Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
11. Wearing heavenly garlands and robes, anointed with Divine perfumes, verily the God was full of all marvels, infinite and with faces turned everywhere. Then withdrawing his gaze from there in fear, Arjuna glanced at his neck and crown wreathed in flowers. Arjuna mused with wonder whether they were the source from which the wishyielding tree had sprung. He saw the Lord wearing on his head incomparable lotuses, where goddess Lakshmi, the fountain of the great occult powers, takes her rest when tired. Lord had flower-bouquets on his crown, floral bracelets on his limbs and wreaths round his neck (216-220). With the yellowish silken dhoti round his waist he shone like the heaven encircled by sunlight or the Meru Mountain lined with gold. Arjuna saw that the body of the Supreme Person anointed with sandal-paste looked like Shiva smeared with camphor or Kailasa lined with mercury or the Milky Sea covered with milk or the sky overlaid with a cloth formed by unfolding the moon. Who can describe that superb fragrance, which adds luster to light, cools the heat of Divine ecstasy, embalms the natural smell of the earth and excels the other scents in purity and the aroma, which adorns the very person of cupid (221-225)? When Arjuna saw the beauty of Lord’s bedecked form he was so bewildered that he could not make out if the Lord was seated or standing or lying down. When he opened his eyes wide, he saw everywhere only the universal form. |
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