अदृष्टपूर्वं हृषितोऽस्मि दृष्ट्वा भयेन च प्रव्यथितं मनो मे।
तदेव मे दर्शय देवरूपंप्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास ॥
किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रहस्तमिच्छामि त्वां द्रष्टुमहं तथैव।
तेनैव रूपेण चतुर्भुजेनसहस्रबाहो भव विश्वमूर्ते॥
Transliteration
adṛṣṭa-pūrvaṃ hṛṣito’smi dṛṣṭvā bhayena ca pravyathitaṃ mano me |
tadeva me darśaya deva rūpaṃ prasīda deveśa jagannivāsa || 45 ||
kirīṭinaṃ gadinaṃ cakra-hastam-icchāmi tvāṃ draṣṭum ahaṃ tathaiva |
tenaiva rūpeṇa catur-bhujena sahasra-bāho bhava viśvamūrte || 46 ||
Translation
O Lord! I am delighted that I have seen what has never been seen before, but my mind is overwhelmed with anxiety. Show me Your other form, O Lord of the gods! Be gracious, O Abode of the universe!
. I wish to see You ever as before, wearing a crown and holding a mace and discus in hand. Assume again that four-armed form, O Thousand-armed one, of Universal Form!
Purport
Now Arjuna requests Shri Krishna to display his four-armed form, the form which is most adorable, most beautiful and soothing for devotees.
Though this was Arjuna who requested Shri Krishna to show His real form and then Shri Krishna displayed his true real form. In fact, Arjuna could not have seen Shri Krishna's true real form and so Shri Krishna displayed his true form, the Universal Form.
When Shri Krishna displayed his real form, Arjuna saw something beyond imagination, Arjuna saw the whole universe, all creations and all destructions going on at the same time. Arjuna saw all deities and all living beings, all changes of the universe happening at the same time. But beyond this Arjuna saw how all living being is being consumed by Time, one of the forms of Shri Krishna. Thousands and thousands of living beings are meeting their ends into the vast consuming mouth of death.
Arjuna got terrified and afraid to his heart.
Therefore now Arjuna requests Shri Krishna to hide his vast universal form and show the most benevolent and beautiful four-armed form. This is the same form of Shri Vishnu which all of us always know and worship. However, during incarnation Lord Vishnu acquired even simpler form and exist in two arms form of a human.
Simpler forms of Lord Vishnu are the best human can comprehend. The true form of Bhagwan Vishnu, God is beyond human comprehension.
