Doesn’t the universal form vision indicate that the war was destined?
Into the mouth of Krishna, then that time it seems that the war was a stand. Yes, but that is after the Shanti Dutta mission. When Krishna goes as a peace messenger and Duryodhana rebuffs him completely, at that time Krishna speaks to Dhritarashtra and Dhritarashtra says, you know, I have no objection to your proposal, but you have to persuade Duryodhana and then Duryodhana refuses to listen.
Duryodhana tries to arrest Krishna and then Krishna exhibits his Vishwaroopa and eventually he just leaves from there. So at that time he tells the assembly over there, all of you have seen how this arrogant prince has defied everyone because of his actions. Now the war has become inevitable.
So the war was destined, but when was it destined? So when Krishna is showing the Vishwaroopa, when Krishna shows the Vishwaroopa to Duryodhana in the Kaurava assembly, there he doesn't show all the warriors going inside the mouth. Krishna actually gives Dhritarashtra the eyes to see his Vishwaroopa also. Dhritarashtra doesn't see the Kauravas dying over there.
He just sees the magnificent power of Krishna. That means till that point Krishna was giving the Pandavas, Kauravas a chance to reform, but when they didn't, then Krishna, when the war had become inevitable, the war was going to be fought, Krishna said, the Kauravas have shown by their actions that they are not going to change. Then they have to be eliminated.
In Hindi it says, Now there are some sayings which are non-translatable. If I try to translate it, what does it become? The ghosts of kicks don't learn by words. It doesn't make any sense, but don't worry.
So the point is that when the Kauravas showed by their actions that they had absolutely no inclination or intention to change, then the war was inevitable. But Krishna made all efforts that he could to try to get the Kauravas to change their inclination and intention. So when Krishna is showing Arjuna the Vishwaroopa in the battlefield of Kurukshetra,.