Viśvarūpa Darśana Yoga

अर्जुन उवाच। मदनुग्रहाय परमं गुह्यमध्यात्मसंज्ञितम्। यत्त्वयोक्तं वचस्तेन मोहोऽयं विगतो मम ॥

arjuna uvāca madanugrahāya paramaṃ guhyamadhyātmasaṃjñitam yattvayoktaṃ vacastena moho.ayaṃ vigato mama

In consequence of the excellent and mysterious words concerning the relation of the supreme and individual soul, which you have spoken for my welfare this delusion of mine is gone away.

भवाप्ययौ हि भूतानां श्रुतौ विस्तरशो मया। त्वत्तः कमलपत्राक्ष माहात्म्यमपि चाव्ययम् ॥

bhavāpyayau hi bhūtānāṃ śrutau vistaraśo mayā tvattaḥ kamalapatrākṣa māhātmyamapi cāvyayam

O you whose eyes are like lotus leaves! I have heard from you at large about the production and dissolution of things, and also about your inexhaustible greatness. O highest lord! what you have said about yourself is so.

एवमेतद्यथात्थ त्वमात्मानं परमेश्वर। द्रष्टुमिच्छामि ते रूपमैश्वरं पुरुषोत्तम ॥

evametadyathāttha tvamātmānaṃ parameśvara draṣṭumicchāmi te rūpamaiśvaraṃ puruṣottama

I wish, O best of beings! to see your divine form. If

मन्यसे यदि तच्छक्यं मया द्रष्टुमिति प्रभो। योगेश्वर ततो मे त्वं दर्शयात्मानमव्ययम् ॥

manyase yadi tacchakyaṃ mayā draṣṭumiti prabho yogeśvara tato me tvaṃ darśayātmānamavyayam

O lord! you think that it is possible for me to look upon it then O lord of the possessors of mystic power! show your inexhaustible form to me.

श्रीभगवानुवाच। पश्य मे पार्थ रूपाणि शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः। नानाविधानि दिव्यानि नानावर्णाकृतीनि च ॥

śrībhagavānuvāca paśya me pārtha rūpāṇi śataśo.atha sahasraśaḥ nānāvidhāni divyāni nānāvarṇākṛtīni ca

In hundreds and in thousands see my forms, O son of Pṛthā! various, divine, and of various colours and shapes.

पश्यादित्यान्वसून्रुद्रानश्विनौ मरुतस्तथा। बहून्यदृष्टपूर्वाणि पश्याश्चर्याणि भारत ॥

paśyādityānvasūnrudrānaśvinau marutastathā bahūnyadṛṣṭapūrvāṇi paśyāścaryāṇi bhārata

See the Ādityas , Vasus , Rudras , the two Aśvins , and Maruts likewise. And O descendant of Bharata! see wonders, in numbers, unseen before. Within my body

इहैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं पश्याद्य सचराचरम्। मम देहे गुडाकेश यच्चान्यद् द्रष्टुमिच्छसि ॥

ihaikasthaṃ jagatkṛtsnaṃ paśyādya sacarācaram mama dehe guḍākeśa yaccānyad draṣṭumicchasi

O Guḍākesa! see to-day the whole universe

न तु मां शक्यसे द्रष्टुमनेनैव स्वचक्षुषा। दिव्यं ददामि ते चक्षुः पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम् ॥

na tu māṃ śakyase draṣṭumanenaiva svacakṣuṣā divyaṃ dadāmi te cakṣuḥ paśya me yogamaiśvaram

including (everything) movable and immovable, (all) in one and whatever else you wish to see. But you will not be able to see me with merely this eye of yours. I give you an eye divine. (Now) see my divine power.

सञ्जय उवाच। एवमुक्त्वा ततो राजन्महायोगेश्वरो हरिः। दर्शयामास पार्थाय परमं रूपमैश्वरम् ॥

sañjaya uvāca evamuktvā tato rājanmahāyogeśvaro hariḥ darśayāmāsa pārthāya paramaṃ rūpamaiśvaram

Having spoken thus O king! Hari

अनेकवक्त्रनयनमनेकाद्भुतदर्शनम्। अनेकदिव्याभरणं दिव्यानेकोद्यतायुधम् ॥

anekavaktranayanamanekādbhutadarśanam anekadivyābharaṇaṃ divyānekodyatāyudham

the great lord of the possessors of mystic power then showed to the son of Pṛthā. his supreme divine form having many mouths and eyes having (within it) many wonderful sights having many celestial ornaments having many celestial weapons held erect

दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरं दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनम्। सर्वाश्चर्यमयं देवमनन्तं विश्वतोमुखम् ॥

divyamālyāmbaradharaṃ divyagandhānulepanam sarvāścaryamayaṃ devamanantaṃ viśvatomukham

wearing celestial flowers and vestments having an anointment of celestial perfumes full of every wonder the infinite deity with faces in all directions.

दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता। यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः ॥

divi sūryasahasrasya bhavedyugapadutthitā yadi bhāḥ sadṛśī sā syādbhāsastasya mahātmanaḥ

If in the heavens, the lustre of a thousand suns burst forth all at once, that would be like the lustre of that mighty one.

तत्रैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं प्रविभक्तमनेकधा। अपश्यद्देवदेवस्य शरीरे पाण्डवस्तदा ॥

tatraikasthaṃ jagatkṛtsnaṃ pravibhaktamanekadhā apaśyaddevadevasya śarīre pāṇḍavastadā

There the son of Pāṇḍu then observed in the body of the god of gods the whole universe (all) in one, and divided into numerous (divisions).

ततः स विस्मयाविष्टो हृष्टरोमा धनञ्जयः। प्रणम्य शिरसा देवं कृताञ्जलिरभाषत ॥

tataḥ sa vismayāviṣṭo hṛṣṭaromā dhanañjayaḥ praṇamya śirasā devaṃ kṛtāñjalirabhāṣata

Then Dhanañjaya filled with amazement, and with hair standing on end, bowed his head before the god, and spoke with joined hands.

अर्जुन उवाच। पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान्। ब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थ- मृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान् ॥

arjuna uvāca paśyāmi devāṃstava deva dehe sarvāṃstathā bhūtaviśeṣasaṅghān brahmāṇamīśaṃ kamalāsanasthaṃ ṛṣīṃśca sarvānuragāṃśca divyān

O god! I see within your body the gods, as also all the groups of various beings and the lord Brahman seated on (his) lotus seat, and all the sages and celestial snakes.

अनेकबाहूदरवक्त्रनेत्रं पश्यामि त्वां सर्वतोऽनन्तरूपम्। नान्तं न मध्यं न पुनस्तवादिं पश्यामि विश्वेश्वर विश्वरूप ॥

anekabāhūdaravaktranetraṃ paśyāmi tvāṃ sarvato.anantarūpam nāntaṃ na madhyaṃ na punastavādiṃ paśyāmi viśveśvara viśvarūpa

I see you, who are of countless forms, possessed of many arms, stomachs, mouths, and eyes on all sides. And, O lord of the universe! O you of all forms!

किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रिणं च तेजोराशिं सर्वतो दीप्तिमन्तम्। पश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ताद् दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिमप्रमेयम् ॥

kirīṭinaṃ gadinaṃ cakriṇaṃ ca tejorāśiṃ sarvato dīptimantam paśyāmi tvāṃ durnirīkṣyaṃ samantād dīptānalārkadyutimaprameyam

I do not see your end or middle or beginning. I see you bearing a coronet and a mace and a discus—a mass of glory brilliant on all sides difficult to look at having on all sides the effulgence of a blazing fire or sun and indefinable.

त्वमक्षरं परमं वेदितव्यं त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्। त्वमव्ययः शाश्वतधर्मगोप्ता सनातनस्त्वं पुरुषो मतो मे ॥

tvamakṣaraṃ paramaṃ veditavyaṃ tvamasya viśvasya paraṃ nidhānam tvamavyayaḥ śāśvatadharmagoptā sanātanastvaṃ puruṣo mato me

You are indestructible, the supreme one to be known. You are the highest support of this universe. You are the inexhaustible protector of everlasting piety. I believe you to be the eternal being.

