Verse 10.2

Verse 10.2: “Neither the Hosts of Heaven nor the great Sages know my birth; for, I am, in all respects, the beginning of the Gods and of the great Sages. (64)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Here in declaring my glory the very Vedas were struck dumb. Mind and vital breath were crippled in their effort to reach Me; and the Sun and the Moon suffered an eclipse even without the night. It is as vain for the offspring in the womb to gauge the mother’s age, as for all the Gods to know me. As well might fish of the sea fathom the depth of waters or the fly cover the very canopy of sky; so, not all the wisdom of the great Sages can penetrate into my being.

Kalpas-Aeons (kalpa—one thousand Yugas or 432 million years make a Kalpa) have rolled on in the march of time and have been spent in peeping into mysteries as to who I am, how great, of whose making, and of what age. The truth is that neither the great Sages and Gods, nor all the living beings could have access to my eternal being, Oh Pandav [Pandava], since I am the beginning of them all. If water running down-hill ever rise up to the top, or the up-growing tree ever start down-spreading and reach the very roots, then only can the world, of created things hope to have access, to my being. Or were the seedling ever to cover the entire world-globe to be covered up in one single atom, then only may all created beings formed out of myself, the Gods, the Sages, and all others be able to know Me.