Viswaroop Darshan - Vision Beyond Eyes: Gita & God 39

In Gita, Arjun had wished to see the True form of God as expounded by Lord Shree Krishna. The Lord gave Arjun the power to envision the True form of God for a temporary period. And, Arjun did behold the True Form ofGod. This clearly seems to be an unnatural event: something mystical, magical.

But is that so? Not really. It was simply a natural phenomenon. What would have been unnatural was Arjun being able to see God's True form with his eyes. Human eyes have limitation: they cannot see 360 degrees at the same time. They cannot see things at far distance. With the help of modern cameras, the human eyes can see photos/ images taken and transmitted by sattletites and unmanned ships traversing in the distant space. Three-dimension instruments can make the pictures closer to the reality. Yet, with all these, the human eyes cannot see all that is in the entire Universe through all times all at the same time.

The human mind, however, is capable of seeing things that the eyes cannot behold: that is a separate, special kind of vision that powers human beings to do things that would seem impossible till such things are actually performed by a human being for the first time.
Not every human mind is capable of drawing the diagrams of the n-dimensional space or understand them within the limitation of two dimensions. But talented and trained astronomers can envision and understand them. Arjun needed a similar but far superior capability of the mind to see through the True form of God even if partially. Lord Krishna helped Arjun to develop this faculty/ capabilty for a glimpse of what the Lord referred to as the True Universal form of God.
With the help of such a mental vision, Arjun could see a glimpse of the entire Universe on a single mental screen.

What vision did Arjun have? He just could see what was going on in the Universe over time. He saw
the Universe as simultaneously containing the following and more:
1. Innumerable known ad unknown faces of human beings that existed in the past and were present at that time or in infinite time , and their their eyes,
2. Numerous physical bodies like the stars, planets ans suns in the space,
3. Uncountable arrays of powerful objects that looked like weaponry,
4. Fire, air, brilliant lights, water of infinitely larger or greater dimensions than he had seen with his human eyes.
5. All kinds of various powers and forces that human beings had named as various gods and goddesses,demons and the like.

And, he saw all these or more in contiously and limitlessly expanding mode and space. The entire sceme that he had a vision of was so expansive and widespread that it did not have a beginning or centre or an end. He was unable to tolerate the glow of thousands of burning suns that were simultaneously appearing in his vision. He saw everything that he saw to be in a state of helplessness and bondage of an enveloping, limitless container.

This is a broad and brief description of Viswaroop darshan elaborated in Chapter 11, slokas 7 through 49 in Gita (for ready reference see Chaper 11 at http://senland.blogspot.com/).

This was nothing but simply some knowledge about the entire Creation or the Universe that modern science has established as Truth through application of mind and scientific methods of exploration through centuries' efforts in search of Knowledge. This is the Knowledge that Arjun gathered through what has been referred to as Viswaroop Darshan. The entire Creation was thus possible to be envisioned as the Creator or God. The access to this simple knowledge is even now possible only for the learned and educated.

There is nothing so magical about Viswaroop Darshan. It is only a simple natural phenomenon that trained human minds are capable of envisioning through simple logic. That the entire Creation is the Creator God is such a simple Truth after all!