Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
Likewise your mouths have spread out and your tongues are rolling and lolling therein. As the universe will not make even a single morsel for it, they have not made an attempt to munch it. The tongues are lolling in the valleys of your mouths, like poisonous flames from the hissing dragons in the nether world, reaching out to the sky. The tips of sharp jaws sticking out of the lips, look like bastions with the bands of world-consuming lightnings, at the time of dissolution. The eyes looking out of the hollow in the forehead like billows of death hiding in darkness, are frightening terror itself. I do not know what you are going to achieve by wearing this mask of terror. But one thing is certain, I am feeling the dread of death (361-365). I longed to see your universal form and that longing of mine has been well fulfilled. My eyes are sated with joy by seeing your cosmic form. I do not care if this earthy body of mine perishes. But I fear now, whether my soul would remain intact. Because of this terror, my body is shaking, my mind is in anguish, and my intellect in unnerved, as a result of which I have lost my bearings. But now even the blissful and motionless Self, which is beyond all these, is full of tremours. O Lord, the passion to see your universal form had seized me, but its vision has dislodged my knowledge. And I am afraid whether my tie of discipleship with you will also last (366-370). After seeing your cosmic form, my mind has become despondent and I am making a frantic effort to revive my courage. I had already lost courage and then I have had this vision of your universal form. Be that as it may, your instruction has bewildered me. My poor soul is running wild in search of a haven of rest but finds it not. This Divine form of yours is a great killer and the life of the universe itself, is in peril. How then can I live, if I remain quiet? |
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