7.8
Chapter 7, Verse 8
रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययोः। प्रणवः सर्ववेदेषु शब्दः खे पौरुषं नृषु৷৷
rasō.hamapsu kauntēya prabhāsmi śaśisūryayōḥ. praṇavaḥ sarvavēdēṣu śabdaḥ khē pauruṣaṅ nṛṣu৷৷
Translation
O Arjuna! I am the Fluidity in water, the Light in the sun and in the moon. I am the mystic syllable Om in the Vedic scriptures, the Sound in ether, the Virility in man.
Translation — Purohit Swami
Commentary
रसः sapidity, अहम् I, अप्सु in water, कौन्तेय O Kaunteya (son of Kunti), प्रभा light, अस्मि am (I), शशिसूर्ययोः in the moon and the sun, प्रणवः the syllable Om, सर्ववेदेषु in all the Vedas, शब्दः sound, खे in ether, पौरुषम् virility, नृषु in men. Commentary: In Me all beings and the whole world are woven as a cloth in the warp. In Me as sapidity the water is woven in Me as light, the sun and the moon are woven in Me as the sacred syllable Om all the Vedas are woven in Me as virility all men are woven.The manifestations of the Lord are described in the verses 8, 9, 10 and 11. (Cf.XV.12)
Commentary — Swami Sivananda
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.