Arjun said: Thanks to the most profound words of spiritual wisdom that You have spoken out of kindness to me, this delusion of mine has entirely disappeared. …….. (1)
For, Krishna, I have heard from You in detail an account of the evolution and dissolution of beings, and also Your immortal glory. …………….. (2)
Lord, You are precisely what You declare Yourself to be. But I long to see Your divine form possessed of wisdom, glory, energy, strength, valor and effulgence, O Purusottama, the Supreme Being! ………………. (3)
Krishna, if You think that it can be seen by me, then, O Lord of Yoga, revel to me Your imperishable form. …………. (4)
Sri Bhagavan said: Arjun, behold My manifold, multifarious divine forms of various colors and shapes, in their hundreds and thousands. …………… (5)
Behold in Me, Arjun, the twelve sons of Aditi the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras (gods of destruction), the two Asvinikumaras (the twin-born physicians of gods) and the forty-nine Maruts (wind-gods), and witness many more wonderful forms never seen before. …… (6)
Arjun, behold as concentrated within this body of Mine the entire creation consisting of both the moving and the unmoving beings, and whatever else you desire to see. ….. (7)
But surely you cannot see Me with these physical eyes of yours; I vouchsafe to you the divine eye. With this you behold My divine power of Yoga. …… (8)
Sanjaya said: My lord! Having spoken thus, Sri Krishna, the supreme Master of Yoga, forthwith revealed to Arjun His supremely glorious divine Form. ……………. (9)
Arjun saw the supreme Deity possessing many mouths and eyes, presenting many a wonderful sight, decked with many divine ornaments, wielding may uplifted divine weapons, wearing divine garlands and vestments, anointed all over with divine fragrances, full of all wonders, infinite and having faces on all sides. …………. (10-11)
If there be the effulgence of a thousand suns bursting forth all at once in the heavens, even that would hardly approach the splendor of the mighty Lord…….. (12)
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