Verse 54

⁴⁶Just then, in that instant and before the unborn one's eyes, all the calf-herds were seen dark as rain clouds and clothed in yellow silk, ⁴⁷four-armed, with conch and disc and mace and lotus in their hands, wearing crowns and earrings and necklaces and garlands of wood flowers, ⁴⁸bearing the Srivatsa mark, with armlets and jewels on their arms and conch bangles on their wrists, bright with anklets and bracelets, with waist-cords and finger rings, ⁴⁹covered from foot to head with fresh soft garlands of tulasi, laid on every limb of them in plenty by those who had merit to give. ⁵⁰Their smiles were clear as moonlight and their glances came reddish from the corners of their eyes, as though by passion and by clarity they were the makers and the keepers of the wishes of those who were their own.

⁵¹They were served, each one apart, by all things moving and unmoving, from the first self down to a clump of grass, come there in bodily shape with dancing and singing and many kinds of honour. ⁵²They were ringed round by the powers that begin with smallness, by the splendours that begin with the unborn, and by the twenty-four principles that begin with the great principle, ⁵³and served by time, by own-nature, by the shaping left from past acts, by desire and action and the strands and the rest, all in bodily shape, their own greatness undone by his. ⁵⁴Their forms were of one taste only: sheer being, knowing, endlessness and joy. And their vast greatness had never yet been touched even by those who see with the Upanisads.