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दशमोऽध्यायः
श्रीभगवानुवाच । 3 भूय एव महाबाहो शृणु मे परमं वचः।
यत्तेऽहं प्रीयमाणाय वक्ष्यामि हितकाम्यया ॥१॥ न मे विदुः सुरगणाः प्रभवं न महर्षयः। अहमादिहिं देवानां महर्षीणां च सर्वशः॥२॥ यो मामजमनादिं च वेत्ति लोकमहेश्वरम् । असंमूढः स मर्येषु सर्वपापैःप्रमुच्यते ॥३॥
CHAPTER X. [The description of the royal road in the shape of the worship of the Perceptible, prescribed by the Blessed Lord for acquiring Karma-Yoga in the last chapter, is continued in this chapter; and in reply to the question of Arjuna, He gives in the end a description of the various perceptible forms or manifestations (urbhūti) of the Parameśvara ; and hearing this description, Arjuna is filled with the desire of seeing the Form of the Parameśvara with his own eyes ; therefore, in the next, that is, the eleventh chapter, the Blessed Lord has shown him His Cosmic Form, and satisfied his ambition.]
The Blessed Lord said :-(1) O Mahābāho ! to you, who are gratified ( by My speech ), I am once more describing (one) excellent thing, for your benefit, to which listen. (2) My origin is not understood even by the multitude of gods, or by great Rsis; because, I am, indeed, in every way the Fundamental cause of the gods and the great æsis. (3) He, who realises that I am the Great īśvara of all spheres, ( such as, the earth, etc. ), and that there is no birth or origin for Me, he alone, among all men, becoming free from Ignorance, becomes free from all sins.
[The idea that the Parabrahman, or the Blessed Lord, was in existence even before the gods, and that the gods came afterwards, is to be found in the Nāsadīga-Sūkta in the Rg-Veda (See Gi. Ra. Ch. IX, p. 351). To proceed: this
