Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
Why should you feel disturbed, when My cosmic form with all its majestic grandeur, has come within your reach? O Arjuna, you are a bumpkin, who knows nothing. What can one say about you? O Arjuna, you are clasping a shadow instead of the substance. This four-armed figure is not My true Self. It is not proper, that you should cling to it with a restless mind (626630). Even now, it is not too late to give up your penchant for this four-armed figure and concentrate on My cosmic form. Even if this universal form is dreadful and vast, pin your faith in it. Just as a miser moves outwardly in the world, keeping his mind on his treasure all the time or a mother bird soars in the sky leaving her heart with its fledglings in the nest or the cow grazes in the mountain with its mind on its calf tethered in the cowpen, so keep your mind fixed on the universal form (631-635) and meditate upon My four-armed figure for your mental satisfaction. But please do not forget what I have been telling you again and again and divert your mind from My Divine form. As you had never seen this Divine form before, you feel this terrible fright at its sight. Get rid of this fright and let your mind flow with passionate love for this Divine form. Lord Krishna, who had assumed the universal form said, ‘O Arjuna, now see My former four-armed figure and be happy’. |
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