न मे विदुः सुरगणाः प्रभवं न महर्षयः।अहमादिर्हि देवानां महर्षीणां च सर्वशः ॥

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

• 10.1The Blessed Lord said, Again, O mighty-armed Arjuna, listen to my supreme word which I will declare to you, who are beloved, for your welfare.

• 10.2Neither the hosts of the gods nor the great sages know My origin; for I am the source of all the gods and the great sages in every way.

• 10.3He who knows Me as unborn and beginningless, as the great Lord of the worlds, he among mortals is undeluded and is liberated from all sins.
• 10.4Intellect, wisdom, non-delusion, forgiveness, truth, self-restraint, calmness, happiness, pain, existence or birth, non-existence or death, fear, and also fearlessness.
• 10.5Non-injury, equanimity, contentment, austerity, beneficence, fame, and ill-fame—these different qualities of beings arise from Me alone.
• 10.6The seven great sages, the ancient four, and the Manus, possessing powers like Mine (due to their minds being fixed on Me), were born from My mind; from them, these creatures have been born in this world.
• 10.7He who truly knows these manifold manifestations of My Being and this Yoga-power of Mine, becomes established in unshakable Yoga; there is no doubt about it.
• 10.8I am the source of all; from me everything evolves; Understanding this, the wise, endowed with meditation, worship me.
• 10.9With their minds and lives wholly absorbed in Me, they enlighten each other and ever speak of Me, being satisfied and delighted.
• 10.10To those who are ever steadfast, worshipping me with love, I give the yoga of discrimination, by which they come to me.
• 10.11Out of mere compassion for them, I, dwelling within their selves, destroy the darkness born of ignorance with the luminous lamp of knowledge.

hi

certainly

me

my

na

nor

cha

also

aham

I

viduḥ

know

ādiḥ

the source

devānām

of the celestial gods

prabhavam

origin

sarvaśhaḥ

in every way

sura-gaṇāḥ

the celestial gods

mahā-ṛiṣhayaḥ

the great sages

mahā-ṛiṣhīṇām

of the great seers