vishvarupa
विश्वरूप viśvarūpaKrishna's cosmic universal form, revealed to Arjuna in the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, in which all worlds and beings are seen within the one God.
Where this term appears
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
Krishna gives him a divine eye and shows him the Vishvarupa , the universal form: all worlds, all gods, all beings, all time, blazing in a single overwhelming body.
- Who is Krishna? Deities
In the eleventh chapter he grants Arjuna the sight of his cosmic form, vishvarupa , terrifying and total.
- Who is Vishnu? Deities
…y of being, and then, at Arjuna's request, shows his cosmic form, the vishvarupa , in which the warrior sees all worlds and all beings contained in a single overwhelming body.
- What Oppenheimer's Gita line really means Journal
Krishna agrees, and gives Arjuna divya chakshus , celestial sight, the inner eye that can bear the vision (11.8), because ordinary eyes could not. What Arjuna then sees is the Vishvarupa , the universal form.
- Reading the Bhagavad Gita in the modern world Journal
When Krishna finally reveals his cosmic form, the Vishvarupa , the universal shape, in the eleventh chapter, the tone is not consoling.