Arjuna is persuaded by Krishna, but asks for a favor. He's not content with the Big picture-now he wants to see the Really Big Picture. He knows Krishna is God in disguise and wants to see what God really look like.
Krishna shows him.
Arjuna sees universes without end, galaxies spinning and trillions and trillions of souls trapped in the cycle of birth and death, being born, suffering, dying.
For a mind that has not yet been completely purified by spiritual practice, the Vision is too much to bear. Arjuna screams for Krishna to stop, and the Lord resumes his Human form.
" I have taught you the secret of secrets, " Krishna concludes. " Now surrender to Me, worship Me in all your words and thoughts, and offer your actions to Me as a sacrifice of love. You cannot even begin to conceive how much I care for you. I am your eternal refuge. Don't be afraid ! I promise, I will save you".
For 2, 500 years, Hindus have clung with unshakable faith to Krishna's loving promise.
Very often, Westerners , when they're exposed to the Gita, complain that it condones war. At one level, there's some truth to this. At another, it misses the point completely. Mahatma Gandhi , the quintessential man of peace, kept a copy of the Bahagavad Gita with him at all times. Hindus understand that the battlefield Kurukshetra, Where Arjuna and Duryodana are facing off, is not really near Dehli. It's really in the human heart. All of us are at war with the Duryodhanas inside ourselves greed, hatred, ignorance. In the God himself shows us the way to victory.
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