Bow I tried to assess how well you listened to what I told you so far. I am now assured that you gave adequate attention to what I said (46-50). Just as one puts a little water in an earthen pot to see whether it leaks before filling it up, so I made sure that you were attentive to my small talk and now I felt like telling you more. You test a newly appointed servant by seeing whether he picks up things lying about and then put him in charge of the treasury, so you have already become the treasure-house of my knowledge. Even as the cloud swells and overflows after seeing the mountain, so lord Krishna glanced at Arjuna with great affection. Then lord Krishna, the ocean of mercy, said o mighty armed Arjuna, and I shall repeat my view to you, which I had told you earlier. Even though one reaps and abundant harvest by tilling the soil every year, one should not feel tired of doing so (51-55) or one should purify by hating the gold over and over again, as it improves its luster. Therefore, o Partha, I am repeating my talk not to oblige you, but for my own satisfaction. When the child is decorated with ornaments, it does not know it, but the mother enjoys it as a festive occasion. In the same manner, the more you realise your own good, the more it will add to my happiness. But enough of this declamation. In truth, I like you so much that I am not satisfied by this long chat with you (56-60). Therefore, I am repeating to you the same thing over and over again, so hear with concentration. O discerning Arjuna, listen to my excellent talk. These are not mere words, but in this form it is the absolute truth, which has come to hold you in its loving embrace. But you have not yet known my real nature. You see me here in flesh and blood, but I am really this whole universe.

The Vedas became confounded trying to know my essence; the mind and vital breath lost their nerve in trying to reach the sun and me and moon were eclipsed before my splendor, even before the night had set in. As the foetus in the womb cannot gauge its mother's age, so all these gods cannot know me (61-65). Just as aquatic creatures cannot fathom the sea, or the files cannot cross over the sky, so the wisdom of the sages cannot penetrate into my being. Many ages have rolled on in the man's attempts to delve into my mysteries as to who I am, how great, of what origin and my where about. Because, O Arjuna both the gods and the great sages, much less all the liking beings find it difficult to know me, as I am their origin. If water running downhill can rise up to the top or the tree starts spreading downwards and reach its roots, then alone the world of beings originating from me can comprehend me. If the core of the fig tree could cover up the tree and the forest, of the waves could contain within them the sea of entire globe could be contained in one single atom. (66-70) Only then living beings, great sages and gods originating from me will be able to know me, even though it is difficult to know me, if a person gives up the path of activity and turning away from sensuous enjoyment abandons body - consciousness and, sets himself on the crown of the five great elements (i.e. brings them under his control),

And who, in this frame of mind, sees my beginningless nature in the clear light of self-knowledge, he knows that I am the great lord of all beings, beyond causation (71-75). Like a philosopher's stone among stones, nectar among liquids, he is a part of my divine essence amongst all mortals. He is the embodiment of knowledge, moving about and talking. His limbs are verily the blossoms of happiness and his assumption of a human body is mere delusion. Just as a diamond found in chamfer does not dissolve in water, although he moves about among men like an ignorant person, he is not tainted by maya and gets rid of all his sins. Just as a serpent flees from a burning sandalwood tree, so desires leave a person who knows me (76-80). If the thought has occurred to you how to know what I am and what the modes of my being are, I shall tell them to you, listen. My manifestations are spread in different being in this universe, taking form according to their dispositions.

Intelligence is the first of my modes. Thereafter unlimited knowledge, absence of delusion, forbearance, forgiveness and truth followed by self-control and sense-restraint and o Arjuna, the pleasure and pain in this world, as well as birth and deaths are the modes of my being. So are, o son of Pandu, fear, fearlessness, non-violence, equality, contentment and austerities (81-85). Similarly charity, success and infamy, which one comes across everywhere, are produced in the beings by my alone. Just as living beings are different, so are my modes different. Some of these modes have knowledge of my divine being; others are ignorant of it. Light bursts at sunrise, darkness spreads at sunset, both arise from the sun. So to know me and not to know me are the result of actions in previous births and so modes differ in different created beings. Thus, my nodes (86-90) pervade O Arjuna, this universe of living beings. Now I shall tell you about the guardians of creations who are my eleven projections, under whose command all created beings deport themselves.

