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Adhyāyas / Vibhūti Yogaḥ / verse 36

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
द्यूतं छलयतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम्। जयोऽस्मि व्यवसायोऽस्मि सत्त्वं सत्त्ववतामहम्
dyūtaṁ chhalayatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham jayo ’smi vyavasāyo ’smi sattvaṁ sattvavatām aham
Anuṣṭubh

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

Of the fraudulent, I am the gambling; I am the irresistible end of the mighty. I am excellence, I am effort, I am the sattva quality of those possessed of sattva.

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

मैं छल करने वालों में द्यूत हूँ और तेजस्वियों में तेज हूँ, मैं विजय हूँ; मैं व्यवसाय (उद्यमशीलता) हूँ और सात्विक पुरुषों का सात्विक भाव हूँ।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
द्यूतञ् छल यतामस् मि
तेजस् तेजस् विनाम हम्
जयोऽ स्मिव् यव सायोऽ स्मि
सत् त्वं सत् त्वव तामहम्
॥ ३६ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
dyūtamgambling
chhalayatāmof all cheats
asmiI am
tejaḥthe splendor
tejasvināmof the splendid
ahamI
jayaḥvictory
asmiI am
vyavasāyaḥfirm resolve
asmiI am
sattvamvirtue
sattva-vatāmof the virtuous
ahamI

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā
Vibhūti

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
10.21–10.38The list.

K runs through creation naming Himself as its summit in each order: among the Ādityas, Viṣṇu; among lights, the radiant sun; among the Vedas, the Sāma; among the gods, Indra; among the senses, the mind; of living beings, consciousness itself; among mountains, Meru; of priests, Bṛhaspati; of waters, the ocean; of words, the single syllable Om; of sacrifices, the japa-yajña; of the immovable, the Himālaya; of trees, the aśvattha; of rivers, the Ganges; of sciences, the science of the Self (adhyātma-vidyā). Two touches deserve note. First, He claims not only the noble but the ambiguous: “I am the gambling of the fraudulent” (dyūtaṃ chalayatām asmi) — even the cleverness of cheats is a spark of His power, misused. There is nothing anywhere, high or low, that is not some fraction of His energy. Second, He ends the list on the moral note: “I am the victory, I am the effort, I am the goodness of the good (sattvaṃ sattvavatām)” (10.36). The catalogue is a training exercise: whatever most excellent thing the mind lands on, it is bidden to see through it to the One whose splendour it is.