arjuna uvāca
mad-anugrahāya paramaḿ
guhyam adhyātma-saḿjñitam
yat tvayoktaḿ vacas tena
moho ’yaḿ vigato mama

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.

bhavāpyayau hi bhūtānāḿ
śrutau vistaraśo mayā
tvattaḥ kamala-patrākṣa
māhātmyam api cāvyayam

Translation

O lotus-eyed one, I have heard from You in detail about the appearance and disappearance of every living entity and have realized Your inexhaustible glories.

evam etad yathāttha tvam
ātmānaḿ parameśvara
draṣṭum icchāmi te rūpam
aiśvaraḿ puruṣottama

Translation

O greatest of all personalities, O supreme form, though I see You here before me in Your actual position, as You have described Yourself, I wish to see how You have entered into this cosmic manifestation. I want to see that form of Yours.

manyase yadi tac chakyaḿ
mayā draṣṭum iti prabho
yogeśvara tato me tvaḿ
darśayātmānam avyayam

Translation

If You think that I am able to behold Your cosmic form, O my Lord, O master of all mystic power, then kindly show me that unlimited universal Self.

śrī-bhagavān uvāca
paśya me pārtha rūpāṇi
śataśo ’tha sahasraśaḥ
nānā-vidhāni divyāni
nānā-varṇākṛtīni ca

Translation

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, O son of Pritha, see now My opulences, hundreds of thousands of varied divine and multicolored forms.

paśyādityān vasūn rudrān
aśvinau marutas tathā
bahūny adṛṣṭa-pūrvāṇi
paśyāścaryāṇi bhārata

Translation

O best of the Bharatas, see here the different manifestations of Adityas, Vasus, Rudras, Asvini-kumaras and all the other demigods. Behold the many wonderful things which no one has ever seen or heard of before.

ihaika-sthaḿ jagat kṛtsnaḿ
paśyādya sa-carācaram
mama dehe guḍākeśa
yac cānyad draṣṭum icchasi

Translation

O Arjuna, whatever you wish to see, behold at once in this body of Mine! This universal form can show you whatever you now desire to see and whatever you may want to see in the future. Everything—moving and nonmoving—is here completely, in one place.

na tu māḿ śakyase draṣṭum
anenaiva sva-cakṣuṣā
divyaḿ dadāmi te cakṣuḥ
paśya me yogam aiśvaram

Translation

But you cannot see Me with your present eyes. Therefore I give you divine eyes. Behold My mystic opulence!

sañjaya uvāca
evam uktvā tato rājan
mahā-yogeśvaro hariḥ
darśayām āsa pārthāya
paramaḿ rūpam aiśvaram

Translation

Sanjaya said: O King, having spoken thus, the Supreme Lord of all mystic power, the Personality of Godhead, displayed His universal form to Arjuna.

aneka-vaktra-nayanam
anekādbhuta-darśanam
aneka-divyābharaṇaḿ
divyānekodyatāyudham

divya-mālyāmbara-dharaḿ
divya-gandhānulepanam
sarvāścarya-mayaḿ devam
anantaḿ viśvato-mukham

Translation

Arjuna saw in that universal form unlimited mouths, unlimited eyes, unlimited wonderful visions. The form was decorated with many celestial ornaments and bore many divine upraised weapons. He wore celestial garlands and garments, and many divine scents were smeared over His body. All was wondrous, brilliant, unlimited, all-expanding.