किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रहस्त मिच्छामि त्वां द्रष्टुमहं तथैव। तेनैव रूपेण चतुर्भुजेन सहस्रबाहो भव विश्वमूर्ते।।11.46।।
kirīṭinaṁ gadinaṁ chakra-hastam ichchhāmi tvāṁ draṣhṭum ahaṁ tathaiva tenaiva rūpeṇa chatur-bhujena sahasra-bāho bhava viśhva-mūrte
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A Reading - Rantideb
Why: Arjuna asks to see Krishna again with his crown, mace, and discus, in his four-armed form, wishing to see him as before, explicitly requesting the return to the more graspable, familiar form rather than continuing with the totalizing vision.
In life: after glimpsing the full, overwhelming scale of something significant, it's genuinely healthy to want to return to engaging with it in a more familiar, manageable form, rather than insisting on sustaining the totalizing intensity indefinitely.
Teaching: after an experience that revealed the full scale of something significant, allow yourself to return to relating to it in a more familiar, manageable form afterward, that return isn't a retreat from truth, it's a sustainable way of continuing to live with it.