Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
13. There in the body of the God of gods, Pandu’s son (Arjuna) then beheld the whole universe centered with its myriad divisions. Arjuna beheld the whole universe with its expanse in that universal form. Like bubbles on the face of the ocean, or the imaginary city of the clouds in the sky, or ant-hills on the earth or particles of dust on a mountain, Arjuna saw this whole universe in the body of Lord Krishna, God of gods. 14. Then overwhelmed with wonder, Arjuna, with hair standing on end, bowed his head before the Lord and said with folded hands; Now whatever notion of duality that he was different from the world which still lingered in him disappeared and Arjuna’s mind was dissolved in the form (241-245). Inwardly his heart was filled with rapture, while his outer senses became benumbed. His hair stood on end from top to toe like the shoots of grass springing all over the surface of a mountain washed by the onset of monsoon. And like the moon-stone which melts at the touch of moon-light, Arjuna’s body was covered with drops of sweat. As the lotus bud sways too and fro by a bee caught therein, Arjuna’s body was shaking with the ripples of his inner rapturous joy. Just as the camphor tree, overfull with camphor, bursts out of its skin and sheds camphor flakes, so there trickled drops of tears from his eyes (246-250). His mind surged with the wave of ecstatic joy like the ocean swelling to flood-tide at rise of the moon. So the eight sattvic sentiments vied with one another to flood the mind of Arjuna, as a result of which he began to enjoy the sovereign bliss of Divine ecstasy. But even in that blissful union with God, Arjuna still retained a feeling of otherness from God. Then heaving a sigh, he looked around and after bowing down his head, he began to speak with folded hands. |
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