When Arjuna was already able to see Krishna’s intimate form why did Krishna have to give him divine vision to see the Universal Form?

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Hare Krishna question when Arjuna was already able to see the Shamsundar form of Krishna which is which is a higher revelation than the form the perception of Vishwaroopa then why did Krishna have to give Arjuna a special vision which he calls as the divine vision Divyam Dadami Te Chakshu why did he have to give such a special vision for Arjuna to see the Vishwaroopa answer there are different purposes that Krishna fulfills at different levels when he manifests in this world so accordingly there is adjustment of vision that is required so now when Krishna descends to this world at that time he descends as a human being and similarly his associates also descend as human beings so they are at a transcendental level his intimate associates but along with that when they descend to this earthly level they act as earthly beings and some of them may have some special celestial powers some special powers because of either Krishna’s arrangement, because Krishna’s blessing or because of their own exalted character and qualities but either way they don’t necessarily act in always in omniscient or transcendental levels or in extraordinary levels beyond human capacity so for example when Arjuna has to go to the heavens Arjuna he is definitely an extraordinary person extraordinary warrior, extraordinary hero, extraordinary devotee but still it is not that he disrupts the normal order and gate crashes into heaven, no Indra sends his chariot and by that chariot he rises to heaven, it’s an extraordinary accomplishment but still Arjuna does not display or possess the powers to just directly rise to heaven so it is arranged by a heavenly being Indra, similarly in general whenever the lord or his associates descend and they correspond with past times they usually act like other beings at that level of existence and occasionally they demonstrate extraordinary abilities, so the point which I am making is here that when Krishna descended to this world at that time it was everybody could see Krishna Duryodhana was a non devotee we could even call him an anti devotee, not just a non devotee but a non devotee means one who does not have devotion anti devotee means one who is against devotion, he was against the devotees especially so and yet he could see Krishna, it is when we say that he has to, when we talk about seeing Krishna, it is not that Krishna was like some, for the non devotees Krishna was some just invisible some invisible intangible presence, no when Krishna descends to this world, everybody is able to see him but we have to understand what does seeing mean Duryodhana seeing Krishna is not actually seeing Krishna, it is pashyan api na pashyate he is not able to see that reality, so he is able to see just another warrior but he is not able to see the supreme lord there and such seeing is not really seeing so when we see that Arjuna was able to see Krishna or Arjuna had the special, that means he had the special affection, that intimate and intense devotion as a friend as a sakha, by which he was able to see Krishna at both levels, he was able to see Krishna as his friend and he was able to see Krishna also as his beloved lord and both relationships go in parallel in fact that is the rasa of his eternal relationship with Krishna so the point is that Krishna, Arjuna’s transcendental relationship with Krishna was manifested at the earthly level and for that purpose Arjuna had earthly perception so Krishna had manifested within earthly perception when he came to the earth and while others also had that perception of Krishna they did not have the affection by which they could understand Krishna to be god whereas Arjuna had that affection and now for seeing the vishwaroopa there is a special vision that is required that vision is not possessed by those who are normally on earth and that vision was bestowed by Krishna to Arjuna so within the leela when Arjuna is more or less acting like an earthly resident of course what defines him as special qualities and especially his extraordinary devotion but still he is acting like a human being so then in that situation he cannot see a universal form and that’s why he needs a special vision being bestowed which from the earthly point of view is divine divine means because it is going to reveal because by that vision Arjuna is going to see a special form of the lord, a special manifestation of the lord which is not ordinarily perceivable which is not seen ordinarily so therefore the speciality of that vision is what is stressed when the divine perception is given vision is given and thus Arjuna needed a divine form to, Arjuna needed Krishna to give a divine vision for seeing Krishna’s form. Thank you.