Chapter10 Shloka16 - Shrimad Bhagvad Gita

Shrimad Bhagvad Gita

Chapter 10 : Vibhuti yoga, The art of manifestation

Ch 10 : Sh 16

वक्तुमर्हस्यशेषेण दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतयः ।
याभिर्विभूतिभिर्लोकानिमांस्त्वं व्याप्य तिष्ठसि ॥

Transliteration

vaktum arhasy-aśeṣeṇa divyā hyātma vibhūtayaḥ |
yābhir-vibhūtibhir lokān imāṃs tvaṃ vyāpya tiṣṭhasi || 16 ||

Translation

Please tell me in detail of Your divine powers by which You pervade all these worlds and abide in them.

Purport

After realizing none other than God is in front of him, Arjuna got overwhelmed. He accepted it is beyond the capacity for any human, devatas or Danvans to know about Shri Krishna on his own until Shri Krishna himself let himself known.

 In earlier Shlokas, Arjuna submitted himself completely in the lotus feet of Shri Krishna. In this Shloka he expresses his desires to know the glories of Shri Krishna and requested Shri Krishna to tell more of those divine glories[Of Shri Krishna].