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II-16: This Divinity pervades all directions in their entirety. He is the first-born
(Hiranyagarbha). He has entered into the womb. He alone is born, and is to be born in future.
He is inside all persons as the Indwelling Self, facing all directions.
II-17: Salutations to that Divinity who is in the fire, who is in the water, who is in the plants,
who is in the trees, who has pervaded the whole universe.
III-1: It is the self-same One who exists alone at the time of creation and dissolution of the
universe, that assumes manifold powers and appears as the Divine Lord by virtue of His
inscrutable power of Maya. He it is that protects all the worlds and controls all the various
forces working therein. Those who realize this Being becomes immortal.
III-2: He who protects and controls the worlds by His own powers, He  Rudra  is indeed one
only. There is no one beside Him who can make Him the second. O men, He is present inside
the hearts of all beings. After projecting and maintaining all the worlds, He finally withdraws
them into Himself.
III-3: Though God, the creator of heaven and earth, is one only, yet Heaven is the real owner
of all the eyes, faces, hands and feet in this universe. It is Heaven who inspires them all to do
their respective duties in accordance with the knowledge, past actions and tendencies of the
various beings (with whom they appear to be associated).
III-4: May Heaven, who created the gods and supports them; who is the origin also of the
cosmic soul; who confers bliss and wisdom on the devotes, destroying their sins and sorrows,
and punishing all breaches of law  may Heaven, the great seer and the lord of all, endow us
with good thoughts.
III-5: O Lord, who blesses all creatures by revealing the Vedas, deign to make us happy by
Thy calm and blissful self, which roots out terror as well as sin.
III-6: O revealer of the Vedic truths, deign to make propitious that arrow which Thou holdest
in Thy hand for shooting at somebody. O protector of devotees, do not destroy that benign
personal form of Thine which has manifested as the universe.
III-7: Higher than this Personal Brahman is the infinite Supreme Brahman, who is concealed
in all beings according to their bodies, and who, though remaining single, envelops the whole
universe. Knowing him to be the Lord, one becomes immortal.
III-8: I have realized this Great Being who shines effulgent like the sun beyond all darkness.
One passes beyond death only on realizing Him. There is no other way of escape from the
circle of births and deaths.
III-9: There is naught higher than or different from Him; naught greater or more minute
than Him. Rooted in His own glory He stands like a tree, one without a second and
immovable. By that Being the whole universe is filled.
III-10: That Being is far beyond this world, is formless and free from misery. They who know
this become immortal. But all others have indeed to suffer misery alone.
III-11: Therefore, that Divine Lord, being all-pervading, omnipresent and benevolent, dwells
in the hearts of all beings, and makes use of all faces, heads and necks in this world.
III-12: This Self is indeed the mighty Lord. He is the imperishable (internal) light that
controls everything. He guides the intellect of all beings so as to enable them to gain that
extremely pure state (of Mukti).
III-13: Assuming a form of the size of a thumb, by virtue of intellect, emotion, imagination
and will, the Infinite Being dwells in the hearts of creatures as their inner self. Those who
realize this become immortal.
III-14: That Infinite Being has a thousand heads, a thousand eyes and a thousand feet
enveloping the whole universe on all sides. He exists beyond ten fingers.
III-15: That which is, that which was, and that which is yet to be  all this is nothing but this
Infinite Being. Though He grows beyond His own nature into the form of the objective
universe, He still remains the lord of immortality.
III-16: With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with ears
everywhere, That exists, pervading everything in the universe.
III-17: They realize Him as shining by the functions of all the senses yet without the senses as
the lord of all, the ruler of all, the refuge of all and the friend of all.
III-18: It is He who resides in the body, the city of nine gates. He is the soul that sports in the
outside world. He is the master of the whole world, animate and inanimate.
III-19: Without hands and feet He goes fast and grasps; without eyes He sees; without ears He
hears. He knows whatever is to be known, yet there is none who knows Him. They say He is
the foremost, the great Infinite Being.
III-20: Subtler than even the subtlest and greater than the greatest, the Atman is concealed in
the heart of the creature. By the grace of the Creator, one becomes free from sorrows and
desires, and then realizes Him as the great Lord.
III-21: I know this undecaying primeval Immanent Self of all, who is omnipresent because of
His all-pervasiveness, and whom the expounders of Brahman declare to be eternally free from
birth.
IV-1: May that Divine Being, who, though Himself colourless, gives rise to various colours in
different ways with the help of His own power, for His own inscrutable purpose, and who
dissolves the whole world in Himself in the end  may He endow us with good thoughts !
IV-2: That Itself is the fire, That is the sun, That is the air, That is the moon, That is also the
starry firmament, That is the Brahman, That is the waters, That is Prajapati.
IV-3: Thou art the woman, Thou art the man, Thou art the youth and the maiden too. Thou [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]