THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER 11, VERSE 10, VISVARUPA DARSANA YOGA OR THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 11

VISVARUPA DARSANA YOGA OR THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM:

VERSE NUMBER 10

Text in Transliteration:

aneka vaktra nayanam anekaabhoota darsanam

aneka divyaabharanam divyaanekodyataayudham

Sanskrit words and phrases with their meaning:

aneka vaktra nayanam = with numerous mouths and eyes; aneka adbhuta darsanam = with numerous wonderful sights; aneka divya aabharanam = with numerous divine ornaments; divya aneka udyata aayudham = with numerous divine weapons uplifted.

Text in English:

With many mouths and eyes, with many marvellous sights, with many divine ornaments, with many uplifted divine weapons;

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

The entire universe is His manifest body; His mouths and eyes are therefore countless. Many a divine happening is beyond the scope of the human knowledge. Such happenings have to be admired as marvellous to look at. Beauty emanates from Iswara. The attractive and lovely forms all over Nature adorned with magnificent decorations appear as if decked with divine ornaments. The divine designs and happenings are inevitable. Nothing can resist God’s plans and executions. The uplifted divine weapons reveal Him as the Almighty.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

The poet seems to feel here the dearth of words, the roughness of speech in trying to describe an experience which is essentially ineffable.  

anekavaktranayanam: many moths and eyes. He is all-devouring and all-seeing.

These are descriptions of the Universal Being. In the Purus Sookta also, a similar account is found.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:

Countless faces appeared there. Arjuna looked at this Cosmic Form in all its magnificence. He saw the Lord everywhere and in everything. The whole manifestation appeared as one gigantic body of the Lord. He saw the Lord as the all-in-all.

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