The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch - 17.9.

Ch-17.The Vision of God-9.

The whole universe was there in a comprehensive totality as a minute fraction, as it were, of this immense infinitude. This unthinkable vastness of the cosmos, which can frighten us even by the thought of it, was there to be beheld as a minute fraction of the glorious immensity of the divine. In a few verses the great Lord Himself is made to explain what that magnificence is.

But it comes to us in the words of Sanjaya, who tells Dhritarashtra what it was that Arjuna beheld. The poet’s intention seems to be to make our hair stand on end, and therefore he uses the best of expressions possible. When he says that faces were everywhere, eyes were everywhere, hands were everywhere, feet were everywhere and everything was everywhere, what else can we say except to describe it in this poetic manner? How could it be possible that eyes are everywhere and legs are everywhere at the same time?

Swami Krishnananda
  To be continued  ....