You Are The Ultimate

I am the Creator, the Created and the Creation. I Am the beginning, the middle and the end. All else is illusion. He who knows this glory and power of mine, is fully united in Me. Know Me and be liberated.

śrībhagavānuvāca bhūya eva mahābāho śṛṇu me paramaṁ vacaḥ I yatte'haṁ prīyamāṇāya vakṣyāmi hitakāmyayā II 10.1

10.1 Lord Kṛṣṇa says: Listen carefully again, Oh mighty-armed Arjuna! Because you are My dear friend, I shall speak further on the Supreme knowledge for your welfare.

na me viduḥ suragaṇāḥ prabhavaṁ na maharṣayaḥ I ahamādirhi devānāṁ maharṣīṇāṁ ca sarvaśaḥ II 10.2

10.2 Neither the hosts of deities nor the great sages know My origin, My opulence. I am the source of the deities and the sages.

yo māmajamanādiṁ ca vetti lokamaheśvaram I asaṁmūḍhaḥ sa martyeṣu sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate II 10.3

10.3 He who knows Me as the unborn, without beginning, and supreme Lord of all the worlds, Only he, who has this clarity, is wise and freed from all bondage.

buddhirjñānam asaṁmohaḥ kṣamā satyaṁ damaḥ śamaḥ I sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ bhavo 'bhāvo bhayaṁ cābhayameva ca II 10.4

ahiṁsā samatā tuṣṭis tapo dānaṁ yaśo 'yaśaḥ I bhavanti bhāvā bhūtānāṁ matta eva pṛthagvidhāḥ II 10.5

10.4,5 Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses, control of the mind, happiness, distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, non-violence, equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, fame and infamy, all these various qualities of living beings are created by Me alone.

maharṣayaḥ sapta pūrve catvāro manavastathā I madbhāvā mānasā jātā yeṣāṁ loka imāḥ prajāḥ II 10.6

10.6 The seven great sages and before them, the four great Manus, endowed with My power, They arose from My mind and all the living beings populating the planet descend from them.

etām vibhūtiṁ yogaṁ ca mama yo vetti tattvataḥ I so 'vikampena yogena yujyate nātra saṁśayaḥ II 10.7

10.7 He who knows all this glory and powers of mine, truly, he is fully united in Me; Of that there is no doubt.

ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate I iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā bhāvasamanvitāḥ II 10.8

10.8 I am the source of all the spiritual and material worlds. Everything arises from Me. The wise who know this are devoted to Me and surrender their heart to Me.

maccittā madgataprāṇā bodhayantaḥ parasparam I kathayantaśca māṁ nityaṁ tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca II 10.9

10.9 With mind and lives absorbed on Me, always enlightening one another and talking about My glories, the wise are content and blissful.

teṣāṁ satatayuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prītipūrvakam I dadāmi buddhiyogaṁ taṁ yena māmupayānti te II 10.10

10.10 To those who are always engaged in Me with love, I give them enlightenment by which they come to Me.

teṣāṁ evānukampārtham aham ajñānajaṁ tamaḥ I nāśayāmy ātma-bhāvastho jñānadīpena bhāsvatā II 10.11

10.11 Out of compassion to them, I destroy the darkness born out of their ignorance by the shining lamp of knowledge.