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Bhagavad Gita 10.16

वक्तुमर्हस्यशेषेण दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतयः।याभिर्विभूतिभिर्लोकानिमांस्त्वं व्याप्य तिष्ठसि॥

vaktumarhasyaśeṣeṇa divyā hyātmavibhūtayaḥ |yābhirvibhūtibhirlokānimāṃstvaṃ vyāpya tiṣṭhasi ||

You should indeed tell, without reserve, of your divine glories by which you exist, pervading all these worlds. (No one else can do so.)

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Please tell me about all of Your glorious manifestations, through which You pervade the world.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 10.16 · SatsangVidya