Bhagavad Gita 11.50
सञ्जय उवाच | इत्यर्जुनं वासुदेवस्तथोक्त्वा स्वकं रूपं दर्शयामास भूयः | आश्वासयामास च भीतमेनं भूत्वा पुनः सौम्यवपुर्महात्मा ||
sañjaya uvāca | ity arjunaṁ vāsudevas tathoktvā svakaṁ rūpaṁ darśayām āsa bhūyaḥ | āśvāsayām āsa ca bhītam enaṁ bhūtvā punaḥ saumya-vapur mahātmā ||
Translation
Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus to Arjuna, Vasudeva showed his own form again, and the great-souled one comforted him, frightened as he was, by becoming once more gentle in body.
Reflection
What relationship of yours has been deepened, not broken, by something extreme that happened inside it?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eleven
Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus to Arjuna, Vasudeva showed his own form again. And the great-souled one, having become once more gentle in body, consoled him in his fear. Svakam rupam darshayam asa bhuyah. Saumya-vapuh, the gentle body. The narration steps back and reports the change. The form that had filled the sky has folded back into the friend on the chariot. The same word darshayam asa, showed, is used as in 11.9, but the showing is now in the other direction. The verse closes the vision and brings the narrative back to the field. The great-souled one consoles the frightened one. The relation has not been broken by what was shown. It has been deepened.