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Chapter 11 · Verse 35 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 11.35

surrendering Bhakti & Devotion Fear & Courage Self & Identity

Sanskrit

सञ्जय उवाच एतच्छ्रुत्वा वचनं केशवस्य कृताञ्जलिर्वेपमानः किरीटी। नमस्कृत्वा भूय एवाह कृष्णं सगद्गदं भीतभीतः प्रणम्य।।11.35।।

Transliteration

sañjaya uvācha etach chhrutvā vachanaṁ keśhavasya kṛitāñjalir vepamānaḥ kirīṭī namaskṛitvā bhūya evāha kṛiṣhṇaṁ sa-gadgadaṁ bhīta-bhītaḥ praṇamya

Word by Word

sañjayaḥ uvācha Sanjay said
etat thus
śhrutvā hearing
vachanam words
keśhavasya of Shree Krishna
kṛita-añjaliḥ with joined palms
vepamānaḥ trembling
kirītī the crowned one, Arjun
namaskṛitvā with palms joined
bhūyaḥ again
eva indeed
āha spoke
kṛiṣhṇam to Shree Krishna
sa-gadgadam in a faltering voice
bhīta-bhītaḥ overwhelmed with fear
praṇamya bowed down
Simplified Perspective

Arjuna stands at the threshold where knowledge becomes experience—he has heard Krishna's supreme truth, and now his entire being trembles with the weight of that revelation. The vision of the Vishwaroopa has shattered his ordinary mind, leaving him speechless, humbled, overwhelmed by grace itself.

In this moment of divine encounter, Arjuna teaches us that true spiritual understanding is not intellectual comfort but a sacred trembling—a dissolution of the ego before the infinite. When we genuinely meet the sacred in our own practice, we too may find ourselves undone, stuttering, bowing—and this is not weakness but the beginning of authentic transformation.

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Bhagavad Gita 11.35 — BG 11.35

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

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