Verse 10.8

अहं सर्वस्य प्रभवो मत्तः सर्वं प्रवर्तते ।

इति मत्वा भजन्ते मां बुधा भावसमन्विताः ॥

10.8

Transliteration

ahaṃ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṃ pravartate |

iti matvā bhajante māṃ budhā bhāvasamanvitāḥ ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

I am the source of all; from Me everything evolves; understanding thus, the wise, endowed with meditation, worship Me.

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Word by word

I
of all
the origin
from me
everything
proceeds

thus
understanding
worship
me
the wise
full of devotion

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

This verse begins a group of four that many readers treat as the heart of the chapter. Krishna states plainly that he is the source of everything and that all activity proceeds from him. The wise who understand this turn to him in worship, and they do so bhāva-samanvitāḥ, full of feeling. The verse joins knowledge and devotion (bhakti) in a single movement: understanding leads to love, not away from it. It answers anyone who might think the Gita sets the thinker and the devotee against each other.