Chapter 24 — Trivikram Bharati Sees Vishwaroop of Shri Guru

Literal. Trivikram Bharati, a learned Brahmin at Kumasi, has been criticizing Shri Guru's lifestyle as "not befitting a Sanyasi." Shri Guru organizes a procession to Kumasi. Trivikram, doing mental worship of his own deity Narahari, suddenly sees that every member of the procession looks like Narahari. He realizes who Shri Guru is, prostrates, and is granted the Vishwaroop darshan — the universal-form vision (the same that Krishna gave Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita).

Symbolic. The criticizer is converted by direct exposure to the universal form. Trivikram's mental devotion to Narahari (a specific deity) is suddenly subsumed within Shri Guru's identity — his small target was always within the larger.