🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.41

Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 41 of 55

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🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition

11.41 Whatever I have said unto Thee in rashness, taking Thee only for a friend and addressing Thee as O Krishna! O Yadava! O Friend!' in thoughtless familiarity, no understanding Thy greatness;

Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society

11.41 Whatever I have presumptuously said from carelessness or love, addressing Thee as O Krishna! O Yadava! O Friend! regarding Thee merely as a friend, unknowing of this, Thy greatness.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school

11.41 Like a fool, ajanata, without knowing-. Not knowing what? In answer he says: idam, this; mahimanam, greatness-the Cosmic form; tava, of Yours, of God; yat, whatever; uktam, was said; maya, by me (to You); prasabham, rashly, slightingly; pramadat, through inadvertence, being in a distracted state of mind; va api, or even; pranayena, out of intimacy-itimacy is the familiarity arising out of love; whatever I have said because of that reason; erroneously matva, thinking (You); sakha iti, to be a friend, of the same age; iti, addressing You as, 'O Krsna,' 'O Yadava,' 'O friend,'-. In the clause, 'tava idam mahimanam, ajanata, without knowing this greatness of Yours,' idam (this) (in the neutor gender) is connected with mahimanam (greatness) (in masculine gender) by a change of gender. If the reading be tava imam, then both the words would be in the same gender.

Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school

11.41 - 11.42 Infinite power, boundless valour, being the Inner Self of everything, being the creator etc., these constitute Your majesty. Being ignorant of this, and considering You only as a friend, and out of conseent love, or negligence born of life-long familiarity, whatever has been said rudely, without showing courtesy, such as 'O Krsna, O Yadava, O Comrade'; and whatever disrespect has been shown to You in jest, while playing or resting, while sitting or eating, while alone or in the sight of others - for all these I beseech forgiveness of You who are in incomprehensible.

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly

11.41. Taking You for a [mere] companion, not knowing this greatness of Yours, and out of my carelessness or through even affection, whatever I have importunately called You as O Krsna, O Yadava, O Comrade; and,

🪷 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

।।11.41 -- 11.42।। आपकी महिमा और स्वरूपको न जानते हुए 'मेरे सखा हैं' ऐसा मानकर मैंने प्रमादसे अथवा प्रेमसे हठपूर्वक (बिना सोचे-समझे) 'हे कृष्ण ! हे यादव ! हे सखे !' इस प्रकार जो कुछ कहा है; और हे अच्युत ! हँसी-दिल्लगीमें, चलते-फिरते, सोते-जागते, उठते-बैठते, खाते-पीते समयमें अकेले अथवा उन सखाओं, कुटुम्बियों आदिके सामने मेरे द्वारा आपका जो कुछ तिरस्कार किया गया है; वह सब अप्रमेयस्वरुप आपसे मैं क्षमा माँगता हूँ।

🪷 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

11.41 सखा friend? इति as? मत्वा regarding? प्रसभम् presumptuously? यत् whatever? उक्तम् said? हे कृष्ण O Krishna? हे यादव O Yadava? हे सखा O friend? इति thus? अजानता unknowing? महिमानम् greatness? तव Thy? इदम् this? मया by me? प्रमादात् from carelessness? प्रणयेन due to love? वा or? अपि even.No Commentary.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)

Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship

11.41 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.

Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching

।।11.41।। See commentary under 11.42

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor

।।11.41।। व्याख्या--[जब अर्जुन विराट् भगवान्के अत्युग्र रूपको देखकर भयभीत होते हैं, तब वे भगवान्के कृष्णरूपको भूल जाते हैं और पूछ बैठते हैं कि उग्ररूपवाले 'आप', कौन हैं परन्तु जब उनको भगवान् श्रीकृष्णकी स्मृति आती है कि वे ये ही हैं, तब भगवान्के प्रभाव आदिको देखकर उनको सखाभावसे किये हुए पुराने व्यवहारकी याद आ जाती है और उसके लिये वे भगवान्से क्षमा माँगते हैं।] 'सखेति मत्वा प्रसभं यदुक्तं हे कृष्ण हे यादव हे सखेति'--जो बड़े आदमी होते हैं, श्रेष्ठ पुरुष होते हैं, उनको साक्षात् नामसे नहीं पुकारा जाता। उनके लिये तो आप, महाराज आदि शब्दोंका प्रयोग होता है। परन्तु मैंने आपको कभी 'हे कृष्ण' कह दिया, कभी 'हे यादव' कह दिया और कभी 'हे सखे' कह दिया। इसका कारण क्या था? 'अजानता महिमानं तवेदम' (टिप्पणी प0 603.1) इसका कारण यह था कि मैंने आपकी ऐसी महिमाको और स्वरूपको जाना नहीं कि आप ऐसे विलक्षण हैं। आपके किसी एक अंशमें अनन्तकोटि ब्रह्माण्ड विराजमान हैं -- ऐसा मैं पहले नहीं जानता था। आपके प्रभावकी तरफ मेरी दृष्टि ही नहीं गयी। मैंने कभी सोचा-समझा ही नहीं कि आप कौन हैं और कैसे हैं।

🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā

This is verse 41 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 6.33.41 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)

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