Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
No sooner had the Lord uttered these words than the darkness of ignorance began to vanish. They were not mere words, but in truth the Lord had kindled spiritual lights to reveal to Arjuna the grandeur of the universal form. Arjuna’s eye of wisdom opened out widely on all sides in the flash of that Divine vision, and then the Lord revealed to him the grandeur of his cosmic form. This vision vouchsafed to Arjuna, seemed like an infinite ocean of which his incarnations are the mere tides or the rays of the sun before which the whole world looks like a mirage (176-180) or the eternal ground on which is painted as on a canvas, the whole creation. Once the Lord, while yet a child, had swallowed earth and angry Yashoda, his fostermother, had caught hold of him to punish him. At that time, he uttered the words, ‘I have not eaten the earth’, in trepidation and opening his mouth to establish his innocence, he had shown the fourteen regions of the universe to Yashoda. Likewise when the Lord touched the cheek of Dhruva with his conch in the Madhuvana, he began to utter spiritual truths, which lay beyond the grasp of the Vedas. So, when Partha received the grace of Shri Hari, he could find no trace of Maya anywhere (181-185). In the splendour of the Divine creative power, he saw marvels everywhere and his mind was plunged in wonderment. Just as sage Markandeya was alone floating on the waters which had filled the world right upto Satyaloka, so Arjuna was now lost in the Divine play of the universal form. He said, ‘What an immense expanse of sky was here! Who has whisked it away and where? Where has the world, both moving and stationary, gone’? |
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