Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
45. Though glad I am to see what has not been seen before. My mind is distraught with fear. Show me, O God, that other form. Be merciful, O Lord of Gods, abode of the worlds. As an intimate friend I pressed you hard to reveal to me your cosmic form. You fulfilled my prayer with the affection of a parent. You indulged me with motherly love, as if you had planted the wish-yielding tree in my courtyard or given me the colt of the wish–yielding cow to play with (576-580) or presented me the stars or the moon to play the game of dice or ball. How hard it is to acquire even one drop of nectar! But you have indeed drenched me in ambrosial showers for four months and by preparing beds have sown philosophers’ stones. Because of these many indulgences of yours, I have attained fulfillment and seen with my own eyes your universal form. The gods Shiva and Brahma had not even heard of this form and so how could they have a vision of it? You have laid bare before me, to my great joy, your inner essence, of which even the Upanishads did not get a glimpse. If I take stock of all my births, since the beginning of the epoch until now (581-585), |
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