संस्कृत
अथवा बहुनैतेन किं ज्ञातेन तवार्जुन । विष्टभ्याहमिदं कृत्स्नमेकांशेन स्थितो जगत् ॥ ४२ ॥
athavā bahunaitena kiṃ jñātena tavārjuna viṣṭabhyāham idaṃ kṛtsnam ekāṃśena sthito jagat
अनुवाद
But what is the knowledge of all these details to thee, O Arjuna? Having pervaded this whole universe with one fragment of Myself, I remain.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
व्याख्या
The chapter closes by deflating its own catalogue — “what use is the knowledge of all these details” — and replacing thirty-plus specific examples with one compressed claim: a single fragment of Krishna sustains the entire universe. That image of partial, fragmentary pervasion is exactly what Arjuna will no longer be satisfied with once he’s heard it, setting up his direct request in Chapter 11 to see the whole form rather than hear about a fragment of it. Ekāṃśena sthito jagat — “I stand upholding the world with a single fragment” — collapses the whole list into one image, and lights the fuse for chapter 11: having heard that even one fragment does this, Arjuna asks to see the whole.
गहराई से अध्ययन करें
शब्द-दर-शब्द
- athavā bahunaitena kiṃअथवा बहुनैतेन किं
- or what need of all this (athavā + bahunā + etena + kim)
- jñātena tavārjunaज्ञातेन तवार्जुन
- knowing, on your part, O Arjuna (jñātena + tava + arjuna)
- viṣṭabhyāham idaṃ kṛtsnamविष्टभ्याहं इदं कृत्स्नं
- having pervaded this whole [universe] (viṣṭabhya + aham + idam + kṛtsnam)
- ekāṃśena sthito jagatएकांशेन स्थितो जगत्
- I abide with a single fragment (eka-aṃśena + sthitaḥ + jagat)
टीका
Site Commentary
“What use is this detailed knowledge to you, Arjuna?” is a strange thing to say after twenty verses of exactly that detailed knowledge. Krishna isn’t retracting the list — he’s demoting it, from destination to disposable scaffolding. The teaching’s real payload was never the forty-some named examples; it was the one-line claim that follows them, and the examples exist only to make that final claim land instead of arriving as a dry, standalone assertion.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
Site Commentary — Second Reading
Measure the gap between the two halves of this verse: it takes over thirty named examples across twenty verses to gesture at what Krishna is, and one clause — pervaded the whole with a single fragment — to state what he does. The catalogue is effortful in a way the act it’s describing apparently isn’t; sustaining the entire universe is disposed of in half a line, almost as an afterthought, while pointing at it in words took a whole chapter. Description turns out to be the harder task, not the deed itself.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
अवधारणाएँ
इस श्लोक को अपनाएँ
पाठ
व्यक्तिगत
- When you finish walking through a long list of examples or evidence with someone, be willing to say plainly which single point actually mattered and let the rest recede — the point outlasts the examples that got you there.
व्यावसायिक
- After presenting a detailed dataset or case study to stakeholders, be direct about which single conclusion the data was building toward — don't leave the audience holding forty data points when one decision is what actually needed to land.
परिवार और समाज
- After giving someone close to you a lot of context or a long story, be willing to name the one thing you actually needed them to take away — the details were scaffolding for that point, not the point itself.
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