संस्कृत
आदित्यानामहं विष्णुर्ज्योतिषां रविरंशुमान् । मरीचिर्मरुतामस्मि नक्षत्राणामहं शशी ॥ २१ ॥
ādityānām ahaṃ viṣṇur jyotiṣāṃ ravir aṃśumān marīcir marutām asmi nakṣatrāṇām ahaṃ śaśī
अनुवाद
Of the Adityas I am Vishnu; of radiances the glorious sun; I am Marîchi of the Maruts; of the asterisms the Moon am I.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
व्याख्या
The first category examples — among the Adityas, Vishnu; among lights, the sun; among the Maruts, Marichi; among stars, the moon. This establishes the pattern the chapter follows almost mechanically through verse 39: a category, then its foremost member, claimed as Krishna’s self-manifestation. The template — of X, I am the foremost Y — runs to BG 10.39. The figure on the chapter page curates a dozen of the most memorable; the full run is BG 10.21–BG 10.39.
गहराई से अध्ययन करें
शब्द-दर-शब्द
- ādityānām ahaṃ viṣṇurआदित्यानां अहं विष्णुः
- among the Ādityas I am Viṣṇu (ādityānām + aham + viṣṇuḥ)
- jyotiṣāṃ ravir aṃśumānज्योतिषां रविः अंशुमान्
- among lights, the radiant sun (jyotiṣām + raviḥ + aṃśumān)
- marīcir marutām asmiमरीचिः मरुतां अस्मि
- among the Maruts I am Marīci (marīciḥ + marutām + asmi)
- nakṣatrāṇām ahaṃ śaśīनक्षत्राणां अहं शशी
- among the stars, the moon (nakṣatrāṇām + aham + śaśī)
टीका
Site Commentary
Verse 21 isn’t really about Vishnu, the sun, Marichi, or the moon individually — its real work is establishing a template (“among this category, I am its foremost member”) that the next eighteen verses repeat almost without variation. Once a pattern is set this cleanly in its first instance, a reader does most of the remaining interpretive work automatically, verse after verse, without being told the rule again.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
Site Commentary — Second Reading
The four examples span two different registers without marking the difference — Vishnu and Marichi are named Vedic deities, while the sun and moon are just what’s overhead every day. The verse doesn’t ask Arjuna to locate anything exotic or hidden; it points at whatever a given category already recognizes as its best — the brightest light, the clearest sky-object — and says that’s already Krishna. The method being modeled here isn’t discovery, it’s recognition: the best of any ordinary category was never a rival claim to notice separately.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
अवधारणाएँ
इस श्लोक को अपनाएँ
पाठ
व्यक्तिगत
- When building a new habit or system, get the very first instance exactly right — this verse's opening example sets a template ("among X, I am the foremost Y") that the next eighteen verses repeat almost without variation. A clean first repetition becomes the pattern your mind defaults to executing after.
व्यावसायिक
- When introducing a new pattern to your team — a naming convention, a review checklist — make the first real example as clean as possible, the way this verse's opening instance sets a template the rest of the list follows unchanged. People pattern-match off the first case more than any written rule.
परिवार और समाज
- When setting a new expectation with your kids, make the very first time you enforce it consistent and clear — this verse's opening example sets a pattern the chapter then repeats almost mechanically for eighteen more verses. The first instance becomes the template every later instance gets measured against.
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