🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.13
Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 13 of 55
तत्रैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं प्रविभक्तमनेकधा।
अपश्यद्देवदेवस्य शरीरे पाण्डवस्तदा।।11.13।।
🪷 English Translations
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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
11.13 In that vision Arjuna saw the universe, with its manifold shapes, all embraced in One, its Supreme Lord.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
11.13 There, in the body of the God of gods, Arjuna then saw the whole universe resting in one, with its many groups.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
11.13 Tada, at that time; pandavah, Pandava, Arjuna; apasyat, saw; tatra, there, in that Cosmic form; sarire, in the body; devadevasya, of the God of gods, of Hari; krtsnam, the whole; jagat, Universe; anekadha, deversely; pravibhaktam, differentiated-into groups of gods, manes, human beings, and others; ekastham, united in the one (Consmic form).
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
11.13 'There', in that unie and divine body of the God of gods - infinite in length and breadth, with innumerable hands, stomachs, faces and eyes, of immeasurable splendour, eipped with innumerable divine weapons, adorned with innumerable divine ornaments appropriate to itself and with divine garlands and raiments, fragrant with celestial perfumes and full of wonders , there Arjuna beheld with the appropriate divine eyes granted by the grace of the Lord, the 'entire universe' consisting of Prakrti (material Nature) and the selves, all remaining in 'one single spot,' namely, at one single point. He beheld 'the whole universe' with all its sub-divisions, differentiated into varied and wonderful classes of experiencing beings like Brahma, gods, animals, men, immovables etc., and the places, objects and means of experiences such as earth, ether, Rasatala, Atala, Vitala, Sutala etc. He beheld thus the entire universe as depicted in such texts as those starting with 'I am the origin of all; from Me proceed everything' (10.8), 'Indeed I shall tell you, O Arjuna, My glorious self-manifestations' (10.9), 'I am the Self, O Arjuna, dwelling in the hearts of all beings' (10.20), and 'Of Adityas, I am Visnu' (10.21), and ending with 'Nothing that moves or does not move exists without Me' (10.39), and 'I remain, with a single fraction of Myself sustaining this whole universe' (10.42).
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
11.13. At that time the son of Pandu beheld there in the body of the God-of-gods, the entire universe, united in one and [yet] divided into many groups.
🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद
For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · a high-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition. (→ Full Mahāpurusha-detail page for the 102-year-living Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī Mahātmā.)
🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading
।।11.13।। उस समय अर्जुनने देवोंके देव भगवान् के उस शरीरमें एक जगह स्थित अनेक प्रकारके विभागोंमें विभक्त सम्पूर्ण जगत् को देखा।
🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices
The classical commentary tradition rendered in English · each ācārya speaks from their own sampradāya · the seer chooses the depth of darśana.
Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
11.13 तत्र there? एकस्थम् resting in one? जगत् the universe? कृत्स्नम् the whole? प्रविभक्तम् divided? अनेकधा in many groups? अपश्यत् saw? देवदेवस्य of the God of gods? शरीरे in the body? पाण्डवः son of Pandu? तदा then.Commentary Tatra There -- in the Cosmic Form.Anekadha Many groups -- gods? manes? men and other species of beings.Arjuna beheld all forms as the forms of the Lord? all heads as His heads? all eyes as His eyes? all hands as His hands? all feet as His feet? every part of every body as the limb of the Lords divine form. Wherever he looked he beheld nothing but the Lord. He got mystic divine knowledge.Sanjaya has given a truly graphic description of the Cosmic Form. Yet? it would be futile to grasp it with the finite mind. It is a transcendental vision? beyond the reach of the mind and senses. It has to be realised in Samadhi.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
11.13 Tada, at that time; pandavah, Pandava, Arjuna; apasyat, saw; tatra, there, in that Cosmic form; sarire, in the body; devadevasya, of the God of gods, of Hari; krtsnam, the whole; jagat, Universe; anekadha, deversely; pravibhaktam, differentiated-into groups of gods, manes, human beings, and others; ekastham, united in the one (Consmic form).
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
11.13 'There', in that unie and divine body of the God of gods - infinite in length and breadth, with innumerable hands, stomachs, faces and eyes, of immeasurable splendour, eipped with innumerable divine weapons, adorned with innumerable divine ornaments appropriate to itself and with divine garlands and raiments, fragrant with celestial perfumes and full of wonders , there Arjuna beheld with the appropriate divine eyes granted by the grace of the Lord, the 'entire universe' consisting of Prakrti (material Nature) and the selves, all remaining in 'one single spot,' namely, at one single point. He beheld 'the whole universe' with all its sub-divisions, differentiated into varied and wonderful classes of experiencing beings like Brahma, gods, animals, men, immovables etc., and the places, objects and means of experiences such as earth, ether, Rasatala, Atala, Vitala, Sutala etc. He beheld thus the entire universe as depicted in such texts as those starting with 'I am the origin of all; from Me proceed everything' (10.8), 'Indeed I shall tell you, O Arjuna, My glorious self-manifestations' (10.9), 'I am the Self, O Arjuna, dwelling in the hearts of all beings' (10.20), and 'Of Adityas, I am Visnu' (10.21), and ending with 'Nothing that moves or does not move exists without Me' (10.39), and 'I remain, with a single fraction of Myself sustaining this whole universe' (10.42).
