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GĪTĀ 11.51Viśvarūpa-darśana-yoga · The Vision of the Cosmic Form

11.51Arjuna
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अर्जुन उवाच ।दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तव सौम्यं जनार्दन ।इदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः ॥

arjuna uvāca |dṛṣṭvedaṃ mānuṣaṃ rūpaṃ tava saumyaṃ janārdana |idānīm asmi saṃvṛttaḥ sa-cetāḥ prakṛtiṃ gataḥ ||

दृष्ट्वा · dṛṣṭvā
having seen
मानुषम् रूपम् · mānuṣam rūpam
the human form
सौम्यम् · saumyam
gentle
जनार्दन · janārdana
O Janardana
संवृत्तः · saṃvṛttaḥ
become, restored
सचेताः · sa-cetāḥ
in my right mind, composed

“Arjuna said: Seeing this gentle human form of yours, O Janardana, I am myself again — composed, returned to my own nature.”

— Original plain-language translation

Recovery is described as return to prakriti, one's own nature — composure regained through the familiar. The devotee loves the infinite, but lives with the intimate; both are true, and Arjuna now knows it.

— Reader's notes (original)

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