Śabda No. 12
You say it every day.
“Hail to You a thousand times… again and yet again.”
You say namaste every day. After seeing the universal form, Arjuna cannot stop: hail to you a thousand times, again and again.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
वायुर्यमोऽग्निर्वरुणः शशाङ्कः
प्रजापतिस्त्वं प्रपितामहश्च।
नमो नमस्तेऽस्तु सहस्रकृत्वः
पुनश्च भूयोऽपि नमो नमस्ते।।
vāyur yamo ’gnir varuṇaḥ śaśāṅkaḥ prajāpatis tvaṁ prapitāmahaś ca namo namas te ’stu sahasra-kṛtvaḥ punaś ca bhūyo ’pi namo namas te
(a) You are Yayu, Yama, Agni, Varuna, Sashanka, Prajapati, and the great-grandsire. (b) Hail to You a thousand times! Hail to You again and yet again!
11.39 is verse 453 of 700, and verse 39 of 55 in chapter 11.
Namas te, in this form, comes twice in 11.39.
11.39 falls under the speaker label of Arjuna.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
In chapter 11 Arjuna has seen the universal form, and by the middle of the chapter he cannot stop praising. 11.38 calls the form the primal God, the ancient person and the supreme resting place of the universe. 11.39 names the wind, Yama, Agni, Varuṇa, the moon, Prajāpati and the great-grandsire, and then says namo namas te: hail to you a thousand times, and again and yet again. Namaste is the word you use in greeting, and here Arjuna says it to the one who pervades all beings. 11.40 carries on: salutations from before and from behind, salutations from all sides. In these verses the word is repeated because one saying is not enough. The scene is in chapter 11, and what the Gītā says about devotion gathers related verses.