Chapter 11 · Verse 17 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 11.17
Sanskrit
किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रिणं च तेजोराशिं सर्वतोदीप्तिमन्तम्। पश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ता द्दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिमप्रमेयम्।।11.17।।
Transliteration
kirīṭinaṁ gadinaṁ chakriṇaṁ cha tejo-rāśhiṁ sarvato dīptimantam paśhyāmi tvāṁ durnirīkṣhyaṁ samantād dīptānalārka-dyutim aprameyam
In plain words
When you feel small before your circumstances—when your debt feels insurmountable, your diagnosis overwhelming, your purpose invisible—you are looking only at the ordinary surface of things. The lesson for you: there is a radiance and intelligence at work in reality that is far larger than your fear, and when you turn toward it instead of away, something in you stops trembling. The same power that holds the cosmos also holds you.
Word by Word
Arjuna's vision pierces the veil of form itself—he beholds Krishna not as a figure seated before him, but as the infinite, radiant source from which all existence flows. The crown, the weapons, the blazing light are not decorations but revelations of divine nature beyond human comprehension.
When we glimpse the sacred dimension underlying ordinary reality through meditation or genuine service, we taste what Arjuna tastes here—a humbling recognition that the divine encompasses and transcends everything we thought we knew.
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Bhagavad Gita 11.17 — BG 11.17
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