Gita 10.6
Vibhuti Yoga
महर्षयः सप्त पूर्वे चत्वारो मनवस्तथा | मद्भावा मानसा जाता येषां लोक इमाः प्रजाः ||६||
maharṣayaḥ sapta pūrve catvāro manavas tathā | mad-bhāvā mānasā jātā yeṣāṁ loka imāḥ prajāḥ ||6||
In essence: Every being alive traces their lineage to mind-born sages and Manus who themselves emerged from the Divine Mind - you are not orphaned but descended from Infinity.
A conversation between a seeker and guide to help you feel this verse deeply
Sadhak-Guru Dialogue
Sadhak: "This sounds like mythology - seven sages, four Manus, mind-born beings. How literally should I take this?"
Guru: "What do you think the teaching wants you to understand, regardless of cosmological literalism?"
Sadhak: "That all beings have divine origin? That we trace back to something sacred rather than being random accidents?"
Guru: "Yes. Whether there were literally seven named sages or not, the teaching is about lineage. Does knowing your great-great-grandparents' names change your DNA, or change how you understand yourself?"
Sadhak: "It changes my self-understanding, my sense of belonging to something larger than my individual life."
Guru: "Exactly. This verse gives cosmic genealogy - not for historical record but for identity transformation. When you know yourself as descended from divine mind, how does that affect your sense of worth?"
Sadhak: "I can't be worthless if my ultimate origin is divine thought. I can't be merely biological if my ancestors were 'mānasā jātā' - mind-born."
Guru: "And what about other beings - the person you judged yesterday, the animal you ignored, the plant you stepped on?"
Sadhak: "'Yeṣāṁ loka imāḥ prajāḥ' - from whom all these beings descended. They share my origin. We're all descended from divine mind through the same progenitors."
Guru: "Now mythological cosmology becomes transformative insight. Literal or not, the verse creates vision: all life as divine family. Can you live from that vision today?"
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🌅 Daily Practice
Divine lineage meditation: Upon waking, trace your existence backward: 'I came from my parents, who came from their parents...' Continue this mentally as far back as you can, then make the leap: '...ultimately from sages who were born from Divine Mind, from Krishna's thought.' Feel yourself as the end point of a sacred lineage, not a random occurrence. Carry this into the day: 'I am descended from divine mental creation. I carry that nature in me.'
Recognizing divine family: When encountering others - especially difficult people or different species - recall: 'Yeṣāṁ loka imāḥ prajāḥ - all these beings descended from the same source.' That annoying colleague shares your cosmic ancestry. That animal on the street is your distant relative. This isn't sentiment; it's cosmological fact according to this verse. Let this recognition soften your responses and expand your compassion three times today.
Contemplating mental creation: Before sleep, consider that you exist because Divine Mind thought the sages, who generated lines of being leading to you. You are, in a sense, a divine thought thinking itself. Tomorrow, your thoughts and actions will contribute to the ongoing creation. Ask: 'What am I creating mentally? What 'mānasā' (mind-born) realities am I generating through my thoughts?' Resolve to make your mental creations worthy of your divine mental origin. Rest in awareness of your sacred genealogy.