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अर्जुन उवाच पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान्। ब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थ मृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान्।।11.15।।

arjuna uvācha paśhyāmi devāns tava deva dehe sarvāns tathā bhūta-viśheṣha-saṅghān brahmāṇam īśhaṁ kamalāsana-stham ṛiṣhīnśh cha sarvān uragānśh cha divyān

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 11, Verse 15
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Arjuna said, "O God, I see all the gods in Your body, as well as hosts of various classes of beings, Brahma the Lord seated on the lotus, all the sages, and the celestial serpents."

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: Arjuna describes seeing all the gods, and hosts of beings, seated in Krishna's body, along with sages and celestial serpents, beginning to actually narrate the vision back to Krishna in his own words.

In life: putting your own words to an overwhelming experience, describing it back, even imperfectly, is itself part of how you begin to actually process and integrate what happened.

Teaching: after an overwhelming experience of your own, try narrating it back in your own words, even imperfectly, that act of description is itself part of the processing, not just a report after the fact.

arjunaḥ uvāchaArjun said
paśhyāmiI behold
devānall the gods
tavayour
devaLord
dehewithin the body
sarvānall
tathāas well as
bhūta viśheṣha-saṅghānhosts of different beings
brahmāṇamLord Brahma
īśhamShiv
kamala-āsana-sthamseated on the lotus flower
ṛiṣhīnsages
chaand
sarvānall
uragānserpents
chaand
divyāndivine

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
11.15 पश्यामि (I) see? देवान् the gods? तव Thy? देव O God? देहे in the body? सर्वान् all? तथा also? भूतविशेषसङ्घान् hosts of various classes of beings? ब्रह्माणम् Brahma? ईशम् the Lord? कमलासनस्थम् seated on the lotus? ऋषीन् sages? च and? सर्वान् all? उरगान् serpents? च and? दिव्यान् divine.Commentary Arjuna describes his own experience of the Cosmic Form in this and the following verses? 15 to 31.Bhutaviseshasanghan Hosts of various classes of beings? both animate and inanimate. These numerous entities are in Thy Cosmic Form? like hairs on the human body.Brahma? the fourfaced? the Lord of all creatures? is seated in the centre of the earthlotus on the Meru which forms the thalamus as it were of the earthlotus.Sages? such as Vasishtha. Serpents? such as Vasuki.Moreover --