Gita 10.29 See the prominent powers in the Vedic cosmos as manifestations of the supreme power

Thank you, Bhagavad Gita 10.29 Krishna continues describing the various opulences and here he says that among the Nagas he is Ananta now the previous verse talked about how he is Vasuki among the snakes so broadly speaking the difference between snakes and Nagas serpent, Naga is that Naga has hood and so snakes are not considered all that auspicious but Nagas, hooded serpents are considered auspicious that the carrier of Lord Vishnu is a hooded serpent which is Ananta so now there are festivals where Nagas are worshipped and the idea is that the hooded serpents have extraordinary powers and especially among all such hooded serpents Ananta is the supreme being he is Vishnu himself manifesting you could say in an alternative form the eternal servant of Vishnu as well as being an associate of Vishnu and not only the servant and associate topmost but he is also Vishnu himself manifesting in another form so when we see snakes especially hooded snakes, especially if we come from a cultural background where the snakes are revered especially hooded snakes, Nagas are revered then they manifest an opulence of the absolute with just one bite they have the capacity to change the course of people's lives that is a remarkable power which they have and of course among all such snakes the most powerful and the most celebrated the one who by remembering him we can have some feelings of awe that is Naga, that is Ananta and thus Ananta is seen as the manifestation of the divine in this world Anantashasminagana Varunoyadasamaham Varunoyadasam means those who live in water, the aquatics among them I am Varuna Varuna is the god of water and the word Varuna itself means water also so Varunoyadasamaham means that here it is Krishna who is manifesting through the formidable powers of Varuna that means Varuna manifests Krishna's formidable powers the Vedic cosmos is ultimately personal and it enables us to see how when we worship what we see with our eyes we see a wide variety of aquatic life forms in the water and when we look at these aquatic life forms and we move forward from there and we consider how these aquatic life forms are very powerful, very special especially we consider giant life forms say like sharks or whales now among them, the most powerful among them all is Varuna, he is the devata who supervises all of them and thus there are people who are fascinated with the underwater world not just scuba divers but aquatic explorers and the attraction that they feel to that world and to the beings within that world, we understand that actually even the wonder and the mystery that is manifest in that world is ultimately a manifestation of the spark of Krishna's opulence and for those who see the Vedic vision of the cosmos they understand that the most powerful among the aquatics is Yadasa, A is Varuna and he manifests the opulence of the supreme Pitrana, Maryama, Chasmi the Pitras are the ancestors and in the Vedic cosmology it is described that Pitrana among the Pitras, Pitras are ancestors who have departed from the world at one level we can say that each ancestor is going to go to their own destination as per the karma that they have done that is of course true but the broad culture in the past helped people in general to live a life of piety and people who would perform say average levels of piety who live average lives of piety they would get elevated to the abode of to the abode of the Pitras now those who do above average levels of piety extraordinary levels of piety they could go to Swarga so it was in general understood that most ancestors would go to the abode of the Pitras so that's why that particular place is called Pitraloka and the predominating deity of Pitraloka is Aryamma so even today there are some cultures where ancestors are worshipped are revered and especially in Japan Shinto worship is there even in India in some families the pictures of all the ancestors are kept and that connectedness which we feel when we look back at our lineage that deeper sense of going towards our roots that we feel when we look at our ancestors we need to see that actually the ancestors wherever they are so whatever veneration we feel for the ancestors we understand that they are manifesting a spark of Krishna's opulence and that's why we feel veneration for them and among such ancestors the foremost the most venerable is Aryamma he is the predominating deity of the Pitraloka and therein and thus he manifests the greatest power and he is described here as manifesting Krishna's opulence Yamaha Sanyamatam Yamaha Yamaraja Sanyamatam Sanyamatam is discipliners restrainers Prabhupada in the word towards translates as regulator and then in his sentence translation he gives dispensers of law so what this means is that there are various forms of ways in which wrongdoers are punished and sometimes we may feel that some people go unpunished but that may happen in our vision of life in this world but ultimately no one goes unpunished death takes everyone and post death there is a judgment after which we all get our karmic we all get consequences of our karmic actions and thus that the knowledge of one's inevitable inescapable mortality can often be a great deterrent from excessive material aggrandizement or indulgence and can in that sense regulate people from so there is the forced deprivation of material thing that is going to happen at the time of death and there is a voluntary regulation of material indulgence that can happen by our awareness of death and thus either way voluntarily or involuntarily there is a regulation that comes about through death and that power of wielding death is embodied in Yamaraj who is the god of death.