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CHAPTER - 11
VISHVA RUPA
DARSHAN
Now we enter into a dramatic demonstration of the "Cosmic Man"-a demonstration, which is described by Vyasa, the learned author of this "Song Celestial" (to use the expression of Sir Edwin Arnold) and which is rightly consedered as one of the most beautiful literary masterpieces of world literature.
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In the previous chapter of Vibhuti Yoga the Lord explanied how the Self, being the subtratum of the universal plurality, has the immanece of all objects of the world. It amounted to seeing one in all. Now by demonstration the Lord teaches us to see all in "one". As rightly observed by Saint Shri Chinmayanandji to see "one" in all requires some training in philosophy, but to see all in "one" requires some peculiar insight as eye of knowledge, which is refered to in this chapter as "Divene Insight". (Divyam Dadaami Te Chakshuhu) (Verse 8). With this Divine Insight
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