Swaroop (Forms of the God)

Here we will find different forms of the God.

What happens to those who worship the imperishable and unmanifested?

एवं सततयुक्ता ये भक्तास्त्वां पर्युपासते ।
ये चाप्यक्षरमव्यक्तं तेषां के योगवित्तमाः ॥१२:१॥

Arjun asks Lord Krishna:
Those who are continuously devoted thus (this form) and those who worship the imperishable and unmanifested form, which of the unions is celebrated?

ये त्वक्षरमनिर्देश्यमव्यक्तं पर्युपासते ।
सर्वत्रगमचिन्त्यं च कूटस्थमचलं ध्रुवम् ॥१२:३॥

Lord Krishna says to Arjun:
But those who worship the imperishable, inexplicable, unmanifested, inconceivable and all-pervading, they are fixated at the center or top of the sky.

Worshipping the unmanifested is more difficult for the embodied.

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् ।
अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ॥१२:५॥

Lord Krishna says to Arjun:
Of them who have attached their minds to the unmanifested there is more trouble. Indeed, the embodied obtain the unmanifested destination (only) with suffering.

You can't see my universal form with your naked eyes. I will give you divine eyes or vision.

न तु मां शक्यसे द्रष्टुमनेनैव स्वचक्षुषा ।
दिव्यं ददामि ते चक्षुः पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम् ॥११:८॥

Lord Krishna says to Arjun:
But you cannot see me by your own powerless eyes. I give you divine eyes to behold my power of union.

I am elated but also terrified on seeing your universal form. Please just show me your divine form.

अदृष्टपूर्वं हृषितोऽस्मि दृष्ट्वा
भयेन च प्रव्यथितं मनो मे ।
तदेव मे दर्शय देवरुपं
प्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास ॥११:४५॥

Arjun says to Lord Krishna:
I am cheerful or elated having seen what I had never seen before. I am also terrified or purturbed in my mind with fear. Just show me that godly form. Be gracious, O lord of the lords, abode of the universe.

I want to see you four-armed (with conchshell, disc, mace and lotus) form

किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रहस्तम्
इच्छामि त्वां द्रष्टुमहं तथैव ।
तेनैव रुपेण चतुर्भुजेन​
सहस्रबाहो भव विश्वमूर्ते ॥११:४६॥

Arjun says to Lord Krishna:
wish to see you like such with crown, mace and the disc in the hands. From the thousands-armed universal form, please come to the four-armed form.

Having seen you now in the peaceful human form, I now have returned to my natural senses.

दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रुपं तव सौम्यं जनार्दन ।
इदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः ॥११:५१॥

Arjun says to Lord Krishna:
Having seen this gentle human form of your, O Janaardan (Krishna), I now have become settled in my natural consciousness.