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Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 10.14
सर्वमेतदृतं मन्ये यन्मां वदसि केशव ।
न हि ते भगवन्व्यक्तिं विदुर्देवा न दानवा: ॥ १४ ॥
sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye
yan māṁ vadasi keśava
na hi te bhagavan vyaktiṁ
vidur devā na dānavāḥ
O Kṛṣṇa, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me. Neither the demigods nor the demons, O Lord, can understand Your personality.
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3 study points
Arjuna accepts all Kṛṣṇa’s words as true. Neither demigods nor demons can understand Kṛṣṇa’s personality.
By Kṛṣṇa’s grace, Arjuna understood Him as the perfect Supreme Truth. The Gītā should be understood through disciplic succession.
Follow Arjuna by accepting Kṛṣṇa’s words to understand the Gītā and know Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Arjuna especially accepts Krishna’s own statement as truisms, because:
Neither the demigods nor demons can know Krishna perfectly as Supreme, only Krishna can reveal
This verse establishes that ‘faithless’ and ‘demoniac’ cannot understand Krishna
Establishes that since Krishna is not known even by the demigods, what to speak of modern scholars
Arjuna understands all this by Lord’s grace
Of his opulences
Arjuna refers to previous authorities
Thus confirms Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Also by his own realisation)
Prays to Krishna to hear more of his glories so that he can always think of Him and remember Him
Otherwise Krishna will remain unknowable
Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.
The spiritual concepts this verse connects to.
Key ideas: saṁśaya, viṣāda.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does BG 10.14 establish in Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport, and how does it connect to questions & crisis?
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Mahābhārata episodes and stories from the purports that shed light on this verse.
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