In this visceral description of the Viśvarūpa, Arjuna witnesses the terrifying aspect of the Divine as Kāla (Time). The imagery of warriors rushing into Krishna's mouths, their heads crushed between His fierce teeth, serves as a profound metaphysical revelation: all individual expressions of life are ultimately subsumed by the temporal flow of the Supreme. It forces Arjuna—and the reader—to confront the reality that birth and death are not separate events but are both held within the vast, impersonal consciousness of the Infinite. The 'terrible' nature of this vision is a manifestation of Truth that transcends our limited, comfort-seeking ego. It is not that God is cruel, but that the ego-bound perspective is shattered when faced with the absolute inevitability of change. This experience is designed to strip away Arjuna’s attachment to the roles and bodies of his kinsmen, shifting his focus from the finite personality to the eternal process of cosmic dissolution. It is a necessary initiation into the truth that the Lord is both the creator and the destroyer, existing beyond the binary perceptions of good and evil.

The terrifying aspect of the Divine reveals that all beings are perpetually returning to the Source, reminding us that attachment to the fleeting form is the primary source of human suffering.