Chapter 11, Verse 15
Text
अर्जुन उवाच | पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान् | ब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थ- मृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान् ||११-१५||
Transliteration
arjuna uvāca . paśyāmi devāṃstava deva dehe sarvāṃstathā bhūtaviśeṣasaṅghān . brahmāṇamīśaṃ kamalāsanasthaṃ ṛṣīṃśca sarvānuragāṃśca divyān ||11-15||
Translations
In English by Swami Sivananda
11.15 Arjuna said I see all the gods, O God, in Thy body, and (also) hosts of various classes of beings, Brahma, the Lord, seated on the lotus, all the sages and the celestial serpents.
In English by Swami Sivananda
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 --