Then there are seven famous seers such as Kashyapa, who are endowed with all virtues and are perfect in wisdom among all sages. Besides these, there are also four manus, beginning with the self-existent (svayambhuva). o wielder of the bow, these are my eleven projections, emanating from my mind, to undertake created, the three worlds were not properly arranged and the five gross elements had remained functionless (91-95). Then came these eleven projections of mine, which formed the worlds and created guardians to protect them. In this way these eleven beings are the rulers of the world, with all the people therein as their subjects. Know that this expanse of the universe has come out of my very being. Behold, there is at the start only a germ, which bursts into a stem, which then grows into shoots and branches. Form the branches come out twigs which bear leaves and tender foliage, from which blossom flowers and fruits. Thus grows a tree, but if you think over it, it is the single germ, which has spread out as a tree (96-100). So I was alone at the beginning; from me the mind was born, and from the mind came into being the seven sages and the four manus. They created the guardian deities to preside over the world, from whom sprang the three worlds and all living beings. So this entire universe has expanded from my being and so only those who realise that all these projections have their origin from me, are blessed with true insight.

So, my modes and manifestations pervade o Arjuna, this universe. Hence. From Brahma to an ant, there is nothing but my divine self (101-105). He, who knows this well, is truly awakened, and he does not suffer from the dream of distinctions among living beings as good and bad. Whoever realises through yoga that I am not different from my manifestations and the living beings born of these manifestations becomes one with heart soul and me. O Arjuna, whoever worships me with this vision of unity, I become his servant by reason of this worship. Therefore, I have taught you this yoga of devotion, consisting of knowledge of unity, which continues without interruption. Even if one meets his death while practicing this devotion, it is all to the good. This is what I told you in the sixth chapter (106-110). If you wish to know this devotional yoga of God's unity, listen to these words of mine.

O Arjuna, I am the source from which this universe takes its birth and sustenance. Just as waves arise in water, take shelter in water and have their being in water, and is nothing but water, so there is nothing in this world without me. The knows of self who realise this all-pervasive nature a of mine and worship me with true devotion and love (111-115), and know that I am not separate from place, time and circumstance, recollect me in their mind and happily sport in the three worlds, just as the wind, taking the form of a kasha, moves in the akasha. They also regard that every being that they see is of divine nature. Know that this is my true yoga of devotion.

Those who have become united with heart soul, and me and become thoroughly contented, have become forgetful of birth and death in their passionate zeal for self-knowledge. Then they begin to dance, in sheer ecstasy, with the joy of conversation, exchanging their thoughts and experiences of self-knowledge (116-120). When two close-lying lakes in spate overflow into each other, their waters mingle and their waves rise into spirals, so in the union of self-realised devotees, the ripples of their ecstatic joy get woven into a braid and the grandeur of self-knowledge of one displays itself, in harmony with the self-knowledge of the other. As if the sun should wave a light before another sun or the moon should embrace another moon, or two streams of equal flow should mingle with one another, so when such blessed souls come together, they form a confluence of sacred streams of divine life, throwing up on its surface pure sentiments (sattvic bhavas). Then the devotees become as it were presiding deities on the high way in the form of a dialogue. Overflowing with this supreme bliss they forget their body-consciousness and proclaim loudly their rapturous joy at having attained union with me, (121-125). They declare to the whole world in a sonorous voice like that of clouds the secret and music mantra, which the master discloses in solitude to his disciple. Just as when a lotus blossoms, it is unable to contain its sweet smell within itself, and wafts it equally to prince and pauper, so these devotees, while singing my glory, become so absorbed in the soul's joy that they become oblivious of everything and thereby lose their body-consciousness. Utterly oblivious of the time's flow by day and night in this overflowing love for god, they remains settled in the enjoyment of their blissful union with me.

O Arjuna, of whatever gifts I wish to give them, they have already picked up the choicest one (126-130). Considering the highway, which they have started to tread to come to me, heaven and liberation seem like by 1lanes. The devotion, which they bear me, is my gift to them. Whatever I wished to give them, they have at ready appropriated it. My only wish now is that this devotional love of theirs should go on increasing and the malignant glance of time should not fall on it. Just as doting mother follows its child at play wherever it goes and provides it with whatever toys it asks for, so it is my pleasure to increase the status of devotion (131-135). I wish to increase especially those methods of worship by practicing which my devotees will find it easy to come to me. Since my devotees will find it easy to come to me. Since my devotees are attracted to me I am also drawn to them because of their single - minded devotion; for loving devotees are rare in my abode. See, for the comfort of ordinary devotees, I have earmarked the well-trodden paths of paradise and liberation and I have allotted to them even my person with goddess Lakshmi, but I have set apart for my intimate debates the supreme bliss of self-knowledge. O Arjuna, this way I love and keep my loving devotees close to me. But it is beyond the power of words to describe this love (136-140).

