Bg 11.12

TEXT 12

TEXT

दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता ।
यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद् भासस्तस्य महात्मनः ॥ १२ ॥

divi surya-sahasrasya

bhaved yugapad utthita

yadi bhah sadrsi sa syad

bhasas tasya mahatmanah

divi-in the sky; surya-sun; sahasrasya-of many thousands; bhavet-there were; yugapat-simultaneously; utthita-present; yadi-if; bhah-light; sadrsi-like that; sa-that; syat-may be; bhasah-effulgence; tasya-there is; mahatmanah-of the great Lord.

TRANSLATION

If hundreds of thousands of suns rose up at once into the sky, they might resemble the effulgence of the Supreme Person in that universal form.

What Arjuna saw was indescribable, yet Sanjaya is trying to give a mental picture of that great revelation to Dhrtarastra. Neither Sanjaya nor Dhrtarastra were present, but Sanjaya, by the grace of Vyasa, could see whatever happened. Thus he now compares the situation, as far as it can be understood, to an imaginable phenomenon (i.e. thousands of suns).

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