द्वारेण चक्रानुपथेन तत्तम: परं परं ज्योतिरनन्तपारम् । समश्नुवानं प्रसमीक्ष्य फाल्गुन: प्रताडिताक्षो पिदधेऽक्षिणी उभे ॥ ५१ ॥
dvāreṇa cakrānupathena tat tamaḥ paraṁ paraṁ jyotir ananta-pāram samaśnuvānaṁ prasamīkṣya phālgunaḥ pratāḍitākṣo pidadhe ’kṣiṇī ubhe
- dvāreṇa
- by the path
- cakra
- the Sudarśana disc
- anupathena
- following
- tat
- that
- tamaḥ
- darkness
- param
- beyond
- param
- transcendental
- jyotiḥ
- light
- ananta
- unlimited
- pāram
- whose expanse
- samaśnuvānam
- all-pervasive
- prasamīkṣya
- beholding
- phālgunaḥ
- Arjuna
- pratāḍita
- pained
- akṣaḥ
- whose eyes
- apidadhe
- he closed
- akṣiṇī
- his eyes
- ubhe
- both
Following the Sudarśana disc, the chariot went beyond the darkness and reached the endless spiritual light of the all pervasive brahmajyoti. As Arjuna beheld this glaring effulgence, his eyes hurt, and so he shut them.