Krishna opens by naming the source. He is the beginning of all gods and all seers, and neither gods nor seers know where he begins, because he is their beginning. Knowing this frees a person from every sin. All states of being come from him alone: understanding, patience, truth, calm, pleasure, pain, birth, death, fear, courage, non-harm, contentment, austerity, honour and disgrace. Then Arjuna, who has been listening with mounting wonder, asks to hear the divine glories in full — the specific powers by which Krishna fills and holds the worlds. Krishna agrees, but warns: there is no end to his extent. What follows is only a glimpse. He names himself as the self seated in every heart, the beginning, middle, and end of all creation. Among lights he is the sun, among stars the moon, among Vedas the Sama, among senses the mind, among mountains Meru, among rivers the Ganga, among words Om, among silences the secret kept. He is the seed of every being; nothing that moves or stands still could exist without him. Each identification points in the same direction: wherever you encounter something that stuns you with its beauty, its power, or its sheer aliveness, you are looking at a spark of what Krishna is. The catalogue is not meant to be memorized. It is meant to change the way you see. After this chapter, a sunset, a lion, a great teacher, a river in flood all become transparent. They point through themselves toward something that cannot be named but refuses to stay hidden. One fragment of that something holds up the entire world. You have already seen it, many times. You simply did not know what you were seeing.