bhuyah kathaya trptirhi srnvato nosti me'mptam:—Arjuna wants to know what is decidedly good for him (Gita 2/7; 3/2; 5/1) and Lord Krsna has declared, that he who knows in reality, His divine glory and power, is endowed with unfaltering devotion (Gita 10/7). So Arjuna thinks, that it is an easy means, to be endowed with unfaltering devotion, by knowing of His divine glories, so that, unfaltering devotion will lead him to salvation. Then he requests Him to advise him of His divine glories in detail once again.
As a person, while taking a meal requests for a tasty dish, again and again, while taking meals the taste suffers either owing to not getting the food in plenty or on stomach being full, but such is not the case in divine glories as they are infinite and there is no satiety while hearing them. Arjuna wants to listen to the Lord's nectarean words again, because His glories are numberless and Arjuna knows no satiety, in hearing them.
Appendix:—As a hungry man relishes food and a thirsty man relishes water, similarly the Lord's utterances seem very extraordinary to inquisitive Arjuna. The more extraordinary the Lord's utterances appear to Arjuna, the more devotional feelings are welling up (aroused) in him for the Lord.[1]
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