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TEXT 8 na tu mam sakyase drastum
SYNONYMS  na--never;
tu--but; mam--Me; sakyase--able; drastum--to
see; anena--by this; eva--certainly; sva-caksusa--with
your own eyes; divyam--divine; dadami--I give; te--you;
caksuh--eyes; pasya--see; me--My; yogam aisvaram--inconceivable
mystic power.
TRANSLATION But you cannot
see Me with your present eyes. Therefore I give to you divine eyes by which
you can behold My mystic opulence.
PURPORT A pure devotee
does not like to see Krsna in any form except His form with two hands;
a devotee must see His universal form by His grace, not with the mind but
with spiritual eyes. To see the universal form of Krsna, Arjuna is told
not to change his mind but his vision. The universal form of Krsna is not
very important; that will be clear in the verses. Yet because Arjuna wanted
to see it, the Lord gives him the particular vision required to see that
universal form.
Devotees
who are correctly situated in a transcendental relationship with Krsna
are attracted by loving features, not by a godless display of opulences.
The playmates of Krsna, the friends of Krsna and the parents of Krsna never
want Krsna to show His opulences. They are so immersed in pure love that
they do not even know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
In their loving exchange they forget that Krsna is the Supreme Lord. In
the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that the boys who play with Krsna
are all highly pious souls, and after many, many births they are able to
play with Krsna. Such boys do not know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. They take Him as a personal friend. The Supreme Person is considered
as the impersonal Brahman by great sages, as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead by the devotees, and as a product of this material nature by ordinary
men. The fact is that the devotee is not concerned to see the visva-rupa,
the universal form, but Arjuna wanted to see it to substantiate Krsna's
statement so that in the future people could understand that Krsna not
only theoretically or philosophically presented Himself as the Supreme
but actually presented Himself as such to Arjuna. Arjuna must confirm this
because Arjuna is the beginning of the parampara system. Those who
are actually interested to understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Krsna, and who follow in the footsteps of Arjuna should understand that
Krsna not only theoretically presented Himself as the Supreme, but actually
revealed Himself as the Supreme.
The Lord
gave Arjuna the necessary power to see His universal form because He knew
that Arjuna did not particularly want to see it, as we have already explained.
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