This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

I see You without beginning, middle or end, of endless might, of endless arms, with the moon and the sun for eyes, with a blazing fire for mouth, scorching all this world with Your own radiance.

Without beginning, middle, or end, free of beginning, middle, and end; of endless valour, of unsurpassed and limitless valour, the word 'valour' being by way of indication, the meaning being the treasure-house of unsurpassed and limitless knowledge, power, lordship, might, and splendour; of endless arms, of countless arms, that too by way of indication, of endless arms, bellies, feet, and faces; the moon and sun your eyes, all your eyes joined, like the moon and like the sun, with graciousness and with fierce heat, graciousness toward the gods and the rest, the favourable ones who make salutation and the like, fierce heat toward their opposites, the asuras, rakshasas, and the rest, for it will be said, 'the rakshasas, afraid, flee to the quarters, and all the troops of the perfected make salutation'; your mouth a blazing oblation-eater, like the blazing fire of the world's end, with a mouth fit for the work of withdrawal; scorching this universe with your splendour, splendour being the power of overcoming others, I see you scorching this universe with your own splendour. Such a one, the creator of all, the support of all, the governor of all, the withdrawer of all, the ocean of measureless qualities, knowledge and the rest, free of beginning, middle, and end, of such a divine body, I behold directly, as you taught. This is the meaning. How, in a single divine body, are there many bellies and the rest? It holds thus: from a single hip-region of endless measure, upward, the said divine bellies and the rest have risen, and downward the said divine feet; and there, in a single face, two eyes; so there is no contradiction. The Lord says that, seeing you of such a kind, the gods and the rest, and I too, become utterly distraught.

The phrase 'whose eyes are the moon and the sun' is also like 'I am the rite' (9.16) and the rest. The supplementary hymns of the Rigveda say, 'all the gods and the rest are born of His limbs, and therefore they are praised by the seers as His limbs'; and 'the moon was born of His mind, the sun came to be from His eye' (Rigveda 8.4.19.3; Yajurveda Samhita 31.12). Because He has many forms, it is fitting that they should have many resting-places in Him.