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दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता। यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः।।11.12।।

divi sūrya-sahasrasya bhaved yugapad utthitā yadi bhāḥ sadṛiśhī sā syād bhāsas tasya mahātmanaḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 11, Verse 12
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
If the splendour of a thousand suns were to blaze out simultaneously in the sky, that would be the splendour of that mighty being.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: if the light of a thousand suns were to rise at once in the sky, that might resemble the splendor of this great being, reaching for the largest available physical comparison and still marking it as only an approximation.

In life: sometimes the most honest way to describe something overwhelming is to reach for the biggest comparison available while openly admitting it still falls short.

Teaching: when trying to convey something genuinely overwhelming to someone else, it's fine to reach for the biggest comparison you can find while being honest that even that comparison falls short, that honesty is more accurate than false precision.

diviin the sky
sūryasuns
sahasrasyathousand
bhavetwere
yugapatsimultaneously
utthitārising
yadiif
bhāḥsplendor
sadṛiśhīlike
sāthat
syātwould be
bhāsaḥsplendor
tasyaof them
mahā-ātmanaḥthe great personality

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
11.12 दिवि in the sky? सूर्यसहस्रस्य of a thousand suns? भवेत् were? युगपत् at once (simultaneously)? उत्थिता arisen? यदि if? भाः splendour? सदृशी like? सा that? स्यात् would be? भासः splendour? तस्य of that? महात्मनः of the mighty Being (great soul).Commentary Divi here means in the Antariksha or the sky.Mahatma here refers to the great Soul or the mighty Being? the Cosmic Form.