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Bhagavad-gītā 11.12
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 12
- दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता ।
- यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः ॥१२॥
- divi sūrya-sahasrasya
- bhaved yugapad utthitā
- yadi bhāḥ sadṛśī sā syād
- bhāsas tasya mahātmanaḥ
diviin the sky — in the sky; sūryaof suns — of suns; sahasrasyaof many thousands — of many thousands; bhavetthere were — there were; yugapatsimultaneously — simultaneously; utthitāpresent — present; yadiif — if; bhāḥlight — light; sadṛśīlike that — like that; sāthat — that; syātmight be — might be; bhāsaḥeffulgence — effulgence; tasyaof Him — of Him; mahāthe great Lord-ātmanaḥthe great Lord — the great Lord.
If hundreds of thousands of suns were to rise at once into the sky, their radiance might resemble the effulgence of the Supreme Person in that universal form.
What Arjuna saw was indescribable, yet Sañjaya is trying to give a mental picture of that great revelation to Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Neither Sañjaya nor Dhṛtarāṣṭra was present, but Sañjaya, by the grace of Vyāsa, 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).