Verse 7.8
रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययोः ।
प्रणवः सर्ववेदेषु शब्दः खे पौरुषं नृषु ॥
Transliteration
raso'hamapsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśisūryayoḥ |
praṇavaḥ sarvavedeṣu śabdaḥ khe pauruṣaṃ nṛṣu ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
I am the sapidity in water, O Arjuna; I am the light in the moon and the sun; I am the syllable Om in all the Vedas, sound in ether and virility in men.
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I am the taste in water, son of Kunti, the light in the moon and the sun, the syllable Om in all the Vedas, the sound in space and the manliness in men.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
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By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Krishna begins a series of examples showing how he is present in the world. He is the taste in water, the light of the moon and sun, the sacred syllable Om in all the Vedas, the sound in space and the manliness in men. In each case he names the essential quality without which a thing would not be what it is. The method is to point to the divine not in rare events but in ordinary experiences. This list prepares for the fuller account of divine manifestations given later in the Gita.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08