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Chapter 11
Link:- In the next two verses, Arjuna requests Lord Krsna, to vouchsafe a vision of His Cosmic Form.
evametadyathattha tvamatmanam paramesvara
drastumicchami te rupamaisvaram purusottama
O Lord Supreme, You are precisely what You have declared Yourself to be. But, I long to see Your cosmic divine form, 0 greatest of persons. 3
Comment:-
Purusottama- Arjuna addresses the Lord, as the best (Supreme) person, because no other person is equal to Him. The same fact, has been pointed out by the Lord Himself in the fifteenth chapter when He declares, "I am beyond perishable matter, and superior to the imperishable soul. Therefore, I am known in the world and in the Vedas, as the Supreme Person" (15/18).
Evametadyathnttha tvamatmanam:- Arjuna says, that whatever has been spoken by the Lord about His virtues, glories and divine powers, (from the seventh to the tenth chapters), is wholly true, without any doubt.
The Lord declares, "I am the origin of the entire creation and in Me again it dissolves" (716), "It has no other source, besides Me" (7/7), "All is God" (7/19), "I am Brahma (the Infinite), Adhyama (Self), action, Adhibhuta (Matter), Adhidaiva (Brahma, the creator) and Adhiyajna (the Unmanifest Divinity)" (7/29-30). "I am the Supreme Person, attainable by exclusive devotion" (8/22), "All this universe, is pervaded by Me, but I don't dwell in the beings, nor do the beings, dwell in Me" (9/4-5); "I am, being and non-being, both" (9/19); "I am the source of all creation and everything in the world moves, because of Me" (10/8) and "I support the whole universe with a single fragment of Myself' (10/42) etc. Arjuna says, that whatever has been said, by Him is wholly true.
Paramesvara:- Arjuna heard Lord Krsna says, "I am Lord of all beings" (4/6); "I am the Supreme Lord of all the worlds" (5/29). So Arjuna addresses Him, as the Lord Supreme, because He is the Supreme Lord, of the entire creation.
Drastnmicchami to rapamaisvaram:- Arjuna tells Lord Krsna, that after hearing of His immortal glory, he has a firm belief in His words; and after hearing the words, that He supports the entire universe with a single fragment of His self, he has developed an irresistible yearning, to see His Cosmic Form.
Secondly, Arjuna says that though He is the Supreme Ruler of all the universes, yet it is very kind of Him to love him so much, to act as he wishes and to answer whatever, he asks. It is, because of His extraordinary kindness to him, tha the has developed an irresistible yearning to see that form, in whose single fragment He supports the entire universe.
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