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Cosmic fire

2 verses from the Bhagavad Gita on cosmic fire. Explore teachings across 1 chapter.

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Chapter 11 • Verse 25 →The Yoga of the Vision of the Universal Form

Damshtra-karalam ca te mukham drishtvaiva kalanalasannibham, disho na jane na labhe ca sharma prasida devesa jagan-nivasa

Seeing Your mouths with terrifying tusks, like the blazing fires of dissolution, I lose my sense of direction and find no peace. Be gracious, O Lord of gods, O refuge of the universe.

•The divine as cosmic dissolution is terrifying
•Seeking refuge is the natural response to overwhelming power
•Grace of God is sought even in the midst of terror

terrifying tusks dissolution seeking refuge grace

Chapter 11 • Verse 30 →The Yoga of the Vision of the Universal Form

Lelihyase grasamānah samantāl lokān samagrān vadanair jvaladbbhih, tejobhir āpūrya jagat samagraṁ bhāsas tavograḥ pratapanti vishṇo

You lick Your lips and are devouring all the worlds on every side with Your blazing mouths. O Vishnu, filling the entire universe with Your radiance, Your fierce rays are scorching everything.

•God is the great devourer at the end of time
•Divine radiance both sustains and consumes
•The ferocity of cosmic dissolution is beyond imagination

devouring blazing mouths Vishnu dissolution