Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10: The Yoga of Divine Glories

Chapter 10 is a litany of divine presence. Krishna states the principle first: he is the origin of all creation, everything proceeds from him, and the wise who know this worship with hearts full of devotion (10.8) — and to such lovers he gives the yoga of understanding and destroys their darkness from within (10.10–11). Arjuna, convinced, asks for the details: in what forms should I contemplate you? (10.17).

Krishna's answer sweeps through the world's excellences: he is the Self seated in the hearts of all beings, their beginning, middle, and end (10.20); Vishnu among Adityas, the radiant sun among lights, the moon among stars (10.21); the Sama Veda among hymns, Indra among gods, consciousness in the living (10.22); Meru among mountains, the ocean among waters, Om among words, the Himalaya among immovable things (10.23–25); the Ganges among rivers, the lion among animals, the letter A among letters (10.31–33). The catalogue is not a list to memorise but a way of seeing, and its summary verse says so: whatever is glorious, beautiful, or mighty springs from a mere spark of his splendour (10.41) — the whole cosmos stood up by a single fragment of himself (10.42).