The Holy One said, In the Rigveda, in the Yajurveda, in the Atharvans and the Samans, in the Puranas and the Upanishads, as also in the works on Astrology, O Arjuna, in the Sankhya treatises, in the Yoga Scriptures, and in the treatises also on the Science of Life, many are the names that have been mentioned by the great Rishis. Some of those names refer to my attributes and some of them refer to my deeds. Do you hear, with rapt attention, O Sinless One, what the meaning is of each of those names referring to my acts.
श्रीभगवानुवाच ऋग्वेदे सयजुर्वेदे तथैवाथर्वसामसु। पुराणे सोपनिषदे तथैव ज्यौतिषेऽर्जुन॥ सांख्ये च योगशास्त्रे च आयुर्वेदे तथैव च। बहूनि मम नामानि कीर्तितानि महर्षिभिः॥ गौणानि तत्र नामानि कर्मजानि च कानिचित्। निरुक्तं कर्मजानां त्वं शृणुष्व प्रयतोऽनघ॥