11.51 I am gathered back into myself Arjuna speaks
दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तवसौम्यं जनार्दन
इदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः
dṛiṣhṭvedaṁ mānuṣhaṁ rūpaṁ tava saumyaṁ janārdana
idānīm asmi saṁvṛittaḥ sa-chetāḥ prakṛitiṁ gataḥ
Seeing this human form of yours again, so gentle, I am gathered back into myself, and I have returned to my own nature.
Explanation
I am gathered back into myself.
saṁvṛttaḥ sa-cetanaḥ — collected again, with my wits about me. And: I have returned to my own nature.
Seeing the human form is what restores him. Of everything in this chapter, that is the line most worth keeping: what put him back together was the ordinary face.
Going further
Word by word
- arjunaḥ uvācha
- Arjun said
- dṛiṣhṭvā
- seeing
- idam
- this
- mānuṣham
- human
- rūpam
- form
- tava
- your
- saumyam
- gentle
- janārdana
- he who looks after the public, Krishna
- idānīm
- now
- asmi
- I am
- saṁvṛittaḥ
- composed
- sa-chetāḥ
- in my mind
- prakṛitim
- to normality
- gataḥ
- have become
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Seeing this human form of yours again, so gentle, I am gathered back into myself.
The Sanskrit is idānīm asmi saṁvṛittaḥ sa-chetāḥ prakṛitiṁ gataḥ — returned to my own nature, come back to my senses.
The chapter's real conclusion, and it points the other way from where the chapter went. What was needed was not the vision but the coming back. Everyone remembers the thousand suns; the verse to keep is this one.