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Chapter 11The Vision of the Universal FormVerse 17

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Anvaya:

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Rudra Vaisnava Sampradaya:


Visnuswami
Sridhara Swami's Commentary

Bedecked with resplendent crowns, diadems, mace and disc illuminating all directions the Supreme Lord Krishna's visvarupa or universal form was so effulgent and dazzling with a radiant lustre so bright that it was unfathomable and thus impossible to determine it fully.

Brahma Vaisnava Sampradaya:


Madhvacarya
Madhvacarya's Commentary

Lord Krishna's visvarupa or divine universal form was like a blazing fire, like a dazzling sun, an all illuminating radiant effulgence. The word aprameyam denotes beyond compare.

Sri Vaisnava Sampradaya:


Ramanuja
Ramanuja's Commentary

Lord Krishna's visvarupa or divine universal form was a mass of blazing radiant glory, dazzling the vision in all directions. It had an effulgent brilliance that was more lustrous then the sun and was adorned with unlimited diadems, unlimited sceptres wielding unlimited cakras or discs. It was immeasurable and beyond any conception of imagination.

Kumara Vaisnava Sampradaya:


Nimbaditya
Kesava Kasmiri's Commentary

Lord Krishna's visvarupa or divine universal form is specifically mentioned as being adorned with unlimited diadems, unlimited sceptres, unlimited flaming discs and unlimited accoutrements. A beaming bright lustre in an effulgent mass of splendour. The visvarupa has the radiance of blazing fire and dazzling sunlight making it difficult to gaze upon and impossible to discern its immeasurable appearance.

Thus ends commentaries of chapter 11, verse 17 of the Srimad Bhagavad-Gita.

Verse 17


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