7.10

Sanskrit

बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम् । बुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम् ॥ १० ॥

bījaṃ māṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ viddhi pārtha sanātanam buddhir buddhimatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham

Translation

Know Me, O Pârtha! as the eternal seed of all beings. I am the Reason of the Reason-endowed, the splendour of splendid things am I.

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

Still inside the verse 8-11 list, but shifting from sensory qualities to psychological and evaluative ones: Krishna as the intelligence within intelligent beings, the splendor within splendid things. The progression across verses 8-11 moves outward-in — from physical elements, to abstract qualities, to mental faculties, to desire and strength in verse 11 — narrowing toward the human interior that verses 12-15 then interrogate directly.