(Arjuna bows to Vishvarupa)

Cosmic form, form of creation, name for the sun. (Glossary for the Vahinis)

Exhorting Arjuna to see everything in the Atma (Divine soul), Krishna revealed to him His Vishvarupa (Cosmic Divine Form), all the forms seen in the Cosmos, wherefrom they have come. Krishna revealed that all of them were in Him. He told Arjuna: ‘I am in the tree that you see. I am in the ocean. I am in the earth. See Me in everything.’ Krishna revealed that all that is seen in the phenomenal Universe is within Him.

In this context, the difference between Divinity (as Universal Consciousness) and the Avatar (the Divine in human form) should be understood. The Para Brahman (the Omni self) is not subject to change. The Avatar has name and form and is liable to change by its own Will. The Omni self has no name or form. The difference between the two can be illustrated by the example of the Sun and the rays coming from the Sun. There is no difference in substance between the Sun and the Sun’s rays. They are one. Whatever the situation in which the Avatar appears, there is no limitation on the Avatar’s Purnatvam (Omnipotence). Name and form do not circumscribe the total fullness of the Divinity the Avatar (divine incarnation) manifests. Name and form are the self-chosen attributes of the infinite, eternal, ever pure, Universal Consciousness. (SSS Vol.17, pp. 166-167)