Cluster 0375 — BG-10.41 — Generalizing meta-vibhūti rule: whatever is endowed-with-vibhūti, glory, or might is born of a fraction of MY splendor
BG-10.41
Sanskrit śloka (BG-10.41): यद्यद्विभूतिमत्सत्त्वं श्रीमदूर्जितमेव वा । तत्तदेवावगच्छ त्वं मम तेजोंऽशसंभवम् ॥४१॥
"Whatever sattva (being / existence / manifestation) is vibhūti-mat (endowed-with-vibhūti) — or śrīmat (glorious) — or ūrjita (mighty) — that, that-very-thing know to be born from a fraction (amśa) of MY splendor (tejas) ॥41॥."
BG-10.41 is the GENERALIZING-META-VIBHŪTI sloka of the BG-10.19-42 great vibhūti-catalog — the universal-rule that retroactively-grounds every named-vibhūti of the catalog (BG-10.20 through BG-10.39) and prospectively-grounds every-unnamed-glorious-thing-anywhere. The Sanskrit's load-bearing terms: yad yad ... sattvam — the yat-yat reduplication signaling unrestricted-universal-quantification (whatever-thing-whatsoever); vibhūti-mat + śrīmat + ūrjita — the three-fold exhaustive qualifier (supreme-instance + glory + might) covering every-axis-of-excellence in the Sanskrit-aesthetic-tradition; tat tad eva avagaccha tvam — the tat-tad reduplication mirroring the yat-yat opening, the emphatic imperative addressed to Arjuna in second-person; mama tejo'mśa-sambhavam — born of a fraction (amśa) of MY splendor (tejas) — the precise universal-rule. The doctrinal-claim: the BG-10.19-39 named-vibhūtis are not an exhaustive-list but a PRĀDHĀNYATAḤ-pedagogical-sampling; the underlying-rule is that every-supreme-instance-anywhere-of-anything is a fraction-of-the-Lord's-splendor — the cosmos-wide universal-vibhūti-pervasion-doctrine. The sloka (a) closes the bounded-catalog with an unbounded-generalization, (b) instructs the practitioner-Arjuna in how to extend the vibhūti-recognition beyond the named-instances into every-domain-of-life, and (c) anticipates the BG-10.42 closing-summary viṣṭabhyāham idam kṛtsnam ekāmśena sthito jagat (I stand pervading this entire jagat with a SINGLE-FRACTION of MY being) which intensifies the amśa-sambhava doctrine to its absolute-form. Jñāneśvar's 1-ovi treatment (10.307) compresses the entire generalizing-claim into a striking single-line iconic reduction: jētha jētha sampatti āṇi dayā — dōnhī vasati āliyā ṭhāyā — tē tē jāṇa dhanañjayā — vibhūti mājhī (wherever WEALTH (sampatti) and COMPASSION (dayā) — BOTH come to dwell in a place — know THAT, O Dhanañjaya, as MY vibhūti). The most-doctrinally-load-bearing Jñāneśvar move: the Sanskrit's three-fold qualifier vibhūti-mat + śrīmat + ūrjita is rendered as the bipolar sampatti āṇi dayā (wealth/glory AND compassion). The Sanskrit terms have no direct compassion-semantic — Jñāneśvar inserts dayā (compassion) as a Marathi-bhakti amplification, making compassion a non-substitutable diagnostic-criterion: mere-power-and-glory-without-compassion is NOT a Lord's-vibhūti; only WEALTH-WITH-COMPASSION qualifies. This is among the most-significant Marathi-bhakti reductions in the entire adhyāya — the bhakti-ethical-criterion inserted into the cosmic universal-pervasion-doctrine.
Ovi 10.307
Original (Marathi): जेथ जेथ संपत्ति आणि दया । दोन्ही वसती आलिया ठाया । ते ते जाण धनंजया । विभूति माझी ॥३०७॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| जेथ जेथ | wherever, wherever (reduplicative universal-quantifier rendering Sanskrit yad yad) |
| संपत्ति | wealth, glory, prosperity, opulence (rendering Sanskrit śrīmat) |
| आणि | and (conjunction marking the dual-criterion) |
| दया | compassion, mercy (Jñāneśvar's amplification of Sanskrit vibhūti-mat + ūrjita) |
| दोन्ही | both (the conjunctive criterion: not either-or but both-together) |
| वसती आलिया ठाया | come to dwell / reside in a place |
| ते ते | that, that (reduplicative demonstrative mirroring जेथ-जेथ) |
| जाण | know (second-person imperative addressed to Arjuna) |
| धनंजया | O Dhanañjaya (vocative direct-address to Arjuna as wealth-winner) |
| विभूति माझी | MY vibhūti, vibhūti mine (final claim — rendering Sanskrit mama tejo'mśa-sambhavam) |
Literal translation
English: "Wherever wealth and compassion — both come to dwell in a place — know that, O Dhanañjaya, as MY vibhūti."
