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Chapter 11 · Verse 16 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 11.16

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Sanskrit

अनेकबाहूदरवक्त्रनेत्रं पश्यामि त्वां सर्वतोऽनन्तरूपम्। नान्तं न मध्यं न पुनस्तवादिं पश्यामि विश्वेश्वर विश्वरूप।।11.16।।

Transliteration

aneka-bāhūdara-vaktra-netraṁ paśhyāmi tvāṁ sarvato ’nanta-rūpam nāntaṁ na madhyaṁ na punas tavādiṁ paśhyāmi viśhveśhvara viśhva-rūpa

Word by Word

aneka infinite
bāhu arms
udara stomachs
vaktra faces
netram eyes
paśhyāmi I see
tvām you
sarvataḥ in every direction
ananta-rūpam inifinite forms
na antam without end
na not
madhyam middle
na no
punaḥ again
tava your
ādim beginning
paśhyāmi I see
viśhwa-īśhwara The Lord of the universe
viśhwa-rūpa universal form
Simplified Perspective

Arjuna stands at the threshold where finite perception dissolves into infinite reality—he sees what the mind cannot contain, what the heart alone can witness. The Vishwaroopa reveals that all boundaries we draw around God are self-imposed; the divine wears infinite faces, infinite forms, yet remains wholly itself.

In our modern fragmentation, when we glimpse the interconnected whole beneath life's multiplicity—in nature, in consciousness, in unexpected moments of grace—we touch this same truth that unmakes and remakes us.

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Bhagavad Gita 11.16 — BG 11.16

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

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