Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
Or could the lips of God Brahma utter fallacious words? Arjuna saw the beginning and end of that unlimited universal form. His sight feasted on limbs of that vision, which even the Vedas could not fathom. He saw the majesty of that cosmic form which was decked with ornaments studded with different kinds of jewels (206-210). How can I describe those ornaments fashioned by Brahman itself out of its own being, with which to deck itself? That glorious splendour provides the light by which the sun and the moon shine and the universe is created and sustained. Who has the intellect to dive into that decorated state of the cosmic form, which is the essence of that Divine light? Arjuna saw that the Lord has fashioned the ornaments out of himself and worn them. Then he saw with the eye of wisdom that the hands of the cosmic form were straight and held weapons which flashed like the flames of world-conflagration. Then he discovered that the Supreme Lord himself had filled the world, by himself becoming his hands, weapons, his body and soul (211-215). As a result of his fierce rays even the stars crumbled to pieces like parched gram and even fire, scorched by his luster, entered the sea. Thus, Arjuna saw his innumerable hands with uplifted weapons which looked like spurts of deadliest poison or thickets of lightning flashes at the conflagration of world. |
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