11.51

Sanskrit

दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तव सौम्यं जनार्दन । इदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः ॥

dṛṣṭvedaṃ mānuṣaṃ rūpaṃ tava saumyaṃ janārdana idānīm asmi saṃvṛttaḥ sacetāḥ prakṛtiṃ gataḥ

Translation

Beholding again Thy gentle human Form, O Janârdana, I am now collected, and am restored to my own nature.

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

“Mānuṣaṃ rūpam,” human form, is the word this whole descent has been moving toward — Arjuna names it explicitly here, distinct from the four-armed “svakaṃ rūpam” verse 50 just restored. “Prakṛtiṃ gataḥ,” returned to my own nature, is a striking phrase to land on this soon after a vision that dissolved every boundary Arjuna had for what “nature” could mean; recovery, here, is quite literally a return to smaller scale, to a self bounded enough to have a nature at all. It’s brief and almost understated compared to the eleven verses of hymn that preceded it — relief doesn’t need elaboration the way awe and terror did.