February 24, 2013
Continuing the series on the Lord's vishwarūpa, we now move from the Lord's magnificent creation to the उग्र or fierce form. In verses 11-26 & 27, Arjuna says:
अमी च त्वां धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्राः सर्वे सहैवावनिपालसङ्घैः ।
भीष्मो द्रोणः सूतपुत्रस्तथासौ सहास्मदीयैरपि योधमुख्यैः ||११-२६||
वक्त्राणि ते त्वरमाणा विशन्ति दंष्ट्राकरालानि भयानकानि |
केचिद्विलग्ना दशनान्तरेषु सन्दृश्यन्ते चूर्णितैरुत्तमाङ्गैः ||११-२७||
amī ca tvāṁ dhṛtarāṣṭrasya putrāḥ sarve sahaivāvanipālasaṁghaiḥ
bhīṣmo droṇaḥ sūtaputras tathāsau sahāsmadīyair api yodhamukhyaiḥ 11.26
vaktrāṇi te tvaramāṇā viśanti daṁṣṭrākarālāni bhayānakāni
kecid vilagnā daśanāntareṣu saṁdṛśyante cūrṇitair uttamāṅgaiḥ 11.27
All the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra with hosts of kings of the earth, Bhīshma, Droṇa and the son of a charioteer, Karṇa, with the warrior chiefs of ours;
Enter in haste, into Your mouths, with terrible teeth, and fearful to behold. Some are found caught in the gaps between the teeth with their heads crushed into pulp.
Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayanandaji in his commentary, The Holy Geeta has this to say:
Hari Om and Namaskaar until the next post
Continuing the series on the Lord's vishwarūpa, we now move from the Lord's magnificent creation to the उग्र or fierce form. In verses 11-26 & 27, Arjuna says:
अमी च त्वां धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्राः सर्वे सहैवावनिपालसङ्घैः ।
भीष्मो द्रोणः सूतपुत्रस्तथासौ सहास्मदीयैरपि योधमुख्यैः ||११-२६||
वक्त्राणि ते त्वरमाणा विशन्ति दंष्ट्राकरालानि भयानकानि |
केचिद्विलग्ना दशनान्तरेषु सन्दृश्यन्ते चूर्णितैरुत्तमाङ्गैः ||११-२७||
amī ca tvāṁ dhṛtarāṣṭrasya putrāḥ sarve sahaivāvanipālasaṁghaiḥ
bhīṣmo droṇaḥ sūtaputras tathāsau sahāsmadīyair api yodhamukhyaiḥ 11.26
vaktrāṇi te tvaramāṇā viśanti daṁṣṭrākarālāni bhayānakāni
kecid vilagnā daśanāntareṣu saṁdṛśyante cūrṇitair uttamāṅgaiḥ 11.27
All the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra with hosts of kings of the earth, Bhīshma, Droṇa and the son of a charioteer, Karṇa, with the warrior chiefs of ours;
Enter in haste, into Your mouths, with terrible teeth, and fearful to behold. Some are found caught in the gaps between the teeth with their heads crushed into pulp.
Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayanandaji in his commentary, The Holy Geeta has this to say:
Thus, we see that in Hinduism, the daring masters, while extolling the beauty of the (Supreme) Reality, indulged themselves in viewing it not only as the Omniscient-Creator, or as the Omnipotent-Sustainer, but also as the All-powerful-Devourer of all names and forms. This may look dreadful to those creeds that have not yet come to watch and analyse life in its totality.
Arjuna's words are significant. He does not see the Universal-Form itself devouring the names and forms. On the other hand, he observed that all names and forms "Enter in haste into thy mouth". When we watch an ocean, we do not find the ocean ever rising up to absorb the waves, but the waves which have risen from the ocean, after a momentary play upon the surface, rush back to disappear into the very ocean. The multiplicity that has risen from the Totality, after its play upon the surface of Truth, must necessarily rush back in all hurry into the very Whole from which they had arisen.
Hari Om and Namaskaar until the next post
PS: In the picture above, I have juxtaposed some recent headlines with a fearsome picture of a crocodile head taken by Steve Hillebrand of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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