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Verse 10·19

I am the end and beginning of all

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श्रीभगवानुवाच:हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतयः ।प्राधान्यतः कुरुश्रेष्ठ नास्त्यन्तो विस्तरस्य मे ॥

śrībhagavānuvāca:hanta te kathayiṣyāmi divyā hyātmavibhūtayaḥprādhānyataḥ kuruśreṣṭha nāstyanto vistarasya me

The Blessed Lord said: Yes, I will tell thee of my divine Vibhutis, but only in some of My principal pre-eminences, O best of the Kurus; for there is no end to the detail of My self-extension in the universe.

Gītā 10·19

The divine Teacher accedes to the request of the disciple, but with an initial reminder that a full reply is not possible. For God is infinite and his manifestation is infinite. The forms of his manifestation too are innumerable. Each form is a symbol of some divine power, vibhūti concealed in it and to the seeing eye each finite carries in it its own revelation of the infinite.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 360

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