पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान्।ब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थ मृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान्॥
paśyāmi devāns tava deva dehesarvāns tathā bhūta-viśeṣa-saṅghānbrahmāṇam īśaṃ kamalāsana-sthamṛṣīnś ca sarvān uragānś ca divyān
Word by word
The verse says
Arjuna said: I see all the gods in your body, god, and the whole host of every kind of being. I see Brahmā the lord seated on his lotus, and all the sages, and the divine serpents.
In plain words
He starts naming what he sees, and the first word is paśyāmi — I see.
He will use it over and over in the next ten verses.
For now the tone is still wonder. He is identifying things, which means he can still take them in one at a time.
Where you've felt this · in community
You walk into a hall on the first evening of a conference and start spotting people — the two from the Delhi office, the woman who wrote the book, somebody you were at school with. You are not overwhelmed yet. You are still picking faces out, which is what people do before a room becomes too much.
Going deeper
Naming things is what a mind does while it is still coping, and watching the naming break down is how this chapter tracks Arjuna's state.
Right now he can list. Gods, beings, Brahmā on his lotus, sages, serpents — all identified, all placed. That is the behaviour of somebody whose categories are still holding. Within a few verses he will say he cannot find the beginning, the middle or the end of what he is looking at, and the listing will stop.
The progression is not decorative. It is the actual sequence of being overwhelmed, reported from inside.
And it is worth recognising, because the same sequence runs at much smaller scales. There is always a point where you stop identifying individual things and start experiencing a quantity, and the switch is not gradual.