Vibhuti in the Bhagavad Gita
Vibhuti means divine glory; in Chapter 10 Krishna names the finest in each class of things as his own glory.
Verses across the Gita that speak to vibhuti, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.
- 7.7Ch. 7
Everything is held in one sustaining reality.
You can stop feeling cut off from life. What holds everything also holds you.
- 7.8Ch. 7
The sacred is already inside ordinary experience.
The world feels less ordinary when you notice the divine presence already filling it.
- 7.9Ch. 7
The sacred is already inside nature, vitality, and discipline.
The divine is not far away; it already moves through ordinary experience.
- 7.10Ch. 7
All brilliance is borrowed from the same source.
You can stop treating brilliance as personal ownership and start seeing it as something received.
- 9.6Ch. 9
What moves everywhere still rests in the divine.
You are not separate from the whole. Even movement and change happen within a larger presence.
- 9.17Ch. 9
All sources of life and meaning are gathered in Krishna.
You are held by something larger than family, ritual, or language.
- 9.19Ch. 9
Opposites do not stand outside the divine; they flow from it.
The world feels less random when you see one presence behind both nourishment and loss.
- 10.1Ch. 10
Deeper truth arrives as care for the one who is ready.
Being loved means being taught what you most need, not only what you want to hear.
- 10.2Ch. 10
Even the highest knowers stand inside the source they seek.
Awe deepens when you realize the highest minds still cannot contain the divine.
- 10.4Ch. 10
All human qualities arise from the same source.
You do not have to manufacture your best qualities alone; they are already being carried by a larger source.
- 10.5Ch. 10
All qualities are expressions of the same divine source.
You do not have to manufacture your best qualities alone; they are already rooted in something larger.
- 10.6Ch. 10
All lineages and worlds emerge from Krishna’s mind.
The world is not separate from the divine source that sustains it.
- 10.7Ch. 10
True recognition of Krishna's presence makes devotion unshakable.
Clear seeing turns admiration into steadiness. Doubt falls away when the mind recognises what it is really meeting.
- 10.8Ch. 10
Knowing the source turns understanding into devotion.
Knowing where everything comes from makes devotion natural rather than forced.
- 10.16Ch. 10
Only the source can fully name its own presence in the world.
Awe becomes humility: the more reality is seen, the more limited ordinary language feels.
- 10.17Ch. 10
Devotion needs a form the mind can return to again and again.
Love wants a way to remember. The heart asks for a thousand doors back to the beloved.
- 10.18Ch. 10
True devotion never feels finished hearing the beloved.
Love for the divine does not run out of listening; it deepens with more hearing.
- 10.19Ch. 10
The divine can be named briefly, never exhausted.
Any list of God's forms is a sample; the whole cannot be counted.
- 10.20Ch. 10
Everything that exists is held within one enduring presence.
You are held inside something far larger than your private story.
- 10.21Ch. 10
Every radiance is a sign of one presence.
The world is not separate from the divine presence you move through every day.
- 10.22Ch. 10
The divine is not elsewhere; it is the awareness within everything.
The world is not separate from the divine; even your own mind is a meeting place with it.
- 10.23Ch. 10
Greatness in the world is a visible sign of Krishna's presence.
The world is not separate from the divine; its greatest powers are already expressions of that presence.
- 10.24Ch. 10
Greatness in the world is a trace of Krishna everywhere.
The world is not separate from the divine presence you move through every day.
- 10.25Ch. 10
The divine appears through the noblest forms of speech, ritual, and nature.
The world feels less random when you start noticing what points beyond itself.
- 10.26Ch. 10
The finest forms in creation are windows into Krishna.
The world is full of reminders. What you admire most can point you back to the divine.
- 10.27Ch. 10
Greatness in the world is a visible trace of Krishna.
Awe becomes easier when greatness is recognised as a sign of the divine.
- 10.28Ch. 10
Power, fertility, and danger all reveal the same source.
The ordinary world starts to feel charged with presence, not random pieces.
- 10.29Ch. 10
The divine is visible in every order of existence.
Nothing is spiritually ordinary; even structures of power and lineage can be seen as sacred.
- 10.30Ch. 10
Power, devotion, and majesty are all windows into one presence.
Strength and devotion are not separate from the divine presence.
- 10.31Ch. 10
One reality appears as every noble force.
The world becomes charged with meaning when you start seeing the divine in its strongest forms.
- 10.32Ch. 10
All creation and all truth-seeking speech point back to Krishna.
Reality is not random or separate from the divine; even truth-seeking speech belongs to that same presence.
- 10.33Ch. 10
Even letters and time carry Krishna's presence.
The ordinary and the immense are not separate. What seems small still carries the divine presence.
- 10.34Ch. 10
Even death and virtue are expressions of the same divine source.
Nothing precious is outside the divine presence, not even the qualities you admire in people.
- 10.35Ch. 10
Sacred sound, time, and spring all carry the same presence.
Beauty, rhythm, and renewal are not separate from the divine presence.
- 10.36Ch. 10
What shines through victory and resolve is not separate from the divine.
Your best qualities are not isolated achievements; they are signs of a larger presence moving through you.
- 10.37Ch. 10
Greatness in many forms is one presence showing itself.
You do not need to chase fragmented ideals; the same presence can shine through many forms.
- 10.38Ch. 10
True power is measured by restraint, silence, and clear understanding.
Power does not always shout. The deepest strength can look like restraint, quiet, and clear understanding.
- 10.39Ch. 10
All existence grows from one hidden source.
You are never truly separate from the source of life.
- 10.40Ch. 10
No list can contain the divine's endless expressions.
The world is bigger than your current view, and the sacred can never be fully exhausted by examples.
- 10.41Ch. 10
Every genuine greatness is only a spark of my radiance.
You can admire greatness without mistaking it for self-made power.
- 10.42Ch. 10
The whole universe rests in a single fragment of the divine.
The mind can relax. Reality is already held together by something far larger than your grasp.
- 15.12Ch. 15
Every brightness in the world points back to one source.
The world feels less random when you notice its brightness has a source.
- 15.13Ch. 15
Life is nourished from within by the same presence that holds it together.
The world is not separate from divine support; even ordinary nourishment is held from within.