to foot) thou art Adhyatma, thou art Adhibhuta, and
Adhi-Daivata, thou art Adhi-loka, Adhi-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,