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GĪTĀ-RAHASYA OR KARMA-YOGA
संजय उवाच । इत्यर्जुनं वासुदेवस्तथोक्त्वा स्वकं रूपं दर्शयामास भूयः। आश्वासयामास च भीतमेनं भूत्वा पुनः सौम्यवपुर्महात्मा ॥ ५० ॥
अर्जुन उवाच। दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तव सौम्यं जनार्दन । इदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः॥५१॥
श्रीभगवानुवाच । $$ सुदुर्दर्शमिदं रूपं दृष्टवानसि यन्मम।
देवा अप्यस्य रूपस्य नित्य दर्शनकाक्षिणः ॥ ५२ ॥ Sañjaya said :-(50) Speaking thus, Vāsudeva again showed to Arjuna. His (former) form ; and assuming again His peaceful form, that Noble Soul gave encouragement to the frightened Arjuna.
[The metre of these 36 stanzas, is the same as that of stanzas 5 to 8, 20, 22, 29, and 70 of Chapter II, stanzas 9,10,11 and 28 of Chapter VIII, stanzas 20 and 21 of Chapter IX, and stanzas 2 to 5 and 15 of Chapter XV, namely, of eleven letters in each quarter (carana). But, as they are not governed by one and the same rule about the feet (gana), these stanzas cannot be recited in the same way as can stanzas in the indra-vajrā, upendra-vajrā upajāti, dodhaka, śālınī and other metres used in the poetical compositions of Kālidāsa and others. Needless to say, this metrical arrangement is archaic (arsa), that is, on the basis of the 'tristup' metre used in the Veda-Samhitās. This fortifies the proposition that the Gītā must be very ancient indeed (see p. 726 of the Appendix to the GitaRahasya.] Arjuna said :-(51) O Janardana ! seeing this Your mild and human-bodied form, my mind is again in its proper place,. and I have become conscious, as before.
The Blessed Lord said :-(52) This My form, which you. have seen, is very difficult to see. Even the gods always.
