BHAGAVAD-GITA 11:5

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 11:5

 

sri-bhagavan uvaca

pasya me partha rupani

sataso 'tha sahasrasah

nana-vidhani divyani

nana-varnakrtini ca

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; pasya-

just see; me--My; partha--O son of Prtha; rupani--forms;

satasah--hundreds; atha--also; sahasrasah--thousands;

nana-vidhani--variegated; divyani--divine; nana--variegated;

varna--colors; akrtini--forms; ca--also.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, O son of

Prtha, see now My opulences, hundreds of thousands of varied divine

and multicolored forms.

 

PURPORT

 

Arjuna wanted to see Krsna in His universal form, which, although a

transcendental form, is just manifested for the cosmic manifestation

and is therefore subject to the temporary time of this material

nature. As the material nature is manifested and not manifested,

similarly this universal form of Krsna is manifested and

nonmanifested. It is not eternally situated in the spiritual sky like

Krsna's other forms. As far as a devotee is concerned, he is not eager

to see the universal form, but because Arjuna wanted to see Krsna in

this way, Krsna reveals this form. This universal form is not possible

to be seen by any ordinary man. Krsna must give one the power to see

it.

 

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