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"The blessed Vishnu said, 'I saluted Mahadeva, saying,--Salutations to thee, O thou that art the eternal origin of all things. The |
Rishis say that thou art the Lord of the Vedas. The righteous say that thou art Penance, thou art Sattwa, thou art Rajas, thou art |
Tamas, and thou art Truth. Thou art Brahman, thou art Rudra, thou art Varuna, thou art Agni, thou art Manu, thou art Bhava, |
thou art Dhatri, thou art Tashtri, thou art Vidhatri, thou art the puissant Master of all things, and thou art everywhere. All |
beings, mobile and immobile, have sprung from thee. This triple world with all its mobile and immobile entities, has been |
created by thee. The Rishis say that thou art superior to the senses, the mind, the vital breaths, the seven sacrificial fires, all |
others that have their refuge in the all-pervading Soul, and all the deities that are adored and worthy of adoration. Thou, O |
illustrious one, art the Vedas, the Sacrifices, Soma, Dakshina, Pavaka, Havi, and all other requisites of sacrifice. The merit |
obtained by sacrifices, gifts made to others, the study of the Vedas, vows, regulations in respect of restraint, Modesty, Fame, |
Prosperity, Splendour, Contentment, and Success, all exist for leading to thee.[69] Desire, Wrath, Fear, Cupidity, Pride, |
Stupefaction, and Malice, Pains and Diseases, are, O illustrious one, thy children. Thou art all acts that creatures do, thou art |
the joy and sorrow that flow from those acts, thou art the absence of joy and sorrow, thou art that Ignorance which is the |
indestructible seed of Desire, thou art the high origin of Mind, thou art Puissance, and thou art Eternity.[70] Thou art the |
Unmanifest, thou art Pavana, thou art inconceivable, thou art the thousand-rayed Sun, thou art the effulgent Chit, thou art the |
first of all the topics, and thou art the refuge of life.[71] The use of words like Mahat, Soul, Understanding, Brahman, |
Universe, Sambhu, and Self-born and other words occurring in succession (in the Vedas), show that thy nature has been judged |
(by persons conversant with the Vedas) as identical with Mahat and Soul. Verily, regarding thee as all this, the learned |
Brahmanas win over that ignorance which lies at the root of the world. Thou residest in the heart of all creatures, and thou art |
adored by the Rishis as Kshetrajna. Thy arms and feet extend to every place, and thy eyes, head, and face are everywhere. Thou |
hearest everywhere in the universe, and thou stayest, pervading all things. Of all acts that are performed in the Nimeshas and |
other divisions of time that spring in consequence of the puissance of the Sun, thou art the fruit.[72] Thou art the original |
effulgence (of the supreme Chit). Thou art Purusha, and thou residest in the hearts of all things. Thou art the various Yogic |
attributes of success, viz., Subtility and Grossness and Fruition and Supremacy and Effulgence and Immutability.[73] |
Understanding and intelligence and all the worlds rest upon thee. They that are devoted to meditation, that are always engaged |
in Yoga, that are devoted to or firm in Truth and that have subjugated their passions, seek thee and rest on thee.[74] They that |
know thee for one that is Immutable, or one that resides in all hearts, or one that is endued with supreme puissance, or one that |
is the ancient Purusha, or one that is pure Knowledge, or one that is the effulgent Chit, or one that is the highest refuge of all |
persons endued with intelligence, are certainly persons of great intelligence. Verily, such persons stay, transcending |
intelligence.[75] By understanding the seven subtile entities (viz., Mahat, Ego, and five subtile primal elements called |
Tanmatras), by comprehending thy six attributes (of Omniscience, Contentment of Fullness, Knowledge without beginning, |
Independence, Puissance that is not at fault at any time and that is infinite), and being conversant with Yoga that is freed from |
every false notion, the man of knowledge succeeds in entering into thy great self.--After I had said these words, O Partha, unto |
Bhava, that dispeller of grief and pain, the universe, both mobile and immobile, sent up a leonine shout (expressive of their |
approval of the correctness of my words). The innumerable Brahmanas there present, the deities and the Asuras, the Nagas, the |
Pisachas, the Pitris, the birds, diverse Rakshasas, diverse classes of ghosts and spirits, and all the great Rishis, then bowed |
down unto that great Deity. There then fell upon my head showers of celestial flowers possessed of great fragrance, and |
delicious winds blew on the spot. The puissant Sankara then, devoted to the good of the universe, looked at the goddess Uma |
and the lord of the celestials and myself also, and thus spoke unto me,--We know, O Krishna, that thou, O slayer of foes, art |
filled with the greatest devotion towards us. Do what is for thy good. My love and affection for thee is very great. Do thou ask |
for eight boons. I shall verily give them unto thee, O Krishna, O best of all persons, tell me what they are, O chief of the |
Yadavas. Name what thou wishest. However difficult of attainment they be, thou shalt have them still.'"[76] |
SECTION XV |
"The blessed Krishna said, 'Bowing my head with great joy unto that mass of energy and effulgence, I said these words unto |
the great Deity, with a heart filled with gladness,--Firmness in virtue, the slaughter of foes in battle, the highest fame, the |
greatest might, devotion to Yoga, thy adjacence, and hundreds upon hundreds of children, these are the boons I solicit of thee,-- |
