Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
Arjuna said: 51. Seeing again this gentle form of yours, O oppressor of foes, I have now come to my senses and restored to my normal state. In this way, the heroic Arjuna saw the human form of the Lord, he had prayed for and said to himself, “I have now regained my lost courage. My knowledge had parted from my intellect and had strayed into wilderness. My mind had absconded along with my ego, all the senses had stopped their functions, my speech was struck dumb and my body had got into a wretched state (661-665). Now all these have come into their own and have resumed their work. The sight of this incarnated form of the Lord has revived them.” Then in a transport of joy, he said to Lord Krishna, “O God of gods, I have feasted my eyes on your human form. You have put heart into me, by revealing this form to me like a mother who reassures her child who had strayed way, by feeding it at the breast. I was treading the water briskly in the sea of the cosmic form and reached the shore of your four-armed image. O friend, dwelling in Dwarka, you have not only given me the vision of this form, but have watered my Soul, which was drying up like a tree (666-670). O Lord, I, thirsting for the sight of your human form, have now come upon this ocean of nectar and I am reassured that I shall breathe freely now. The creeper in the form of an ecstatic joy is now planted in the bed of my heart and I am enjoying to my heart’s content, its fruit of bliss. |
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