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Vijnanam and Adhi-Yajna.[78] Men of wisdom, when they succeed in knowing thee that residest in themselves and that art |
incapable of being known by the very gods, become freed from all bonds and pass into a state of existence that transcends all |
sorrow.[79] They that do not wish to know thee, O thou of great puissance, have to undergo innumerable births and deaths. |
Thou art the door of heaven and of Emancipation. Thou art he that projectest all beings into existence and withdrawest them |
again into thyself. Thou art the great giver. Thou art heaven, thou art Emancipation, thou art desire (the seed of action). Thou |
art wrath that inspires creatures. Thou art Sattwa, thou art Rajas, thou art Tamas, thou art the nether regions, and thou art the |
upper regions. Thou art the Grandsire Brahma, thou art Bhava, thou art Vishnu, thou art Skanda, thou art Indra, thou art Savitri, |
thou art Yama, thou art Varuna, Soma, thou art Dhatri, thou art Manu, thou art Vidhatri and thou art Kuvera, the Lord of |
treasures. Thou art Earth, thou art Wind, thou art Water, thou art Agni, thou art Space, thou art Speech, thou art the |
Understanding, thou art Steadiness, thou art Intelligence, thou art the acts that creatures do, thou art Truth, thou art Falsehood, |
thou art existent and thou art non-existent. Thou art the senses, thou art that which transcends Prakriti, thou art immutable. |
Thou art superior to the universe of existent objects, thou art superior to the universe of non-existent objects, thou art capable |
of being conceived, thou art incapable of being conceived. That which is supreme Brahman, that which is the highest entity, |
that which is the end of both the Sankhyas and the Yogins, is, without doubt, identical with thee. Verily, rewarded have I been |
today by thee in consequence of thy granting me a sight of thy form. I have attained the end which the righteous alone attain to. |
I have been rewarded with that end which is solicited by persons whose understandings have been cleansed by Knowledge. |
Alas, so long I was steeped in Ignorance; for this long period I was a senseless fool, since I had no knowledge of thee that art |
the Supreme Deity, thee that art the only eternal Entity as can be only known by all persons endued with wisdom. In course of |
innumerable lives have I at last succeeded in acquiring that Devotion towards thee in consequence of which thou hast shown |
thyself to me. O thou that art ever inclined to extend thy grace to those that are devoted to thee. He that succeeds in knowing |
thee is enable to enjoy immortality. Thou art that which is ever a mystery with the gods, the Asuras, and the ascetics. Brahman |
is concealed in the cave of the heart. The very ascetics are unable to behold or know Him.[80] Thou art that puissant deity who |
is the doer of everything and whose face is turned towards every direction. Thou art the Soul of all things, thou seest all things, |
thou pervadest all things, and thou knowest all things. Thou makest a body for thyself, and bearest that body. Thou art an |
embodied Being. Thou enjoyest a body, and thou art the refuge of all embodied creatures. Thou art the creator of the life- |
breaths, thou possessest the life-breaths, thou art one that is endued with life-breaths, thou art the giver of the life-breaths, and |
thou art the refuge of all beings endued with life-breaths. Thou art that Adhyatma which is the refuge of all righteous persons |
that are devoted to Yoga-meditation and conversant with the Soul and that are solicitous of avoiding rebirth. Verily, thou art |
that Supreme Lord who is identical with that refuge. Thou art the giver unto all creatures of whatever ends become theirs, |
fraught with happiness or misery. Thou art he that ordains all created beings to birth and death. Thou art the puissant Lord who |
grants success to Rishis crowned with success in respect of the fruition of their wishes. Having created all the worlds beginning |
with Bhu, together with all the denizens of heaven, that upholdest and cherishest them all, distributing thyself into thy well- |
known forms numbering Eight.[81] From thee flows everything. Upon thee rests all things. All things, again, disappear in thee. |
Thou art the sole object that is Eternal. Thou art that region of Truth which is sought by the righteous and regarded by them as |
the highest. Thou art that cessation of individual existence which Yogins seek. Thou art that Oneness which is sought by |
persons conversant with the soul. Brahma and the Siddhas expounding the mantras have concealed thee in a cave for |
preventing the deities and Asuras and human beings from beholding thee.[82] Although thou residest in the heart, yet thou are |
concealed. Hence, stupefied by thee, deities and Asuras and human beings are all unable to understand thee, O Bhava, truly and |
in all thy details. Unto those persons that succeed in attaining to thee after having cleansed themselves by devotion, thou |
showest thyself of thy own accord, O thou that residest in all hearts.[83] By knowing thee one can avoid both death and rebirth. |
Thou art the highest object of knowledge. By knowing thee no higher object remains for one to know. Thou art the greatest |
object of acquisition. The person that is truly wise, by acquiring thee, thinks that there is no higher object to acquire. By |
attaining to thee that art exceedingly subtile and that art the highest object of acquisition, the man of wisdom becomes |
immortal and immutable. The followers of the Sankhya system, well conversant with their own philosophy and possessing a |
knowledge of the attributes (of Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas) and of those called the topics of enquiry,--those learned men who |
transcend the destructible by attaining to a knowledge of the subtile or indestructible--succeed, by knowing thee, in freeing |
themselves from all bonds. Persons conversant with the Vedas regard thee as the one object of knowledge, which has been |
expounded in the Vedantas. These men, devoted to the regulation of the breaths, always meditate on thee and at last enter into |
