Gita 10.31 – The power of powerful weapons and warriors points to Krishna

Bhagavad Gita 9.31 Krishna continues describing his various opulences here he states there is a poetic alliteration of the power sound in so it's interesting that there is a resemblance not just in sound but also in meaning it comes from the root power which is more commonly manifested as Pavitra means that among the purifiers I am the wind so normally in terms of our own in terms of cleansing ourselves we think of bathing or maybe using some soaps as means for cleaning ourselves when we want to purify ourselves for religious purposes at that time we do with some sacred water or water that is sanctified through incantation of some mantras so you may usually think of water as the means of purification interestingly here Krishna says among purifiers he manifests as the wind so actually at a broad scale when nothing is available at that time just the blowing of the wind can clean away a lot of dirt so even if there is a dirty smelly area if the wind keeps blowing there continuously initially the blowing of the wind may seem to spread the bad smell but over a period of time if the wind keeps going then basically the bad smell and the substance which causes the bad smell they all get dissipated by the power of the wind so here Krishna's opulence manifests as a natural element which does when necessary when no other element is available for doing it the word Ram has multiple meanings most commonly it refers to Lord Ramachandra the son of Dashrath it also refers to Parashuram Yamadavini's son it can also be used to refer to Balaram and sometimes it refers even to Radhika Ramandram whichever person it refers to if we see primarily actually all of them have weapons and it is unlikely to refer to Krishna because we are talking about Krishna's opulences Krishna's manifestations in this world is with Bhutis so Lord Ramachandra is defined by his use of the bow and arrow he is a formidable warrior 14000 warriors demons at Janasthani single handedly defeated by the power of his bow and arrow in fact the whole Ramayana we see the bow and arrow is the only weapon that Ram uses of course there are occasions when demons like Subahu or others attack and Ram and Lakshman use their swords to cut off but primarily Ram's quintessential image is as a warrior the prototype Kshatriya hero and one of the intriguing things whenever people observed him in the forest was that he was dressed as a hermit and yet carried weapons that was because he was not a hermit who had renounced the world in search of the absolute truth he was a Kshatriya who had been wrongly exiled and he still considered himself in a mood of servitorship to his brother Bharat who he considered as a ruler and thus he dispensed justice even in the forest and of course he had to protect himself and his wife Parashuram is also having the very name indicates Parashu Parashu refers to a kind of axe with which he fought and with this axe he was able to vanquish the Kshatriyas numerous times the Kshatriyas who had become maddened by power and who were thus worthy of being punished he punished so Parashuram is often represented as an angry sage who descends from the Brahmana level to the Kshatriya level so that he can be elevated so that he can elevate the people by removing the autocratic removing the adharmic rulers Darbal Ram also of course has his flow with which he can Herculean things such as lifting up a whole city as he did with respect to Hastinapur when the Kauravas were disrespectful of Krishna among the aquatics Makara is a shark so there are many dangerous animals in the ocean among aquatics the most fearsome is the shark in today's world there are movies like Jaws which depict how a shark is so dangerous and once a person gets caught in it comes under the eye of a shark it is very very difficult to survive so when you think about the ocean and you can think of the aquatic bodies at that time that aquatic form that aquatic being which evokes awe, which evokes fear, which evokes the strongest emotions whatever they may be within us that capacity to represent those emotions the power which it has because of which those emotions come that represents Krishna that which flows it's a river Ganga is the foremost of rivers it is the river that is considered extremely pure and Ganga gel is universally used as a holy item for sanctifying things and bathing in the Ganga is considered enormously purifying and water bodies themselves are considered pure but among them Ganga is extraordinarily pure and her extraordinary purity by which she can by which contact with her even sight of her can free people from sinful reactions all this is said to represent the opulence of Krishna.