Vishwaroop- Udyog Parva

VISHWAROOP (The universal form) Duryodhana went to his brother, Dussasana, Shakuni and Karna. He said that now his mother Gandhari too has come to the assembly hall. I am sick of listening to their same talk again and again. I do not want to listen to their talk anymore. Krishna is instigating everyone against us. We should catch him and put him in the prison. I am thinking of this for quite sometime. This would also give a crippling blow to the morals of the Pandavas. They will become like a serpent whose fangs have been taken out. After this the Pandavas will forget the war. Lets hurry to get Krishna.

Satyaki had some inkling of such misadventure by Duryodhana. Satyaki told Krishna about the plan of Duryodhana. He said to Dhritarastra, "My lord, see the lunacy of your son Duryodhana. He is planning to capture Krishna. He is trying to hold the sun in his hands." Vidura started lamenting for the son of the king. He became very sad thinking about the great misfortune coming to the king in his old age.

Krishna smiled at him and said, "Please do not grieve for me. It is not very easy to capture me." Then he addressed Dhritarastra, "My lord your son has committed all sorts of sinful acts, now this is the last of his sinful acts." Dhritarastra was alarmed. He called for Duryodhana. He said to Duryodhana, "Steeped in sin as you are, I could never imagine that you would stoop so low. What is this lunacy? You are dreaming of capturing the greatest man on earth. Neither the gods nor the rishis are powerfull enough to do this you can take the sun in your hands more easily." Krishna said to Duryodhana," You want to capture me, look. Speaking this Krishna laughed and his body was emblazoned with a divine light.

All the gods were seen coming out of his body. They looked very small in comparison to the universal form of Krishna. Brahma was on his forehead. Eleven rudras were on his chest. Indra, Varuna, Kubera and Yama were seen on his shoulders. Agni was coming out of his mouth and the nostrils. Twelve Adityas, eight Vasus, all maruta and gods were seen in his body. The Pandavas, Balarama all Vrishni warriors, all Andhakas were seen with their weapons.

Krishna was seen as having, innumerable hands, all kinds of weapons were there. His conch Panchajanya was there. His Sudarshana Chakra was there, in one hand he was wielding his mace Kaumudiki. He eyes and nostrils were throwing out great flames. This aspect of his form was very terrible. It was as if the death was there in the person of Krishna. His divine splendor and glitter dazed everyone. No one was able to look at him except Bhishma, Drona and Vidura and some of the great sages present there. They were unable to satisfy their thirst for this vision. They were desirous of seeing it forever. Krishna granted divine vision to Dhritarastra so he could also witness this divine spectacle. Looking at this divine form again and again overwhelmed him.

Divine music was heard and the rain of flowers continued through out. Dhritarastra's eyes were shedding stream of tears. He prayed with folded hands that he was completely satisfied by having the vision of the lord. He no longer want to see anything else. He prayed that his eyes be taken back. Lord accepted his prayer. Dhritarastra became blind again.

Krishna came back to his normal self. He took the hands of Vidura and Satyaki and went out of the assembly hall. He took leave of all the sages present there. The sages left after Krishna. The kings who were there came after chariot and army at the gate of the palace. Krishna went to Vidura's house without looking at the kings present there. His eyes were very sad. At Vidura's house he touched feet of Kunti and told her about the happenings in the assembly hall. He said that the Pandavas shall regain their lost glory soon. They shall get back their kingdom and the darkness will clear. Kunti asked Krishna to convey her blessings to all her sons and daughter in law Draupadi. She started crying recalling the hardships suffered by the Pandavas during their thirteen-year exile. Krishna started for Upalavya after taking leave of Kunti.

Duryodhana roared, after Krishna left, that the war should start at the earliest. The eleven "akshauhims of army marched towards the field called "Kurukshetra". Dhritarastra, Drona, Bhishma, Kripa tried to see him reason once again but he was beyond all advice. Victory or death in the battle was the only thought in his mind.
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Explanation

The Eleventh Chapter of Gita is called Vishwaroopa Darshan Yoga'. There are in all 55 shlokas in this chapter, and apart from the common Anusthup Meter, we have a liberal usage of a longer meter called as Tristhup. As the very name shows in this chapter Lord shows his Vishwaroopa to Arjuna.

The chapter starts with Arjuna expressing his heartfelt gratitude towards Lord for his divine teachings, because of which his delusion stands effaced to a great extent. He says that he now understands that all beings have come from you, they exist in you and finally go back in you. While intellectually he certainly appreciates this fact, but if the Lord so deems it to be fit, we would like to see' or experience that cosmic form, from where everything is coming out etc. To Arjunas pleasant surprise Lord accepts his request and says that right here in this body of mine you will see all these happenings of creation, sustenance & dissolution. However, that experience is not possible with our existing faculties, so he provides Arjuna with a Divine Vision' (Divya Chakshu). The moment Lord provided this capacity to Arjuna, Arjuna dumfoundedly saw the Cosmic Form, and so, it was Sanjaya who had to describe to us what Arjuna saw.

Arjuna saw a highly decorated & resplendent divine form, which had many mouth, eyes, hands, weapons ornaments. It was so resplendent that he says that it would take a thousand suns to compare the glow of that form. What he saw was a holistic, unfragmented vision of the entire cosmos. Filled with awe & extreme wonder Arjuna saw that form, and thereafter bowed his head down and did pranam to Lord and said that : I see herein the entire worlds and all the gods. He says that I am convinced that You' are imperishable supreme Being of this universe, you are the imperishable protector of the universe, the Ancient Purusha. You are without beginning or end, and in you alone everything exists and go back. I not only see the devatas & rishis in you but even these sons of Dhritrashtra, who are being swallowed up by you. That aspect of you appears very terrible & frightening. They all are going into you as a river goes into the ocean, and you seem to enjoy not only the creation but even the destruction. Arjuna finally requests Lord to tell him what & who he exactly is.

Lord says what Arjuna is seeing at the moment is his aspect of the mighty time', which brings & ends everything. He says that even without Arjuna around people would come & go, so he need not take himself as the cause of these inevitable happenings. Arjuna just needs to become like an instrument. He says that time has already killed Dronanacharya or Bhishma, so Arjuna should be free of any guilt borne out of any baseless doership, and do what is right for him to do.

Arjuna thereafter does prayers at the feet of Lord, and requests for being excused for any thing said or done when he did not know about this unimaginable reality reality of Lord. He then requests Lord to remove this fearful form and show his original form once again. The Lord thereafter takes back that vision' and Arjuna again sees the same Lord once again.

The chapter ends by Lord telling that this particular form is not available to be seen by any other person, even by resorting to sadhana's like japa or tapa etc. It is only by utmost devotion that anyone can realize this truth of Lord. The final shloka of the chapter assures Arjuna that whosoever works just for ME, aspiring for ME, loving ME, and is without any attachment or malice towards anyone attains ME alone.

Thus ends the eleventh chapter of Bhagwad Gita.

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