Verse-45
Chapter 11 — Vishwaroop Darshan Yoga
Verse 45
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
adṛṣṭapūrvam hrșito'smi dṛṣṭvā bhayena ch pravyathitam mano me
tadeva me darśaya devarūpaṁ prasīda deveśa jagannivāsa
🕉 English Translation
Harshit hun mann bhay se hai kaptah,
Kabhi dekha na roop yeh aapka.
Mujhe roop pehla hee dikhlayeye,
Hey Devesh prasann ho jayeye.
📜 Translation
English
Viewing the amazing form of Yours which has never been seen before I am delighted and at the same time distressed with fear; that is why You show me your four-armed form only! O God of gods! O Universal abode! Become pleased.
After viewing the universal form of the Lord Arjun gives simultaneous expression to two kinds of emotions. On one hand delight, elation and on the other hand distress due to fear. Lord had never been seen in this form before; the Lord bestowed divine sight, showed his unearthly, stupendous and thrilling form of His; this sight is enthralling; but on the other hand viewing fierceness, fearsomeness in the vast form, even till now Arjun is unable to come back to normalcy; fear is still distressing him. That is why this prayer came from Arjun in a natural manner.
Arjun is unable to face the divinity as well as the fierceness of the vast form of the Lord any more; just as previously he had requested to see the universal form now he is requesting for the withdrawal of the same and at the same time he is requesting for the pleasure of the Lord by giving up the fearsome form-