Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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BHAGAVADGITA.
- - - --- -- O god! to pardon (my guilt) as a father (that of his) son, a friend (that of his) friend, or a husband (that of his beloved. I am delighted at seeing what I had never seen before, and my heart is also alarmed by fear. Show me that same form, O god! Be gracious, O lord of gods! O you pervading the universe! I wish to see you bearing the coronet and the mace, with the discus in hand, just the same (as before)”. O you of thousand arms! O you of all forms! assume that same four-handed form.
The Deity said: O Arguna! being pleased (with you), I have by my own mystic power shown you this supreme form, full of glory, universal, infinite, primeval, and which has not been seen before by any one else but you, O you hero among the Kauravas! I cannot be seen in this form by any one but you, (even) by (the help of the study of the Vedas, or of sacrifices, nor by gifts, nor by actions, nor by fierce penances. Be not alarmed, be not perplexed, at seeing this form of mine, fearful like this. Free from fear and with delighted heart, see now again that same form of mine.
Sañgaya said: Having thus spoken to Arguna, Vasudeva again showed his own form, and the high-souled one becoming again of a mild form, comforted him who had been affrighted.
" This is the ordinary form of Krishna.
· This is the original construction. One suspects that sacri. fices and study of the Vedas are meant. Cr. the speech of Krishna on the next page.
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