अनादिमध्यान्तमनन्तवीर्य- मनन्तबाहुं शशिसूर्यनेत्रम्। पश्यामि त्वां दीप्तहुताशवक्त्रं स्वतेजसा विश्वमिदं तपन्तम् ॥

anādimadhyāntamanantavīryam anantabāhuṃ śaśisūryanetram paśyāmi tvāṃ dīptahutāśavaktraṃ svatejasā viśvamidaṃ tapantam

I see you void of beginning middle end—of infinite power of unnumbered arms having the sun and moon for eyes having a mouth like a blazing fire

द्यावापृथिव्योरिदमन्तरं हि व्याप्तं त्वयैकेन दिशश्च सर्वाः। दृष्ट्वाद्भुतं रूपमुग्रं तवेदं लोकत्रयं प्रव्यथितं महात्मन् ॥

dyāvāpṛthivyoridamantaraṃ hi vyāptaṃ tvayaikena diśaśca sarvāḥ dṛṣṭvādbhutaṃ rūpamugraṃ tavedaṃ lokatrayaṃ pravyathitaṃ mahātman

and heating the universe with your radiance. For this space between heaven and earth and all the quarters are pervaded by you alone. Looking at this wonderful and terrible form of yours, O high-souled one! the three worlds are affrighted. For here these groups of gods are entering into you.

अमी हि त्वां सुरसङ्घा विशन्ति केचिद्भीताः प्राञ्जलयो गृणन्ति। स्वस्तीत्युक्त्वा महर्षिसिद्धसङ्घाः स्तुवन्ति त्वां स्तुतिभिः पुष्कलाभिः ॥

amī hi tvāṃ surasaṅghā viśanti kecidbhītāḥ prāñjalayo gṛṇanti svastītyuktvā maharṣisiddhasaṅghāḥ stuvanti tvāṃ stutibhiḥ puṣkalābhiḥ

Some being afraid are praying with joined hands, and the groups of great sages and Siddhas are saying 'Welfare!' and praising you with abundant (hymns) of praise.

रुद्रादित्या वसवो ये च साध्या विश्वेऽश्विनौ मरुतश्चोष्मपाश्च। गन्धर्वयक्षासुरसिद्धसङ्घा वीक्षन्ते त्वां विस्मिताश्चैव सर्वे ॥

rudrādityā vasavo ye ca sādhyā viśve.aśvinau marutaścoṣmapāśca gandharvayakṣāsurasiddhasaṅghā vīkṣante tvāṃ vismitāścaiva sarve

The Rudras and Ādityas the Vasus the Sādhyas the Viśvas the two Aśvins the Maruts and the Ushmapas and the groups of Gandharvas Yakṣas demons and Siddhas are all looking at you amazed. Seeing your mighty form

रूपं महत्ते बहुवक्त्रनेत्रं महाबाहो बहुबाहूरुपादम्। बहूदरं बहुदंष्ट्राकरालं दृष्ट्वा लोकाः प्रव्यथितास्तथाहम् ॥

rūpaṃ mahatte bahuvaktranetraṃ mahābāho bahubāhūrupādam bahūdaraṃ bahudaṃṣṭrākarālaṃ dṛṣṭvā lokāḥ pravyathitāstathāham

with many mouths and eyes with many arms thighs and feet with many stomachs and fearful with many jaws all people and I likewise are much alarmed O you of mighty arms!

नभःस्पृशं दीप्तमनेकवर्णं व्यात्ताननं दीप्तविशालनेत्रम्। दृष्ट्वा हि त्वां प्रव्यथितान्तरात्मा धृतिं न विन्दामि शमं च विष्णो ॥

nabhaḥspṛśaṃ dīptamanekavarṇaṃ vyāttānanaṃ dīptaviśālanetram dṛṣṭvā hi tvāṃ pravyathitāntarātmā dhṛtiṃ na vindāmi śamaṃ ca viṣṇo

Seeing you O Viṣṇu ! touching the skies radiant possessed of many hues with a gaping mouth and with large blazing eyes I am much alarmed in my inmost self and feel no courage

दंष्ट्राकरालानि च ते मुखानि दृष्ट्वैव कालानलसन्निभानि। दिशो न जाने न लभे च शर्म प्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास ॥

daṃṣṭrākarālāni ca te mukhāni dṛṣṭvaiva kālānalasannibhāni diśo na jāne na labhe ca śarma prasīda deveśa jagannivāsa

no tranquillity. And seeing your mouths terrible by the jaws and resembling the fire of destruction I cannot recognise the (various) directions I feel no comfort. Be gracious O lord of gods! who pervadest the universe. And all these sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra together with all the bands of kings

