THE HOLY GITA

Friday 23 February 2018

THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER 11, VERSE 15, VISVARUPA DARSANA YOGA OR THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM

THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER NUMBER 11
VISVARUPA DARSANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM:
VERSE NUMBER 15
Text in Transliteration:
                                       arjuna uvaacha
pasyaami devaams tava deva dehe
   sarvaams tathaa bhoota visesha samghaan
brahmaanam eesam kamalaasanastham
   rrsheems cha sarvaan uragaams cha divyaan
Sanskrit words and phrases and their meaning:
arjuna uvaacha = Arjuna said:
pasyaami  = (I) see; devaan = the gods; tava = thy; deva = O God; dehe = in the body; sarvaan = all; tathaa = also; bhoota visesha samghaan = hosts of various classes of beings; brahmaanam = Brahma; eesam = the Lord; kamala aasana stham = seated on the lotus; rrsheen = sages; cha = and; sarvaan = all; uragaan = serpents; cha = and; divyaan = vinine.
Text in English:
I see all the gods, O God, in Your body and hosts of all grades of beings; Brahma, the Lord, seated on the lotus and all the Rishis and celestial serpents.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:
The four-faced Brahma is the Creator of all beings; he is therefore revered as eesa. He is seated on the lotus come out of the navel of Mahaavishnu. Beings movable and immovable are all contained in the Cosmic Form. Rishis like Vasishta and serpents like Vasuki are visible therein.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:
The vision of God widens our horizon and takes us beyond the earthly tumults and sorrows which so easily obsess us. God’s creation is not limited to this small planet, which is only an insignificant part of the cosmos. Arjuna sees the great and various company of spirits filling the universe.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:
Arjuna describes his own experience of the Cosmic Form in this and the following verses, 15 to 31.
Bhootaviseshasanghan: Hosts of various classes of beings, both animate and inanimate. These numerous entities are in Thy Cosmic Form, like hairs on the human body.
Brahma, the four-faced, the Lord of all creatures, is seated in the centre of the earth-lotus on the Meru which forms the thalamus as it were of the earth-lotus.
Sages, such as Vasishtha. Serpents, such as Vasuki.     





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