For those who have taken refuge in me and regard all else as trash through devotion, o great warrior, I light the torch of camphor and walk in front of them as their torch-bearer even in broad daylight. For these devotees, I dispel the darkness of the night of primeval ignorance and bring them the dawning light of wisdom. When the supreme person beloved of his devotees, spoke thus, Arjuna said, "Now all my desires are fulfilled. O lord, you have swept away the dust of worldly existence and freed me from the cycle of birth the death (141-145). O god, I have seen with my own eyes the meaning of my birth, and I feel as if I have acquired now the art of living. O lord, I received the grace to hear from your own mouth your sacred utterance and so have achieved the purpose o my life. Fortune has dawned upon me, and with the darkness of ignorance gone in the light of your utterance, I have received the true vision of your being".

O lord of the universe, you are the supreme Brahman, the haven of rest for all the gross elements, the holiest of the holy. You are the supreme deity of the triad of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesha, the Purusha, the twenty-fifth principle and also the being who is beyond maya (145-150). O lord, I know now that you are existent since eternity and you are without such qualities as birth and decay. You are the Supreme Being who pulls the strings of the past, present and future times, the guardian deity of the individual selves and the support of the universe.

And in another way also, I have come to know the truth of all this. Sages in the past too had told up such stories about you, but the truth of what they said has come home to me now. O god, this is all due to your grace. The divine sage Narada used to visit our home and sing your glosses; but we used to appreciate his sweet music and not its deeper meaning (151-155). The sun shines in the house of the blind, they only feel his warmth, but how could they see his light? So when the divine sage used to give us instruction in the doctrine of the self, his musical notes only used to touch the chords of our hearts. I used to hear Asita and Devala also extol your divine glory, but at that time my mind was filled with the poison of sensuous pleasures. So deadly is the poison that the Absolute Truth, which is really sweet tastes bitter, while the sensuous pleasures, although bitter, tastes sweet. Why talk of others? Even sage Vyasa used to come to our place and describe your glorious life (156-160). But then I was like a person, who, stumbling upon a philosopher's stone (chintamani) in the dark paid no attention to it, until he recognized its true value after the day dawned. So although the talks of Vyasa and other were veritable mines of gems of knowledge, I brushed them aside, until I saw their worth in the light of your instruction.

Now the RAS of your words have entered my heart and removed the ignorance about the paths taught by the sages. O Lord, their teachings were veritable seeds of knowledge, and they had gone deep into the soil in the form of my heart. These seeds, moistened by your grace, have borne fruit in the form of your divine discourse. O infinite lord, I have become as it were the sea of your blissful discourse, into which have flowed the teachings of sages like Narada in the form of river streams (161-165). O, my Master, you brought about what meritorious actions performed by me in many previous births could not achieve. For I had heard my elders extol your greatness on many occasions, but I could make neither head nor tail out of it, until I received your grace. When fortune smiled upon one, one's efforts bear gruit. Likewise, with the grace of the Guru, one realises the truth of what one has heard and studied. The gardener tends the garden toiling and sweating by watering the fruit trees, but the trees bear fruit only on the advent of the spring. A patient can relish dainty dishes only when the fever subsides. The medicine does not taste sweet until it cures the disease and restores health (166-170). The senses, speech and the vital berate achieve their purpose, only when they are moved by the spirit. Thus, it is only when a disciple receives the grace of his master that he reaps the benefit of his Vedic studies or spiritual practices. This conviction dispelled all doubts of Arjuna and made him dance with joy. He said, "O God, your words have convinced me. O Deliverer, I know now that you are obscure even to the gods and the demons. I now realise that no one who ventures upon knowing you solely relying on his intellect, will gain any knowledge of you without being initiated by you (171-175).

Just as the sky knows its own expanse, or the earth its own mass, so you yourself, O Lord of Lakshmi, know your infinite power. The Vedas, Shastras and the Puranas boast in vein of their knowledge of you. O Lord, who can surpass the mind in speed? How can anyone clasp the wind in his arms? How can anyone swim across the river of maya with unaided arms? It is equally hard to know you; indeed no mortal can do so without help. You alone know your real Self and you yourself are capable of making others, by your spoken word, to realise you (176-180). O, you, creator of the universe, O you, the lion who destroys the elephant of worldly existence, O you, the Providence who is the only object of worship to all gods, do you hear me? Knowing your glory as I do, I am not even fit to stand in your presence. If I were to flinch now because of my unworthiness, From beseeching a favor from you, then there is no other way to attain you. Even if the rivers and the seas are overfulling in all ways, of what use are they to the Chataka birds? It is only when the clouds shed a few drops of water, they will have water to drink. In the same way, o Lord Krishna, although there are many Masters in the world, You are all in all to us. This is enough. Now tell me about your manifestations.

