Word meanings
- arjunaḥ uvāca
- Arjun said
- mat-anugrahāya
- out of compassion to me
- paramam
- supreme
- guhyam
- confidential
- adhyātma-sanjñitam
- about spiritual knowledge
- yat
- which
- tvayā
- by you
- uktam
- spoken
- vacaḥ
- words
- tena
- by that
- mohaḥ
- illusion
- ayam
- this
- vigataḥ
- is dispelled
- mama
- my
Translations
Arjuna said, By this explanation of the highest secret concerning the Self which Thou hast spoken, for the sake of blessing me, my delusion has been dispelled.
Arjuna said: My Lord! Your words concerning the Supreme Secret of Self, given for my blessing, have dispelled the illusions that surrounded me.
Arjuna said, "This delusion of mine has departed as a result of that speech which is most secret and pertains to the Self, uttered by You for my benefit."
अर्जुन बोले -- केवल मेरेपर कृपा करनेके लिये ही आपने जो परम गोपनीय अध्यात्मतत्तव जाननेका वचन कहा, उससे मेरा यह मोह नष्ट हो गया है।Commentary
After hearing the glories of the Lord? Arjuna has an intense longing to have the wonderful vision of the Cosmic Form with his own eyes. His bewilderment and delusion have now vanished. Adhyatma That which treats of the discrimination between the Self and the not-Self metaphysics.I was worried about the sin involved in killing my relations and preceptors. I had the ideas? I am the agent in killing them they are to be killed by me. This delusion has vanished now after receiving Thy most profound and valuable instructions.
Thou hast dispelled this delusion of ignorance from me. The vision of the Cosmic Form is not the ultimate goal. If that were so, the Gita would have ended with this chapter. The vision of the Cosmic Form is also one more in a series of graded experiences. It is a terrible experience too. That is the reason why Arjuna said to the Lord, stammering with fear What an awful form Thou hast I have seen that which none hath seen before. My heart is glad, yet faileth me on account of fear.
Show me? O God? Thine other form again. O God of gods, support of all the worlds, let me see Thy form with the diadem, and with the mace and discus in Thy hands. Again I wish to see Thee as before assume Thy fourarmed form? O Lord of thousand arms and of forms innumerable. Arjuna heard the Lords statement, viz.? Having pervaded this whole universe with one fragment of Myself? I remain. This induced him to have the vision of the Lords Cosmic Form. He says? O Lord of compassion?
Thou hast taught me the spiritual wisdom which can hardly be found in the Vedas. Thou hast saved me. My delusion has disappeared. Thou hast disclosed to me the nature of the Supreme Self, the secrets of Nature and Thy divine glories. My greatest ambition at the present moment is that I should behold with my own eyes Thy entire Cosmic Form.