ततः कृष्णः स्मितं कृत्वा परिणन्द्य शिवेन तम् ॥
प्रावेशयत दुर्धर्षो यत्र यत्रैच्छद् अर्जुनः ॥
बभ्राजे स रथो ऽत्यर्थम् उह्यमानो रणे तदा ॥
उह्यमानम् इवाकाशे विमानं पाण्डुरैर् हयैः ॥
मण्डलानि ततश् चक्रे गतप्रत्यागतानि च ॥
यथा शक्ररथो राजन् युद्धे देवासुरे पुरा ॥
tataḥ kṛṣṇaḥ smitaṃ kṛtvā pariṇandya śivena tam ||
prāveśayata durdharṣo yatra yatraicchad arjunaḥ ||
babhrāje sa ratho 'tyartham uhyamāno raṇe tadā ||
uhyamānam ivākāśe vimānaṃ pāṇḍurair hayaiḥ ||
maṇḍalāni tataś cakre gatapratyāgatāni ca ||
yathā śakraratho rājan yuddhe devāsure purā ||
Then Krishna, smiling and sending him off with a kind and auspicious word, unconquerable, drove him wherever Arjuna wished. That chariot blazed dazzlingly, swept across the battlefield, as though a vimana sailing through the heavens on snow-white horses. Then it traced circles — charging and withdrawing — like the chariot of Indra, O king, in the ancient war of gods against asuras.
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Arjuna's chariot, drawn by Krishna, is likened not to an earthly cart but to a vimana sailing in the sky, and to Indra's chariot in the ancient war of gods and asuras — images that lift this battle above the earth, revealing behind it the eternal war of light and darkness. It is telling that the charioteer is called unconquerable: the chariot's true invincibility lies in the one who drives it, not in the one who stands on it with a bow. Krishna "leads Arjuna wherever he wished" — the Lord does not override the will of His devotee but fulfills it, making his path victorious. The verse teaches that a man is mighty not by himself, but by the strength of the One who holds the reins of his life; and that one who surrenders the reins to the Supreme gains not bondage but the freedom to act unconquerably.