Pātra No. 10
The wandering sage with the vīṇā.
“…of celestial seers, I am Nārada.”
Nārada wanders the worlds with his vīṇā, carrying news between gods and people. In Kṛṣṇa’s list of himself, among the celestial seers, he names Nārada.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
अश्वत्थः सर्ववृक्षाणां देवर्षीणां च नारदः।
गन्धर्वाणां चित्ररथः सिद्धानां कपिलो मुनिः।।
aśvatthaḥ sarva-vṛkṣāṇāṁ devarṣīṇāṁ ca nāradaḥ gandharvāṇāṁ citrarathaḥ siddhānāṁ kapilo muniḥ
Of trees I am the Asvattha; of celestial seers, I am Narada; of the Gandharvas, I am Citraratha; of the perfected, I am Kapila.
10.26 is verse 398 of 700, and verse 26 of 42 in chapter 10.
Nārada, in any form, appears in 2 verses of the 700: 10.13 and 10.26.
10.13 and 10.26 are 13 verses apart.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
10.26 is a single line of Kṛṣṇa's list in chapter 10: of trees he is the Aśvattha, of celestial seers he is Nārada, of the Gandharvas Citraratha, and of the perfected, Kapila. The verse before, 10.25, names Bhṛgu among the great seers, the single syllable Om among words, the sacrifice of japa, and the Himalayas among things that do not move. The verse after, 10.27, moves to horses, elephants and men. In each pair the Gītā picks one name as the best of its kind, and for the celestial seers that name is Nārada. The story describes him as the wanderer with the vīṇā who carries news between the worlds. He is named once more in the same chapter, at 10.13, where Arjuna says the seers all declare this of Kṛṣṇa, among them Nārada, Asita, Devala and Vyāsa. Read it in chapter 10, and what the Gītā says about devotion collects related verses.