🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.3

Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 3 of 55

एवमेतद्यथात्थ त्वमात्मानं परमेश्वर।

द्रष्टुमिच्छामि ते रूपमैश्वरं पुरुषोत्तम।।11.3।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 11.3 · Devanāgarī root text

🪷 English Translations

5 received English translations are available for this śloka. Each voice is labelled; no single rendering is presented as the Sanskrit itself.

Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 edition attribution in the received data
11.3 I believe all as Thou hast declared it. I long now to have a vision of thy Divine Form, O Thou Most High!
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
11.3 (Now) O Supreme Lord, as Thou hast thus described Thyself, O Supreme Person, I wish to see Thy divine form.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
11.3 Parama-isvara, O supreme Lord; evam, so; etat, it is-not otherwise; yatha, as; tvam, You; attha, speak; atmanam, about Yourself. Still, purusottama, O supreme Person; iccahmi, I wish; drastum, to see; the aisvaram, divine; rupam, form; te, of Yours, of Visnu, endowed with Knowledge, Sovereignty, Power, Strength, Valour and Formidability.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
11.3 O Supreme Lord, it is certain that it is even as you have described Yourself. O Supreme Person, O ocean of compassion for your dependants! I, however, wish to see or wish to realise directly, Your Lordly form peculiar to you - the form as the sovereign, protector, creator, destroyer, supporter of all, the mine of auspicious attributes, supreme and distinct from all other entities.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
11.3. As You describe Yourself as the Supreme Lord [of all], it must be so. [Hence], O Supreme Self, I desire to perceive Your Lordly form.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

Received Hindi rendering attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।11.3।। हे पुरुषोत्तम ! आप अपने-आपको जैसा कहते हैं, यह वास्तवमें ऐसा ही है। हे परमेश्वर ! आपके ईश्वर-सम्बन्धी रूपको मैं देखना चाहता हूँ।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

5 received English commentary layers are available for this śloka. Open only the voice you wish to study.

Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
11.3 एवम् thus? एतत् this? यथा as? आत्थ hast declared? त्वम् Thou? आत्मानम् Thyself? परमेश्वर O Supreme Lord? द्रष्टुम् to see? इच्छामि (I) desire? ते Thy? रूपम् form? ऐश्वरम् sovereign? पुरुषोत्तम O Supreme Purusha.Commentary Some commentators take the two halves of this verse as two independent sentences and interpret it thusSo it is? O Supreme Lord? as Thou hast declared Thyself to be. (But still) I desire to see Thy form as Isvara? O Supreme Person.Rupamaisvaram Thy form as Isvara? that of Vishnu as possessed of infinite knowledge? sovereignty? power? strength? prowess and splendour.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
11.3 Parama-isvara, O supreme Lord; evam, so; etat, it is-not otherwise; yatha, as; tvam, You; attha, speak; atmanam, about Yourself. Still, purusottama, O supreme Person; iccahmi, I wish; drastum, to see; the aisvaram, divine; rupam, form; te, of Yours, of Visnu, endowed with Knowledge, Sovereignty, Power, Strength, Valour and Formidability.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
11.3 O Supreme Lord, it is certain that it is even as you have described Yourself. O Supreme Person, O ocean of compassion for your dependants! I, however, wish to see or wish to realise directly, Your Lordly form peculiar to you - the form as the sovereign, protector, creator, destroyer, supporter of all, the mine of auspicious attributes, supreme and distinct from all other entities.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
11.3 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।11.3।। संस्कृत से वाक्प्रचार एवमेतत् (यह ठीक ऐसा ही है) के द्वारा अर्जुन तत्त्वज्ञान के सैद्धान्तिक पक्ष को स्वीकार करता है। समस्त नाम और रूपों में ईश्वर की व्यापकता की सिद्धि बौद्धिक दृष्टि से संतोषजनक थी। फिर भी बुद्धि को अभी भी प्रत्यक्षीकरण की प्रतीक्षा थी। इसलिए अर्जुन कहता है कि? मैं आपके ईश्वरीय रूप को देखना चाहता हूँ। हमारे शास्त्रों में ईश्वर का वर्णन इस प्रकार किया गया है कि वह ज्ञान? ऐश्वर्य? शक्ति? बल? वीर्य और तेज इन छ गुणों से सम्पन्न है।इस अवसर पर भगवान् ने अर्जुन को यह दर्शाने का निश्चय किया कि वे न केवल समस्त व्यष्टि रूपों में व्याप्त हैं वरन् वे वह समष्टिरूपी पात्र हैं? जिसमें ही समस्त नाम और रूपों का अस्तित्व है। भगवान् सर्वव्यापक होने के साथहीसाथ सर्वातीत भी हैं।यद्यपि कट्टर बुद्धिवाद के अत्युत्साह में आकर अर्जुन ने विश्वरूप दर्शन की अपनी मांग भगवान् के समक्ष रखी? किन्तु उसे तत्काल यह भान हुआ कि उसकी यह धृष्टता है और उसने सद्व्यवहार की मर्यादा का उल्लंघन किया है।अगले श्लोक में वह अधिक नम्रता से कहता है

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

Received Hindi vyākhyā attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।11.3।। व्याख्या --'पुरुषोत्तम'--यह सम्बोधन देनेका तात्पर्य है कि हे भगवन् !मेरी दृष्टिमें इस संसारमें आपके समान कोई उत्तम, श्रेष्ठ नहीं है अर्थात् आप ही सबसे उत्तम, श्रेष्ठ हैं। इस बातको आगे पन्द्रहवें अध्यायमें भगवान्ने भी कहा है कि मैं क्षरसे अतीत और अक्षरसे उत्तम हूँ; अतः मैं शास्त्र और वेदमें पुरुषोत्तम नामसे प्रसिद्ध हूँ (15। 18)।

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