Bhagwad Gita - Post 131

Verse 4

Manyase yadi tacchakyam

Mayaa drashtumiti prabho;

Yogeshwara tato me twam

Darshayaatmaanamavyayam.

If Thou, O Lord, thinkest it possible for me to see it, do Thou, then, O Lord of the Yogis, show me Thy imperishable Self!

“O Supreme Lord! Master of yoga! If You think that I am ready for this vision, let me be granted the vision of the immortal Universality that You are.” This is the introduction to the Visvarupa Darshana in the Eleventh Chapter.

It may be wondered that if the great sages, liberated beings and the demigods are unable to see the Supreme Lord Krishna's visvarupa or divine universal form, how will it be possible for Arjuna to see such a form?

This is why Arjuna states the words "manyase yada" which means if you consider. If Lord Krishna considers that Arjuna who is His surrendered devotee is capable of beholding His universal form which encompasses the total creation then by the Supreme Lord's grace, He can reveal it.

Lord Krishna is addressed by him as Yogeswara or the Lord of yogis perfected in the science of the individual consciousness attaining communion with the Pure absolute consciousness.

By the Supreme Lord's grace one can achieve the path leading to spiritual perfection which is one's highest good and without the Supreme Lord's grace no path is capable of yielding spiritual perfection. Arjuna is inferring that due to being fully devoted to Lord Krishna, he can witness this supreme form.

  

Verse 5

Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:

Pashya me paartha roopaani

Shatasho’tha sahasrashah;

Naanaavidhaani divyaani

Naanaavarnaakriteeni cha.

The Blessed Lord said:

Behold, O Arjuna, My forms by the hundreds and thousands, of different sorts, divine and of various colors and shapes!

The Supreme Lord Krishna being requested by His surrendered devotee to reveal His viswarupa or divine universal form; responded with the word "pasya" meaning behold, His hundreds of thousands of radiant and dazzling transcendental manifestations inferring that he should be prepared because it is difficult to look at. 

The word “ropaani” meaning forms is used to express the manifestation of innumerable multifarious and multicolored divine forms and shapes.

Nānāvidhāni divyāni nānāvarṇākṛtīni ca: “Every form, every color, every detail, anything that you would like to see is here just now. And it is not just spread out in a distance or a spatial expanse; it is a distance less compactness of the presence of all things at one and the same place.”

There, when one thing was touched, everything was touched. Everything looked like a mirror reflecting every other thing. It appeared that everything could be seen everywhere. “Look at Me then, in this Form. Look at the suns dazzling everywhere!

When Sri Krishna assumed this Cosmic Form, the very earth started melting down into the liquid of consciousness, and it was God everywhere.

Sri Chinmaya writes,

“Behold, in hundreds and thousands, my different forms celestial, varied in colors and shapes".  It was not necessary for Krishna to change His form to that of the Cosmic-Man; all that Arjuna had to do was to BEHOLD THE FORM right in front of him. But, unfortunately, the instrument-of perception was not tuned up for the object of his investigation, and therefore, Arjuna could not perceive that which was already in Krishna.

That which is lying beyond the focal length of a telescope, cannot be viewed by the observer even though the object may be present in line with the axis of the instrument. In order to bring the farther object within the span of vision, the observer will have to make the required adjustments in the telescope. 

Similarly, Krishna did not Transform Himself into His Cosmic-Form, but He only helped Arjuna to make the necessary inward adjustments so that he could perceive what was there evidently in Krishna. Naturally, the Lord says, "BEHOLD."

Dear All,

Chinmaya conveys the most subtlest  truth through the above revelation.

When we are prepared internally through our years of intense spiritual sadhana and our vision of the world has vanished, with the help of His own eye of the eye (nayan nayan mein), we are able to experience the Lord in all magnificence, where, the cosmic form is not the Lord raising to sky height, but the Lord experienced with the whole creation within Him, as the supreme, all pervading, universal consciousness!!!!

As we refresh our thoughts on the Sadan (Sai centre in Muscat) talks, can't we then take the granting of the required vision by Krishna to Arjuna as the grace that we deserve with our intense  sadhana so that:

- Krishna comes  parallel to us

- Krishna comes very near to us and touches us

- Krishna merges in us , and, 

 Our eyes are replaced by Krishna's eyes so that, 

WE ARE ABLE TO GET BEYOND ALL THE FEAR OF THE COSMIC FORM AND ARE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE LORD IN ALL HIS GRANDEUR WITHIN OUR OWN HEART AS CONSCIOUSNESS.

This is the stage when there is no cosmic form of God outside us, there is no creation outside us. 

The realized seer roars in ecstasy at that state,  " I AM THAT" or " I AM I".

Love.