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| Chapter 11: The Universal Form |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Bhagavad-gita As It Is 11.12
bhaved yugapad utthita
bhasas tasya mahatmanah
SYNONYMS
divi -- in the sky; surya -- of suns; sahasrasya -- of many thousands; bhavet -- there were; yugapat -- simultaneously; utthita -- present; yadi -- if; bhah -- light; sadrsi -- like that; sa -- that; syat -- might be; bhasah -- effulgence; tasya -- of Him; maha-atmanah -- the great Lord.
TRANSLATION
If hundreds of thousands of suns were to rise at once into the sky, their radiance might resemble the effulgence of the Supreme Person in that universal form.
PURPORT
What Arjuna saw was indescribable, yet Sanjaya is trying to give a mental picture of that great revelation to Dhrtarastra. Neither Sanjaya nor Dhrtarastra was present, but Sanjaya, by the grace of Vyasa, could see whatever happened. Thus he now compares the situation, as far as it can be understood, to an imaginable phenomenon (i.e., thousands of suns).
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness