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Chapter 11
Link:- Having viewed the Lord's cosmic form, in its most terrible phase, in which warriors were rushing headlong for their destruction, Arjuna was terrified and also filled with curiosity, to know Who Sri Krsna really was, and what He proposed to do. So he put a question.
akhyahi me ko bhavanugrarupo namo'stu te devavara prasida
vijnatumicchami bhavantamadyam na hi prajanhmi tava pravrttim
Tell me, who You are, so fierce in form. I bow deeply to You, 0 Supreme Deity, be kind. I wish to know You, the Primal One, in your essence (tattva), for I do not understand Your objective. 31
Comment:-
Akhyahi me ko bhavanugrarapo namo'stu te devavara prasida:- Arjuna says, that the Lord revealed Himself in His divine form, as well as the fearful form, and Arjuna, could not know the reality about Him. So, he asked Him, who He was. Beholding such a terrible form, what could he do, but bow down his head? So he bowed deeply to Him. Having a vision of His terrible form, licking the people on all sides, Arjuna prayed to Him, to be merciful to him.
Vjjnatumicchami bhavantamadyam na hi prajanami tava pravrttim:- The Lord, first of all incarnated Himself, in his cosmic form (in the form of the world). So he has been addressed as the Primal One. Arjuna could not know the Lord's motive, in revealing that divine form, as well as the terrible form, in His cosmic body. So he wanted to know, His motive in that revelation and also what He wanted to do, afterwards.
Now a question arises, that the Lord's fast incarnation was in the cosmic form (in the form of the universe), and here Arjuna beheld His cosmic form, in a limb of His body. Are both of His forms the same or are different? The answer is, that it is only the Lord who knows the reality; yet after reflection, it seems that the universe was also within the cosmic form, which Arjuna beheld. When it is said, that the Lord pervades everywhere, it means that he pervades the infinite universes, within and without, this universe. All these universes, are held, in one of His limbs.
Appendix:- Having seen the grand terrible form of the Lord, Arjuna is so much terrified and perturbed that he asks his friend Sri Krsna Who He is!
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