Passage 17

On the Gītā: 11.8

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In plain words

Then Arjuna joined both his hands. “Kṛṣṇa! The whole universe is Your form, is it not! Are not the Jñāna, aiśvarya, śakti, bala, vīrya and tejas in it the very essences of Your form? Will You not show me, just once, Your Viśvarūpa, in which all these are joined together, and so make me fulfilled? I pray to You, touching Your feet!” he asked, with humility and obedience. Then the Paramātma said, “Brother-in-law! Arjuna! I shall surely grant your wish; but it is not possible to see Me, the bearer of the Viśvarūpa, with these eyes of Prakṛti. You cannot see Me. So I shall grant you sight that is beyond Prakṛti! Look!” And bestowing divine sight on him, Kṛṣṇa, supremely compassionate, the very svarūpa of the Paramātma, showed him His ‘Viśvarūpa’.

Sri Satchitananda Sai