Verse 11.15

Verse 11.15: Arjuna spake: “I behold all the Gods, O Deity, within Thy body, as also congregations of the various (orders of) beings: Lord Brahmadeva, enthroned upon a lotus-seat, and Sages all, and Divine Serpents. (255)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

All glory to thee, Oh my master! By the miracle of thy grace, the merest mortal that I am, I have set my eyes on the all-pervading Divine-Presence. Thy favour has altogether worked for good and makes my heart easefully rejoice, Oh God, that I have beheld in thee, the mainstay of this created universe. Oh God, like herds of beasts browsing on the top of the mountain Mandara, whole universes seem to be scattered on thy Person. Or like clusters of stars up and down the wide expanse of the sky; like nests of birds hanging down from the big trees, Oh Shrihari, there appears in thy cosmic Person the very heavenly abode of Paradise with its hosts of gods. I see here, Oh Lord, myriads of quintuplets of the five gross elements as also of (various orders of) beings in the universe. In thy body dwells the Heaven of Satya-Ioka region itself. How then could it be without the God Brahmadeva (caturānana) Himself visible here? Looking in the other direction, I see the very Kailasa (Lord Shankara’s house): here (I) see also Lord Shankara along with Goddess Bhavani (Parvati) in a tiny comer of thy body: so too, Oh Hrishikesha, I see thyself in this Cosmic Person. I behold here whole clans and families of Sages like Kashyapa and others, and the regions under the Earth (pātāla) along with the (groups of) Divine serpents. In brief, Oh Lord of the three worlds, whole universes of fourteen worlds seem to be portrayed on the canvas of a single limb of thy Person; so also do appear sketched thereon, the created beings dwelling in these worlds. I am thus beholding the uncommonly fathomless depths of thy being.