Verse 11.52

Verse 11.52: The Exalted-one spake—“Extremely hard to behold is this Form of mine which thou hast just beholden. Even the Gods are constantly pining for a vision of this Form. (673)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

At these words of Partha, the Lord said—“Why should you talk thus, I wonder. How can you be unheedful of what I counselled you to do, Oh Lord of Subhadra? Pin your love and faith on the Omnipresent Divinity, and then turn to commune with this Incarnate God outwards with untrammelled bodily act. Oh you unseeing Arjuna, sheer delusion of mind makes one spurn at even the golden mountain of Meru, once it is within easy reach of hand. So, such Omnipresent vision of Deity as was revealed to you has tried the very austere penances of the God Shambhu. Even the Yogins, who, Oh Kiriti, toiling with mortifications of flesh with the eight-fold modes of Yoga, have ever fallen short of a chance to gaze on this Omnipresence; in the mere hope of being blessed with a glimpse of it, the very Gods wait tantalizingly for whole epochs of their infinite life. Thus Gods, no less than men, like the ‘chatak’ scanning the horizon for a cloud of rain, with hands, full of hope, joined to the heart, keep muttering in anxious suspense for all time the cry of this vision. And this great vision, which is denied to them, even in a dream, was brought within an easy grasp of your direct sight.