Sanskrit · Devanagari
पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ। जीवनं सर्वभूतेषु तपश्चास्मि तपस्विषु ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṃ ca tejaścāsmi vibhāvasau jīvanaṃ sarvabhūteṣu tapaścāsmi tapasviṣu
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882I am the fragrant smell in the earth, refulgence in the fire I am life in all beings, and penance in those who perform penance.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।7.9।। पुण्यः सुरभिः गन्धः पृथिव्यां च अहम् तस्मिन् मयि गन्धभूते पृथिवी प्रोता। पुण्यत्वं गन्धस्य स्वभावत एव पृथिव्यां दर्शितम् अबादिषु रसादेः पुण्यत्वोपलक्षणार्थम्। अपुण्यत्वं तु गन्धादीनाम् अविद्याधर्माद्यपेक्षं संसारिणां भूतविशेषसंसर्गनिमित्तं भवति। तेजश्च दीप्तिश्च अस्मि विभावसौ अग्नौ। तथा जीवनं सर्वभूतेषु येन जीवन्ति सर्वाणि भूतानि तत् जीवनम्। तपश्च अस्मि तपस्विषु तस्मिन् तपसि मयि तपस्विनः प्रोताः।।
58db5fde4758…Rāmānuja
7.8 - 7.11 All these entities with their peculiar characteristic are born from Me alone. They depend on Me; inasmuch as they constitute My body, they exist in Me alone. Thus I alone exist while all of them are only My modes.
fbb8e1973303…Swami Sivananda
7.9 पुण्यः sweet? गन्धः fragrance? पृथिव्याम् in earth? च and? तेजः brilliance? च and? अस्मि am (I)? विभावसौ in fire? जीवनम् life? सर्वभूतेषु in all beings? तपः austerity? च and? अस्मि am (I)? तपस्विषु in ascetics.Commentary In Me as odour in the earth woven in Me as brilliance is the fire woven in Me as life all beings are woven in Me as austerity all ascetics are woven. I am the support (Adhishthanam or Asraya) for everything.I am the power or Sakti which helps the ascetics to control the mind and the senses.Krishna says? I am the agreeable odour. If Arjuna had asked Him? Then who is the disagreeable odour? He would have replied? It is also I.
777fec71b207…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.