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Chapter 11 · Verse 2 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 11.2

surrendering Jnana & Wisdom Bhakti & Devotion Self & Identity

Sanskrit

भवाप्ययौ हि भूतानां श्रुतौ विस्तरशो मया। त्वत्तः कमलपत्राक्ष माहात्म्यमपि चाव्ययम्।।11.2।।

Transliteration

bhavāpyayau hi bhūtānāṁ śhrutau vistaraśho mayā tvattaḥ kamala-patrākṣha māhātmyam api chāvyayam

Word by Word

bhava appearance
apyayau disappearance
hi indeed
bhūtānām of all living beings
śhrutau have heard
vistaraśhaḥ in detail
mayā by me
tvattaḥ from you
kamala-patra-akṣha lotus-eyed one
māhātmyam greatness
api also
cha and
avyayam eternal
Simplified Perspective

Arjuna stands at the threshold between intellectual understanding and direct revelation—he has heard the teachings of creation and dissolution, the cosmic dance of becoming and returning, yet something deeper calls to him now. The lotus-eyed Lord's eternal majesty cannot be grasped through words alone; it demands the naked eye of the soul, the surrender of all conceptual frameworks.

This is the ancient yearning that still moves us: to move beyond secondhand knowledge into the fire of lived presence, to know the Divine not as doctrine but as the beating heart of existence itself.

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Bhagavad Gita 11.2 — BG 11.2

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

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