Gita 11.45 The vishva-rupa causes jubilation, the kala-rupa causes trepidation

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thank you Bhagavad Gita 11.45 Bhagavad Gita Bhagavad Gita So Arjuna is now coming towards the conclusion of his prayers to Krishna in that connection he speaks making a request here adrishta purvam that that which was never seen before Krishna has also used the word similar sense that what he is going to say initially in 11.5 to 8 when he described the universal form he said that Arjuna that I am showing you what that which has never been seen before that same point of Krishna, Arjuna is repeating he said that by seeing this adrishta purvam vishitos nidrishtva I am jubilant but along with jubilance there is not just jubilance there is also pravetam mano me bhyedam there is also fear that has overwhelmed me pravetam mano me my mind is troubled by that tadev me darshe devarupam therefore all all please display that form to me by which prasita devesha jagannivasa please be pleased to me oh lord who are the god of the god devesha and jagannivasa who are the shelter of the universe the point here is Krishna is telling Arjuna that Arjuna is telling Krishna please reveal your form to me and the next verse what is that form kiridinam gadinam chakrahastam ichchamitvam dashtam aham ittheva tenam rupena chaturbhujena sahasrabhaobhavishvamurte he is saying oh lord now you who are in a thousand handed form please manifest your two handed form sorry not your two handed form the request for the two handed form is implicit because that is the normal form in which Krishna is descended in this world and he is focusing here on the principle that we are all that we are all actually affected by what we see when we see something we are agitated when we see something we see something disturbing something ghastly we become agitated when we see something sweet, serene we become peaceful we become joyful so now Arjuna describes that he went through two emotions rishito smidrishta drishta purvam so initially if we see Arjuna describes his reactions from text 15 onwards so when he starts speaking there initially he is describing the vishwaroopa and he says that dhoopamahate so there is a great form and this is vismito and that is astonishing so there is this astonishment which includes the feeling of appreciation which includes the feeling of jubilation which includes the feeling of delight so that is what was initially the reaction rishito smidrishta on seeing this he was delighted but along with that my mind is also disturbed so especially arjuna said that my soul my core is disturbed why is that? because you see this that this form is quite ghastly from the verse 25 onwards there is a description of the destructive feature within the absolute truth that is the kaalaroopa and that kaalaroopa is quite ghastly and dealing with the kaalaroopa is not at all easy of course arjuna does not have to deal with it but just to see it vaktrāṇi te tvarmāṇā vaiśyanti vaiśyākarālāṇi bhayānakaṇi kecidvilagnādaśanāntareśu satruśyante chūrṇitairuttamangai just seeing the warriors entering into the mouth of the viśvarūpa and being reduced to nothing that itself is just entering into the mouth and then not only are they just being devoured just disappearing into the mouth but some of them kecidvilagnādaśanāntareśu some of them are getting stuck, their heads are hitting against their teeth, they are getting stuck in their teeth and chūrṇitairuttamangai, the best part of their body the head is being crushed is being split chūrṇitairuttamangai, it's quite a ghastly sight if you think about it and Arjuna here is expressing his apprehension about or seeing that bhayāyana ca pravacitam manome what is this form that is causing such total devastation he asks Krishna and Krishna describes that it is actually the kāla rūpa lokān samāharasam eha praviddhah that time I am destroyer of all the worlds now the viśvarūpa itself is awesome but the kāla rūpa is fearsome and Arjuna has both this reaction adriṣṭa pūrva that has never been seen before Krishna has shown the viśvarūpa but he has never shown the kāla rūpa before he has shown the viśvarūpa to mother Yashoda, he has shown it to Duryodhana the kāla rūpa where that has not been shown before so bhayāyana ca pravacitam manome so Arjuna feels that it was he himself who desired to see the viśvarūpa but now after having seen it he feels that oh I should not have desired to see it this is so terrible thing to see and he does not regret in that sense but he says this is enough oh lord so please show me your form, that form so the Bhagavad Gita is a continuous conversation and the referent which form is being referred to as you mentioned in the next verse prasīd deveś jagannivāsa so the word jagannivāsa reflects a theme which is found throughout the Gita, the viśvarūpa is the rūpa within which the viśva is manifested so in a literal sense the viśvarūpa demonstrates how the lord is jagannivāsa how he is the shelter of the whole universe how he is the person who can shelter everything, everyone all of existence the lord is also known as jagannivāsa so jagannivāsa means the shelter of the people he is the foundation on which all people reside he is also jagannivāsa the more common name that we know him is jagannātha he is the master of the jagat, universe but jagannivāsa means he is a shelter of the universe nothing exists without him whatever exists, exists by his grace exists by his all attractive mercy and thus he is the shelter of all living beings God is the existence who makes all existence possible God is not a possibility in existence, he is the precondition for existence the theme which we have discussed repeatedly and that is repeated here through the address jagannivāsa.