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Chapter 11
When Arjuna requested Lord Krsna, to reveal to him, His cosmic form, He bestowed upon him divine eyes (11/8) and Arjuna had a vision of His divine form and fearful form in His cosmic body. But beholding His malevolent form, Arjuna was terrified and offering his praises to Him, he said that he was affected by fear and so prayed to Him, to reveal to him his four-armed form. Then, He revealed to him first, His four-armed form and then the two-armed, human form. It proves, that Arjuna possessed divine vision upto the forty-ninth verse, because Arjuna in the fifty-first verse, says to Lord Krsna, "Seeing this gentle human form of Yours, O Janardana, I am now composed, and restored to my usual nature.
Now a doubt arises as to why Arjuna did not lose the faculty of divine vision, when he had been frightened and terrified (11/23-24). The clarification is, that by then Arjuna, was not too frightened to lose his divine vision. But, he is much frightened now and so being terrified, he bows to the Lord again and again, and prays to Him to reveal to him the divine form, with four-arms (11/45). It is here, that he loses divine vision.
Secondly, Arjuna had a keen desire to see His cosmic form (11/3). So Lord Krsna vouchsafed divine vision to Arjuna but here he had no longing to behold His cosmic form, but being terrified, he longs to see His divine form, so there is no need of the divine eye. Thus, he loses divine vision.
If Sanjaya and Arjuna, had not been overwhelmed with grief and fear, they would have continued to possess the divine vision and seen more details. But, it was because of their grief and terror, that they lost their divine vision. Similarly, when a man out of delusion is attached to the world, he loses discrimination. As a greedy man, by losing discrimination commits deadly sins, such as thefts, robberies and even murders, but if he without being deluded, attaches due importance to discrimination, he himself will attain salvation, and will lead the world to salvation.
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