O mighty-armed one, all the planets with their inhabitants are disturbed at seeing Your great form, with its many faces, eyes, arms, thighs, feet, bellies and terrible teeth; and as they are disturbed, so am I.

Arjuna now includes himself in the fear. He has tried to be the calm observer, the student reporting what he sees — but the vision has broken through all distance. He is disturbed. The many faces, the terrible teeth, the overwhelming scale — all the worlds are shaken, and so is he. He is not exempt from the terror that grips all creation.