Arjuna: By your grace, you have taught me the truth about the Atman. Your words are mystic and sublime. They have dispelled my ignorance.

From you, whose eyes are like the lotus-flowers, I have learnt in detail of the origin and dissolution of creatures, and of your own infinite glory.

O Supreme Lord, you are as you describe yourself to be: I do not doubt that. Nevertheless I long to behold your divine Form.

If you find me worthy of that vision, then reveal to me, O Master of yogies, your changeless Atman.

Sri Krishna: Behold, O prince, my divine forms, Hundreds upon thousands, Various in kind, various in colour and in shape.

Behold the Adityas, and the Vasus, and the Rudras, and the Aswins, and the Maruts. Behold many wonders, O descendant of Bharata, that no man has seen before. O conqueror of sloth, this very day you shall behold the whole universe with all things animate and inert made one within this body of mine. And whatever else you desire to see, that you shall see also.

But you cannot see me thus with those human eyes. Therefore, I give you divine sight. Behold-this is my yoga power.








Our gratitude to Ram Krishna Math, Chennai, and Our granting also to authors Isharwood & Swami Prabhavananda for their inspired translations