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Verse 11·14

Arjuna’s trembling at the cosmic vision

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ततः स विस्मयाविष्टो हृष्टरोमा धनंजयः ।प्रणम्य शिरसा देवं कृताञ्जलिरभाषत ॥

tataḥ sa vismayāviṣṭo hṛṣṭaromā dhanaṃjayaḥpraṇamya śirasā devaṃ kṛtāñjalirabhāṣata

Arjuna sees him and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision.

Gītā 11·14

The soul admitted to the divine knowledge which beholds all things in one view, not with a divided, partial and therefore bewildered seeing, can make a new discovery of the world and all else that it wills to see; it can move on the basis of this all-relating and all-unifying vision from revelation to completing revelation.
The supreme Form is then made visible. It is that of the infinite Godhead whose faces are everywhere and in whom are all the wonders of existence, who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of his being, a world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking from innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods. Arjuna sees him, God magnificent and beautiful and terrible, the Lord of souls who has manifested in the glory and greatness of his spirit this wild and monstrous and orderly and wonderful and sweet and terrible world, and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · pp. 378–79

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