अमी च त्वां धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्राः सर्वे सहैवावनिपालसङ्घैः। भीष्मो द्रोणः सूतपुत्रस्तथासौ सहास्मदीयैरपि योधमुख्यैः ॥

amī ca tvāṃ dhṛtarāṣṭrasya putrāḥ sarve sahaivāvanipālasaṅghaiḥ bhīṣmo droṇaḥ sūtaputrastathāsau sahāsmadīyairapi yodhamukhyaiḥ

and Bhīṣma and Droṇa and this charioteer's son likewise together with our principal warriors also

वक्त्राणि ते त्वरमाणा विशन्ति दंष्ट्राकरालानि भयानकानि। केचिद्विलग्ना दशनान्तरेषु सन्दृश्यन्ते चूर्णितैरुत्तमाङ्गैः ॥

vaktrāṇi te tvaramāṇā viśanti daṃṣṭrākarālāni bhayānakāni kecidvilagnā daśanāntareṣu sandṛśyante cūrṇitairuttamāṅgaiḥ

are rapidly entering your mouths fearful and horrific by (reason of your) jaws. And some with their heads smashed are seen (to be) stuck in the spaces between the teeth. As the many rapid currents of a river's waters run towards the sea alone

यथा नदीनां बहवोऽम्बुवेगाः समुद्रमेवाभिमुखा द्रवन्ति। तथा तवामी नरलोकवीरा विशन्ति वक्त्राण्यभिविज्वलन्ति ॥

yathā nadīnāṃ bahavo.ambuvegāḥ samudramevābhimukhā dravanti tathā tavāmī naralokavīrā viśanti vaktrāṇyabhivijvalanti

so do these heroes of the human world enter your mouths blazing all round. As butterflies with increased velocity

यथा प्रदीप्तं ज्वलनं पतङ्गा विशन्ति नाशाय समृद्धवेगाः। तथैव नाशाय विशन्ति लोकास्- तवापि वक्त्राणि समृद्धवेगाः ॥

yathā pradīptaṃ jvalanaṃ pataṅgā viśanti nāśāya samṛddhavegāḥ tathaiva nāśāya viśanti lokāsa- tavāpi vaktrāṇi samṛddhavegāḥ

enter a blazing fire to their destruction

लेलिह्यसे ग्रसमानः समन्ताल्- लोकान्समग्रान्वदनैर्ज्वलद्भिः। तेजोभिरापूर्य जगत्समग्रं भासस्तवोग्राः प्रतपन्ति विष्णो ॥

lelihyase grasamānaḥ samantāl- lokānsamagrānvadanairjvaladbhiḥ tejobhirāpūrya jagatsamagraṃ bhāsastavogrāḥ pratapanti viṣṇo

so too do these people enter your mouths with increased velocity (only) to their destruction. Swallowing all these people, you are licking them over and over again from all sides, with your blazing mouths. Your fierce splendours, O Viṣṇu! filling the whole universe with (their) effulgence, are heating it.

आख्याहि मे को भवानुग्ररूपो नमोऽस्तु ते देववर प्रसीद। विज्ञातुमिच्छामि भवन्तमाद्यं न हि प्रजानामि तव प्रवृत्तिम् ॥

ākhyāhi me ko bhavānugrarūpo namo.astu te devavara prasīda vijñātumicchāmi bhavantamādyaṃ na hi prajānāmi tava pravṛttim

Tell me who you are in this fierce form. Salutations be to thee, O chief of the gods! Be gracious. I wish to know you, the primeval, one, for I do not understand your actions.

श्रीभगवानुवाच। कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृत्तः। ऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे येऽवस्थिताः प्रत्यनीकेषु योधाः ॥

śrībhagavānuvāca kālo.asmi lokakṣayakṛtpravṛddho lokānsamāhartumiha pravṛttaḥ ṛte.api tvāṃ na bhaviṣyanti sarve ye.avasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣu yodhāḥ

I am death, the destroyer of the worlds, fully developed, and I am now active about the overthrow of the worlds. Even without you, the warriors standing in the adverse hosts, shall all cease to be.

तस्मात्त्वमुत्तिष्ठ यशो लभस्व जित्वा शत्रून् भुङ्क्ष्व राज्यं समृद्धम्। मयैवैते निहताः पूर्वमेव निमित्तमात्रं भव सव्यसाचिन् ॥

tasmāttvamuttiṣṭha yaśo labhasva jitvā śatrūn bhuṅkṣva rājyaṃ samṛddham mayaivaite nihatāḥ pūrvameva nimittamātraṃ bhava savyasācin

Therefore, be up, obtain glory, and vanquishing (your) foes, enjoy a prosperous kingdom. All these have been already killed by me.

