Re: The Bhagavad Gita
SPECIAL NOTE FROM ATLANTIS TO ALL IN GS:
This chapter is by far the most beautiful and most frightening one - there is no way I can express or excerpt convincingly - I STRONGLY urge you to click the link and read through the translation full text (will take you about 5 to 10 minutes depending upon your familiarity with metaphysical concepts, math, infinity and belief systems)…but please do …Sir Edwin Arnold enriches the very English language with this one. If only you can hear or read the Sanskrit - majesty in poetry, rich abundance in content …don’t worry about anything else…just immerse yourself and let go …you will know like never before.
This also is my gift back to GS and its members for all that they have given me - Atlantis
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Arjuna asks Lord Krishna to let him see the fully manifested form. Krishna obliges and since normal human vision cannot comprehend the fullness, temporarily grants Arjuna, the faculties needed.
Sanjaya, the remote visioneer and narrater (that’s another story by itself) who is viewing everything going on and relating all happenings to King Dhridrashtr desribes what see as follows.
**Chapter 11:*Viswarupdarsanam *or "The Book of the Manifesting of the One and Manifold"
[Please click here for the full text](http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-gitatext11.htm)
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Then, O King! the God, so saying, Stood,
to Pritha's Son displaying All the splendor, wonder, dread
Of His vast Almighty-head.
Out of countless eyes beholding,
Out of countless mouths commanding,
Countless mystic forms enfolding
In one Form: supremely standing
Countless radiant glories wearing,
Countless heavenly weapons bearing,
Crowned with garlands of star-clusters,
Robed in garb of woven lustres,
Breathing from His perfect Presence
Breaths of all delicious essence
Of all sweetest odors;
shedding Blinding brilliance,
overspreading Boundless, beautiful -
all spaces From His all-regarding faces;
So He showed!
If there should rise Suddenly within the skies
Sunburst of a thousand suns
Flooding earth with rays undeemed-of,
Then might be that Holy One's Majesty and glory dreamed of!
So did Pandu's Son behold
All this universe enfold
All its huge diversity
Into one great shape,
and be Visible, and viewed,
and blended In one Body - subtle, splendid, Nameless -
th' All-comprehending God of Gods, The never-Ending Deity!
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and here are some excerpts from what Arjuna said:
To shelter Virtues' laws;
The Fount whence Life’s stream draws
All waters of all rivers of all being:
The One Unborn, Unending: Unchanging and unblending!
With might and majesty, past thought, past seeing!
Silver of moon and gold Of sun
are glances rolled From Thy great eyes;
Thy visage beaming tender Over the stars and skies,
Doth to warm life surprise Thy Universe.
The worlds are filled with wonder
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Arjuna also sees, in the Complete Form in front of him, all the death and destruction,,,,and it scares him...says:
From end to end of earth, Filling life full, from birth To death, with deadly, burning, lurid dread! Ah, Vishnu! make me know Why is Thy visage so? Who art Thou, feasting thus upon Thy dead?
Who? awful Deity! I bow myself to Thee, Namostu Te Devavara! Prasid!<sup>2</sup> O Mightiest Lord! rehearse Why hast Thou face so fierce? Whence did this aspect horrible proceed?
LORD KRISHNA:
Thou seest Me as Time who kills, Time who brings all to doom, The Slayer Time, Ancient of Days, come hither to consume; Excepting thee, of all these hosts of hostile chiefs arrayed, There shines not one shall leave alive the battlefield! Dismayed No longer be!
Arise!