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TEXT 31 O Lord of lords, so fierce of form, please tell me who You are. I offer my obeisances unto You; please be gracious to me. I do not know what Your mission is, and I desire to hear of it. PURPORT Arjuna was horrified by the universal form, since it directly showed the absolute power of the su...

TEXT 22 The different manifestations of Lord Śiva, the Ādityas, the Vasus, the Sādhyas, the Viśvadevas, the two Aśvins, the Māruts, the forefathers and the Gandharvas, the Yakṣas, Asuras, and all perfected demigods are beholding You in wonder. PURPORT Even the demigods do not know the greatness of ...

TEXT 18 You are the supreme primal objective; You are the best in all the universes; You are inexhaustible, and You are the oldest; You are the maintainer of religion, the eternal Personality of Godhead. PURPORT Seeing the limitless greatness of God, Arjuna describes the qualities of God. A person ...

TEXT 14 Then, bewildered and astonished, his hair standing on end, Arjunabegan to pray with folded hands, offering obeisances to the Supreme Lord. PURPORT A devotee cannot have a close relationship with God in greatness. It is the eternal position of the soul to be a servant of God. God is the sour...

TEXT 9 Sañjaya said: O King, speaking thus, the Supreme, the Lord of all mystic power, the Personality of Godhead, displayed His universal form to Arjuna. PURPORT Some say they are God or they will become God in the future, but God is God forever and He never becomes conditioned like a soul. As the...

TEXT 5 The Blessed Lord said: My dear Arjuna, O son of Pṛthā, behold now My opulences, hundreds of thousands of varied divine forms, multicolored like the sea. PURPORT A close relationship with God is higher than the realization of God's greatness or the vision of the universal form. When we ascend...

Chapter 11. The Universal Form TEXT 1 Arjuna said: I have heard Your instruction on confidential spiritual matters which You have so kindly delivered unto me, and my illusion is now dispelled. PURPORT Arjuna realized that God is the cause and essence of everything. Arjuna understood this quickly be...

TEXT 39 Furthermore, O Arjuna, I am the generating seed of all existences. There is no being-moving or unmoving-that can exist without Me. PURPORT Both the spiritual and the material worlds rest on God. God is not manifest in the material world, but He is also the essence of everything. For example...

TEXT 35 Of hymns I am the Bṛhat-sāma sung to the Lord Indra, and of poetry I am the Gāyatrī verse, sung daily by brāhmaṇas. Of months I am November and December, and of seasons I am flower-bearing spring. PURPORT The Gāyatrī mantra is intended for those who are highly advanced spiritually. Material...

TEXT 31 Of purifiers I am the wind; of the wielders of weapons I am Rāma; of fishes I am the shark, and of flowing rivers I am the Ganges. PURPORT of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda: Of all the aquatics the shark is one of the biggest and is certainly the most dangerous to man. Thus the shark r...