Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
Now, therefore, please withdraw this unwieldy form of yours. Would I have broached this matter with you, if I had the slightest indication of what you were upto? Now save our lives on this occasion from this world-destroying cosmic form of yours. If you are really our Master, protect my life by holding back your sprawling form. You are the life and the abode of this whole universe. You seem to be unmindful of this and have undertaken the work of destruction. O God, extend your grace immediately and withdrawing your Maya, relieve us from this great terror (381-385). I have been making these piteous entreaties all along, because this gigantic form of yours frightens me. When the demons laid siege to the city of Indra, I lifted it alone in defiance of death. But your cosmic form is not a thing of that kind, because you have outdone death itself and set about gulping us all including the universe. Even though the time is not ripe for world-dissolution, you have descended upon us as the destroyer. As a result, this poor universe has become short-lived. Alas, how perverse is the course of fate! I sought the vision of your cosmic form in the hope of attaining blissful peace, but what a disaster has come upon us! Alas, this world is as good as lost, because you yourself are ready to gobble it (386-390). What is this that I see? Are you not opening your myriad mouths wide and swallowing both the armies, lock stock and barrel? |
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