श्री भगवानुवाच हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतयः। प्राधान्यतः कुरुश्रेष्ठ नास्त्यन्तो विस्तरस्य मे।।10.19।।
śhrī bhagavān uvācha hanta te kathayiṣhyāmi divyā hyātma-vibhūtayaḥ prādhānyataḥ kuru-śhreṣhṭha nāstyanto vistarasya me
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Sanskrit to English Translation
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: Krishna agrees to describe his own divine manifestations, but only the prominent ones, since there is no end to their extent, acknowledging the description will necessarily be incomplete, a sample rather than an exhaustive account.
In life: sometimes the honest, useful response to a genuinely vast topic is a well-chosen sample rather than a claim to complete, exhaustive coverage.
Teaching: when explaining something genuinely vast to someone, be upfront that you're offering a useful sample, not exhaustive coverage, that honesty is more useful than a false claim of completeness.