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
11.13 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।11.13।। अर्जुन ने भगवान के उस ईश्वरीय रूप में देखा कि किस प्रकार सम्पूर्ण जगत् अपनी विविधता के साथ लाकर एक स्थान पर स्थित कर दिया गया था। हम देख चुके हैं कि विराट् पुरुष की संकल्पना ऐसे मन के द्वारा देखा गया दृश्य है जो देश और काल के माध्यम में कार्य नहीं कर रहा है अर्थात् देश और काल की कल्पना लोप हो चुकी है।अनेक को एक में देखने का जो दृश्य है? वह उतना इन्द्रियगोचर नहीं है जितना कि बुद्धिग्राह्य है। यह नहीं कि सम्पूर्ण विश्व संकुचित होकर भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण के देह परिमाण का हो गया है। यदि अर्जुन को जगत् के एकत्व का अपेक्षित बोध हो और यदि वह उस ज्ञान की दृष्टि से विश्व को देख सके? तो यही पर्याप्त है।आधुनिक विज्ञान से भी इसके समान दृष्टांत उद्धृत किया जा सकता है। रसायनशास्त्र में द्रव्यों का वर्गीकरण करके उनका अध्ययन किया जाता है। जगत् की रसायन वस्तुओं का अध्ययन करने से ज्ञात होता है कि जगत् में लगभग एक सौ तीन तत्व है। और अधिक सूक्ष्म अध्ययन से वैज्ञानिक लोग परमाणु तक पहँचे? अब उसका भी विभाजन करके पाया गया कि परमाणु भी इलेक्ट्रॉन? प्रोटॉन और न्यूट्रॉन से बना है। परमाणु के इस स्वरूप से सुपरिचित वैज्ञानिक जब बहुविध जगत् की ओर देखता है? तब उसे यह जानना सरल होता है कि ये सभी पदार्थ परमाणुओं से बने हैं। इसी प्रकार? यहाँ जब अर्जुन को श्रीकृष्ण की अहैतुकी कृपाप्रसाद से यह विशेष ज्ञान्ा प्राप्त हुआ? तब वह भगवान् के शरीर में ही सम्पूर्ण विश्व को देखने में समर्थ हो गया।इस दृश्य को देखकर अर्जुन के शरीर और मन पर होने वाली प्रतिक्रियाओं को संजय ने ध्यानपूर्वक देखा और उनका विवरण सुनाते हुए वह कहता है
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।।11.13।। व्याख्या--'तत्रैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं प्रविभक्तमनेकधा'--अनेक प्रकारके विभागोंमें विभक्त अर्थात् ये देवता हैं, ये मनुष्य हैं, ये पशु-पक्षी हैं, यह पृथ्वी है, ये समुद्र हैं, यह आकाश है, ये नक्षत्र हैं, आदि-आदि विभागोंके सहित (संकुचित नहीं, प्रत्युत विस्तारसहित) सम्पूर्ण चराचर जगत्को भगवान्के शरीरके भी एक देशमें अर्जुनने भगवान्के दिये हुए दिव्यचक्षुओंसे प्रत्यक्ष देखा। तात्पर्य यह हुआ कि भगवान् श्रीकृष्णके छोटे-से शरीरके भी एक अंशमें चर-अचर, स्थावर-जङ्गमसहित सम्पूर्ण संसार है। वह संसार भी अनेक ब्रह्माण्डोंके रूपमें, अनेक देवताओंके लोकोंके रूपमें, अनेक व्यक्तियों और पदार्थोंके रूपमें विभक्त और विस्तृत है -- इस प्रकार अर्जुनने स्पष्ट रूपसे देखा (टिप्पणी प0 582)।
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 13 of 55 in Chapter 11 · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga (The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision)
- Chapter theme: Krishna reveals His universal-form · BG 11.5 paśya me pārtha rūpāṇi
- Ṣaṭka grouping: TAT-Ṣaṭka (BG 7-12 · the Lord)
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- ⭐ Mahābhārata anchor: this verse is also MBh 6.33.13 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)
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