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Bhakti Shastri - Chapter 10 - 12 CBA

The document contains 27 questions about Chapters 10-12 of the Bhagavad Gita assessing understanding of key phrases and concepts. It asks the reader to define terms, explain why Arjuna asked certain questions, and list qualities of devotees that endear them to Krishna. The questions probe comprehension of Krishna's universal form and its differences from other forms, as well as His role as the deliverer of souls from the ocean of birth and death.

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Bhakti Shastri - Chapter 10 - 12 CBA

The document contains 27 questions about Chapters 10-12 of the Bhagavad Gita assessing understanding of key phrases and concepts. It asks the reader to define terms, explain why Arjuna asked certain questions, and list qualities of devotees that endear them to Krishna. The questions probe comprehension of Krishna's universal form and its differences from other forms, as well as His role as the deliverer of souls from the ocean of birth and death.

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Questions for Closed Book Assessment (Unit 2)

Bhagavad-gétä Chapter 10
22.Which phrase in text 12 proves that the Supreme is different from the individual soul?

Vibhum –

“You are  paraṁ brahma, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

23.Define the phrases jïäna-dépena (10.11) and ekäàçena sthito jagat (10.42)
jñāna  — of knowledge;  dīpena  — with the lamp; 

eka — by one; aṁśena  — part; sthitaḥ — am situated; jagat — universe.

24.Why does Arjuna ask Kåñëa to explain His opulences? (10.17-18)

The superior devotee is concerned not only for his own understanding but for the understanding of all
mankind. So Arjuna, out of his mercy, because he is a Vaiṣṇava, a devotee, is opening for the common
man the understanding of the all-pervasiveness of the Supreme Lord. 

10.18 – Devotees are never satiated hearing about Krshna

I am never satiated in hearing about You, for the more I hear the more I want to taste the nectar of Your
words.

Bhagavad-gétä Chapter 11
25.Why did Arjuna want to see the universal form? (11.3)

1.To establish Krishna’s divinity for all (11.1 purport)


2.To convince others, although he does not have any personal desire and is completely
satisfied to see Him in His personal form of Krishna (11.3 purport)
o Lord is addressed as Purushottama –Implies that Lord as Supreme Personality of
Godhead, knows the heart of Arjuna, that he has no personal desire to see
3.To avoid imposters -Wants to set a criteria for in the future there will be so many imposters
who will pose as incarnations of God (11.3 purport)
4. Arjuna, as a responsibility, wants to substantiate Krishna’s statement –so that in the future
people can understand that Krishna “not only theoretically or philosophically”, but ‘actually’ presented
Himself as such to Arjuna –Arjuna fulfils his responsibility because he is the beginning of the
Parampara (11.8 purport)

26.How does the universal form differ from other forms of the Lord? (11.5)

Krishna shows variegated forms –“See My Opulences!, Hundreds and thousands of varied divine and
multicoloured forms” (11.5)

- Universal form is transcendental but temporary because it is subject to the temporary time of
material nature (Is manifested and unmanifested like material nature) (11.5)
- Not eternally situated in spiritual sky (11.5)
- Universal Form is not possible to be seen by ordinary men –Krishna must give one the power to
see it (11.5)
Questions for Closed Book Assessment (Unit 2)

27.Define the phrases kälo 'smi loka-kñaya-kåt and nimitta-mätraà bhava (11.32-33)

kālaḥ—time;asmi—I am;loka—of the worlds;kṣaya-kṛt—the destroyer;


Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds
nimitta-mātram—just the cause;bhava—become;
O Savyasācī, can be but an instrument in the fight.

Bhagavad-gétä Chapter 12
28.Define the phrase teñäm ahaà samuddhartä måtyu-saàsära-sägarät (12.7)

teṣām—of them;aham—I;samuddhartā—the deliverer;mṛtyu—of death;saṁsāra—in material


existence;sāgarāt—from the ocean;
But those who worship Me, giving up all their activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation,
engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, having fixed their minds upon Me, O son of Pṛthā –
for them I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.

29.List, in Sanskrit or English, 5 qualities that endear a devotee to Kåñëa. (12.13-19)


1. Tolerant –Never disturbed by any circumstances
2. Non-envious –Kind to everyone even to his enemy
3. Satisfied –Whatever comes by Lord’s grace; does not over-endeavor to achieve something
4. Equal to friends and enemies
5. Equipoised in dualities

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