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BG 11.23 rupam mahat te bahu-vaktra-netram... cited

Expressions researched:
"bahudaram bahu-damstra-karalam" |"drstva lokah pravyathitas tathaham" |"maha-baho bahu-bahuru-padam" |"rupam mahat te bahu-vaktra-netram"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 7 - 12

BG 11.23, Translation:

O mighty-armed one, all the planets with their demigods are disturbed at seeing Your great form, with its many faces, eyes, arms, thighs, legs, and bellies and Your many terrible teeth; and as they are disturbed, so am I.

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- April 3, 1974, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: Now here is one important thing: śaśi-sūrya-netram. The śaśi, the moon, and the sun are the two eyes of God. Now in Brahma-saṁhitā it is also confirmed yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇām. So in the Upaniṣads it is said, "When God sees, then you can see." So this... When the sunrise is there, that means when God sees, you can see. In the darkness you cannot see. And still, you are proud of your eyes. Yes. Without God seeing, you cannot see. And still, these rascals are proud of their eyes. "I can... Can you show me?" How you can see? First of all you have to see through the Supreme. And another significance is that you cannot hide yourself from the seeing of the Supreme. You cannot make anything hiding. Because even in the womb there is sunshine, sunlight. So He is seeing there. Apart from being the Paramātmā, from materially also, His eyes are always there. So you cannot do anything hiding. That is not possible.

Dr. Patel:

dyāv ā-pṛthivyor idam antaraṁ hi
vyāptaṁ tvayaikena diśaś ca sarvāḥ
dṛṣṭvādbhutaṁ rūpam ugraṁ tavedaṁ
loka-trayaṁ pravyathitaṁ mahātman
(BG 11.20)

All are frightened.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel:

amī hi tvāṁ sura-saṅghā viśanti
kecid bhītāḥ prāñjalayo gṛṇanti
svastīty uktvā maharṣi-siddha-saṅghāḥ
stuvanti tvāṁ stutibhiḥ puṣkalābhiḥ
(BG 11.21)
rudrādityā vasavo ye ca sādhyā
viśve 'śvinau marutaś coṣmapāś ca

Prabhupāda: So everyone is worshiping Him.

Dr. Patel:

gandharva-yakṣāsura-siddha-saṅghā
vīkṣante tvāṁ vismitāś caiva sarve
(BG 11.22)

Rūpaṁ mahat te bahu-vaktra-netraṁ (BG 11.23).

Prabhupāda: They do not understand. If you go on simply reading...

Dr. Patel: But you say read, so I read. You order me, I stop.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: Shall I read again?

Prabhupāda: What is that line?

Dr. Patel: There are so many lines. I will again. Aneka divya... Divi-sūrya-sahasrasya bhaved yugapad utthitā...

Prabhupāda: Ah, this is the comparison now, that divi, "In the sky, if there were thousands of suns at a time, then the brilliance of the virāṭ-rūpa could be understood." This is an example.

Dr. Patel: He saw everyone in him.

divi sūrya-sahasrasya
bhaved yugapad utthitā
yadi bhāḥ sadṛṣī sā syād
bhāsas tasya mahātmanaḥ
(BG 11.12)

Tatraikasthaṁ jagat kṛtsnaṁ (break)

Prabhupāda: ...in Him. Then he got...

Dr. Patel: Then he got frightened and then he...

Prabhupāda: The varieties, varieties. The varieties, he is seeing. That is the vision of the Vaiṣṇavas. The Vaiṣṇavas also know that everything is one, but he sees the varieties.

Dr. Patel: I will read again from this.

Prabhupāda: Yes. (end)

Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay:

Dr. Patel: Which śloka, Girirāja, 19?

Girirāja: No, 23.

Dr. Patel:

rūpaṁ mahat te bahu-vaktra-netraṁ
mahā-bāho bahu-bāhūru-pādam
bahūdaraṁ bahu-daṁṣṭrā-karālaṁ
dṛṣṭvā lokāḥ pravyathitās tathāham

"All are getting frightened of You, even myself."

Prabhupāda: No, the thing is that bahu-vaktram bahūdaram. That means bahu persons, many persons, all persons. What is that?

Girirāja: "Rūpam-form."

Prabhupāda: Form. First thing is form. Although virāṭ, but it includes so many forms. Then?

Girirāja: (reads synonyms to:) "bāhu-arms..."

Prabhupāda: Arms, He is exhibiting many. The same formula. Eko bahu syām. (indistinct) Then?

Girirāja: (Continues reading synonyms to:) "bahu-daṁṣṭrā-..."

Prabhupāda: "Many bellies" means a personal form. Daṁṣṭrā karālām.

Girirāja: (finishes synonyms) "Translation: O mighty-armed one, all the planets with their demigods are disturbed at seeing Your many faces, eyes, arms, bellies and legs, and Your terrible teeth, and as they are disturbed, so am I."

Prabhupāda: Kāla-rūpa, kāla-rūpa. This is called kāla-rūpa. Then? Yes.

Page Title:BG 11.23 rupam mahat te bahu-vaktra-netram... cited
Compiler:Visnu Murti
Created:07 of Apr, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=2, Let=0
No. of Quotes:3