Adhyāya 10 — Vibhūti Yogaḥ
The Yoga of Divine Glories · 42 verses
Overview
from Q&A with KnAThe seeing heart now asks where to look. K first restates that no one — not the gods, not the great seers — knows His origin, for He is their source; and he who knows Him unborn and beginningless, the great Lord of the worlds, is freed of all delusion. He is the origin of everything, and from Him all proceeds; the wise, knowing this, worship Him with love, and to them, ever-devoted, He gives the buddhi-yoga by which they come to Him, dispelling their darkness with the lamp of knowledge from within. Overwhelmed, Arjuna pours out a hymn of recognition and asks: by what forms shall I contemplate You? K answers with the vibhūti — the “glories” — naming Himself as the highest and best in every category: Viṣṇu among the Ādityas, the sun among lights, the mind among the senses, Om among words, the Ganges among rivers, even the gambling of cheats and the splendour of the splendid. And he closes by folding the whole list back into unity: these are but hints; whatever is glorious springs from a spark of His splendour; with a single fragment of Himself He stands supporting the entire universe.