BHAGAVAD-GITA 11:46

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 11:46

 

kiritinam gadinam cakra-hastam

icchami tvam drastum aham tathaiva

tenaiva rupena catur-bhujena

sahasra-baho bhava visva-murte

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

kiritinam--with helmet; gadinam--with club; cakra-hastam--disc in

hand; icchami--I wish; tvam--You; drastum--to see; aham--I; tatha

eva--in that position; tena eva--in that; rupena--form;

catuh-bhujena--four-handed; sahasra-baho--O thousand-handed one;

bhava--just become; visva-murte--O universal form.

 

TRANSLATION

 

O universal form, O thousand-armed Lord, I wish to see You in Your

four-armed form, with helmeted head and with club, wheel, conch and

lotus flower in Your hands. I long to see You in that form.

 

PURPORT

 

In the Brahma-samhita (5.39) it is stated, ramadi-murtisu

kala-niyamena tisthan: the Lord is eternally situated in hundreds and

thousands of forms, and the main forms are those like Rama, Nrsimha,

Narayana, etc. There are innumerable forms. But Arjuna knew that Krsna

is the original Personality of Godhead assuming His temporary

universal form. He is now asking to see the form of Narayana, a

spiritual form. This verse establishes without any doubt the statement

of the Srimad-Bhagavatam that Krsna is the original Personality of

Godhead and all other features originate from Him. He is not different

from His plenary expansions, and He is God in any of His innumerable

forms. In all of these forms He is fresh like a young man. That is the

constant feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One who knows

Krsna becomes free at once from all contamination of the material

world.

 

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