(Beholding the cosmic, vishwaroop form of Shree Krishna) Arjun (the warrior disciple of Krishna) says,
“I feel unsettled, I want You to just go back as You were before! I like having You as my friend!”
By him saying that, he’s indicating something else which is beyond the Gita (Divine scripture) which is that you can have a personal relationship with God which is closer than just accepting Him as Almighty God.
You can think of God as formless. That’s fine, but then you can’t really relate yourself to a formless God. How can you have a relationship with something that doesn’t have a form? So, luckily for us, God does have a form.
Normally, when people start thinking of God with a form, they think of Almighty God like a supreme judge who hands out the consequences of our actions, who is responsible for creating, maintaining, and destroying the universe. That supreme Almighty God, all-powerful, all-knowing, is normally how people think of God - in that way. And that’s the form in which Arjun saw Shree Krishna (the supreme Divine Personality). He saw His total Almighty power, and it actually unsettled him.
Why? Well, don’t you feel nervous when you meet even a great person, someone that you respect and look up to? When you meet them, you’re amazed, and you’re in awe, and you feel nervous; you’re a little unsettled. So imagine if you met the supreme Almighty God. That’s how Arjun reacted even having received Divine eyes. So it was okay for a while, but he was trembling and shaking, and it was too much.
So Shree Krishna gives us the option. He says,
“Yes, I am the supreme Almighty God, but you can also relate yourself to Me in a much sweeter, closer way. You don’t have to think of Me as Almighty God.”