thee as their highest end. Riding on the car made of Om, those men enter into Maheswara. Of that which is called the Devayana |
(the path of the deities) thou art the door called Aditya. Thou art again, the door, called Chandramas, of that which is called the |
Pitriyana (the path of the Pitris).[84] Thou art Kashtha, thou art the points of the horizon, thou art the year, and thou art the |
Yugas. Thine is the sovereignty of the heavens, thine is the sovereignty of the Earth, thou art the Northern and the Southern |
declensions. The Grandsire Brahma in days of yore uttered thy praises, O thou that art called Nilarohita (blue and red), by |
reciting diverse hymns and urged thee to create living creatures. Brahmanas conversant with Richs praise thee by uttering |
Richs, regarding thee as unattached to all things and as divested of all forms. Adhyaryus, in sacrifices, pour libations, uttering |
Yajushes the while, in honour of thee that art the sole object of knowledge, according to the three well-known ways.[85] |
Persons of cleansed understandings, that are conversant with Samans, sing thee with the aid of Samans. Those regenerate |
persons, again, that are conversant with the Atharvans, hymn thee as Rita, as Truth, as the Highest, and as Brahma. Thou art |
the highest cause, whence Sacrifice has flowed. Thou art the Lord, and thou art Supreme. The night and day are thy sense of |
hearing and sense of sight. The fortnights and months are thy head and arms. The seasons are thy energy, penances are thy |
patience, and the year is thy anus, thighs and feet. Thou art Mrityu. thou art Yama, thou art Hutasana, thou art Kala, thou art |
endued with speed in respect of destruction, thou art the original cause of Time, and thou art eternal Time. Thou art |
Chandramas and Aditya. with all the stars and planets and the atmosphere that fills space. Thou art the pole-star, thou art |
constellation called the seven Rishis, thou art the seven regions beginning with Bhu. Thou art Pradhana and Mahat, thou art |
Unmanifest, and thou art this world. Thou art the universe beginning with Brahman and ending with the lowest forms of |
vegetation. Thou art the beginning or original cause of all creatures. Thou art the eight Prakritis.[86] Thou art, again, above the |
eight Prakritis. Everything that exists, represents a portion of thy divine Self. Thou art that supreme Felicity which is also |
Eternal. Thou art the end which is attained to by all things. Thou art that highest existence which is sought for by the |
Righteous. Thou art that state which is freed from every anxiety. Thou art eternal Brahman! Thou art that highest state which |
constitutes the meditation of persons learned in the scriptures and the Vedangas. Thou art the highest Kashtha, thou art the |
highest Kala. Thou art the highest Success, and thou art the highest Refuge. Thou art the highest Tranquillity. Thou art the |
highest cessation of Existence. By attaining to thee, Yogins think that they attain to the highest success that is open to them. |
Thou art Contentment, thou art Success, thou art the Sruti, and thou art the Smriti. Thou art that Refuge of the Soul after which |
Yogins strive, and thou art that indestructible Prapti which men of Knowledge pursue. Thou art, without doubt, that End which |
those persons have in view that are habituated to sacrifices and that pour sacrificial libations, impelled by specific desires, and |
that make large presents on such occasions. Thou art that high End which is sought for by persons that waste and scorch their |
bodies with severe penances with ceaseless recitations, with those rigid vows and fasts that appertain to their tranquil lives, and |
with other means of self-affliction. O Eternal one, thou art that End which is theirs that are unattached to all things and that |
have relinquished all acts. Thou, O Eternal one, art that End which is theirs that are desirous of achieving Emancipation from |
rebirth, that live in dissociation from all enjoyments, and that desire the annihilation of the Prakriti elements. Thou art that high |
End, O illustrious one, which is indescribable, which is stainless, which is the immutable one, and which is theirs that are |
devoted to knowledge and science. These are the live Ends that have been declared in the Vedas and the Scriptures and the |
Puranas. It is through thy grace that persons attain to those Ends, or, if they fail to attain to them, it is through thy grace being |
denied to them.--It was thus Tandi, who was a vast heap of penances, praised Isana. And he sang also that high Brahman which |
in ancient days was sung by the Creator himself (in honour of Mahadeva). |
"Upamanyu continued, 'Thus praised by that utterer of Brahma, Viz., Tandi, Mahadeva that illustrious and puissant Deity, who |
was accompanied by his spouse lima, said these words. Tandi had further said,--Neither Brahma, nor Indra nor Vishnu, nor the |
Viswedevas, nor the great Rishis, know thee. Gratified at this, Siva said the following words.' |
"The holy one said, 'Thou shalt be indestructible and eternal. Thou shalt be freed from all sorrow. Great fame shall be thine. |
Thou shalt be endued with energy. Spiritual knowledge shall be thine. All the Rishis shall seek thee, and thy son, through my |
grace, shall become the author of Sutras, O foremost of regenerate persons. What wishes of thine shall I grant today? Tell me, |
O son, what those objects are which thou desirest.--At this, Tandi joined his hands and said--O Lord, let my devotion to thee be |
steady.' |
"Upamanyu continued, 'Having given unto Tandi these boons and having received the adorations of both the deities and the |
Rishis, the great Deity disappeared there and then. When the illustrious deity, O lord of the Yadavas, thus, disappeared with all |
his followers, the Rishi came to my asylum and said unto me all that had happened to him. Do thou hear, O foremost of men, |
all those celebrated names (of Mahadeva) that Tandi said unto me for thy spiritual success. The Grandsire had at one time |
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