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Blazing mouths

2 verses from the Bhagavad Gita on blazing mouths. Explore teachings across 1 chapter.

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Chapter 11 • Verse 28 →The Yoga of the Vision of the Universal Form
Yatha nadīnāṁ bahavo 'mbuvegāḥ samudram evābhimukhā dravanti, tathā tavāmī nara-loka-vīrā vishanti vaktrāṇy abhivijvalanti

As the many rushing torrents of rivers flow toward the ocean, so too do these great warriors of the human world rush into Your blazing mouths.

  • •All lives inevitably flow toward the divine
  • •Death is as natural as rivers flowing to the sea
  • •The warriors' fate is as certain as nature's course
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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
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