मराठी (आधुनिक): "जिथे जिथे संपत्ती आणि दया — या दोन्ही गोष्टी एखाद्या ठिकाणी एकत्र वसून येतात — हे धनंजया (अर्जुना), ती ती (वस्तू/व्यक्ती/स्थान) माझी विभूती आहे, असे जाण."
Metaphor-unfold
No extended metaphor in this ovi. The register is direct universal-rule articulation with Jñāneśvar's iconic doctrinal-amplification: the BG-10.41 three-fold Sanskrit qualifier (vibhūti-mat + śrīmat + ūrjita) is rendered as the bipolar Marathi criterion sampatti āṇi dayā (wealth/glory AND compassion), inserting dayā (compassion) as a non-substitutable diagnostic-criterion for vibhūti-recognition. The reduction is doctrinally-amplifying rather than metaphor-deploying — the better empty than wrong discipline is preserved.
Nāth-yogic layer
No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. The register is bhakti-Vedānta generalizing-meta-vibhūti-rule articulation: cosmic-pervasion-theology (the Lord's tejas as the splendor-substrate from which every-glorious-thing-is-fraction-born) plus the bhakti-ethical sampatti āṇi dayā dual-criterion. The image-vocabulary is bhāgavata-Vaiṣṇava, not haṭha-yogic-technical. The tejo'mśa-sambhava doctrine is bhagavata-cosmic-splendor-pervasion, not haṭha-yogic-internal-tejas-cakra.
Cross-references
- Internal: developed-further from 10.306 (closing 0374 — the āīka pām āṇikahī khūṇa (listen still further, another sign) pedagogical-transition that announces the BG-10.41 universal-rule about to be delivered); foreshadows 10.308 (which will open the unpacking of BG-10.42's ekāmśena sthito jagat absolute-cosmic-pervasion-summary, intensifying the BG-10.41 amśa into ekāmśa).
- Tukaram parallel: 1779 (the pāṇḍurangē mauḷī + 6-named bhakta-rescue-catalog deploying the kanavāḷū kṛpāḷū compassionate-merciful dual-naming that mirrors Jñāneśvar's sampatti āṇi dayā dual-criterion) — shared bhakti-ethical-criterion-as-load-bearing-vibhūti-attribute doctrine. 1815 (the abhaya-dāna-śūra + dōṣa tyāmce jāḷī kalpa-kōṭi-varī abhang naming udāra + abhaya-dāna-śūra as the precise vibhūti-attributes of compassion-as-action) — shared compassion-as-the-load-bearing-vibhūti-criterion doctrine. 1791 (the 5-image sant-praise pentad deploying the transform-others-without-self-depletion universal-rule applied to saints) — shared sampatti āṇi dayā (glory-AND-compassion) twin-criterion applied to recognizing the saint-as-vibhūti.
- Source citation: BG-10.41 (direct-paraphrase — yad yad vibhūti-mat sattvam śrīmad ūrjitam eva vā — tat tad evāvagaccha tvam mama tejo'mśa-sambhavam unpacked as jētha jētha sampatti āṇi dayā — dōnhī vasati āliyā ṭhāyā — tē tē jāṇa dhanañjayā — vibhūti mājhī, with the iconic Jñāneśvar bipolar-reduction sampatti āṇi dayā (wealth AND compassion) replacing the Sanskrit's three-fold vibhūti-mat + śrīmat + ūrjita qualifier — inserting dayā / compassion as the non-substitutable bhakti-ethical diagnostic-criterion); BG-10.19 (echo — hanta te kathayiṣyāmi divyā hy ātma-vibhūtayaḥ — prādhānyataḥ kuru-śreṣṭha nāsty anto vistarasya me — the catalog-opening prādhānyataḥ qualifier that BG-10.41 retroactively-grounds); BG-10.42 (foreshadows — atha vā bahunaitena kim jñātena tavārjuna — viṣṭabhyāham idam kṛtsnam ekāmśena sthito jagat — the absolute-form of the amśa-sambhava doctrine that closes adhyāya-10); BG-7.7 (echo — mattaḥ parataram nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya — mayi sarvam idam protam sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva — the substrate-pervasion doctrine that shares the dhanañjaya vocative-address with 10.307); Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.8.18-43 (echo — Kuntī's stuti deploying the dayā-as-divine-vibhūti recognition); Bhāgavata Purāṇa 2.5.35-43 (echo — Brahma's vibhūti-discourse naming karuṇa as the divine-pervasion-attribute).
