The mouths with terrible tusks, blazing like the fires of cosmic dissolution — Arjuna loses his sense of direction and finds no comfort. Shankaracharya sees this as the direct perception of Brahman's power of dissolution (pralaya). Ramanujacharya reads it as the Lord's role as the universal destroyer made visible. Madhva identifies the fires of dissolution as the Lord's sovereign function exercised with absolute control. Abhinavagupta sees the destructive fire as the transformative power of Consciousness dissolving manifestation back into its source. Vallabha acknowledges the terror while maintaining that even destruction is divine love. Tilak reads the vision as overwhelming Arjuna's merely strategic thinking with cosmic reality. Vivekananda confronts the uncomfortable truth that the divine includes destruction. Together, these traditions reveal that the cosmic form's most terrifying aspect — its consuming, destroying power — is not separate from its creative beauty but is the other face of the same divine reality. Creation and destruction are the two hands of the one God.