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Part XI: The Universal Manifestation.1461
to thee—be not dismayed, nor confounded or confused in thy faculties.
When thy mind hath been quieted in its fears, and peace and calmness
again cometh to thee, then mayest thou again behold My wondrous form!”
Then Krishna, the blessed Lord, having thus reassured Arjuna, resumed
his milder and less terrible shape and consoled Arjuna’s terrified mind. And,
thus reassured and comforted, and his fears having departed, Arjuna spake
to Krishna, saying:
“Beholding again thy less terrible shape, O Lord, I am again myself and in
calmer frame of mind and less disturbed.”
Krishna: “Yea, O Arjuna, hast thou beheld my wondrous form, which
even the gods and arch-angels and the higher heavenly host ever long with
earnest craving to witness and behold. But such can see me not, as thou hast
seen me. Nay not even through the Vedas, nor by self-denial, nor by gifts of
charity, nor by sacrifices. But by supreme devotion to Me alone, may I thus
be perceived, O Prince, and he who thus perceiveth men and knoweth Me,
verily he entereth into my essence and is enfolded by Me. He who doeth
actions for Me alone—whose Supreme Good I am—My true devotee, freed
from attachment to all but Me—regardless of consequences—free from
hatred of any being or thing whatsoever—verily I say he cometh unto Me,
O Arjuna; he cometh unto Me.”
thus endeth part xi of the bhagavad gita, which part is called “the
universal manifestation.”