द्रोणं च भीष्मं च जयद्रथं च कर्णं तथान्यानपि योधवीरान्। मया हतांस्त्वं जहि मा व्यथिष्ठा युध्यस्व जेतासि रणे सपत्नान् ॥

droṇaṃ ca bhīṣmaṃ ca jayadrathaṃ ca karṇaṃ tathānyānapi yodhavīrān mayā hatāṃstvaṃ jahi mavyathiṣṭhā yudhyasva jetāsi raṇe sapatnān

Be only the instrument, O Savyasācin! Droṇa, and Bhīṣma, and Jayadratha, and Karṇa , and likewise other valiant warriors also, whom I have killed, do you kill. Be not alarmed. Do fight. And in the battle you will conquer your foes.

सञ्जय उवाच। एतच्छ्रुत्वा वचनं केशवस्य कृताञ्जलिर्वेपमानः किरीटी। नमस्कृत्वा भूय एवाह कृष्णं सगद्गदं भीतभीतः प्रणम्य ॥

sañjaya uvāca etacchrutvā vacanaṃ keśavasya kṛtāñjalirvepamānaḥ kirīṭī namaskṛtvā bhūya evāha kṛṣṇaṃ sagadgadaṃ bhītabhītaḥ praṇamya

Hearing these words of Kesava, the wearer of the coronet, trembling, and with joined hands, bowed down and sorely afraid, and with throat choked up, he again spoke to Kṛṣṇa after saluting him.

अर्जुन उवाच। स्थाने हृषीकेश तव प्रकीर्त्या जगत्प्रहृष्यत्यनुरज्यते च। रक्षांसि भीतानि दिशो द्रवन्ति सर्वे नमस्यन्ति च सिद्धसङ्घाः ॥

arjuna uvāca sthāne hṛṣīkeśa tava prakīrtyā jagatprahṛṣyatyanurajyate ca rakṣāṃsi bhītāni diśo dravanti sarve namasyanti ca siddhasaṅghāḥ

It is quite proper O Hṛṣīkeśa! that the universe is delighted and charmed by your renown that the demons run away affrighted in all directions

कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन् गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे। अनन्त देवेश जगन्निवास त्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत् ॥

kasmācca te na nameranmahātman garīyase brahmaṇo.apyādikartre ananta deveśa jagannivāsa tvamakṣaraṃ sadasattatparaṃ yat

and that all the assemblages of Siddhas bow down,(to you). And why O high-souled one! should they not bow down to you (who are) greater than Brahman and first cause? O infinite lord of gods! O you pervading the universe! you are the indestructible, that which is, that which is not, and what is beyond them.

त्वमादिदेवः पुरुषः पुराणस्- त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्। वेत्तासि वेद्यं च परं च धाम त्वया ततं विश्वमनन्तरूप ॥

tvamādidevaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇasa- tvamasya viśvasya paraṃ nidhānam vettāsi vedyaṃ ca paraṃ ca dhāma tvayā tataṃ viśvamanantarūpa

You are the primal god, the ancient being, you are the highest support of this universe. You are that which has knowledge, that which is the object of knowledge, you are the highest goal. By you is this universe pervaded., O you of infinite forms!

वायुर्यमोऽग्निर्वरुणः शशाङ्कः प्रजापतिस्त्वं प्रपितामहश्च। नमो नमस्तेऽस्तु सहस्रकृत्वः पुनश्च भूयोऽपि नमो नमस्ते ॥

vāyuryamo.agnirvaruṇaḥ śaśāṅkaḥ prajāpatistvaṃ prapitāmahaśca namo namaste.astu sahasrakṛtvaḥ punaśca bhūyo.api namo namaste

You are the wind, Yama , fire, Varuṇa, the moon, you Prajāpati, and the great grandsire. Obeisance be to thee a thousand times, and again and again obeisance to thee! In front and from behind obeisance to thee!

नमः पुरस्तादथ पृष्ठतस्ते नमोऽस्तु ते सर्वत एव सर्व। अनन्तवीर्यामितविक्रमस्त्वं सर्वं समाप्नोषि ततोऽसि सर्वः ॥

namaḥ purastādatha pṛṣṭhataste namo.astu te sarvata eva sarva anantavīryāmitavikramastvaṃ sarvaṃ samāpnoṣi tato.asi sarvaḥ

Obeisance be to thee from all sides, O you who are all! You are of infinite power, of unmeasured glory you pervade all, and therefore you are all!

