Chapter 11 — Vishwaroop Darshan Yoga

Verse 30
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka

lelihyase grasamānaḥ samantallo-känsamagränvadanairjvaladbhiḥ

tejobhirāpūprya jagatsamagraṁ bhāsastavogrāḥ pratapanti vişno

🕉 English Translation

Sabhi loko ka aap karke sanghar

, Sab oar se chate muk bar bar.

Prakash hai aapka ugr jo,

Tupa rahe tej apne se duniya ko.

📜 Translation English

With your flaming mouth You are devouring all those worlds and licking them from all sides. O Vishnu! Your fierce lustre is filling the entire world with radiance and is scorching it.

💬 Commentary English

When the Lord is revealing His massive form then He will reveal all. This is all a part of His universal form. He is the (creator, sustainer) and destroyer of creation. He creates, sustains and then annihilates the universe. His form is that of a destroyer-With mouths at this time on all sides, You are devouring all, moving Your tongue and licking repeatedly. All are becoming a morsel in the mouth of time the destroyer; as destruction is certain for all. He is otherwise of the nature of effulgence; effulgence in any case is soothing. But at present as the form is of fierceness and terrifying, and that of Time the destroyer, it is natural then that even in effulgence there is radiance, and soothing coolness is replaced by heat!

Arjun is awestruck and terrified; in this state Arjun in a natural manner enquires from the Lord-

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