Bhagavad-gītā As it Is — Bhagavad-gītā Como Ele É EM PROCESSO << 10 - The Opulence of the Absolute >> << 10 - A Opulência do Absoluto >> << VERSE 19 — VERSO 19 >> शरीभगवान उवाच हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि दिव्या हय आत्मविभूतयः पराधान्यतः कुरुश्रेष्ठ नास्त्य अन्तॊ विस्तरस्य मे śrī-bhagavān uvāca hanta te kathayiṣyāmi divyā hy ātma-vibhūtayaḥ prādhānyataḥ kuru-śreṣṭha nāsty anto vistarasya me WORD BY WORD — PALAVRA POR PALAVRA śrī-bhagavān uvāca the Supreme Personality of Godhead said hanta yes te unto you kathayiṣyāmi I shall speak divyāḥ divine hi certainly ātma-vibhūtayaḥ personal opulences prādhānyataḥ which are principal kuru-śreṣṭha O best of the Kurus na asti there is not antaḥ limit vistarasya to the extent me My TRANSLATION — TRADUÇÃO The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Yes, I will tell you of My splendorous manifestations, but only of those which are prominent, O Arjuna, for My opulence is limitless. PURPORT — SIGNIFICADO It is not possible to comprehend the greatness of Kṛṣṇa and His opulences. The senses of the individual soul are limited and do not permit him to understand the totality of Kṛṣṇa’s affairs. Still the devotees try to understand Kṛṣṇa, but not on the principle that they will be able to understand Kṛṣṇa fully at any specific time or in any state of life. Rather, the very topics of Kṛṣṇa are so relishable that they appear to the devotees as nectar. Thus the devotees enjoy them. In discussing Kṛṣṇa’s opulences and His diverse energies, the pure devotees take transcendental pleasure. Therefore they want to hear and discuss them. Kṛṣṇa knows that living entities do not understand the extent of His opulences; He therefore agrees to state only the principal manifestations of His different energies. The word prādhānyataḥ (“principal”) is very important because we can understand only a few of the principal details of the Supreme Lord, for His features are unlimited. It is not possible to understand them all. And vibhūti, as used in this verse, refers to the opulences by which He controls the whole manifestation. In the Amara-kośa dictionary it is stated that vibhūti indicates an exceptional opulence. The impersonalist or pantheist cannot understand the exceptional opulences of the Supreme Lord nor the manifestations of His divine energies. Both in the material world and in the spiritual world His energies are distributed in every variety of manifestation. Now Kṛṣṇa is describing what can be directly perceived by the common man; thus part of His variegated energy is described in this way. << Previous Verso — Verso anterior | Next Verse — Próximo >>

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