🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.40

Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 40 of 55

नमः पुरस्तादथ पृष्ठतस्ते

नमोऽस्तु ते सर्वत एव सर्व।

अनन्तवीर्यामितविक्रमस्त्वं

सर्वं समाप्नोषि ततोऽसि सर्वः।।11.40।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 11.40 · 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
11.40 Salutations to Thee in front and on every side, Thou who encompasseth me round about. Thy power is infinite; Thy majesty immeasurable; thou upholdest all things; yea,Thou Thyself art All.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
11.40 Salutations to Thee, in front and behind! Salutations to Thee on every side! O All!! Thou infinite in power and prowess, pervadest all; wherefore Thou art all.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
11.40 Namah, salutation to You; purastat, in the East; atha, and; even prsthatah, behind. Salutation be sarvatah, on all sides; eva, indeed; te, to You who exist everywhere; sarva, O All! Tvam, You; are ananta-virya-amita-vikramah, possessed of infinite strength and infinite heroism. virya is strength, and vikramah is heroism. Someone though possessing strength for the use of weapons etc. [Ast. reads 'satru-vadha-visaye, in the matter of killing an enemy'.-Tr.] may lack heroism or have little heroism. But You are possessed of infinite strength and infinite heroism. Samapnosi, You pervade, interpenetrate; sarvam, everything, the whole Universe, by Your single Self. Tatah, hence; asi, You are; sarvah, All, i.e., no entity exists without You. 'Since I am guilty of not knowing Your greatness, therefore,'-
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
11.40 You, of infinite prowess and measureless heroic action, pervade all beings as their very Self and therefore, are, in reality all of them. Terms, naming all other entities, are truly naming You; for they, both sentient as well as non-sentient, constitute Your body, and as such are just Your modes. Therefore You alone, having them all as Your modes, are signified by all terms standing for them. In the texts, 'O by You of infinite form, is the cosmos pervaded' (11.38) and 'You pervade all, and hence are all' (11.40), it is clearly stated that the pervasion as the Self is the only rationale for speaking of them as one with You, in the sense of co-ordinate predication as in the text, 'You are the imperishable and also being and non-being' (11.37) and 'You are Vayu, Yama and Agni' (11.39).
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
11.40. Salutation to You in the front and behind; salutation to You, just on all sides, O One Who are All ! You are of infinite might and of immeasurable powers; and You pervade all and hence You are all.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

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

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।11.40।। हे सर्व ! आपको आगेसे भी नमस्कार हो ! पीछेसे भी नमस्कार हो ! सब ओरसे ही नमस्कार हो ! हे अनन्तवीर्य ! अमित विक्रमवाले आपने सबको समावृत कर रखा है; अतः सब कुछ आप ही हैं।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
11.40 नमः salutation? पुरस्तात् (from) front? अथ also? पृष्ठतः (from) behind? ते to Thee? नमः salutation? अस्तु be? ते to Thee? सर्वतः on every side? एव even? सर्व O all? अनन्तवीर्य infinite power? अमितविक्रमः infinite in prowess? त्वम् Thou? सर्वम् all? समाप्नोषि pervadest? ततः wherefore? असि (Thou) art? सर्वः all.Commentary The words I prostrate myself before Thee? behind Thee and on every side indicate the allpervading nature of the Lord. How can the allpervading Self have front and back Finite objects only have front and back sides Arjuna imagined that there were front and back sides to the Lord and so prostrated himself in his extreme faith and devotion.O All Nothing exists without Thee. As the Self is allpervading? He is called the All. There is nothing except the Self.On every side? as Thou art present everywhere or in all arters.One may be powerful but may not possess the courage to kill the enemies or he may be endowed with a mild form of courge but the Lord is infinite in courage and infinite in power.Pervadest by Thy One Self.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
11.40 Namah, salutation to You; purastat, in the East; atha, and; even prsthatah, behind. Salutation be sarvatah, on all sides; eva, indeed; te, to You who exist everywhere; sarva, O All! Tvam, You; are ananta-virya-amita-vikramah, possessed of infinite strength and infinite heroism. virya is strength, and vikramah is heroism. Someone though possessing strength for the use of weapons etc. [Ast. reads 'satru-vadha-visaye, in the matter of killing an enemy'.-Tr.] may lack heroism or have little heroism. But You are possessed of infinite strength and infinite heroism. Samapnosi, You pervade, interpenetrate; sarvam, everything, the whole Universe, by Your single Self. Tatah, hence; asi, You are; sarvah, All, i.e., no entity exists without You. 'Since I am guilty of not knowing Your greatness, therefore,'-
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
11.40 You, of infinite prowess and measureless heroic action, pervade all beings as their very Self and therefore, are, in reality all of them. Terms, naming all other entities, are truly naming You; for they, both sentient as well as non-sentient, constitute Your body, and as such are just Your modes. Therefore You alone, having them all as Your modes, are signified by all terms standing for them. In the texts, 'O by You of infinite form, is the cosmos pervaded' (11.38) and 'You pervade all, and hence are all' (11.40), it is clearly stated that the pervasion as the Self is the only rationale for speaking of them as one with You, in the sense of co-ordinate predication as in the text, 'You are the imperishable and also being and non-being' (11.37) and 'You are Vayu, Yama and Agni' (11.39).
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
11.39-40 Namo namah etc. Salutation and salutation : This repetition reveals the intensity of the devotion. What has been taught by the past chapters by the Bhagavat regarding His own intrinsic nature, Arjuna - witnessing the same by perception - declares it openly by way of devotional hymn. Hence, to comment on the hymn would symply amount to the repetition [of what has already been said by us]. Hence, let me (11.Ag.) abstain [from commenting on it].
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।11.40।। परमात्मा सर्वत्र व्याप्त है अन्तर्बाह्य? अधउर्ध्व? समस्त दिशाओं में व्याप्त है। उससे रिक्त कोई स्थान नहीं है। यह कोई अकेले अर्जुन का मौलिक विचार नहीं है। उपनिषद् के महान् ऋषिगण तो इस अनुभव में अखण्ड वास करते थे।जिस परमात्मा को अर्जुन अपने मन से सब दिशाओं में प्रणाम करता है? वह परमात्मा न केवल आकाश के समान सर्वव्यापक ही है? वरन् वह सम्पूर्ण सार्मथ्य एवं विक्रम का स्रोत भी है। जहाँ कहीं भी कार्य़ करने की प्रेरणा या सफलता पाने की क्षमता दृष्टिगोचर होती हैं? वह सब अनन्तवीर्य और अमितविक्रम परमात्मा की ही एक झलक है? किरण है। परमात्मा सत्स्वरूप से सर्वत्र समस्त वस्तुओं और प्राणियों में विद्यमान है क्योंकि सत् के बिना किसी भी वस्तु का अस्तित्व नहीं हो सकता? इसलिए? वस्तुत परमात्मा ही सर्वरूप है। जल ही सब तरंगें हैं और मिट्टी ही सब घट है।क्योंकि आपके महात्म्य के अज्ञान के कारण? पूर्व में मैंने आपके प्रति अपराध किया है? इसलिए

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

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

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।11.40।। व्याख्या--'नमः पुरस्तादथ पृष्ठतस्ते नमोऽस्तु ते सर्वत एव सर्व'--अर्जुन भयभीत हैं। मैं क्या बोलूँ-- यह उनकी समझमें नहीं आ रहा है। इसलिये वे आगेसे, पीछेसे सब ओरसे अर्थात् दसों दिशाओंसे केवल नमस्कारहीनमस्कार कर रहे हैं।

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