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.

na

nor

me

my

viduḥ

know

sura-gaṇāḥ

the celestial gods

prabhavam

origin

mahā-ṛiṣhayaḥ

the great sages

aham

I

ādiḥ

the source

hi

certainly

devānām

of the celestial gods

mahā-ṛiṣhīṇām

of the great seers

cha

also

sarvaśhaḥ

in every way