Bhagavat Gita - 39

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Bhagavat Gita - 39

 

The Vision Described (Chapter 11 verses 1-55)

 

Arjuna now wants to have a direct experience of the Divine Majesty,

the source and support of all that exists. The Lord gives him a new

power of insight with which Arjuna becomes capable of having a direct

experience of the Divine. The Lord reveals to him His cosmic form in

which he finds in an instant all that exists, past, present and future,

spread out as it were as part and parcel of an all-comprehending Whole,

a Divine Person, whose awful Majesty and stupefying splendour are too

much for him to bear. He finds that all beings are helplessly drawn

and absorbed into His being - by inexorable Time, with which He declares

His identity. Arjuna experiences that there is only one Will, namely

the Divine will, and that the will of all the centers of consciousness

included in His being are but instruments for serving Him and

accomplishing His purposes. He finds that all the armies mobilised

and arrayed for battle have already been destroyed by the Lord's will,

and that he himself is just an occasion for this.

 

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Based on " Srimad Bhagavat Gita - The Scripture of Mankind "

a translation by Rev Swami Tapasyanandaji, published by

Sri Ramakrishna Math - Chennai. http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/

 

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