{"id":105990,"date":"2023-02-06T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=105990"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:24:41","slug":"the-universal-form-as-revealed-in-the-bhagavad-gita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=105990","title":{"rendered":"The Universal Form as Revealed in the Bhagavad-g\u0131ta"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCaitanya Carana Prabhu:<\/p>\n

From \u201cThe Universal Form as Revealed in the Bhagavad-g\u0131ta\u201d in Back to Godhead, Vol. 57, No. 3 (May\/June 2023):<\/p>\n

\u201cTo help us better appreciate the vision of the universal form, the Gita describes it thrice: in Krishna\u2019s words, in Sa\u00f1jaya\u2019s words, and in Arjuna\u2019s words.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy does the Gita use this triple descriptive framework? To help us gain a sense of a vision that is otherwise incomprehensible. When something is difficult to understand, it\u2019s helpful to have that thing described or explained from different perspectives. In general, if someone claims to have seen something supernatural, it\u2019s natural that most people will be suspicious. But if multiple people see the same thing, that increases the credibility of the vision. Beyond that, if we want to know more about what was actually seen, then we can try to integrate the details of the sight as described by different people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Arjuna sees initially as the majestic universal form soon starts devouring the warriors assembled on the very Kurukshetra battlefield where Arjuna is. This is Krishna\u2019s cosmically destructive form of time, kala-rupa. That the kala-rupa perturbs a valiant warrior of Arjuna\u2019s caliber underscores its unbearable scariness. This vision reveals the all-round nature of God\u2019s omnipotence: no one can inspire devotion like Him (in His form as Krishna), and no one can induce fear like Him (in His form as time).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVishnu is like God in the office, and Krishna is like God at home: same person, different personalities. And because God is omnipresent, He can be present both in the office and at home simultaneously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caitanya Carana Prabhu: From \u201cThe Universal Form as Revealed in the Bhagavad-g\u0131ta\u201d in Back to Godhead, Vol. 57, No. 3 (May\/June 2023): \u201cTo help us better appreciate the vision of the universal form, the Gita describes it thrice: in Krishna\u2019s words, in Sa\u00f1jaya\u2019s words, and in Arjuna\u2019s words.\u201d \u201cWhy does the Gita use this triple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105991,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105990\/revisions\/105991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}