Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 362

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-11 Viśvarūpa Darśana Yogaḥ

daṃṣṭrā-karālāni ca te mukhāni dṛṣṭvaiva kālānala sannibhāni | diśo na jāne na labheca śarma prasīda deveśa jagannivāsa || 25 || 25. Seeing Your mouths with awesome fangs and appearing like the fire of Cosmic Annihilation, I am completely disorientated and confused. Have mercy on me, O Lord of the Devas! O Abode of the universe! Commentary Krishna, acting as Arjuna’s charioteer (Pārthasārathi), having thus shown that all the worlds depend upon Him for their existence and activities, proceeded to reveal to the son of Pritha (Arjuna) that He was using him as a mere instrument. Krishna’s true agenda was to lighten the burden of the earth through the destruction of all those, who in the guise of princes, were presenting themselves as the sons of Dhṛtarāṣtṛa and their followers, but were actually partial Asuric manifestations. Many such embodiments of Asuras were present also in the ranks of Yudhiṣṭhira’s followers. And Arjuna, after having perceived by clairvoyance received through Krishna’s grace, the complete Theophany of the Lord as the Creator etc., witnessed also the slaughter of the entourage of the sons of Dhṛtarāṣtṛa and others — within the cosmic form of that very Lord Himself, who is the Self of all, even though the slaughter had not yet taken place — Arjuna continues:—