Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 10: The Divine Glories

Bhagavad Gita 10.21

ādityānāmahaṃ viṣṇurjyotiṣāṃ raviraṃśumān | marīcirmarutāmasmi nakṣatrāṇāmahaṃ śaśī ||

Among the Adityas I am Vishnu; among lights I am the radiant sun; among the Maruts I am Marichi; among the lights of the night sky I am the moon.

Modern context

The list begins with the sky: among the twelve sun-gods, Vishnu; among lights, the radiant sun; among the storm-gods, their leader; among the night's lights, the moon. The pattern is always 'the best of its kind'. This is a way of training the eye. Instead of seeing the world as flat and ordinary, one learns to notice what shines most in each kind of thing, and to find the divine there.