Modern application
- The professional-or-leader who, when assessing a powerful-institution (corporation, government, religious-body), applies the sampatti āṇi dayā (wealth AND compassion) diagnostic: mere-wealth-and-power without compassion is NOT a Lord's-vibhūti — only wealth-WITH-compassion qualifies. The criterion sharpens the discernment of which-institutions to admire, support, or emulate, and which to recognize as merely-powerful-without-being-genuinely-glorious.
- The contemplative who, in encounters with human-excellence (in art, science, athletics, business, scholarship), trains the precise seeing: this glorious-thing is a tejo'mśa-sambhava (fraction-of-the-Lord's-splendor-born) — not autonomous, not self-sufficient, but a precise vibhūti-instance of the universal-divine-pervasion. The recognition transforms admiration-of-excellence into vibhūti-recognition.
- The reader who, in moments of moral-discernment about their own life-choices (which work to pursue, which relationships to invest in, which causes to support), applies the sampatti āṇi dayā twin-criterion: am I pursuing wealth-AND-compassion together, or wealth-alone? The precise diagnostic-criterion makes the vibhūti mājhī recognition not merely contemplative but actively-formative of choice.
Sādhanā
For five minutes today, name three concrete instances of glorious-things in your environment (a beautiful piece of art, an impressive accomplishment by a colleague, a powerful institution you admire). For each instance, apply the sampatti āṇi dayā diagnostic: is there wealth/glory AND compassion together? Where the dual-criterion is met, explicitly address the Lord: "Here, in this — vibhūti mājhī — I recognize Your vibhūti." Where only one pole is present (e.g., wealth-without-compassion, or compassion-without-effective-substance), explicitly note: "This is not yet a vibhūti-instance — the dual-criterion is unmet." The configuration of dual-criterion-vibhūti-recognition is the practice — sharpening the precise spiritual-discernment of where the Lord's tejo'mśa is present and where it is not.
Arc
10.307 delivers the generalizing-meta-vibhūti-rule of BG-10.41 with Jñāneśvar's iconic sampatti āṇi dayā dual-criterion bhakti-amplification — closing the BG-10.19-39 named-vibhūti-catalog with an unbounded universal-rule that retroactively-grounds the named-instances and prospectively-grounds every-glorious-thing-anywhere. The next ovi 10.308 will open the unpacking of BG-10.42's atha vā bahunaitena kim jñātena tavārjuna — viṣṭabhyāham idam kṛtsnam ekāmśena sthito jagat (I stand pervading this entire jagat with a SINGLE-FRACTION of MY being) — the absolute-form of the amśa-sambhava doctrine that closes adhyāya-10.
Cluster summary
Core teaching. BG-10.41's yad yad vibhūti-mat sattvam śrīmad ūrjitam eva vā — tat tad evāvagaccha tvam mama tejo'mśa-sambhavam is the GENERALIZING-META-VIBHŪTI sloka that closes the bounded-named-catalog (BG-10.20-39) with an unbounded-universal-rule: whatever-anywhere is vibhūti-mat or śrīmat or ūrjita (endowed-with-supreme-instance-character or glory or might) — know that-very-thing to be born of a fraction (amśa) of MY splendor (tejas). The catalog up through BG-10.39 named precise principal-instances; BG-10.41 retroactively-grounds these and prospectively-grounds every-unnamed-glorious-thing-anywhere as tejo'mśa-sambhava. Jñāneśvar's 1-ovi treatment (10.307) compresses the entire claim into a single iconic line: jētha jētha sampatti āṇi dayā — dōnhī vasati āliyā ṭhāyā — tē tē jāṇa dhanañjayā — vibhūti mājhī (wherever WEALTH and COMPASSION — BOTH come to dwell — know THAT, O Dhanañjaya, as MY vibhūti). The most-doctrinally-load-bearing Jñāneśvar move: the Sanskrit's three-fold qualifier vibhūti-mat + śrīmat + ūrjita is rendered as the bipolar sampatti āṇi dayā (wealth/glory AND compassion). The Sanskrit terms have no direct compassion-semantic — Jñāneśvar inserts dayā as a Marathi-bhakti amplification, making compassion a non-substitutable diagnostic-criterion: mere-power-without-compassion is NOT a Lord's-vibhūti; only WEALTH-WITH-COMPASSION qualifies. The bhakti-ethical-criterion inserted into the cosmic universal-pervasion-doctrine.
