Chapter 11 · Verse 5 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 11.5
Sanskrit
श्री भगवानुवाच पश्य मे पार्थ रूपाणि शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः। नानाविधानि दिव्यानि नानावर्णाकृतीनि च।।11.5।।
Transliteration
śhrī-bhagavān uvācha paśhya me pārtha rūpāṇi śhataśho ’tha sahasraśhaḥ nānā-vidhāni divyāni nānā-varṇākṛitīni cha
In plain words
You are looking at your pain and thinking it defines you — that your failure, your loss, your unworthiness is who you are. But Krishna says: the Divine shows itself in infinite forms, infinite colors, infinite ways of being. Your small story, your current circumstance, your shame — these are not the whole truth of you. You are part of something vastly larger and more varied than your suffering can contain.
Word by Word
Krishna invites Arjuna into the infinite, revealing that the Divine is not confined to a single form but expresses itself through endless manifestations — each one equally real, equally sacred. The Godhead transcends our categories of shape and color, yet willingly takes them on so that finite consciousness can touch the infinite.
When you encounter the vastness of existence — in nature, in others, in the unexpected moments that crack open your small self — you are beholding this same multiplicity that Krishna shows Arjuna, an invitation to expand your vision of what is sacred.
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Bhagavad Gita 11.5 — BG 11.5
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