Mūla — the verse
Gita Press numberingTranslation
Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣyaArjuna said, "You are the supreme Brahman, the supreme Light, the supreme Sanctifier. All the sages, as well as the divine sage Narada, Asita, Devala, and Vyasa [Although Narada and the other sages are already mentioned by the words 'all the sages', they are still named separately due to their eminence. Asita is the father of Devala.] call You the eternal divine Person, the Primal God, the Birthless, the Omnipresent; and You Yourself indeed tell me this."
हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda
अर्जुन ने कहा आप -परम ब्रह्म, परम धाम और परम पवित्र हंै; सनातन दिव्य पुरुष, देवों के भी आदि देव, जन्म रहित और सर्वव्यापी हैं।।
Pronunciation — Vaamshii
from VaamshiiWord by word
padārthaThemes
from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad GītāMeaning — Questions & Solutions
from Q&A with KnAArjuna breaks in with a hymn: “You are the supreme Brahman, the supreme abode, the supreme purifier, the eternal divine Puruṣa…” He accepts the truth intellectually now — “all this I hold to be true, that You tell me” (10.14) — but the honest student knows the difference between accepting and seeing. His hymn is the hinge: having granted the verbal case, he begins to reach for the direct vision that canto 11 will grant. Assent has ripened into a hunger for experience (the jñāna wanting to become vijñāna).