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By Kamlesh Tripathi
By Kamlesh Tripathi
Just before the commencement
of the holy war—Mahabharat, Arjun broke down in the battle field and his
emotions ran high when he was unable to come to terms with the prevailing circumstances,
that soon he would have to fight his very near and dear ones—Kuruvansh who
happened to be his first cousins, and where his main rival was Duryodhan. He was
also in a state of torment when he saw Bhishma Pitamah standing stupendous
right opposite to him, and ready to take him on, when in his cradle of arms he had
spent his childhood. And flanked on the sides of Pitamah were his revered Gurus—Dronacharya
and Kripacharya all tied down by various pratigyas (vows) to defend the
Kuruvansh. And amidst all of this he was suppose to raise the battle cry to deluge
them in the sea of destruction.
And when Arjun was unable to withstand the emotional
pressure, he looked up to Lord God Krishna who was his charioteer and entered into
a conversation with him, who, sermonized Arjun to pick up arms against his
close relatives and to fight for righteousness. Arjun responded to his mighty sakha
(friend) Krishna, but desired to see his “Vishwaroop” (omni divine form) in
order to get out of his tender spell to which Krishna obliged, and thereafter
Krishna said to Arjun:
Dear Arjun! I am pleased with you
for you are my friend and bhakt (devotee) and therefore with my antarangaa
shakti (inner strength) I was able to show you my Vishwaroop. For bear it
in mind before you no one else in this universe has ever been able to see the aaseem
tatha tajomaya aadi-roop of mine. And you would have realized my Vishwaroop
was shinning like the sun and the faces in it were continuously changing like
the cycle of birth and death. Krishna had revealed his omni-form to a composed Arjun.
Before Arjun no one had ever seen the
Vishwaroop of Krishna but when Arjun was shown this stupendous form of Krishna which
was also scary in some ways, avatars and devotees from swarg lok (heaven)
and people from other lokas too got a glimpse of it only because of Arjun.
Conversely with the blessings of Lord Krishna all his disciples and followers
were able to have darshan of his Vishwaroop that Arjun was witnessing.
It is said when Krishna went to Duryodhan
with the peace (sandhi) proposal before Mahabharat, due to sheer arrogance Duryodhan
not only rejected the offer but also attempted to insult and imprison Krishna
and at that time Krishna in extreme anger showed him some form of his Vishwaroop
which was quite different than what was shown to Arjun, but unfortunately ignoramus
Duryodhan in his haughtiness and false pride could not understand the divine message
from Lord God Krishna otherwise the war of Mahabharat could have been averted.
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