Bhagavad Gita 10.22 Meaning: Vedanam samavedosmi

Bhagavad Gita 10.22

वेदानां सामवेदोऽस्मि देवानामस्मि वासवः ।इन्द्रियाणां मनश्चास्मि भूतानामस्मि चेतना ॥

Vedanam samavedosmi devanamasmi vasavahIndriyanam manashchasmi bhutanamasmi chetana

vedānāṃ sāmavedo’smi devānāmasmi vāsavaḥ |indriyāṇāṃ manaścāsmi bhūtānāmasmi cetanā ||

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Our explanation Among the Vedas, Krishna says, he is the Sāma Veda; among the gods, Vāsava (Indra); among the senses, the mind; among living beings, consciousness (cetanā).

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण कहते हैं कि वेदों में वे सामवेद हैं; देवताओं में वासव (इंद्र); इंद्रियों में मन; और प्राणियों में चेतना।

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वेदानाम् vedānām · among the Vedas (noun (masculine), genitive plural) Dictionary: 1. veda, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1015, col. 1 “knowledge, true or sacred knowledge or lore”
सामवेदः sāmavedaḥ · the Sāma Veda (compound (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: sāma-veda, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1205, col. 2 “‘Veda of chants,’ N. of one of the three principal Vedas”
अस्मि asmi · am (present, 1st person singular) Dictionary: 1. as, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 117, col. 2 “to be, live, exist, be present”
देवानाम् devānām · among the gods (noun (masculine), genitive plural) Dictionary: deva, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 492, col. 2 “a deity, god”
अस्मि asmi · am (present, 1st person singular) Dictionary: 1. as, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 117, col. 2 “to be, live, exist, be present”
वासवः vāsavaḥ · Vāsava (Indra) (noun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: vāsava, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 948, col. 1 “N. of Indra (as chief of the Vasus)”
इन्द्रियाणाम् indriyāṇām · among the senses (noun (neuter), genitive plural) Dictionary: indriya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 167, col. 2 “faculty of sense, sense, organ of sense”
मनः manaḥ · the mind (noun (neuter), nominative singular) Dictionary: manas, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 783, col. 3 “mind (in its widest sense as applied to all the mental powers)”
च ca · and (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. ca, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 380, col. 1 “and, both, also, moreover, as well as”
अस्मि asmi · am (present, 1st person singular) Dictionary: 1. as, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 117, col. 2 “to be, live, exist, be present”
भूतानाम् bhūtānām · in living beings (noun (neuter), genitive plural) Dictionary: bhūta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 761, col. 3 “that which is or exists, any living being (divine, human, animal, and even vegetable)”
अस्मि asmi · am (present, 1st person singular) Dictionary: 1. as, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 117, col. 2 “to be, live, exist, be present”
चेतना cetanā · consciousness (noun (feminine), nominative singular) Dictionary: cetana, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 397, col. 3 “consciousness, understanding, sense, intelligence”

1 printing differs

Edition differences. Another printing or text reads this place differently.

The printed edition reads: वेदान सामवेदोऽस्मि देवानामस्मि वासवः ।
इन्द्रियाणां मनश्चास्मि भूतानामस्मि चेतना ॥ The print reads वेदान (with a short, broken stroke after न and no anusvara) where the genitive plural वेदानां ('among the Vedas') is needed; read as a damaged ā-sign and lost anusvara and restored, because the parallel genitives of the list (देवानाम्, इन्द्रियाणाम्, भूतानाम्) and both proofreading references read वेदानां.

As being, probably, full of music. ↩

Cf. Khândogya, p. 121, where Saṅkara says, 'Mind is the chief of man's inner activities.' ↩

As being, probably, full of music. ↩

Cf. Khândogya, p. 121, where Saṅkara says, 'Mind is the chief of man's inner activities.' ↩

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