O Lord, show me some of your divine, all-pervasive and patent manifestations (181-185). O Infinite God, tell me some of your well-known and principal manifestations, by which you have remained pervading this world.

O Lord, How do I know you and meditate upon you? If it is said you dwell everywhere, then no meditation is possible. Therefore, whatever manifestations you had talked about before repeat them to me in greater detail. Explain your Yoga very clearly so that I can mediate upon it without effort.

O Lord of all beings, tell me about your manifestations, about which I have asked. If you say why you should tell the same things over and over again (186-190), please do not entertain this doubt even for a moment, O oppressor of foes. For even an ordinary person is not satiated by the drink of nectar which is offered to him every now and then. This nectar is, however, the brother of poison, and even though the gods drank it out of fear of death, fourteen Indras rise and fall during the span of Brahma's Day. This nectar, which was recovered from the churning of the Milky Sea, has received without any apparent reason the name of 'giver of immortality.' But no one is sated with this sweet drink and cries 'enough of it.' If such a trivial drink is held in high regard, then your talk is truly an embrocial drink of wisdom. It has not been obtained by churning the sea of milk by using the Mandara Mountain as the churning rod it is naturally without beginning and self-existent (191-195). It does not drip, is neither thin nor thick, and no one can know its sweetness of its smell, but one realises it that yearns for it. No sooner your sweet words fall on the ears, than the worldly existence appears illusory and the Yogi attains to uninterrupted eternal life. Because of it birth and death subside without a trace and the supreme bliss of self-realization pervades him in and out. If this drink becomes available to a person by good luck, it unites him with the supreme self. You are giving me such Ambrocial drink of wisdom, that I cannot say I have had enough of it. O God, I like your name, I have also met you and enjoyed your company and on the top of it you are joyously chatting with me (196-200). I do not know how to describe this happiness flowing from your talk but it gives me great joy. I, therefore, feel that I should hear it from your mouth again. O Lord, does the sunlight ever become stale? Can one call the fire impure? Or will the ever-flowing water of the river Ganges ever become unclean? When I heard your words of wisdom, I felt as if I was hearing the word of God incarnate and was smelling the flower of sandalwood.' Hearing this speech of Arjuna, Lord Krishna started reeling with great joy and said, "This Partha has verily become the repository of both knowledge and devotion." Delighted by Arjuna's speech, the Lord experienced the exhilaration of love for him, but collecting himself with great difficulty, he began to speak (201-205).

Forgetting that he was the father of Brahma the creator. 'Lord Krishna said to Arjuna, "BA Arjuna, you have spoken well." But you should not feel any surprise that the Lord called Arjuna, 'BA' (Father), because had he not become himself the son of Nanda? When there is excess of love, such things happen. Then the Lord said,"O archer, listen to what I am going to say. My manifestations about which you asked are unlimited in number. So even though they are my' manifestations, they are beyond the comprehension of my intellect. Just as no one can count the number of hair on one's body, I cannot count my manifestations (206-210). Even otherwise, I am myself not aware of what I am and how great. Therefore, I shall tell you my foremost manifestations. If you comprehend them, you will come to know the other manifestations too. Just as one becomes possed of the tree if he has its seed, or if one owns the garden, one become possessed of its flowers and fruits, so by knowing my manifestation, you will grasp the whole universe. O Partha, there is no end to my expanse since even things as bit as the vault of heaven are contained in me.

Hear you, O Arjuna, who have curly hair on your head and who are like Lord Shiva in the science of archery, I dwell as the Self in every living being (211-215). I abide in the heart of all beings and pervade the outer space also. I am also the beginning, the end and the middle of existence. The sky remains up and down, inside and outside of the clouds, which are born in the sky, stay in the sky and when they dissolve, remain in the sky, even so I am the origin, the support, the destroyer and the final goal of all living beings. You will come to know my boundless expanse and pervasive quality through these manifestations. Therefore, listen, being all ears with the soul in it. Now hear about my foremost manifestations. I wanted to tell them to you, but they remained to be told (216-220).

