Gita 11.49 If we maintain a service disposition, Krishna will reveal a conducive vision

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Bhagavad Gita 11.49 here it is said that maa te vyatha, oh Arjuna Krishna is telling Arjuna that no Arjuna there is no need to be troubled maa te vimur, maa che vimur bhavo there is no need to be bewildered there is no need to be troubled or bewildered dvishtva roopam ghoram idrin mamedam that this form of Arjuna when you have seen dvishtva and this form is ghoram it is fearful form and mamedam it's my form on seeing this you have become fearful and troubled there is no need to be fearful vyapet bhi pritamanaha punastvam vyapet bhi let the fear go away pritamanaha let your mind become peaceful punastvam again may you become peaceful tadevame roopam idam prapashyam may you see this form once again so the point here is that Krishna is telling Arjuna that Arjuna stay calm no need to get agitated, no need to get worked up no need to get get disturbed so there are two emotions which Krishna wants to free Arjuna from that is vitha and vimur bhavo vitha is affliction and vimur bhavo is bewilderment so the point is that when Krishna manifests the virat rupa at that time Arjuna has a certain expectation he has heard about the virat rupa and he expects to see a form that pervades all of cosmos and he sees that and he is astounded on seeing it, he is thrilled but Krishna also reveals to him the saumya rupa the kala rupa which is very fierce and seeing that Arjuna is not able to figure out what is this it's such a terrible looking form that seeing it Arjuna also becomes fearful, he becomes troubled it's when we see some unexpected feature of some some person whom we think we know that is bewildering it can be troubling and that's what happens to Arjuna over here Arjuna gets troubled on seeing this form and then Arjuna he asks who is this form and Krishna tells Arjuna that it is kaalos milokak chaitutra the time I am and Arjuna realizes that Krishna is so great Krishna is so powerful and he feels so first he was mur bhavo so he was very fearful and then he becomes troubled again further thinking that oh I took Krishna so cheaply sakheti matva prasabham yad uptam he krishna he yadav he sakheti ajanada mahimanam tavedam maya pramadat pranayena vapi yaccha vahasartham satkratosi vihara shayasana bhojaneshu ekot vachu tatsamaksham tatsham etvam aham iprameyam Krishna tells Arjuna please forgive Arjuna tells Krishna please forgive me I took you so cheaply I thought of you as my equal in fact I thought of you as my junior as lower to me and that was my presumptuousness please forgive me these many emotions are running through Arjuna and Arjuna is troubled by them so Krishna on seeing all these emotions tells Arjuna relax there is no need to get so worked up over Arjuna calm down and I will I will pacify you I will help you deal with the situation and how does Krishna help Arjuna deal with the situation Krishna removes the vision which is causing all this affliction and trouble so Krishna is not yet removed but in this verse Krishna is telling that I will remove Arjuna don't be fearful so suppose a child is watching a movie and then it turns out that that movie is a horror movie and it's very ghastly then he says no need to watch that movie similarly here it is being said that actually this ghastly form you need not see it so just like the horror movie can be turned off by a parent who sees the child is very fearful similarly Arjuna Krishna will turn off the ghastly vision that has troubled Arjuna so much and Krishna is assuring Arjuna that that's what is going to happen and what you want to see I will show it to you treat the manaha be peaceful become pleased at that form which will help you to become peaceful I will show you that form you can see that form now that's the point of this whole section is Krishna is pacifying Arjuna reciprocating with his desires so normally these two emotions bewilderment and fear or affliction illusion and affliction usually go together if we understand our spiritual identity as souls then there is no reason for us to be afflicted to feel afflicted it is when we forget our spiritual identity that we start feeling that that foundational illusion when we forget our spiritual identity when we identify with that which we are not then fear comes in ya sammohita jiva atmanam trigunatmakam paropimanvate arutham tat kutam cha bhipadyate sammohita jiva when the jiva comes under illusion at that time the jiva can't understand who I am and that misidentification with something which I am not just like a person may be comfortably situating in a movie theatre but if they start identifying with a character in a horror movie and they start thinking that oh I am the victim I am all that shape changing ghastly monster that is there in the horror movie that is going to afflict me and devour me then the spectator becomes fearful so like that we become fearful and when we identify with that which is not so illusion causes affliction and when the illusion is removed the affliction will also be removed so matey vitha mache vimudh bhavo bewilderment bewilderment is an interesting word wild when somebody is lost in the wild then they will naturally be bewildered so like that when we feel lost, disoriented not knowing what to do that is also a state of illusion when we find ourselves in a situation that we didn't expect ourselves to be in then that causes bewilderment so sometimes the illusion can be just our own we identify with something which we are not but sometimes we find ourselves in a situation which is completely unexpected and confusing that might also bewilder us but even when that happens what we can do is that we can focus on the service attitude if we understand that I am a soul as a soul I am a part of Krishna and I am meant to serve Krishna and I will keep serving Krishna no matter what happens then that service attitude will enable us to move on in our life that service attitude will enable us to find a way ahead ok let me take this one step in the service of Krishna then let me take the next step and then let me take one more step and in that way we can keep moving onwards towards Krishna through that persistent service attitude and so when we find inimical emotions overwhelming us at that time we can pray to Krishna Krishna please whatever this terrible unfavorable thing is please remove that and we can remember this this is Krishna's disposition that Krishna wants to remove fear from his devotee's life that oh my devotee do not be bewildered do not be fearful and Krishna will give us an alternate vision of things sometimes life seems to be filled with so much trouble that we may feel what is going on what am I doing over here what am I meant to do in such a situation why is this happening to me when such situations are troubling us Krishna can give us an alternate vision where we will be able to understand oh yeah I never thought of it this way the same situation which seemed to be filled with so much trouble and misery we may see oh this is all there's some opportunity over here there's some meaning over here there's some purpose over here if you just have the service attitude and we pray to Krishna please oh lord help me serve you guide me as to how I can serve you then Vishwaroopam Ghoram and that Ghor Roopa of material nature that we might be seeing this going wrong that going wrong that will disappear in the background and we will see my fear will go away will become peaceful Vishwa Tadevame Roopamidam Prapashyam we will see that ultimately no matter how many things are going wrong Krishna is still God Krishna is still in control we are still his servants and whatever happens these realities are not going to change that whatever happens Krishna is my master I am his and I am his servant and I'll keep serving him when we have this understanding and when we keep serving Krishna with this understanding then we are able to have inner stability and that inner stability will gradually bring external clarity of how we can serve and find a way out of that troubling situation thank you.