So be it,--said Sankara repeating the words I had uttered. After this, the mother of the universe, the upholders of all things, who |
cleanses, all things, viz., the spouse of Sarva, that vast receptacle of penances said with a restrained soul these words unto me,-- |
'The puissant Mahadeva has granted thee, O sinless one, a son who shall be named Samva. Do thou take from me also eight |
boons which thou choosest. I shall certainly grant them to thee.--Bowing unto her with a bend of my head, I said unto her, O |
son of Pandu,--I solicit from thee non-anger against the Brahmanas, grace of my father, a hundred sons, the highest |
enjoyments, love for my family, the grace of my mother, the attainment of tranquillity and peace, and cleverness in every act!' |
"Uma said, 'It shall be even so, O thou that art possessed of prowess and puissance equal to that of a celestial. I never say what |
is untrue. Thou shalt have sixteen thousand wives. Thy love for them and theirs also for thee shall be unlimited. From all thy |
kinsmen also, thou shalt receive the highest affection. Thy body too shall be most beautiful. Seven thousand guests will daily |
feed at thy palace.' |
"Vasudeva continued, 'Having thus granted me boons both the god and the goddess, O Bharata, disappeared there and then |
with their Ganas, O elder brother of Bhima. All those wonderful facts I related fully, O best of kings, to that Brahmana of great |
energy, viz., Upamanyu (from whom I had obtained the Diksha before adoring Mahadeva). Bowing down unto the great God, |
Upamanyu said these words to me.' |
"Upamanyu said, 'There is no deity like Sarva. There is no end or refuge like Sarva. There is none that can give so many or |
such high boons. There is none that equal him in battle.'" |
SECTION XVI |
"Upamanyu said, 'There was in the Krita age, O sire, a Rishi celebrated under the name of Tandi. With great devotion of heart |
he adored, with the aid of Yoga-meditation, the great God for ten thousand years. Listen to me as I tell thee fruit or reward he |
reaped of such extraordinary devotion. He succeeded in beholding Mahadeva and praised him by uttering some hymns. |
Thinking, with the aid of his penances, of Him who is the supreme Soul and who is immutable and undeteriorating, Tandi |
became filled with wonder, and said these words,--I seek the protection of Him whom the Sankhyas describe and the Yogins |
think of as the Supreme, the Foremost, the Purusha, the pervader of all things, and the Master of all existent objects, of him |
who, the learned say, is the cause of both the creation and the destruction of the universe; of him who is superior to all the |
celestials, the Asuras, and the Munis, of him who has nothing higher, who is unborn, who is the Lord of all things, who has |
neither beginning nor end, and who is endued with supreme puissance, who is possessed of the highest felicity, and who is |
effulgent and sinless.--After he had said these words, Tandi beheld before him that ocean of penances, that great Deity who is |
immutable and undeteriorating, who is without compare, who is inconceivable, who is eternal, and who is without any change, |
who is indivisible, who is whole, who is Brahma, who transcends all attributes, and who is endued with attributes, who is the |
highest delight of Yogins, who is without deterioration, who is called Emancipation, who is the refuge of the Mind, of Indra, of |
Agni, of the god of wind, of the entire universe, and of the Grandsire Brahma; who is incapable of being conceived by the |
Mind, who is without mutation of any kind, who is pure, who is capable of being apprehended by understanding only and who |
is immaterial as the Mind; who is difficult of comprehension, who is incapable of being measured, who is difficult of being |
attained by persons of uncleansed souls, who is the origin of the universe, and who transcends both the universe and the |
attribute of darkness; who is ancient, who is Purusha, who is possessed of effulgence, and who is higher than the highest. The |
Rishi Tandin, desirous of beholding Him who making himself endued with life-breaths, resides in what results from it viz., |
Jiva, in the form of that effulgence which is called the Mind, passed many years in the practice of the severest austerities, and |
having succeeded in beholding Him as the reward of those penances, he praised the great God in the following terms.' |
"Tandi said, 'Thou art the holiest of holies[77] and the refuge of all, O foremost of all beings endued with intelligence. Thou art |
the fiercest energy of all kinds of energy. Thou art the austerest penance of all penances. Thou, O puissant one, art the liberal |
giver of blessings. Thou art the supreme Truth. Salutations to thee, O thou of a thousand rays, and, O refuge of all felicity. |
Thou art the giver of that Nirvana which, O puissant one, Yatis, standing in fear of birth and death, strive for so hard. The |
Grandsire Brahma, he of a hundred sacrifices, (viz., Indra) Vishnu, the Viswadevas, the great Rishis, are incapable of |
comprehending thee and thy real nature. How then can persons like ourselves hope to comprehend thee? From thee flows |
everything. Upon thee rests everything. Thou art called Kala, thou art called Purusha, thou art called Brahma. Celestial Rishis |
conversant with the Puranas, say that thou hast three bodies viz., those pertaining to Kalas, those pertaining to Purusha and |
those pertaining to Brahma or the three forms namely Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra. Thou art Adhi-Purusha, (occupying the |
physical flame from head to foot) thou art Adhyatma, thou art Adhibhuta, and Adhi-Daivata, thou art Adhi-loka, Adhi- |
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