39. And whatsoever is the seed of all beings, that also am I, O Arjuna. There is no being, whether moving or unmoving, that can exist without Me.

40. There is no end of My divine attributes, O scorcher of foes; but this is a brief statement by Me of the particulars of My divine attributes.

41. Whatever being there is great,

prosperous or powerful, that know thou to be a product of a part of My splendour.

42. Or what avails thee to know all this diversity, O Arjuna? (Know thou this,. that) I exist, supporting this whole world by a portion of Myself.

The end of the tenth chapter, designated GLIMPSES OF THE DIVINE GLORY.

Footnotes

^219:1 Supreme--as revealing the unsurpassed truth.

^220:2 Prabhavam--higher origin (birth);--though birthless, yet taking various manifestations of power. Or it may mean, great Lordly power.

In every way: not only as their producer, but also as their efficient cause, and the guide of their intellect, &c.

^220:3 All sins--consciously or unconsciously incurred.

^221:4 Arise &c.--according to their respective Karma.

^222:6 The four ancient Manus: The four Manus of the past ages known as Savarnas.

^222:7 This Yoga power--i.e., the fact that the great Rishis and the Manus possessed their power and wisdom, as partaking of a very small portion of the Lord's infinite power and wisdom.

Unshakable Yoga: Samadhi, the state of steadiness in right realisation.

^223:8 Loving consciousness--of the One Self in all.

^223:9 Satisfied: when there is cessation of all thirst.

Says the Purana: All the pleasures of the senses in the world, and also all the great happiness in the divine spheres, are not worth a sixteenth part of that which comes from the cessation of all desires.

^224:10 Buddhi Yoga--Devotion of right knowledge, through Dhyana, of My essential nature as devoid of all limitations.

See II. 39.

^225:11 Luminous lamp of knowledge--characterised by discrimination; fed by the oil of contentment due to Bhakti; fanned by the wind of absorbing meditation on Me; furnished with the wick of pure consciousness evolved by the constant cultivation of Brahmacharyam and other pious virtues; held in the reservoir of the heart devoid of worldliness; placed in the wind-sheltered recess of the mind, withdrawn from the sense-objects, and untainted by attachment and aversion; shining with the light of right knowledge, engendered by incessant practice of concentration.--Sankara.

^226:14 Bhagavan--is he in whom ever exist in their fulness, all powers, all Dharma, all glory, all success, all renunciation and all freedom. Also he that knows the origin and dissolution and the future of all beings, as well as knowledge and ignorance, is called Bhagavan.

^227:16 Since none else can do so.