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7The passage says this in so many words.
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Kṛṣṇa says that whatever a great person does, others do too, and the world follows the standard he sets.
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The Gītā teaches that people nourish the gods through sacrifice and the gods nourish them in turn, each sustaining the other.
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Kṛṣṇa says those who worship spirits go to the spirits, while those who worship him come to him.
Giving spirits their share so they become helpers is the speaker's Tantric teaching, not the verse's.
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Kṛṣṇa says that among metres he is the Gāyatrī.
The verse says among metres (छन्दसाम्), where the speaker says among mantras.
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Kṛṣṇa says that among the ancestors he is Aryamā.
The speaker recalls the line as from the seventh chapter; it is 10.29.
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Kṛṣṇa says that among the ancestors he is Aryamā.
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Kṛṣṇa says this teaching must never be spoken to one without austerity or devotion, to one unwilling to hear, or to one who finds fault with him.
The speaker's "dambhī" is a loose gloss of the hearers this verse excludes.
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