With these words the gracious Lord said: Among the twelgve adityas. I am Vishnu. Among the lustrous things, I am the sun with respleadent rays. I am the Marichi among fifty Maruts and the moon among the stars in the sky.

Shri Gobinda said further : I am Samaveda among the Vedas. Among the gods I am Indra, the friend of Maruts. Among the senses, I am the eleventh sense, the mind. I am also the consciousness among all the living beings.

Among the Rudras, I am shri Shakara, the enemy of the god of love. Have no doubt about this (221-225). Among the Yakshas and demons, I am wealthy Kubera, the friend of Shri Shankara, so said Shri Ananta. I am fire among the eight Vasus and Meru, the highest among the mountains with peaks.

I am Brihaspati, who is the support of Indra's throne, the ancient seat of learning and the chief of priests. O Arjuna, I am Kartikaswami, the chief among generals of the three worlds, who was born in the womb of Krittika from the seed of Lord Shiva through the medium of fire. I am the ocean of waters among the lakes. I am the great escetic Ghrigu among the great seers (226-230). I am that single syllable Om, which manifests Truth prominently in speech, and of all the sacrifices, I am the muttered prayer. In which the repetition of a mantra such as om preceded by the relinquishment of the fruit of action culminates. For that repetition of God's name, which itself is a great sacrifice and does not require such acts as bath etc., sanctifies both pious and impious acts and is known to the Vedas as the supreme Brahman. I am the Himalayas, the treasure of auspiciousness, among the immovables of the earth, so said the husband of goddess Lakshmi.

The wish - yielding tree, the coral tree and the sandalwood tree are all famous for their qualities', I am the holy fig-tree among the trees (231-235). O Arjuna, know me to be Narada mong the divine seers. I am Uchchaishtavas, among the famous horses and am Airavata among the elephants, the glory of kings. I am the nectar which the gods took out from the Milky sea aftere churning it. The monarch who is served by all his subjects is my special manifestation among all men.

O Partha, I am the thunderbolt in the hand of Indra, the performer of hundred sacrifices, which is the foremost among weapons (236-240). Among the cows, I am the wish - yielding cow, so said Lord Krishna, I am the god of love, who is responsible for procreation. I am Vasuki, the chief among the serpents and the Shesha among the snakes. Shri krishna siad, I am Varuna among the acquatic deities, the guardian of the west. I am also the deity aryam of the Manes. I am telling this truth to you that among the restrainers, I am yama, the judge of all actions (241-245) who taking stock of men's good and evil actions and judging their motives dispenses to all the fruits of their actions strictly according to their deserts.

O Partha, bear in mind that I am Prahlada, born in the race of demons. He was, therefore, not defiled by the demoniacal nature. Lord Krishna said, I am the Mahakala, the Time, of those who wear out and destroy things and the tiger among fierce beasts. O Arjuna, listen. I am the eagle-god among the birds, because of which he is able to carry me on his back.

O wielder of the bow, among those who move fast, I am the wind, who circumambulates round the earth and the seven oceans with one bounce in lessthan half an hour (246-250). Among the wielders of wean. I am Ram, who, finding the religion in peril in the Tretayuga, espoused its cause and turned the face of victory towards him. Thin standing on the top of the suveli mountain, he cut off the heads of Ravana, the mighty lord of Lanka and offred them as oblations to the spirits. who were hailing his victory in the sky. He preserved the dignity of gods, restored the religion to its former glory and became another sun born in the solar race (251-255). I am indeed, that Ram, husband of Sita, among the bearers of weapons. Crocodile I am among the aquatic animals with tails. (251-255) Know that among the flowing rivers, I am the Ganges (Jahnavi), Whom Jahnu gulped while she was being brought to earth by Bhagiratha and took her out of his thingh. Ir I werre to describe my different manifestations in this world, I will nor be able to describe even half of them in thousand births.

