Bhagavad Gita · 11.6 · Yoga through Beholding the Cosmic Form of God·6 of 55
पश्यादित्यान्वसून्रुद्रानश्िवनौ मरुतस्तथा।बहून्यदृष्टपूर्वाणि पश्याऽश्चर्याणि भारत ॥
paśhyādityān vasūn rudrān aśhvinau marutas tathā
bahūny adṛiṣhṭa-pūrvāṇi paśhyāśhcharyāṇi bhārata
Sanskrit recitation
Show me your form · 11.1–11.8 · Scene
Translation
Behold the Adityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the two Asvins, and the Maruts; behold many wonders never before seen, O Arjuna.
Meaning
Adityas, Vasus, Rudras and Maruts have already been described in the previous chapter.Not these alone Behold also many other wonders never seen before by you or anybody else in this world.
After Swami Sivananda
Show me your form· 11.1–11.8→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 11.1Arjuna said, By this explanation of the highest secret concerning the Self which Thou hast spoken, for the sake of blessing me, my delusion has been dispelled.
- 11.2The origin and destruction of beings have been heard in detail from You, O lotus-eyed Lord, and also Your inexhaustible greatness.
- 11.3Now, O Supreme Lord, as Thou hast thus described Thyself, O Supreme Person, I wish to behold Thy divine form.
- 11.4If Thou, O Lord, thinkest it possible for me to see it, do Thou, then, O Lord of the Yogis, show me Thy imperishable Self.
- 11.5The Blessed Lord said, "Behold, O Arjuna, forms of Mine, by the hundreds and thousands, of different sorts, divine, and of various colors and shapes."
11.6Behold the Adityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the two Asvins, and the Maruts; behold many wonders never before seen, O Arjuna.
- 11.7Now, behold, O Arjuna, in this My body, the entire universe centered in one, including the moving and the unmoving, and whatever else you desire to see.
- 11.8But you are not able to behold Me with these your own eyes; I give you the divine eye; behold My lordly Yoga.
Word-by-word→
- tathā
- and
- vasūn
- the (eight) Vasus
- bahūni
- many
- paśhya
- behold
- rudrān
- the (eleven) Rudras
- bhārata
- Arjun, scion of the Bharatas
- aśhvinau
- the (twin) Ashvini Kumars
- marutaḥ
- the (forty-nine) Maruts
- ādityān
- the (twelve) sons of Aditi
- pūrvāṇi
- before
- adṛiṣhṭa
- never revealed
- āśhcharyāṇi
- marvels
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