Sanjaya said: After hearing these words of Keshava (Krishna), trembling Kiriti (Arjuna), prostrating again with folded hands, told Krishna fearfully with choked voice:
Hearing Krishna present the all-powerful devastating Time, fear overpowers Arjuna. He could hardly imagine such a colossal destruction to be a craft of inexorable Time itself. “Where do I stand then,” Arjuna wondered, “all thoughts of my merit, will and wish are of no avail at all. I am but a cog in the wheel of Time.” Thinking of Krishna’s role in this powerful process, Arjuna’s voice is choked, head is bent, hands are folded. He prostrates again and again before the Universal form.