Bhagavad Gita 11.46

kirīṭinaṁ gadinaṁ cakra-hastam

icchāmi tvāṁ draṣṭum ahaṁ tathaiva

tenaiva rūpeṇa catur-bhujena

sahasra-bāho bhava viśva-mūrte

 

I long to see you in your four-armed form,

With crown and mace—so calm and so warm;

O thousand-armed Lord of cosmic might,

Bless me, please, with that divine sight.

 

My dear Lord, after beholding your universal form, Arjuna now longs to see your four-handed Vishnu form. Through his aspiration, please help me appreciate the dynamics of devotion—how every experience of you ignites an auspicious longing for you.

O supreme guru, when I long for things in this world, I often get consumed by an inauspicious greed. That craving sabotages my ability to appreciate what I have, subjects me to a tormenting demand for more, and ultimately sentences me to perpetual dissatisfaction.

O all-attractive Lord, in comforting contrast stands the longing that arises from loving. When I connect with something I love, the resulting joy kindles within me a longing to taste it more. Among all that I may love, you alone are infinite; you alone feature countless attributes; you alone have endless manifestations. When I encounter you and feel enthralled, it awakens a longing to know you more, and that longing fills my mind and heart completely.

O inconceivably merciful Lord, you respond to my longing in your own unfathomable ways—sometimes revealing yourself, sometimes concealing yourself. Yet the longing for you itself is a blessing, both in the present and for the future. In the present, because it fills me with your remembrance, it lets me feel your presence even in your apparent absence. And for the future, because your remembrance is supremely purifying, that longing prepares my heart to receive you more deeply whenever you choose to reveal yourself.

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11.46 O universal form, O thousand-armed Lord, I wish to see You in Your four-armed form, with helmeted head and with club, wheel, conch and lotus flower in Your hands. I long to see You in that form.