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Chapter 11
anekabahudaravaktranetrath pasyami tvam sarvato'nantarapam nantam
na madhyam na punastavaditit paiyami visvesvara visvarupa
O Lord of all universe, I behold You, endless in forms on all sides, with numerous arms, bellies, faces, and eyes. 0 Universal Form (Viswarirpa), I see, neither Your beginning nor middle nor end. 16
Comment:-
Arjuna uses, two vocatives 'Vidvarupa (Universal Form), and 'Visvesvara' (Lord of the universe), to convey that this universe is nothing but His manifestation, and that He is also the Lord of the entire universe. The body of a human being, is insentient, while its master, the soul is sentient. But, there is no such distinction in the cosmic form of the Lord. In this form, everything is sentient. By the vocative 'Visvarupa', Arjuna declares, that He is the body and by the vocative 'Visvesvara' Arjuna means, to say that He is the master of the body.
Anekabahudaravaktranetram:- Arjuna saw the Lord, with countless arms, bellies, mouths (faces) and eyes.
Pasyami tvam sarvato'nantarnpam:- Arjuna, saw His innumerable forms, extended on all sides.
Nantam na madhyam na punastavadim:- The cosmic body, as was revealed to Arjuna, was infinite, on all sides. Arjuna could know neither its beginning, nor middle, nor end, because there was no limit in it.
Arjuna, first used the term 'end', because he wanted to see the end of His body, on all sides, to know His stature. But, when he was unable to see it, he tried to see the middle and then the beginning, but it was of no avail. The order in which Arjuna viewed cosmic form is related here by this expression.
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