Long before the war, when negotiations for peace had broken down, Krishna had revealed his cosmic form (virat-swarup)—the same form he shows Arjuna during the course of his discourse— to both Dhritarashtra and Duryodhana, perhaps to impress upon father and son that his words needed to be taken seriously. But Dhritarashtra, granted momentary sight, had simply declared his helplessness before such awesomeness and shrunk back into blindness, while Duryodhana had seen it as a magician’s trick. Both father and son refused to see what was shown. They clung to the view that they were the victims.
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