Theme tags. yad-yad-vibhūti-mat-sattvam · śrīmad-ūrjitam-eva-vā · tat-tad-evāvagaccha-tvam · mama-tejo-mśa-sambhavam · generalizing-meta-vibhūti-rule · sampatti-āṇi-dayā-dual-criterion · dayā-as-non-substitutable-vibhūti-criterion · Jñāneśvar-bipolar-reduction-of-three-fold-Sanskrit-qualifier · wealth-AND-compassion-required-for-vibhūti-recognition · bhakti-ethical-criterion-inserted-into-cosmic-pervasion-doctrine · closing-rule-of-BG-10.19-42-vibhūti-catalog · amśa-sambhava-doctrine · BG-10.42-ekāmśa-foreshadowing.
Contains extended metaphor: No — the cluster's primary register is generalizing universal-rule articulation. The metaphor_family field captures the Marathi-Sanskrit-correspondence-units with the iconic sampatti āṇi dayā doctrinal-amplification named.
Chapter arc position. Cluster 0375 (BG-10.41) is the GENERALIZING-META-VIBHŪTI sloka closing the bounded-named-catalog of BG-10.19-42 with an unbounded-universal-rule. Within adhyāya-10's larger architecture: BG-10.1-18 delivered the opening-frame (Lord-self-announcement + non-knowability + 20-bhāvas + 7-maharṣis-4-manus + bhakti-frame block closing with the JÑĀNA-DĪPA-LIGHTING + Arjuna's recognition-hymn + Arjuna's petition for exhaustive-vibhūti-listing); BG-10.19 opened the Lord's answer with prādhānyataḥ kuru-śreṣṭha nāsty anto vistarasya me (principal-instances only, for there is no end); BG-10.20-39 delivered the named-vibhūti-catalog (Prahlāda + Kāla + Mṛgendra + Vainateya + Pavana + Rāma + Makara + Jāhnavī + Mṛtyu + Dyūta + Bīja + many more); BG-10.40 (closing 0374) closed the named-catalog with nānto'sti mama divyānām vibhūtīnām paramtapa — eṣa tūddeśataḥ prokto vibhūter vistaro mayā (NO-END of My divine vibhūtis — this is a pedagogical-pointer-listing); BG-10.41 (cluster 0375) NOW delivers the GENERALIZING-META-RULE: whatever-is-vibhūti-mat-or-śrīmat-or-ūrjita anywhere = born from a fraction of MY splendor — with Jñāneśvar's iconic sampatti āṇi dayā dual-criterion bhakti-amplification; BG-10.42 will close adhyāya-10 with viṣṭabhyāham idam kṛtsnam ekāmśena sthito jagat (I stand pervading this entire jagat with a SINGLE-FRACTION of MY being) — the absolute-form of the amśa-sambhava doctrine. The cluster sits at the architectural-pivot between bounded-catalog and cosmic-pervasion-summary.
Connects to next śloka. BG-10.42's atha vā bahunaitena kim jñātena tavārjuna — viṣṭabhyāham idam kṛtsnam ekāmśena sthito jagat is the closing-sloka of adhyāya-10. The 10.307 closing vibhūti mājhī (MY vibhūti — the universal-rule recognition) modulates into the next cluster's ekāmśena sthito jagat (I stand pervading the jagat with a single fraction). The 0375 → 0376 transition is the amśa-sambhava-generalizing-rule → ekāmśa-cosmic-pervasion-summary pedagogical-progression: BG-10.41 said every-glorious-thing = born from a FRACTION (amśa) of MY splendor; BG-10.42 will intensify this to the ENTIRE-jagat is sustained by a SINGLE-FRACTION (ekāmśa) of MY being. The chapter approaches its climactic-conclusion: bounded-named-catalog closed (BG-10.40) → unbounded-generalizing-rule delivered (BG-10.41 / 10.307) → absolute-cosmic-pervasion-summary will be delivered (BG-10.42). Jñāneśvar's sampatti āṇi dayā dual-criterion at 10.307 prepares the BG-10.42 ekāmśa recognition by establishing that the vibhūti-recognition is not mere-quantitative-counting-of-glorious-instances but qualitative-recognition-of-the-Lord's-tejas-fraction wherever-wealth-and-compassion-both-dwell.