सखेति मत्वा प्रसभं यदुक्तं हे कृष्ण हे यादव हे सखेति। अजानता महिमानं तवेदं मया प्रमादात्प्रणयेन वापि ॥

sakheti matvā prasabhaṃ yaduktaṃ he kṛṣṇa he yādava he sakheti ajānatā mahimānaṃ tavedaṃ mayā pramādātpraṇayena vāpi

Whatever I have said contemptuously,—for instance, 'O Kṛṣṇa!' 'O Yādava !' 'O friend!'—thinking you to be (my) friend, and not knowing your greatness (as shown in) this (universal form), or through friendliness, or incautiously

यच्चावहासार्थमसत्कृतोऽसि विहारशय्यासनभोजनेषु। एकोऽथवाप्यच्युत तत्समक्षं तत्क्षामये त्वामहमप्रमेयम् ॥

yaccāvahāsārthamasatkṛto.asi vihāraśayyāsanabhojaneṣu eko.athavāpyacyuta tatsamakṣaṃ tatkṣāmaye tvāmahamaprameyam

and whatever disrespect I have shown you for purposes of merriment on (occasions of) play sleep dinner or sitting (together) whether alone or in the presence (of friends),—for all that O undegraded one! I ask pardon of you who are indefinable.

पितासि लोकस्य चराचरस्य त्वमस्य पूज्यश्च गुरुर्गरीयान्। न त्वत्समोऽस्त्यभ्यधिकः कुतोऽन्यो लोकत्रयेऽप्यप्रतिमप्रभाव ॥

pitāsi lokasya carācarasya tvamasya pūjyaśca gururgarīyān na tvatsamo.astyabhyadhikaḥ kuto.anyo lokatraye.apyapratimaprabhāva

You are the father of the world-movable and immovable,—you its great and venerable master there is none equal to you, whence can there be one greater, O you whose power is unparalleled in all the three worlds?

तस्मात्प्रणम्य प्रणिधाय कायं प्रसादये त्वामहमीशमीड्यम्। पितेव पुत्रस्य सखेव सख्युः प्रियः प्रियायार्हसि देव सोढुम् ॥

tasmātpraṇamya praṇidhāya kāyaṃ prasādaye tvāmahamīśamīḍyam piteva putrasya sakheva sakhyuḥ priyaḥ priyāyārhasi deva soḍhum

Therefore I bow and prostrate myself, and would propitiate you, the praiseworthy lord. Be pleased, O god! to pardon (my guilt) as a father (that of his) son, a friend (that of his) friend, or a husband (that of his) beloved.

अदृष्टपूर्वं हृषितोऽस्मि दृष्ट्वा भयेन च प्रव्यथितं मनो मे। तदेव मे दर्शय देव रूपं प्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास ॥

adṛṣṭapūrvaṃ hṛṣito.asmi dṛṣṭvā bhayena ca pravyathitaṃ mano me tadeva me darśaya deva rūpaṃ prasīda deveśa jagannivāsa

I am delighted at seeing what I had never seen before, and my heart is also alarmed by fear. Show me that same form, O god! Be gracious, O lord of gods! O you pervading the universe!

किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रहस्तं इच्छामि त्वां द्रष्टुमहं तथैव। तेनैव रूपेण चतुर्भुजेन सहस्रबाहो भव विश्वमूर्ते ॥

kirīṭinaṃ gadinaṃ cakrahastaṃ icchāmi tvāṃ draṣṭumahaṃ tathaiva tenaiva rūpeṇa caturbhujena sahasrabāho bhava viśvamūrte

I wish to see you bearing the coronet and the mace, with the discus in hand, just the same (as before). O you of thousand arms! O you of all forms! assume that same four-handed form.

