bridge for the good (to cross the sea of life) with Truth, with those means by which emancipation may be obtained, and with the means by which the senses may be controlled.  Salutations to thee in thy form of Truth!  Men practising diverse creeds, actuated by desire of diverse fruits worship thee with diverse rites.  Salutations to thee in thy form of Creed!  From thee have all things sprung.  It is thou that excitest all creatures having physical frames containing the principle of desire.  Salutations to thee in thy form of Excitement.  The great Rishis seek thy unmanifest self within the manifest.  Called Kshetrajna, thou sittest in Kshetra.  Salutations to thee in thy form of Kshetra![148] Thou always conscious and present in self, the Sankhyas still describe thee as existing in the three states of wakefulness, dream, and sound sleep.  They further speak of thee as possessed of sixteen attributes and representing the number seventeen.  Salutations to thy form as conceived by the Sankhyas![149] Casting off sleep, restraining breath, withdrawn into their own selves, Yogins of restrained senses behold thee as eternal light.  Salutations to thee in thy Yoga form!  Peaceful Sannyasins, freed from fear of rebirth in consequence of the destruction of all their sins and merits, obtain thee.  Salutations to thee in thy form of emancipation![150] At the end of a thousand Yugas, thou assumest the form of a fire with blazing flames and consumest all creatures.  Salutations to thee in thy form of fierceness!  Having consumed all creatures and making the universe one vast expanse of water, thou sleepest on the waters in the form of a child.  Salutations to thee in thy form as Maya (illusion)!  From the navel of the Self-born of eyes like lotus leaves, sprang a lotus.  On that lotus is established this universe.  Salutations to thee in thy form as lotus!  Thou hast a thousand heads.  Thou pervadest everything.  Thou art of immeasurable soul.  Thou hast subjugated the four kinds of desire that are as vast as the four oceans.  Salutations to thee in thy form of Yoga-sleep!  The clouds are in the hair of thy head.  The rivers are in the several joints of thy limbs.  The four oceans are in thy stomach.  Salutations to thee in thy form as water!  Birth and the change represented by death spring from thee.  All things, again, at the universal dissolution dissolve away in thee.  Salutations to thy form as cause!  Thou sleepest not in the night.  Thou art occupied in day time also.  Thou observest the good and the bad actions (of all).  Salutations to thee in thy form of (universal) observer!  There is no act which thou canst not do.  Thou art, again, ever ready to accomplish acts that are righteous.  Salutations to thee in thy form of Work, the form, viz., which is called Vaikuntha!  In wrath thou hadst, in battle, exterminated thrice seven times the Kshatriyas who had trampled virtue and authority under their feet.  Salutations to thee in thy form of Cruelty!  Dividing