Gita Simplified & with stories : Chapter 11

What is this chapter about

• Vishwaroop Darshan
• Yoga of Divine form
• Vision of Cosmic form
• The Universal Form

Summary of chapter

After hearing about God and learning about his vibhutis , Arjun wants to see / experience the imperishable & cosmic form.

Elaboration on the galaxies, sun, various mythological characters, past, present & future , colours seasons....just everything one can imagine

Shlokas references

• 55 shlokas in all
• 11.8 Lord bestows Arjun divine eyesight ti view the cosmic form
• 11.32 : I am the Kal /Time spirit, the fire that will destroy it all
• 11.55 : Duties for God, devotion to God, depends on God only 

Key message from the chapter 

Till we can see God in everything there is duality. When we praise someones talent, if the thought that the talent is a divine gift/quality, there will be no jealousy, just "wow". When we see glittering jewellery and recall that gold behind / inside is same and perennial, we will be on a different plane. 

Reading scriptures and discussing them and not living them, without devotion and faith, is an intellectual exercise. 

Summary in poetry 

With your profound words for my own sake

                        My delusion is gone and I am now awake

                        I wish to see your form, infinite and divine

                        Show me if you think it is all fine

                       

You can see in ME the whole universe

Forms, colours and shapes so diverse

I grant the spiritual vision to see the wonder

Behold all that you see, it is all splendour

                        Oh My Lord, I see Thee in every side

                        And the cosmic form in which you reside

                        I see the entire creation

And the countless evolution

                        I see the good and the horror

                        And the universe in terror

                        I see the blazing fire

                        And now to know you fully, I desire

                       

I am the time, the present and past

Everyone will see their end at last

Know that I am the destroyer of all

So, stand up and attend to your call

Gifts, rituals or austerities, men may perform

To see my cosmic exalted form

But only those who render their pure devotion

Are blessed to have this wonderful vision

A story related to the message

God Is always with You

A man wanted to smoke and went to a neighbor’s house to get fire to light his charcoal. It was in the dead of night, and the householder was asleep. After he had knocked and knocked, the neighbour finally came down to open the door.

At the sight of the man he asked, “Hello! What’s the matter?”

The man replied, “Can’t you guess? You know I am fond of smoking. I have come here to get fire to light my charcoal.”

The neighbour said, “Ha! Ha! You are a fine neighbour, indeed! You took the trouble to come and do all this knocking at the door in the dead of night! Why? You have a lighted lantern already with you!”

What we seek is very near and all around us. Everything is God in different forms. Everything in creation is within His gigantic form!

Another way to see God is to develop devotion and good qualities. Lord Krishna said if we have no attachment, selfish desires, hatred, enmity, or violence towards any being, we can reach and see God (Gita 11.55).

Related posts on this blog

• Forms of God and manifestations
• Talent as a divine gift