🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.2

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भवाप्ययौ हि भूतानां श्रुतौ विस्तरशो मया।

त्वत्तः कमलपत्राक्ष माहात्म्यमपि चाव्ययम्।।11.2।।
Bhagavad-Gītā 11.2 · the yathārtha śloka (Devanāgarī Sanskrit · canonical)

🪷 English Translations

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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.

🪷 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
।।11.2।। हे कमलनयन ! सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंकी उत्पत्ति और प्रलय मैंने विस्तारपूर्वक आपसे ही सुना है और आपका अविनाशी माहात्म्य भी सुना है।

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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।

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।।11.2।। व्याख्या --भवाप्ययौ हि भूतानां त्वत्तः श्रुतौ विस्तरशो मया -- भगवान्ने पहले कहा था-- मैं सम्पूर्ण जगत्का प्रभव और प्रलय हूँ, मेरे सिवाय अन्य कोई कारण नहीं है (7। 6 7); सात्त्विक, राजस और तामस भाव मेरेसे ही होते हैं (7। 12); प्राणियोंके अलग-अलग अनेक तरहके भाव मेरेसे ही होते हैं (10। 4 5); सम्पूर्ण प्राणी मेरेसे ही होते हैं और मेरेसे ही सब चेष्टा करते हैं (10। 8); प्राणियोंके आदि, मध्य तथा अन्तमें मैं ही हूँ (10। 20); और सम्पूर्ण सृष्टियोंके आदि, मध्य तथा अन्तमें मैं ही हूँ (10। 32)। इसीको लेकर अर्जुन यहाँ कहते हैं कि मैंने आपसे प्राणियोंकी उत्पत्ति और प्रलयका वर्णन विस्तारसे सुना है। इसका तात्पर्य प्राणियोंकी उत्पत्ति और विनाश सुननेसे नहीं है, प्रत्युत इसका तात्पर्य यह सुननेसे है कि सभी प्राणी आपसे ही उत्पन्न होते हैं, आपमें ही रहते हैं और आपमें ही लीन हो जाते हैं अर्थात् सब कुछ आप ही हैं।

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