Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 361

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-11 Viśvarūpa Darśana Yogaḥ

rūpaṃ mahatte bahu vaktra netraṃ mahābāho bahu-bāhūru-pādam | bahūdaraṃ bahu daṃṣṭrā-karālaṃ dṛṣṭvā lokāḥ pravyathitās tathāham || 23 || 23. Beholding Your almighty manifestation with many faces and eyes with many arms, thighs, and feet, with many torsos and dreadful with many fangs, all beings including myself are terrified, O Mighty-Armed. nabhaḥ-spṛśaṃ dīptam aneka varṇaṃ vyāttānanaṃ dīpta viśāla-netram | dṛṣṭvā hi tvāṃ pravyathitāntarātmā dhṛtiṃ na vindāmi śamaṃ ca viṣṇo || 24 || 24. On seeing You, O Vishnu, touching the highest Heaven, refulgent, multi-coloured with gaping mouths and huge glaring eyes, I am extremely agitated to my inmost being, I have lost all composure and peace. Commentary The term ‘Nabhas’ denotes the Supreme Heaven (Parama Vyoman) which is beyond the Material Nature (Prakrti) composed of the three Gunas as established by the Vedic passages such as:— ‘That is in the Imperishable Supreme Heaven’ ‘He, refulgent as the Sun and beyond darkness’ The dweller beyond the Rajas’ and ‘He who is the president in the Highest Heaven’ . This fact is implied in the statement that ‘the form touches the Supreme Heaven.’ It expresses the idea that this Cosmic Theophany is the foundation of all — of the Principle, of the Prakrti with its modifications, and of the individual Jivatmas in all their states.