Chapter 11 · Verse 49 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 11.49
Sanskrit
मा ते व्यथा मा च विमूढभावो दृष्ट्वा रूपं घोरमीदृङ्ममेदम्। व्यपेतभीः प्रीतमनाः पुनस्त्वं तदेव मे रूपमिदं प्रपश्य।।11.49।।
Transliteration
mā te vyathā mā cha vimūḍha-bhāvo dṛiṣhṭvā rūpaṁ ghoram īdṛiṅ mamedam vyapeta-bhīḥ prīta-manāḥ punas tvaṁ tad eva me rūpam idaṁ prapaśhya
In plain words
When you glimpse the magnitude of what you're facing—the diagnosis, the loss, the weight of it all—terror can lock your chest and convince you there's no way through. Krishna says: that terrible sight is real, but it's not the whole truth, and it's not your end. When you can breathe past the panic and look again with steadier eyes, you'll see that the same force holding the cosmos together is also holding you.
Word by Word
Krishna speaks the language of compassion here, inviting Arjuna beyond terror into trust. The terrible form Arjuna witnessed was truth—but truth is never meant to crush the seeker, only to shatter illusions.
When fear dissolves and the heart opens, we see that the cosmic dance of creation contains both the fierce and the gentle, and both arise from one infinite source of love. In our own crises, when we glimpse something larger than our small self, we need this same permission: to breathe, to release panic, and to look again with steady eyes.
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Bhagavad Gita 11.49 — BG 11.49
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