Arjuna reaches a breaking point. He sees Kṛṣṇa touching the sky, glowing in many colors, with wide-open mouths and enormous, burning eyes. This total sensory overload has ‘perturbed his inner soul’. He cries out that he can no longer find his courage (‘Dhṛtim’) or his inner peace (‘Śamam’). He addresses the Lord as ‘Viṣṇu’, the all-pervading maintainer. The scale of the vision has crushed Arjuna’s psychological equilibrium. It is one thing to know God is great; it is another to see that greatness fill the entire horizon. The ‘many colors’ and ‘open mouths’ suggest a chaotic, overwhelming reality that the human mind cannot categorize. Arjuna feels like a small boat in a massive ocean storm. This verse shows that direct experience of the Absolute can be an ego-shattering event. We often want to ‘see God’, but Kṛṣṇa is showing that our current hardware isn’t built for the full download. Arjuna’s loss of peace is the natural reaction of the finite mind facing the Infinite. It is a humbling reminder of our own smallness in the face of the Divine.