In Chapter IX Krishna explained the King of secrets, the sovereign mystery of his Divine being – both immanent and transcendent. Here in Chapter X, the sublime presence of Divinity, Krishna makes a clear declaration that he is the Supreme Being and the source from which all things come. He is also the ultimate reality that transcends all opposites, thus he is both happiness and suffering, birth and death, being and nonbeing. Like the Brahman of the Upanishads, he is beyond duality, beyond the constricting categories of the things of the world. His true nature is beyond the reach of outward going thoughts and feelings; yet being the source of thoughts and feelings, he’s not remote but easily accessible to his devotees whose minds and hearts are inwardly fixed on him. He grants the yoga of intelligence and discrimination and that is the lamp of knowledge that dispells ignorance.
One of the key concepts of this chapter is divine reciprocity. This wisdom is shared with Arjuna and us because Krishna desires Arjuna and our well being and because Arjuna delights and we delight in drinking in the immortal nectar of wisdom.
He who knows Me, the birthless and the beginningless, The mighty Lord of the world, He among mortals is undeluded; He is released from all evils*.
Arjuna acknowledges Krishna as the highest Brahman, the Person eternal and divine and as every other traditional theological and cosmological concept applicable to Supreme divinity.
Arjuna calls Krishna Purushottama, “the supreme Purusha”, “the supreme Person.” Krishna is now no human charioteer but “the munificent Lord”; and Arjuna, leaving his warrior persona behind, now stands revealed as a seeker after truth. At Arjuna’s request, Krishna now reveals a few of his divine powers and attributes (vibhutis). Wherever Arjuna finds strength, beauty or power, he should recognize it as coming from a spark of Krishna’s glory. Krishna, importantly also provides phenomenal experiences of the bad and the ugly as well as the good as a means by which we can wake up and cut through the illusion of wrong understanding with the light of wisdom, discriminating between the changing and the changeless. Krishna wants us to move to the transcendent reality, becoming liberated beings, leaving behind the samsara of birth, growth, decay and death. Because of Arjuna’s sincere quest as a real seeker Krishna is reciprocating with love and compassion giving him the highest truths.
*Samskaras, gunas, karmas
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