🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.15
Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 15 of 55
अर्जुन उवाच
पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे
सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान्।
ब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थ
मृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान्।।11.15।।
🪷 English Translations
Five authentic English voices · each from a distinct sampradāya · together revealing the verse's full śabda-tattva.
Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
11.15 Arjuna said: O almighty God! I see in Thee the powers of Nature, the various creatures of the world, the Progenitor on his lotus throne, the Sages and the shining angels.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
11.15 Arjuna said I see all the gods, O God, in Thy body, and (also) hosts of various classes of beings, Brahma, the Lord, seated on the lotus, all the sages and the celestial serpents.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
11.15 Deva, O God; pasyami, I see, perceive; tava dehe, in Your body; sarvan, all; the devan, gods; tatha, as also; bhuta-visesa-sanghan, hosts of (various) classes of beings, groups of moving and non-moving living things having different shapes; and besides, brahmanam, Brahma, with four faces; isam, the Ruler of creatures; kamalasana-stham, sitting on a lotus seat, i.e. sitting on Mount Meru which forms the pericarp of the lotus that is the earth; and sarvan, all; the divyan, heavenly; rsin, sages-Vasistha and others; and (the heavenly) uragan, serpents-Vasuki and others.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
11.15 Arjuna said O Lord! I behold in Your body all gods and all classes of living beings as also Brahma, the four-faced ruler of the cosmic egg. So too Siva (Isa) who is seated in the lotus-seated Brahma, meaning that Siva abides by the directions of Brahma. So also all the seers of whom the divine seers are the foremost; and lustrous snakes like Vasuki, Taksaka etc.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
11.15. Arjuna said O God ! In Your body I behold all gods and also hosts of different kinds of beings-the Lord Brahma seated on the lotus-seat; and all the seers and all the glowing serpents.
🪷 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
।।11.15।। अर्जुन बोले -- हे देव ! मैं आपके शरीरमें सम्पूर्ण देवताओंको, प्राणियोंके विशेष-विशेष समुदायोंको कमलासनपर बैठे हुए ब्रह्माजीको, शङ्करजीको, सम्पूर्ण ऋषियोंको और सम्पूर्ण दिव्य सर्पोंको देख रहा हूँ।
🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices
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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
11.15 पश्यामि (I) see? देवान् the gods? तव Thy? देव O God? देहे in the body? सर्वान् all? तथा also? भूतविशेषसङ्घान् hosts of various classes of beings? ब्रह्माणम् Brahma? ईशम् the Lord? कमलासनस्थम् seated on the lotus? ऋषीन् sages? च and? सर्वान् all? उरगान् serpents? च and? दिव्यान् divine.Commentary Arjuna describes his own experience of the Cosmic Form in this and the following verses? 15 to 31.Bhutaviseshasanghan 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 fourfaced? the Lord of all creatures? is seated in the centre of the earthlotus on the Meru which forms the thalamus as it were of the earthlotus.Sages? such as Vasishtha. Serpents? such as Vasuki.Moreover --
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
11.15 Deva, O God; pasyami, I see, perceive; tava dehe, in Your body; sarvan, all; the devan, gods; tatha, as also; bhuta-visesa-sanghan, hosts of (various) classes of beings, groups of moving and non-moving living things having different shapes; and besides, brahmanam, Brahma, with four faces; isam, the Ruler of creatures; kamalasana-stham, sitting on a lotus seat, i.e. sitting on Mount Meru which forms the pericarp of the lotus that is the earth; and sarvan, all; the divyan, heavenly; rsin, sages-Vasistha and others; and (the heavenly) uragan, serpents-Vasuki and others.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
11.15 Arjuna said O Lord! I behold in Your body all gods and all classes of living beings as also Brahma, the four-faced ruler of the cosmic egg. So too Siva (Isa) who is seated in the lotus-seated Brahma, meaning that Siva abides by the directions of Brahma. So also all the seers of whom the divine seers are the foremost; and lustrous snakes like Vasuki, Taksaka etc.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
11.15 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।11.15।। जब अर्जुन भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण को देव (प्रकाशस्वरूप) शब्द से सम्बोधित करता है? तब वह संजय की दी हुयी उपमा की ही पुष्टि करता है? जिसमें कहा गया था कि सहस्र सूर्यों के प्रकाश के समान विराट् पुरुष का तेज है। विश्वरूप में दृष्ट वस्तुओं को गिनाते हुये अर्जुन कहता है? मैं आपके शरीर में समस्त देवताओं और अनेक भूतविशेषों के समुदायों को देख रहा हूँ। इन सबका उल्लेख संजय भी पहले कर चुका है।दोनों के किये गये वर्णनों से ज्ञात होता है कि उस विराट् रूप में न केवल लौकिक वस्तुयें? वरन् अलौकिक दिव्य देवताओं को भी पहचाना जा सकता था। अर्जुन को उसमें ब्रह्मा? विष्णु महेश के भी दर्शन होते हैं। और इन सबके साथ अनेक ऋषिगण भी हैं।अर्जुन अनेक दिव्य सर्पों को भी देखता है। काव्य की यह एक शैली है कि प्राय श्रेष्ठ महान् कविजन सर्वोत्कृष्ठ का वर्णन करते समय अचानक किसी विद्रूप व उपहासास्पद के स्तर की वस्तुओं का वर्णन करने लगते हैं। इसका एकमात्र प्रयोजन यह होता है कि पाठकों को कुछ चौंकाकर उनका ध्यान विषय वस्तु की ओर आकर्षित किया जाय। इस विश्वरूप में ब्रह्माजी से लेकर सर्पों तक को प्रतिनिधित्व मिला है। वेदान्त का सिद्धान्त है कि जो पिण्ड में है? वही ब्रह्माण्ड में है? अथवा व्यष्टि ही समष्टि है। विश्व के महान् तत्त्वचिन्तकों ने इसी का वर्णन किया और अनुभव भी किया है। परन्तु इसके पूर्व किसी ने भी इस दार्शनिक सिद्धान्त का स्पष्ट एवं वस्तुनिष्ट प्रदर्शन नहीं किया था। इस कला के अग्रणी व्यासजी थे और अब तक इस कठिन कार्य में उनका अनुकरण करने का साहस किसी को नहीं हुआ है।अर्जुन? अब ऐसे रूप का वर्णन करता है जिसके विवरण से अत्यन्त साहसी पुरुष को भी अपना साहस खोते हुए अनुभव होगा
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।।11.15।। व्याख्या--पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान्--अर्जुनकी भगवत्प्रदत्त दिव्य दृष्टि इतनी विलक्षण है कि उनको देवलोक भी अपने सामने दीख रहे हैं। इतना ही नहीं, उनको सब-की-सब त्रिलोकी दिख रही है। केवल त्रिलोकी ही नहीं, प्रत्युत त्रिलोकीके उत्पादक (ब्रह्मा), पालक (विष्णु) और संहारक (महेश) भी प्रत्यक्ष दीख रहे हैं। अतः अर्जुन वर्णन करते हैं कि मैं सम्पूर्ण देवोंको, प्राणियोंके समुदायोंको और ब्रह्मा तथा शङ्करको देख रहा हूँ।
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 15 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 6.33.15 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)
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