Arjuna's Prayers from Gita for memorization

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Arjuna's Prayers from Bhagavad-gita for memorization

11.1 Arjuna: By my hearing the instructions You have kindly given me

about these most confidential spiritual subjects, my illusion has now

been dispelled. 2 O lotus-eyed one, I have heard from You in detail

about the appearance and disappearance of every living entity and

have realized Your inexhaustible glories. 3 O greatest of all

personalities, O supreme form, though I see You here before me in

Your actual position, as You have described Yourself, I wish to see

how You have entered into this cosmic manifestation. I want to see

that form of Yours. 4 If You think that I am able to behold Your

cosmic form, O my Lord, O master of all mystic power, then kindly

show me that unlimited universal Self. . . . 11.15 My dear Lord

Krsna, I see assembled in Your body all the demigods and various

other living entities. I see Brahma sitting on the lotus flower, as

well as Lord Siva and all the sages and divine serpents. 16 O Lord of

the universe, O universal form, I see in Your body many, many arms,

bellies, mouths and eyes, expanded everywhere, without limit. I see

in You no end, no middle and no beginning. 17 Your form is difficult

to see because of its glaring effulgence, spreading on all sides,

like blazing fire or the immeasurable radiance of the sun. Yet I see

this glowing form everywhere, adorned with various crowns, clubs and

discs. 18 You are the supreme primal objective. You are the ultimate

resting place of all this universe. You are inexhaustible, and You

are the oldest. You are the maintainer of the eternal religion, the

Personality of Godhead. This is my opinion. 19 You are without

origin, middle or end. Your glory is unlimited. You have numberless

arms, and the sun and moon are Your eyes. I see You with blazing fire

coming forth from Your mouth, burning this entire universe by Your

own radiance. 20 Although You are one, You spread throughout the sky

and the planets and all space between. O great one, seeing this

wondrous and terrible form, all the planetary systems are perturbed.

21 All the hosts of demigods are surrendering before You and entering

into You. Some of them, very much afraid, are offering prayers with

folded hands. Hosts of great sages and perfected beings, crying "All

peace!" are praying to You by singing the Vedic hymns. 22 All the

various manifestations of Lord Siva, the Adityas, the Vasus, the

Sadhyas, the Visvedevas, the two Asvis, the Maruts, the forefathers,

the Gandharvas, the Yaksas, the Asuras and the perfected demigods

are beholding You in wonder. 23 O mighty-armed one, all the planets

with their demigods are disturbed at seeing Your great form, with its

many faces, eyes, arms, thighs, legs, and bellies and Your many

terrible teeth; and as they are disturbed, so am I. 24 O all-

pervading Visnu, seeing You with Your many radiant colors touching

the sky, Your gaping mouths, and Your great glowing eyes, my mind is

perturbed by fear. I can no longer maintain my steadiness or

equilibrium of mind. 25 O Lord of lords, O refuge of the worlds,

please be gracious to me. I cannot keep my balance seeing thus Your

blazing deathlike faces and awful teeth. In all directions I am

bewildered. 26-27 All the sons of Dhrtarastra, along with their

allied kings, and Bhisma, Drona, Karna--and our chief soldiers also--

are rushing into Your fearful mouths. And some I see trapped with

heads smashed between Your teeth. 28 As the many waves of the rivers

flow into the ocean, so do all these great warriors enter blazing

into Your mouths. 29 I see all people rushing full speed into Your

mouths, as moths dash to destruction in a blazing fire. 30 O Visnu, I

see You devouring all people from all sides with Your flaming mouths.

Covering all the universe with Your effulgence, You are manifest with

terrible, scorching rays. 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. You are the primal Lord. I want to know about You,

for I do not know what your mission is. . . . 11.36 O master of

the senses, the world becomes joyful upon hearing Your name, and thus

everyone becomes attached to You. Although the perfected beings offer

You their respectful homage, the demons are afraid, and they flee

here and there. All this is rightly done. 37 O great one, greater

even than Brahma, You are the original creator. Why then should they

not offer their respectful obeisances unto You? O limitless one, God

of gods, refuge of the universe! You are the invincible source, the

cause of all causes, transcendental to this material manifestation.

38 You are the original Personality of Godhead, the oldest, the

ultimate sanctuary of this manifested cosmic world. You are the

knower of everything, and You are all that is knowable. You are the

supreme refuge, above the material modes. O limitless form! This

whole cosmic manifestation is pervaded by You! 39 You are air, and

You are the supreme controller! You are fire, You are water, and You

are the moon! You are Brahma, the first living creature, and You are

the great-grandfather. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances

unto You a thousand times, and again and yet again! 40 Obeisances to

You from the front, from behind and from all sides! O unbounded

power, You are the master of limitless might! You are all-pervading,

and thus You are everything! 41-42 Thinking of You as my friend, I

have rashly addressed You "O Krsna,O Yadava,O my friend," not

knowing Your glories. Please forgive whatever I may have done in

madness or in love. I have dishonored You many times, jesting as we

relaxed, lay on the same bed, or sat or ate together, sometimes alone

and sometimes in front of many friends. O infallible one, please

excuse me for all those offenses. 43 You are the father of this

complete cosmic manifestation, of the moving and the nonmoving. You

are its worshipable chief, the supreme spiritual master. No one is

equal to You, nor can anyone be one with You. How then could there be

anyone greater than You within the three worlds, O Lord of

immeasurable power? 44 You are the Supreme Lord, to be worshiped by

every living being. Thus I fall down to offer You my respectful

obeisances and ask Your mercy. As a father tolerates the impudence of

his son, or a friend tolerates the impertinence of a friend, or a

wife tolerates the familiarity of her partner, please tolerate the

wrongs I may have done You. 45 After seeing this universal form,

which I have never seen before, I am gladdened, but at the same time

my mind is disturbed with fear. Therefore please bestow Your grace

upon me and reveal again Your form as the Personality of Godhead, O

Lord of lords, O abode of the universe. 46 O universal form, O

thousand-armed Lord, I wish to see You in Your four-armed form, with

helmeted head and with club, wheel, conch and lotus flower in Your

hands. I long to see You in that form.

11.50 . . . "O Janardana, seeing this humanlike form, so very

beautiful, I am now composed in mind, and I am restored to my

original nature."

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