Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Rudra is Truly One


ya eko jālavān īśata īśanībhi sarvā lokān īśata īśanībhi |

ya evaika udbhave sambhave ca ya etad vidur amtās te bhavanti ||1||


The non-dual Ensnarer rules by His powers. Remaining one and the same, He rules by His powers all the worlds during their manifestation and continued existence. They who know this become immortal. 

 

eko hi rudro na dvitīyāya tasthur ya imāl lokān īśata īśanībhi |

pratya janās tiṣṭhati sañcukocānta-kāle sasjya viśvā bhuvanāni gopā ||2||


Rudra is truly One; for the knowers of Brahman do not admit the existence of a second, He alone rules all the worlds by His powers. He dwells as the inner Self of every living being. After having created all the worlds, He, their Protector, takes them back into Himself at the end of time. 

 

viśvataś cakur uta viśvato-mukho viśvato-bāhur uta viśvatas-pāt |

sabāhubhyā dhamati sampatatrair dyāv-ābhūmī janayan deva eka ||3||


His eyes are everywhere, His faces everywhere, His arms everywhere, everywhere His feet. He it is who endows men with arms, birds with feet and wings and men likewise with feet. Having produced heaven and earth, He remains as their non-dual manifester. 

 

yo devānā prabhavaś codbhavaś ca viśvādhipo rudro mahari |

hirayagarbha janayāmāsa pūrva sa no buddhyā śubhayā sayunaktu ||4||


He, the omniscient Rudra, the Creator of the Gods and the Bestower of their powers, the Support of the universe, He who, in the beginning, gave birth to Hiranyagarbha -may He endow us with clear intellect! 


yā te rudra śivā tanūr aghorāpāpa-kāśinī |

tayā nas tanuvā śantamayā giriśantābhicākaśīhi ||5||


O Rudra, Thou who dwellest in the body and bestowest happiness! Look upon us with that most blessed form of Thine, which is auspicious, unterrifying and all good. 


yābhiu giriśanta haste bibhary astave |

śivā giritra tā kuru mā hi purua jagat ||6||


O Dweller in the body and Bestower of happiness, make benign that arrow which Thou holdest in Thy hand ready to shoot, O Protector of the body! Do not injure man or the world!


tata para brahma para bhanta yathānikāya sarva-bhūteu gūham |

viśvasyaika pariveṣṭitāram īśa ta jñātvāmtā bhavanti ||7||

 

The Supreme Lord is higher than Virat, beyond Hiranyagarbha. He is vast and is hidden in the bodies of all living beings. By knowing Him who alone pervades the universe, men become immortal. 

 

vedāham eta purua mahāntam āditya-vara tamasa parastāt |

tam eva viditvātimtyum eti nānya panthā vidyate'yanāya ||8||


I know the great Purusha, who is luminous, like the sun and beyond darkness. Only by knowing Him does one pass over death; there is no other way to the Supreme Goal. 

 

yasmāt para nāparam asti kicid yasmān nāīyo na jyāyo 'sti kaścit |

vka iva stabdho divi tiṣṭhaty ekas teneda pūra puruea sarvam ||9||


The whole universe is filled by the Purusha, to whom there is nothing superior, from whom there is nothing different, than whom there is nothing either smaller or greater; who stands alone, motionless as a tree, established in His own glory. 

 

tato yad uttaratara tad arūpam anāmayam |

ya etad vidur amtāste bhavanti athetare dukham evāpi yanti ||10||


That which is farthest from this world is without form and without affliction. They who know It become immortal; but others, indeed, suffer pain. 

 

sarvānana-śiro-grīva sarva-bhūta-guhāśaya |

sarva-vyāpī sa bhagavās tasmāt sarva-gata śiva ||11||


All faces are His faces; all heads, His heads; all necks, His necks. He dwells in the hearts of all beings. He is the all-pervading Bhagavan. Therefore He is the omnipresent and benign Lord. 

 

mahān prabhur vai purua sattvasyaia pravartaka |

sunirmalām imā prāptim īśāno jyotir avyaya ||12||


He, indeed, is the great Purusha, the Lord of creation, preservation and destruction, who inspires the mind to attain the state of stainlessness. He is the Ruler and the Light that is imperishable. 

 

aguṣṭha-mātra puruo'ntarātmā sadā janānā hdaye sanniviṣṭa |

hdā manīo manasābhikpto ya etad vidur amtās te bhavanti ||13||


The Purusha, no bigger than a thumb, is the inner Self, ever seated in the heart of man. He is known by the mind, which controls knowledge and is perceived in the heart. They who know Him become immortal.

 

sahasra-śīrā purua sahasrāka sahasra-pāt |

sa bhūmi viśvato vtvā-[a]tyatiṣṭhad daśāgulam ||14||

purua eveda sarva yad bhūta yac ca bhavyam |

utāmtatvasyeśāno yad annenātirohati ||15||


The Purusha with a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet, compasses the earth on all sides and extends beyond it by ten fingers' breadth. The Purusha alone is all this — what has been and what will be. He is also the Lord of Immortality and of whatever grows by food. 

 

sarvatai-pāda tat sarvato 'ki-śiro-mukham |

sarvata śrutimal loke sarvam āvtya tiṣṭhati ||16||


His hands and feet are everywhere; His eyes, heads and faces are everywhere; His ears are everywhere; He exists compassing all. 

 

sarvendriya-guābhāsa sarvendriya-vivarjitam |

sarvasya prabhum īśāna sarvasya śaraa bhat ||17||

 

Himself devoid of senses, He shines through the functions of the senses. He is the capable ruler of all; He is the refuge of all. He is great. 

 

nava-dvāre pure dehī haso lelāyate bahi |

vaśī sarvasya lokasya sthāvarasya carasya ca ||18||


The Swan, the ruler of the whole world, of all that is moving and all that is motionless, becomes the embodied self and dwelling in the city of nine gates, flies outward. 

 

apāi-pādo javano grahītā paśyaty acaku sa śṛṇoty akara |

sa vetti vedya na ca tasyāsti vettā tam āhur agrya purua mahāntam ||19||


Grasping without hands, hasting without feet, It sees without eyes, It hears without ears. It knows what is to be known, but no one knows It. They call It the First, the Great, the Full. 

 

aor aīyān mahato mahīyān ātmā guhāyā nihito'sya janto |

tam akratu paśyati vīta-śoko dhātu prasādān mahimānam īśam ||20||


The Self, smaller than the small, greater than the great, is hidden in the hearts of creatures. The wise, by the grace of the Creator, behold the Lord, majestic and desireless and become free from grief. 

 

vedāham etam ajara purāa sarvātmāna sarva-gata vibhutvāt |

janma-nirodha pravadanti yasya brahma-vādino hi pravadanti nityam ||21||

 

I know this undecaying, primeval One, the Self of all things, which exists everywhere, being all-pervading and which the wise declare to be free from birth. The teachers of Brahman, indeed, speak of It as eternal.


Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣhad III:1-21 of the Yajurveda.

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