Shrimad Bhagavad-gita
by Narayana Gosvami | 2013 | 327,105 words
The Bhagavad-gita Verse 11.51, English translation, including the Vaishnava commentaries Sarartha-varsini-tika, Prakashika-vritti and Rasika-ranjana (excerpts). This is verse Verse 11.51 from the chapter 11 called “Vishvarupa-darshana-yoga (beholding the Lord’s Universal Form)”
Verse 11.51
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 11.51:
अर्जुन उवाच–
दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तव सौम्यं जनार्दन ।
इदानीम् अस्मि संवृत्तः स-चेताः प्रकृतिं गतः ॥ ५१ ॥arjuna uvāca–
dṛṣṭvedaṃ mānuṣaṃ rūpaṃ tava saumyaṃ janārdana |
idānīm asmi saṃvṛttaḥ sa-cetāḥ prakṛtiṃ gataḥ || 51 ||arjuna uvāca–Arjuna said; dṛṣṭvā–seeing; idam–this; mānuṣam–human-like; rūpam–form; tava–of Yours; saumyam–charming; jana-ārdana–O You who inspire the heart of all beings; idānīm–now; asmi saṃvṛttaḥ–I have become; sa-cetāḥ–conscious; prakṛtim–to my previous nature; gataḥ–have returned.
Arjuna said: O Janārdana, my heart feels delight upon seeing Your charming human-like form, and I have returned to my normal condition.
Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Ṭīkā
(By Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura; the innermost intention of the commentary named ‘the shower of essential meanings’)
Seeing the most sweet form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and feeling as if he were immersed in the ocean of bliss, Arjuna said, “My heart feels delight now that I have returned to my normal state (prakṛtim).”
Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Prakāśikā-vṛtti
(By Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja; the explanation that illuminates the commentary named Sārārtha-varṣiṇī)
At that time, Arjuna, who was now free from all fear, saw Śrī Kṛṣṇa, first in His extremely sweet four-armed form and then in His two-armed Śyāmasundara form. In great bliss Arjuna said, “O Janārdana, after seeing Your most pleasing human-like form, I have regained my composure and have come back to my natural condition.”
Śrī Kṛṣṇa mostly performed His pastimes with the Yādavas and the Pāṇḍavas in His two-armed form (dvibhuja-rūpa), yet sometimes He performed them in His four-armed form also (caturbhuja-rūpa). Therefore, His four-armed form is also known as human-like. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (7.15.75), Nārada Muni describes Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s human form to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, “gūḍhaṃ paraṃ brahma manuṣya-liṅgam–Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the Absolute Truth concealed within a human-like form.”