Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
30. You are licking Your lips, devouring all the worlds with Your flaming mouths on all sides. Filling the entire worlds with their radiance, Your fearful rays are scorching it, O Vishnu.And your ravenous hunger is not appeased by swallowing all the worlds. What is it that has fed the flames of your gastric fire? Like a patient recovering from illness or a famine-stricken beggar craving for food, your tongues are lolling out and licking the lips. Nothing that is eatable, has escaped from your mouth. How extraordinary is this hunger of yours, how voracious it is, as though you are impatient to gulp down the seas, to make a mouthful of the mountains, to grind the whole world in your jaws (426-430), to swallow all the quarters or to consume the starry vault; such seems to be your greed. Just as desire is fed by sensual enjoyment or fire is fed by firewood, so the more you eat, the more ravenous becomes your hunger. See how wide your single mouth has opened, so that the entire universe is resting on the tip of your tongue, as if it is a wood-apple thrown into the sub-marine fire. But you possess myriad mouths. where can we find worlds to feed them? And why have you created so many mouths without providing for their food and drink?
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