Chapter 11: Viśvarūpa-darśana-yoga:: Verse 4
मन्यसे यदि तच्छक्यं मया द्रष्टुमिति प्रभो ।
योगेश्वर ततो मे त्वं दर्शयात्मानमव्ययम् ॥
manyase yadi tacchakyaṃ mayā draṣṭum-iti prabho
yogeśvara tato me tvaṃ darśayātmānam-avyayam – 11.4
If you feel, O Lord, that I am fit to see, then O Master of Yoga, show me Your immutable Self (with Its glory as you have related).
Chapter 11: Viśvarūpa-darśana-yoga: - Verse 4
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Arjuna has become humbler and more discreet. He has doubt about what will transpire when the Self displays its glory and grandeur, as Krishna relates. Krishna’s body is limited, like anyone else’s. The measure, magnitude and variety he has portrayed, cannot be hosted by such a body. What besides the body is there in Krishna except the Self, as in anyone else? Krishna has made this clear several times earlier.
The Self is subtle, invisible to the core. That is now going to display its multi-faceted splendour visibly. By any stretch of imagination, it will be a grave contradiction, beyond anyone’s comprehension.
Krishna, as Instructor, heeds and responds to his disciple’s fond appeal, in his own expedient, masterly manner.
What is going to transpire will definitely be very intriguing as well as enlightening; something exceedingly rare in the field of spirituality and its manifest glory!
