Gita 11.40
Vishvarupa Darshana Yoga
नमः पुरस्तादथ पृष्ठतस्ते नमोऽस्तु ते सर्वत एव सर्व । अनन्तवीर्यामितविक्रमस्त्वं सर्वं समाप्नोषि ततोऽसि सर्वः ॥
namaḥ purastād atha pṛṣṭhatas te namo 'stu te sarvata eva sarva | ananta-vīryāmita-vikramas tvaṁ sarvaṁ samāpnoṣi tato 'si sarvaḥ ||
In essence: Salutations from before and behind, from all sides - O Everything! Your infinite power pervades all; therefore You ARE all. There is no direction from which to bow that is not already You.
A conversation between a seeker and guide to help you feel this verse deeply
Sadhak-Guru Dialogue
Sadhak: "If Krishna is everything, then am I also Krishna? Is this what Arjuna realizes?"
Guru: "What do you think? If everything is Krishna, and you are something..."
Sadhak: "Then I must be Krishna too. But that feels presumptuous."
Guru: "Does a wave feel presumptuous being ocean? The wave is ocean appearing in wave-form. You are Krishna appearing in your form."
Sadhak: "But Arjuna is still bowing. If he's also Krishna, to whom is he bowing?"
Guru: "Here's the beautiful paradox of devotion. The wave can bow to the ocean because, though identical in substance, there is a difference in expression. Arjuna-as-wave bows to Krishna-as-ocean. Both are water; the bowing is the play of water honoring water."
Sadhak: "What does 'ananta-vīrya' - infinite prowess - mean here?"
Guru: "Vīrya is not just physical strength but essential power - the capacity to exist, to act, to create. Infinite vīrya means unlimited creative potency. Everything that happens - every event, every being - is a display of this inexhaustible power."
Sadhak: "So the logic is: You pervade all, therefore You ARE all. Is this pantheism?"
Guru: "The verse states it plainly: tataḥ asi sarvaḥ - therefore You are Everything. Call it what you like. The lived experience is what matters - recognizing that in bowing any direction, you bow to the One."
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🌅 Daily Practice
Directional salutation: As you rise, turn to each direction and offer a brief bow or acknowledgment - front, back, left, right, up, down. With each turn, recognize: I am bowing WITHIN the Divine, not to something outside it. This practice establishes the day in omnipresence awareness.
'O Everything' practice: Several times today, when seeing anything at all - a person, object, situation - silently greet it with Arjuna's address: 'O sarva' - 'O Everything.' This collapses the subject-object separation. The tree is not separate from Everything; the annoying email is not separate from Everything.
Pervasion meditation: Lie down and feel your body. Now feel the space around your body. Now recognize: if the Divine pervades everything, it pervades your body AND the space around it without boundary. Where does 'you' end and 'Divine' begin? Let this boundary dissolve as you rest. Samāpnoṣi - complete pervasion - includes this moment, this body, this rest.