Just as one wishing to pick up the stars will have to tie up the sky in one's bag or if one wishes to count the atoms of the earth, One must hold the globe in one's armpit, so one must know me in order to perceive my expance (256-260). Just as a person wishing to gather in a bundle the branches, flowers and fruits, has to uproot the tree, one must understand my flawless nature in order to know all my special manifestations. Otherwise, O Arjuna, how long would you hear about my different manifestations? Therefore, try to understand that I am also, O Arjuna, the origin, the middle and the end of all this created world. Just as the thread fills the warp and woof of cloth, know that I pervade this whole universe. Once you know this, then you will not find it necessary to understand all my manifestations. This however, to understand all my manifestations. This however, is still beyond your capacity, and so leave it alone (261-265). Since you have asked me about the manifestations, O Arjuna, listen to me I am the knowledge of the self which I have told you, among all lores. I am the debate among those who love to argue. This debate never comes to an end, as the shastras do nor reach a consensus. but the debate increases with the presentation of their doctrines, resulting in forceful arguments and giving greater scope to eloquent orations, I am that debate in which the disputants try to establish their own doctrines, so said shri Gobinds. I am clearly the letter a among the alphabets, and know that I am the copulative compound among the compounds. I am also the Time (Kala) who devours all from the mosquito to god Brahma (266-270). I am that unlimited time, who at the time of dissolution destroys the whole world along with the mountain Including meru, who absorbs then and there the waters inundating the world, who clasps the fire to his bosom, devours the wind and also contains the akasha within his belly, so said the husband of goddess Lakshmi. He further added, "I am also the creator of this world at the beginning of the cycle."

Know that I create all beings, I am also their support and I am their all-devouring death too. I have also seven female manifestations which I shall tell you with delight (271-275). O Arjuna, fame, which is ever fresh, is the very image of my divine being. Know that I am also wealth which is joined to generosity. I am also the speech which is enthroned on the seat of reason and treads along the path of discriminating knowledge. I am also the power of recollection, by which a person after seeing a thing, remembers me as its creator. I am also the intelligence, which brings about one's well being in this world and am also fortitude (that makes men endure hardships and forgiveness. I am, therefore, these seven female powers, so said the lord, the lion who destroys the elephant in the form of worldly existence (276-280).

The Lord of Lakshmi said, O my dearest friend, know without doubt that I am the brihatsama of the Samaveda in the Vedas and the metre known as gayatri of the metres. The lord added, I am the margashirsha month of all months and the flowering spring among the seasons.

O clever Arjuna, I am the gambe among the deceitful arts and so the victim of gambling on the highway cannot be saved. O Partha, know fully well that I am the splendour smong all splendid things. I am also the success which crowns effort in all undertakings (281-285). I am also the profession which adopts the moral path in any undertaking, so said further : I am the godness of the good, and also the most glorious among the Yadavas. Born of Vasudeva and Devaki, I was removed to Gokula to take the place ofthe daughter of Yashoda. When Putana came to poison me, I sucked her to death. Even when the bud of my childhood had not fully blossomed, I made the earth free from demons. I held the Goverdhana mountain on the palm of my hand and brought down the prestige of Indra. I pulled out the cobra kalia, who was a thorn in the bosom of the river Yamuna and saved the ntire Gokula by swallowing its burning flames. When god Brahma lifted the calves of Gokula, I created exactly similar calves and outwitted him (286-290). In my childhood, I destroyed such fomidable foes as Kamsa and Chanura. Why should I tell you all this? You have heard and seen many such events yourself. I am, therefore, vasudeva smong the Yadavas. I am also Arjuna amongst you pandavas, born of the lunar race and therefore, our mutual love does not suffer any breach. In the guise of an ascetic you kindnapped my sister Subhadra, but I did not entertain any gurdge towards you; for we have one soul in two bodies. I am also Vyasa, the foremost among sages and I am also Shukracharya, the eminent among wise men, so said lord krishna, the king of Yadavas (291-295).

O Partha, among those who chatise, I am that inexorable sceptre which chatise, I am that inexorble sceptre which chastens all beings from an ant to god Brahms. I am ethics among all scinces, wich discriminates between god and evil and sides with duth and wisdom. I am silence, O brave Arjuna, the greatest among mysteries and therefore, even god Brahma seems ignorant before one who observes silence. Know that I am the wisdom in the wise. Enough of all this, because there is no end to these manifestations.

O Arjuna can anyone count the showers of rain or the blades of grass on the earth? (296-300). Just as no one can state definitely the number of waves on the sea, so no one can measure my special characteristics. Even then, O Arjuna, I have descrived to you seventy-five manifestations, which are the chief ones among those I possess. But I think that the purpose with which you asked about my manifestations has nor been served. The extent of my other manifestations is limitless. How many of them can I tell you and how many of them will you hear? Therefore, I shall speak to you of my deepest secret, that I am the primary seed from which aprout forth all created beings. therefore, do not regard anything as small or great, give up all distinctions of high and low, but know for certain I am all this universe (301-305). but over and above this I shall tell you, O Arjuna, a general characteristic by which you will be able to recognise my manifestations.

O winner of wealth, whoever possesses wealth and compassion, know that to be my manifestation.