स्थाने हृषीकेश तव प्रकीर्त्या जगत् प्रहृष्यत्यनुरज्यते च।रक्षांसि भीतानि दिशो द्रवन्ति सर्वे नमस्यन्ति च सिद्धसङ्घाः॥
sthāne hṛṣīkeśa tava prakīrtyājagat prahṛṣyaty anurajyate carakṣānsi bhītāni diśo dravantisarve namasyanti ca siddha-saṅghāḥ
Word by word
The verse says
Arjuna said: It is right, Krishna, that the world delights in praising you and is drawn to you. The demons flee in every direction in fear, and all the perfected ones bow.
In plain words
Sthāne — it is fitting. It is right.
His first word after the terror is not a plea. It is agreement.
He has been shown something unbearable and his response is that the world is correct to love it.
Where you've felt this · in community
You come off a long flight through bad weather, genuinely frightened for an hour of it. The first thing you do in the arrivals hall is tell somebody how good the pilot was. The fear was real. So is the thing you say afterwards, and they are not in conflict.
Going deeper
Praise arriving directly after terror, from the same person, in the same breath, is the structure of this whole passage.
Arjuna does not recover first and then speak well of what he saw. He is still shaking — the previous verse says so — and the first word out of him is that the world's love for this is fitting. Not that it is safe, or that he enjoyed it. That it is appropriate.
That is a distinction people reach for when they describe encountering anything genuinely large.
It also quietly settles what kind of fear this was. Fear of something bad makes you want it gone. What he describes instead is fear that leaves the value of the thing intact — he is frightened and he still thinks the world is right to be drawn to it, and he says so before he asks for anything.