Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11, Verse 28

यथा नदीनां बहवोऽम्बुवेगाः समुद्रमेवाभिमुखा द्रवन्ति | तथा तवामी नरलोकवीरा विशन्ति वक्त्राण्यभिविज्वलन्ति ||

yathā nadīnāṁ bahavo 'mbu-vegāḥ samudram evābhimukhā dravanti tathā tavāmī nara-loka-vīrā viśanti vaktrāṇy abhivijvalanti

Just as many rivers with fast currents flow toward the ocean, so also these heroes of the human world enter Your blazing mouths.

Arjuna uses a powerful comparison to describe the cosmic form consuming warriors. 'Yathā nadīnāṁ bahavo 'mbu-vegāḥ'—just as (yathā) many (bahavaḥ) rivers (nadīnām) with fast currents (ambu-vegāḥ). 'Samudram evābhimukhā dravanti'—flow (dravanti) toward (abhimukhāḥ) the ocean (samudram), indeed (eva). 'Tathā tavāmī nara-loka-vīrāḥ'—so also (tathā), these (amī) heroes of the human world (nara-loka-vīrāḥ) of Yours (tava). 'Viśanti vaktrāṇy abhivijvalanti'—enter (viśanti) Your blazing (abhivijvalanti) mouths (vaktrāṇi). Arjuna compares warriors rushing into the cosmic form to rivers flowing into the ocean—inevitable, natural, unstoppable. The cosmic form is like an ocean consuming all rivers, its mouths blazing like fire. This comparison shows the inevitability and naturalness of the cosmic process—everything flows toward the cosmic form, just as rivers flow toward the ocean.