Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
24. Seeing you brushing the sky, ablaze with many colours, with gaping mouths and large flashing eyes, my innermost self is quaking, O Vishnu; I find neither firmness nor peace. You have several angry faces, which are as though beating the great Destroyer with a wager and they are so large that even the sky appears stunted before them. Even the vast expanse of the sky cannot enfold them nor can the wind careering through the three worlds encase them. On the other hand, the vapours coming out of those mouths is burning fire itself and spitting out blazing flames. Again, not one face is like another; they are of diverse colours. One wonders whether the world-destroying fire at the time of dissolution, takes the form of these fire-spitting mouths (351-355). Its radiant effulgence is such that it is reducing the three worlds to ashes. It has also mouths which contain both teeth and jaws. It is as though the wind should suffer from convulsions, or the sea should suffer in great flood or the fire of deadly poison should destroy the submarine fire or the deadly poison should swallow fire or death should start an unrelenting holocaust, so this all-destroying effulgence of the universal form has put forth fiery mouths. Your mouths are so large as though the sky has cracked, producing great gaps in it or Lord Shiva has opened a hole in the nether world to let in Hiranyaksha, who had seized the earth in his armpit and wanted to take shelter underground (356-360). |
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