श्रीभगवानुवाच:मया प्रसन्नेन तवार्जुनेदंरूपं परं दर्शितमात्मयोगात् ।तेजोमयं विश्वमनन्तमाद्यंयन्मे त्वदन्येन न दृष्टपूर्वम् ॥
śrībhagavānuvāca:mayā prasannena tavārjunedaṃrūpaṃ paraṃ darśitamātmayogāttejomayaṃ viśvamanantamādyaṃyanme tvadanyena na dṛṣṭapūrvam
The Blessed Lord said: This that thou now seest by my favour, O Arjuna, is my supreme shape, my form of luminous energy, the universal, the infinite, the original which none but thou amongst men has yet seen. I have shown it by my self-Yoga.
Gītā 11·47The Godhead in answer to Arjuna’s prayer reassumes his own normal Narayana image, svakaà rupam, the desired form of grace and love and sweetness and beauty. But first he declares the incalculable significance of the other mighty Image which he is about to veil. “This that thou now seest,” he tells him, “is my supreme shape, my form of luminous energy, the universal, the original which none but thou amongst men has yet seen. I have shown it by my self-Yoga. For it is an image of my very Self and Spirit, it is the very Supreme self-figured in cosmic existence and the soul in perfect Yoga with me sees it without any trembling of the nervous parts or any bewilderment and confusion of the mind, because he descries not only what is terrible and overwhelming in its appearance, but also its high and reassuring significance.
