Sanskrit Verses
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Arjuna now wants to have a direct experience of the divine majesty of the Lord. The Lord gives him a new power of insight, with which Arjuna becomes capable of having a direct experience of the divine. The Lord reveals to him his vishvaruupa or cosmic form. In an instant Arjuna finds that all that exists – the past, present and future are spread out within the Lord. The majesty and splendor of the lord is too much for Arjuna to bear.
He sees that all beings are helplessly drawn and absorbed into the Lord in the course of time. Arjuna realizes that there is only one will and that is the Lord’s. All actions by all beings ever created are only to carry out the Lord’s will. Arjuna finds that the armies that are waiting to battle have already been destroyed by the Lord’s will and that he himself is only an instrument for that.
This experience shakes Arjuna to the very core and he loses himself in devotion to the Lord. In the end, Arjuna is informed by the lord that such an experience is very rare and only through firm devotion, a person can achieve this. So, he is exhorted to be a devotee of the Lord, carrying out his will, looking upon Him as the highest and having attachment for nothing other than the Lord.
