Shloka 4
Uttanka’s Guru-Śuśrūṣā and the Commission to Retrieve the Maṇikuṇḍalas (उत्तङ्क-गुरुशुश्रूषा तथा मणिकुण्डल-आदेशः)
वैशम्पायन उवाच ततः स तस्मै प्रीतात्मा दर्शयामास तदू वपु: । शाश्व॒तं वैष्णवं धीमान् ददृशे यद् धनंजय:
Vaiśampāyana uvāca: tataḥ sa tasmai prītātmā darśayāmāsa tad eva vapuḥ | śāśvataṁ vaiṣṇavaṁ dhīmān dadarśe yad dhanañjayaḥ ||
वैशंपायन म्हणाले—राजन्! तेव्हा प्रसन्नचित्त होऊन परम बुद्धिमान् भगवानांनी त्याला आपले तेच सनातन वैष्णव स्वरूप दाखविले, जे युद्धाच्या आरंभी धनंजय अर्जुनाने पाहिले होते.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Divine grace is shown to the receptive: the Lord reveals his eternal nature not as spectacle but as reassurance that dharma is upheld and that the same guiding presence that stood at the war’s outset remains available in its aftermath.
Vaiśampāyana narrates that Kṛṣṇa, pleased, reveals to someone present (the recipient implied by context) his eternal Vaiṣṇava form—the very form earlier seen by Arjuna at the beginning of the great war.