Gita Bhashya -Sankara 439

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -11

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Divi sūrya-sahasrasya bhaved-yugapad-utthitg
Yadi bhāh sadrśi sā syād-bhāsas-tasya mahātmanah

12. If the splendour of a thousand suns were to rise up at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of that Mighty Being.

If the splendour of a thousand simultaneously-rising suns were to rise up at once in the sky, in the immediate region between the earth and heaven (antariksa), or in the heaven which is the third world (from the earth), that would be like (somewhat comparable to) the splendour of that Mighty Being, namely the Universal Form. And, if such (phenomenon) cannot occur, even then the splendour of the Universal Form will surpass it (the phenomenon imagined): that is the implication.

And,

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