Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan

Context for 11 Chapter: Krishna said I pervaded entire existence. How you pervade?  That is what Arjuna will ask.

 Chp11 Overview

1-4: Arjuna’s request

5-8: Krishna’s description of the universal form

9-14: Sanjaya’s description of the UF

15-31: Arjuna’s description of the UF

Arjuna vision of UF

Affect of UF on Arjuna

Arjuna beholding of Kala Rupa

Affect of Kala Rupa on Arjuna

Prayers of Arjuna – Who are You?

32-34: Krishna’s instruction: become my instrument

35-46: Arjuna’s prayers

Glorifies

Offer Obeisances

Seeks forgiveness

Request for beholding of Chaturbhuja Rupa and Saumya Rupa

47-55: Pure devotion alone grants all visions –whether of UF or of two-handed form

 

Chapter start with revelation of God in matter not in the way of Vibhuti but in the form of Virata Rupa. So both are manifestation of God in matter. The chapter will culminate in Pure devotion by which we can see all forms of God.

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Bg 11.1

arjuna uvāca
mad-anugrahāya paramaṁ
guhyam adhyātma-saṁjñitam
yat tvayoktaṁ vacas tena
moho ’yaṁ vigato mama

Word for word: 

arjunaḥ uvāca — Arjuna said; mat–anugrahāya — just to show me favor; paramam — supreme; guhyam — confidential subject; adhyātma — spiritual; saṁjñitam — in the matter of; yat — what; tvayā — by You; uktam — said; vacaḥ — words; tena — by that; mohaḥ — illusion; ayam — this; vigataḥ — is removed; mama — my.

Translation: 

Arjuna said: By my hearing the instructions You have kindly given me about these most confidential spiritual subjects, my illusion has now been dispelled.

mad-anugrahāya paramaṁ, so out of Your great mercy on me, what have You done? guhyam adhyātma-saṁjñitam, You have spoken spiritual knowledge to Me, which is very Guhya which is not very easy to understand. 

yat tvayoktaṁ vacas tena, tvaya + uktaṁ the words that You have spoken, vacas

What happens by that? moho ’yaṁ vigato mama, my Moha has gone away, vigata. Vigata means to go away, so my moha has gone away, it is interesting that Arjuna is saying that now I have no moha, this is what Arjuna will say at the end of the Gita, 18.73 Nasto Moha Smirta Labdha…In 10.11 Chatur Sloki BG, Arjuna has accepted Krishna’s glorious position Prama Brahma Param Dhama…and Arjuna has shown that he has established true understanding, and thereafter whatever questions are there, they are for Loka Sangraha, for the sake of benefiting other’s, so he is thinking how to benefit another’s and accordingly he is asking questions, Mad Anugraha Paramam, so out of Your great mercy You have spoken all these to Me and I am grateful to You and by what You have spoken the Moha is gone.

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