Text 22
arjuna uvāca
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā-bāho
bhaktānām abhayaṅkara
tvam eko dahyamānānām
apavargo ’si saṁsṛteḥ
arjunaḥ uvāca — Arjuna said; kṛṣṇa — O Lord Kṛṣṇa; kṛṣṇa — O Lord Kṛṣṇa; mahā-bāho — He who is the Almighty; bhaktānām — of the devotees; abhayaṅkara — eradicating the fears of; tvam — You; ekaḥ — alone; dahyamānānām — those who are suffering from; apavargaḥ — the path of liberation; asi — are; saṁsṛteḥ — in the midst of material miseries.
アルジュナは言った：おお、我が主シュリー・クリシュナよ。あなたは全能なる神格権現。あなたのさまざまなエネルギーには限界がない。そのためにあなただけがあなたの献身者のハートの中に大胆不敵な勇気を吹き込むことができる。物質的苦悩の炎の中で誰もがあなただけに解放の道を見つけることができる。
Arjuna was aware of the transcendental qualities of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, as he had already experienced them during the Kurukṣetra War, in which both of them were present. Therefore, Arjuna’s version of Lord Kṛṣṇa is authoritative. Kṛṣṇa is almighty and is especially the cause of fearlessness for the devotees. A devotee of the Lord is always fearless because of the protection given by the Lord. Material existence is something like a blazing fire in the forest, which can be extinguished by the mercy of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The spiritual master is the mercy representative of the Lord. Therefore, a person burning in the flames of material existence may receive the rains of mercy of the Lord through the transparent medium of the self-realized spiritual master. The spiritual master, by his words, can penetrate into the heart of the suffering person and inject knowledge transcendental, which alone can extinguish the fire of material existence.