What is the connecting link between the Gita’s ninth and tenth chapters?

From Ramabhadra Priya P:

As you mention in your classes, there is no spur for the lord to speak, as He is in ecstasy and continues to speak to extol the glories of Bhakti. That is the link you mention for chapter 9 to chapter 10. Is it also true that when lord spoke 9.34, the most confidential knowledge, now in order to show how to execute this most confidential knowledge, He explains chapter 10.  Arjuna also makes the same request 10.17.

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what is the connecting link between chapter 9 and 10 in your classes you mentioned that there is no spur and the lord being in ecstasy continues speaking from the 9th chapter to the 10th chapter but can we also say that the 9.34 describes the most confidential knowledge of devotional service and then 10 chapter describes how that devotional service is to be performed and that is also the connecting link and describes for how the lord is glorious so that my understanding is that we can perform devotional service and arjuna also asked the same question in 10.17 answer yes the connecting link between the 9th and the 10 chapters is not explicit in terms of a question so when i said in the class that in the bhakti shastra class that there is no spur all that i meant is that there is no specific question which starts 10th chapter so the if we see previous there are many chapters we start off with a question third chapter starts off with a question of arjuna fifth chapter starts off with a question of arjuna eighth chapter starts off with a question of arjuna so like that there are several chapters which start off with specific questions but the 10th chapter does not start off with a question so in that sense there is no external spur for the lord to speak the word spur often refers to something which is external which prompts one pushes one so there is no external spur coming from arjuna to krishna to speak now then what is the connecting link the connecting link is that krishna has urged arjuna to practice devotional service manmana bhava mad bhakto and after describing the after enjoying arjuna to practice devotional service now krishna is telling the going to tell that his own glories because when we are to serve someone what will be the motivation to serve that person there can be different motivations but when we want when one motivation can be that we understand the greatness of that person and we naturally feel inspired to serve that person so the 10th chapter describes the greatness of the lord in terms which even materialistic people can understand the greatness of the lord in terms of the greatness of his devotion how the devotion can elevate even the lowest how devotion is very easy to perform how devotion is the best among all the various processes that has been talked about in the 9th chapter but especially in the 10th chapter that devotion that lord is the lord’s glory they’re talking about and through the concept of vibhuti in in terms which even people in the material world can understand and of course before that the chatushloki bhagavad gita will come from 8 to 11 and the whole the essential link is that what krishna has told arjuna to do why he should do it he krishna elaborates further so manmana bhava is 9.34 and mahabhava that for your benefit what is the benefit benefit is ultimately the practice of bhakti that’s what krishna has clearly told in the previous chapter when he says that even the more the lowest people that even those who are lowest can get elevated by the practice of bhakti but now that hith kamyaya that which is the practice of bhakti the supreme hith why that should be practiced that knowledge krishna will describe in the 10th chapter so the connecting link between the 9th and 8th chapter is that what is being told to practice bhakti yoga how to fix the manana krishna in terms of to get the impetus to understand the glory of krishna by which one will feel inspired to speak the manana krishna and also knowing his vibhutis by which one can fix the manana krishna so there are two different things one is understanding the greatness of krishna which inspires us to fix the manana him and secondly understanding the concept of vibhuti by which when we fix them when our mind gets attracted to the materially attractive things we connect that material attractiveness with krishna’s all attractiveness and thereby can bring our mind to krishna so both the why and how for fixing the manana krishna is described in the 10th chapter and that is the connection between 9th and the 10th chapters