🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.2
Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 2 of 55
🪷 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
11.2 O Lord, whose eyes are like the lotus petal! Thou hast described in detail the origin and the dissolution of being, and Thine own Eternal Majesty.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
11.2 The origin and the destruction of beings verily have been heard by me in detail from Thee, O lotus-eyed Lord, and also Thy inexhaustible greatness.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
11.2 Kamala-partraksa, O You with eyes like lotus leaves; bhava-apyayau, the origin and dissolution- these two; bhutanam, of beings; srutau, have been heard; maya, by me; vistarasah, in detail-not in brief; tvattah, from You. Ca, and; (Your) avyayam, undecaying; mahatmyam, glory, too;-has been heard-(these last words) remain understood.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
11.2 Likewise, beginning from the seventh, and ending with the tenth discourse, the origination and dissolution of all beings other than You, as issuing from You, the Supreme Self, have been heard at length by me. Your unlimited greatness, immutable and eternal, Your principalship (Sesitva) over all sentient and non-sentient things, Your supreme greatness consisting of the host of auspicious attributes like knowledge, strength etc., Your being the supporter of all things and actuator of all activities like thinking, blinking etc., have also been heard. Here the term, 'hi' (verily) expresses the desire to have the vision which is going to be revealed.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
11.2. The origin and the dissolution of beings have been listened to in detail by me from You, O Lotus-eyed One, and also to [Your] inexhaustible greatness.
🪷 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
11.2 भवाप्ययौ the origin and the dissolution? हि indeed? भूतानाम् of beings? श्रुतौ hav been heard? विस्तरशः in detail? मया by me? त्वत्तः from Thee? कमलपत्राक्ष O lotuseyed? माहात्म्यम् greatness? अपि also? च and? अव्ययम् inexhaustible.Commentary Kamalapatraksha Lotuseyed or having eyes like lotuspetals. Kamalapatra also means knowledge of the Self. He who can be obtained by knowledge of the Self is Kamalapatraksha.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
11.2 Kamala-partraksa, O You with eyes like lotus leaves; bhava-apyayau, the origin and dissolution- these two; bhutanam, of beings; srutau, have been heard; maya, by me; vistarasah, in detail-not in brief; tvattah, from You. Ca, and; (Your) avyayam, undecaying; mahatmyam, glory, too;-has been heard-(these last words) remain understood.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
11.2 Likewise, beginning from the seventh, and ending with the tenth discourse, the origination and dissolution of all beings other than You, as issuing from You, the Supreme Self, have been heard at length by me. Your unlimited greatness, immutable and eternal, Your principalship (Sesitva) over all sentient and non-sentient things, Your supreme greatness consisting of the host of auspicious attributes like knowledge, strength etc., Your being the supporter of all things and actuator of all activities like thinking, blinking etc., have also been heard. Here the term, 'hi' (verily) expresses the desire to have the vision which is going to be revealed.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
11.2 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।11.2।। गुरु और शिष्य के संवाद में? यह स्वाभाविक है कि किसी कठिन विषय की समाप्ति पर शिष्य के मन में कुछ शंका या प्रश्न उठें। उस शंका की निवृत्ति के लिए वह गुरु के पास जा सकता है? परन्तु प्रश्न करने के पूर्व उसे यह सिद्ध करना होगा कि वह विवेचित विषय को स्पष्टत समझ चुका है। तत्पश्चात्? उसे अपनी नवीन शंका का समाधान कराने का अधिकार प्राप्त हो जाता है। इस पारम्परिक पद्धति का अनुसरण करते हुए अर्जुन भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण को यह बताने का प्रयत्न करता है कि वह पूर्व अध्याय का विषय समझ चुका है। उसने श्रवण के द्वारा भूतों की उत्पत्ति और प्रलय तथा भगवान् की असंख्य विभूतियों को समझ लिया है।फिर भी? एक संदेह रह ही जाता है? जिसका निवारण तभी होगा जब प्रात्यक्षिक दर्शन से उसकी बुद्धि को तत्त्व का निश्चयात्मक ज्ञान हो जायेगा। यह श्लोक विश्वरूप दर्शन की इच्छा को प्रगट करने की पूर्व तैयारी है। जब शिष्य अपनी योग्यता सिद्ध करने के पश्चात् कोई युक्तिसंगत प्रश्न पूछता है अथवा किसी संभावित विघ्न की निवृत्ति का उपाय जानना चाहता है?तो गुरु को उसकी सभी सम्भव सहायता करनी चाहिये। हम देखेंगे कि योगेश्वर श्रीकृष्ण यहाँ अपनी वरिष्ठता को भी त्याग कर केवल असीम अनुकम्पावशात् अर्जुन को अपना विराट् रूप दर्शाते हैं? केवल इसलिए कि उनके शिष्य ने उसे देखने का आग्रह किया था।अर्जुन अपनी इच्छा को अगले श्लोक में व्यक्त करता है।
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 2 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)
- Chapter hub: /visvarupa-kala
🪷 ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय 🪷
सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)