Chapter 11 · Verse 12 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 11.12
Sanskrit
दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता। यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः।।11.12।।
Transliteration
divi sūrya-sahasrasya bhaved yugapad utthitā yadi bhāḥ sadṛiśhī sā syād bhāsas tasya mahātmanaḥ
Word by Word
Arjuna stands before the Cosmic Form and finds himself speechless—even a thousand suns blazing together cannot match the radiance pouring from Krishna's being. This verse shatters our ordinary sense of scale and majesty; it reveals that the divine transcends all measurement and comparison.
When we truly encounter the infinite within consciousness, all our categories of understanding dissolve, and we are invited to drop the measuring mind and simply receive what is beyond measure. In meditation or moments of genuine awe, we can touch this boundlessness by releasing the need to quantify our experience.
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Bhagavad Gita 11.12 — BG 11.12
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