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TEXT 19 sri-bhagavan uvaca
SYNONYMS  sri-bhagavan
uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; hanta--yes;
te--unto
you; kathayisyami--I shall speak; divyah--divine;
hi--certainly;
atma-vibhutayah--personal opulences; pradhanyatah--principally;
kuru-srestha--O
best of the Kurus; na asti--there is no;
antah--limit; vistarasya--to
the extent; me--My.
TRANSLATION The Blessed
Lord said: Yes, I will tell you of My splendorous manifestations, but only
of those which are prominent, O Arjuna, for My opulence is limitless.
PURPORT It is not possible
to comprehend the greatness of Krsna and His opulences. The senses of the
individual soul are imperfect and do not permit him to understand the totality
of Krsna's affairs. Still the devotees try to understand Krsna, but not
on the principle that they will be able to understand Krsna fully at any
specific time or in any state of life. Rather, the very topics of Krsna
are so relishable that they appear to them as nectar. Thus they enjoy them.
In discussing Krsna's opulences and His diverse energies, the pure devotees
take transcendental pleasure. Therefore they want to hear and discuss them.
Krsna knows that living entities do not understand the extent of His opulences;
He therefore agrees to state only the principal manifestations of His different
energies. The word pradhanyatah (principal) is very important because
we can understand only a few of the principal details of the Supreme Lord,
for His features are unlimited. It is not possible to understand them all.
And vibhuti, as used in this verse, refers to the opulences by which
He controls the whole manifestation. In the Amara-kosa dictionary
it is stated that vibhuti indicates an exceptional opulence.
The impersonalist
or the pantheist cannot understand the exceptional opulences of the Supreme
Lord nor the manifestations of His divine energy. Both in the material
world and in the spiritual world His energies are distributed in every
variety of manifestation. Now Krsna is describing what can be directly
perceived by the common man; thus part of His variegated energy is described
in this way.
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