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Chapter 11 · Verse 13 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 11.13

contemplative Fear & Courage Attachment & Letting Go Self & Identity Jnana & Wisdom

Sanskrit

तत्रैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं प्रविभक्तमनेकधा। अपश्यद्देवदेवस्य शरीरे पाण्डवस्तदा।।11.13।।

Transliteration

tatraika-sthaṁ jagat kṛitsnaṁ pravibhaktam anekadhā apaśhyad deva-devasya śharīre pāṇḍavas tadā

In plain words

When you're caught in your own small story—your fear, your loss, your certainty that you're alone in this—you're looking at only one frame of a much larger picture. The lesson for you: there is one consciousness moving through all of it, including you, including the people who hurt you, including the future you're terrified of. The moment you glimpse that, your grip on the problem loosens, and you stop drowning in it.

Word by Word

tatra there
eka-stham established in one place
jagat the universe
kṛitsnam entire
pravibhaktam divided
anekadhā many
apaśhyat could see
deva-devasya of the God of gods
śharīre in the body
pāṇḍavaḥ Arjun
tadā at that time
Simplified Perspective

In this sacred moment, Arjuna witnesses the infinite cosmos folded within Krishna's divine form—the entire creation, multiplied endlessly, breathing within a single body. This is not metaphor but the direct vision of non-duality: that the One contains all, that separation is illusion, that divinity pervades every atom of existence.

When we truly see that the same consciousness animates all beings and all worlds, our fear dissolves and our capacity to act without ego awakens.

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Bhagavad Gita 11.13 — BG 11.13

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Sanskrit text from the Bhagavad Gita (public domain). Commentary © Mahakatha.

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