श्रीभगवानुवाच। मया प्रसन्नेन तवार्जुनेदं रूपं परं दर्शितमात्मयोगात्। तेजोमयं विश्वमनन्तमाद्यं यन्मे त्वदन्येन न दृष्टपूर्वम् ॥

śrībhagavānuvāca mayā prasannena tavārjunedaṃ rūpaṃ paraṃ darśitamātmayogāt tejomayaṃ viśvamanantamādyaṃ yanme tvadanyena na dṛṣṭapūrvam

O Arjuna ! being pleased (with you) I have by my own mystic power shown you this supreme form full of glory universal infinite primeval

न वेदयज्ञाध्ययनैर्न दानैर्- न च क्रियाभिर्न तपोभिरुग्रैः। एवंरूपः शक्य अहं नृलोके द्रष्टुं त्वदन्येन कुरुप्रवीर ॥

na vedayajñādhyayanairna dānaira- na ca kriyābhirna tapobhirugraiḥ evaṃrūpaḥ śakya ahaṃ nṛloke draṣṭuṃ tvadanyena kurupravīra

and which has not been seen before by any one else but you O you hero among the Kauravas! I cannot be seen in this form by any one but you, (even) by (the help of) the study of the Vedas or of sacrifices nor by gifts nor by actions nor by fierce penances.

मा ते व्यथा मा च विमूढभावो दृष्ट्वा रूपं घोरमीदृङ्ममेदम्। व्यपेतभीः प्रीतमनाः पुनस्त्वं तदेव मे रूपमिदं प्रपश्य ॥

mā te vyathā mā ca vimūḍhabhāvo dṛṣṭvā rūpaṃ ghoramīdṛṅmamedam vyapetabhīḥ prītamanāḥ punastvaṃ tadeva me rūpamidaṃ prapaśya

Be not alarmed, be not perplexed, at seeing this form of mine, fearful like this. Free from fear and with delighted heart, see now again that same form of mine.

सञ्जय उवाच। इत्यर्जुनं वासुदेवस्तथोक्त्वा स्वकं रूपं दर्शयामास भूयः। आश्वासयामास च भीतमेनं भूत्वा पुनः सौम्यवपुर्महात्मा ॥

sañjaya uvāca ityarjunaṃ vāsudevastathoktvā svakaṃ rūpaṃ darśayāmāsa bhūyaḥ āśvāsayāmāsa ca bhītamenaṃ bhūtvā punaḥ saumyavapurmahātmā

Having thus spoken to Arjuna, Vāsudeva again showed his own form, and the high-souled one becoming again of a mild form, comforted him who had been affrighted.

अर्जुन उवाच। दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तव सौम्यं जनार्दन। इदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः ॥

arjuna uvāca dṛṣṭvedaṃ mānuṣaṃ rūpaṃ tava saumyaṃ janārdana idānīmasmi saṃvṛttaḥ sacetāḥ prakṛtiṃ gataḥ

O Janardana ! seeing this mild, human form of yours, I am new in my right mind, and have come to my normal state. Even the gods are always desiring to see this form of mine, which it is difficult to get a sight of, and which you have seen. I cannot be seen

श्रीभगवानुवाच। सुदुर्दर्शमिदं रूपं दृष्टवानसि यन्मम। देवा अप्यस्य रूपस्य नित्यं दर्शनकाङ्क्षिणः ॥

śrībhagavānuvāca sudurdarśamidaṃ rūpaṃ dṛṣṭavānasi yanmama devā apyasya rūpasya nityaṃ darśanakāṅkṣiṇaḥ

as you have seen me by (means of) the Vedas not by penance

नाहं वेदैर्न तपसा न दानेन न चेज्यया। शक्य एवंविधो द्रष्टुं दृष्टवानसि मां यथा ॥

nāhaṃ vedairna tapasā na dānena na cejyayā śakya evaṃvidho draṣṭuṃ dṛṣṭavānasi māṃ yathā

not by gift

भक्त्या त्वनन्यया शक्य अहमेवंविधोऽर्जुन। ज्ञातुं द्रष्टुं च तत्त्वेन प्रवेष्टुं च परन्तप ॥

bhaktyā tvananyayā śakya ahamevaṃvidho.arjuna jñātuṃ draṣṭuṃ ca tattvena praveṣṭuṃ ca parantapa

nor yet by sacrifice. But O Arjuna! by devotion to me exclusively I can in this form be truly known seen

मत्कर्मकृन्मत्परमो मद्भक्तः सङ्गवर्जितः। निर्वैरः सर्वभूतेषु यः स मामेति पाण्डव ॥

matkarmakṛnmatparamo madbhaktaḥ saṅgavarjitaḥ nirvairaḥ sarvabhūteṣu yaḥ sa māmeti pāṇḍava

and assimilated with O terror of your foes! He who performs acts for (propitiating) me to whom I am the highest (object) who is my devotee who is free from attachment and who has no enmity towards any being he O son of Pāṇḍu! comes to me.