Arjuna
दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तवसौम्यं जनार्दन । इदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः ॥
dṛṣṭvedaṃ mānuṣaṃ rūpaṃ tavasaumyaṃ janārdana | idānīmasmi saṃvṛttaḥ sacetāḥ prakṛtiṃ gataḥ ||
Seeing this gentle human form of yours, O Janardana, I have now come back to myself, my mind composed and my nature restored.
Explanation Arjuna speaks after Krishna has withdrawn the terrifying cosmic form and appeared again in his calm, human-looking shape. Arjuna says his mind is steady again and he is back to his normal state (prakṛti). Here prakṛti is read simply as his natural, ordinary condition, not the technical 'nature' of Sankhya philosophy.
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About the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita, in Sanskrit श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता (Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā ), “the song of the Lord”, is a dialogue of 18 chapters and 700 verses from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, as the war is about to begin, the warrior Arjuna loses heart at the thought of fighting his own kin, and his charioteer Krishna answers him: on duty, on acting without attachment to the results, on knowledge, meditation and devotion. Sanjaya recounts the conversation to the blind king Dhritarashtra. The name is also written Bhagwad Gita, Bhagvad Gita, Bhagavat Gita or Bhagavad Geeta; with the honorific, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavad Gita or Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta; and often simply the Gita or Geeta.
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