Do not be perturbed and deluded by seeing such a terrible form of Mine as this. With fearless and cheerful mind, now behold My four-armed form.

O Lord, You are as You have said, yet I wish to see Your divine cosmic form, O Supreme Being.

Both you and I have taken many births. I remember them all, O Arjuna, but you do not remember.

The wise do not rejoice in sensual pleasures.

I do not wish to kill them, who are also about to kill, even for the sovereignty of the three worlds, let alone for this earthly kingdom, O Krishna.

As a lamp in a spot sheltered from the wind does not flicker, this simile is used for the subdued mind of a yogi practicing meditation on Brahman.