How was Sanjay able to see the Universal Form without being given special eyes by Krishna?
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Hare Krishna Question Did Sanjay see the universal form? How was he able to see it if Krishna did not grant him special vision which he had granted to Arjuna? Answer Sanjay yes he saw the Vishwaroopa.
It is described in the 11th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita What was revealed by Krishna is described by Sanjay from the 9th verse onwards so in the Bhagavad Gita from the Bhagavad Gita first in the 11th chapter is called the Vishwaroopa Darshan. In the first four verses Sanjay Arjuna requests Krishna please show me your universal form then in from verses 5 to 8 Krishna gives a prelude of what Arjuna is going to see and then Krishna reveals that form and from the 9th text onwards Sanjay starts describing what Krishna has revealed so 9, 10, 11, 12 13 there is a description of what Sanjay is seeing what Krishna is revealing and then from the 14th verse onwards Sanjay starts describing Arjuna’s response to what is being seen so in that sense the Vishwaroopa is described three times first by Krishna what he is going to show by Sanjay what Krishna is showing and by Arjuna of what he is seeing so Sanjay does see the universal form and now how is he able to see? That is because he has got the blessings of Vyasadeva Vyasa Prasada Shrutvan, Etad Guhiyam Aham Param Yogam Yogeshwarat Krishna Sakshat Kathayata Soyam towards the end of the Bhagavad Gita in the 18th chapter Sanjay states that actually Krishna that it is by the mercy of Vyasa that I was able to hear and I was able to see this confidential conversation so that point he is focusing on the conversation because the Bhagavad Gita concludes centrally a conversation but along with the conversation he had the vision to see what happened in the battlefield and not only what happened in the battlefield but he was also by the mercy of Vyasa able to see the universal form so how was he able to see when Krishna did not give him the blessing? No, Krishna spoke for Arjuna’s benediction but through Arjuna Krishna wanted to instruct the whole world and Krishna wanted Sanjay to become the medium by which that conversation would be transmitted for the whole world so it is he arranged that Vyasadev’s blessing extend by which Sanjay would also be able to see the Vishwaroopa so at one level Krishna and Vyasa are non-different Vyasadev is the literary incarnation of Krishna and thus it was that Krishna that same Krishna who benedicted Arjuna to see the Divyam Dadamite Chakshu who gave Arjuna divine eyes that same Krishna also gave through Vyasadev gave Sanjay the vision by which he could perceive and describe the Vishwaroopa. Thank you.