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[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]

叠谤补丑尘腻 said:鈥�

1-2. O most excellent sage, we were eager to have a vision of the lord. Our haughtiness had been curbed. O sage, we waited there patiently. 艢颈惫补, the protector of the distressed, remover of the haughtiness of the haughty and the undecaying lord of everything took mercy on us.

3. There arose the sound 鈥淥峁� O峁冣�� in the prolated accent.^[1] It was very clear. The divine sound in the form of a word came out from the most excellent of Gods.

4-5. 鈥淲hat shall be this great sound?鈥� thinking like this I stood perplexed. 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 who is worthy of respect from all the Gods, who is free from all inimical thoughts, saw with the delightful heart, the eternal being鈥檚 manifestation on the right side of the 濒颈峁単补. First, he saw the syllable 鈥淎鈥� and he saw the syllable 鈥淯鈥� thereafter.

6-10. He saw the syllable 鈥淢鈥� in the middle and 狈腻诲补 (the mystical sound) in the form 鈥淥峁冣�� in the end. He saw the first syllable on the right like the blazing sphere of the sun. O foremost of sages, thereafter he saw the syllable 鈥淯鈥� dazzling like fire. In the middle he saw the syllable 鈥淢鈥� glittering like the lunar sphere. Above that what he saw was the supreme Brahman, the greatest refuge. It had the lustre of the pure crystal. It was the pure Being beyond the Fourth (罢耻谤墨测补), the unsullied & free from extraneous harassment. It was free from mutually clashing opposites. It was single (isolated), void, free from exterior and interior though stationed in the exterior and the interior, devoid of beginning, middle and end, the primordial cause of Bliss, the truth, The Bliss and the Nectar.

11-12. 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 thus meditated on the universal soul enveloped by the two Vedic sounds and wished to examine the source whence the Fire-column arose and to go deep down the unequalled fiery column. Then there came a sage who told him the essence of the truth.

13. 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 realised that the sage himself was the great lord and the supreme Brahman embodied in the 艢补产诲补 Brahman. (i.e. the mystic syllable Om).

14. The Brahman is Rudra free from worries. The words and the mind are incapable of comprehending it; without reaching it they return. It can be expressed by the single-syllabled mantra 鈥淥尘鈥�.

15. The supreme Brahman, the Truth, the Bliss, the 础尘峁泃补, the greatest of the great and the ultimate cause can be expressed by the single-syllabled mantra.

16. The single syllable 鈥淎鈥� is the source of the lord 叠谤补丑尘腻. The single syllable 鈥淯鈥� is the source of 痴颈峁ａ箛耻, the ultimate cause.

17. The single syllable 鈥淢鈥� is the source of Rudra. The creator is expressed by the letter 鈥淎鈥�. The enchanter is expressed by the letter 鈥淯鈥�

18. The being expressed by the letter 鈥淢鈥� blesses always. It is all-pervasive and progenitor; the letter 鈥淎鈥� is the seed.

19. The being expressed by the letter 鈥淯鈥� is 痴颈峁ａ箛耻. It is the source, the receptacle, the lord of primordial nature and primordial being, the progenitor, the seed, source and sound. All these constitute Lord 艢颈惫补.

20. The progenitor is stationed after dividing itself. From the 濒颈峁単补 of the progenitor, the lord, arose the seed鈥攖he syllable 鈥淎鈥�

21. The 叠墨箩补 being deposited in the Yoni, the letter 鈥淯鈥� began to increase all round. It became a golden egg. It was something known which could not be delineated.

22. The divine egg floated in the waters for many years. Then at the end of a thousand years, it split into two giving birth to 叠谤补丑尘腻.

23-24. The egg floating in the waters on being hit by 莫艣惫补谤补 split into two. The auspicious golden upper lid became the upper region and the lower one became the Earth of five characteristics. From (the inner part of) the egg was born the four-faced lord (叠谤补丑尘腻) expressed by the letter 鈥淜A鈥�

25. He is the creator of all the worlds. He alone is the lord manifesting in three forms. Persons well-versed in the Yajurveda call it O峁� O峁�.

26. On hearing the words of the Yajurveda, both the 峁欢惫别诲补 and the S膩maveda respectfully called us then 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 and 叠谤补丑尘腻.

27. Then realising the lord of the Gods we eulogised, as far as we could, Lord 艢颈惫补, the cause of great achievement.

28. 痴颈峁ａ箛耻, the protector of the universe, in the meantime, saw another wonderfully beautiful form, along with me.

29-30. On seeing that wonderful form, 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 and I became satisfied. The form had five faces, ten arms, and a complexion white as camphor, O sage. It had diverse brilliant features. It was decorated in different ornaments. It was highly liberal and endowed with great prowess. It had all the characteristics of a great man.

31. Thereafter, the lord 艢颈惫补 was pleased. Revealing his form embedded in letters He laughingly stood before us.

32. The short letter 鈥淎鈥� is His head. The long letter 鈥淎鈥� is His forehead. The letter 鈥淚鈥� is His right eye and the letter 鈥溎�鈥� His left eye.

33. The letter 鈥淯鈥� is His right ear and the letter 鈥溑�鈥� His left ear. The letter 鈥溼箽鈥� is the right cheek of that great lord.

34. 鈥溼箿鈥� is His left cheek. The two letters 鈥溼阜鈥� 鈥溼腹鈥�, are His nostrils. The letter 鈥淓鈥� is His upper lip and the letter 鈥淎I鈥� is His lower lip.

35. The letter 鈥淥鈥� and the letter 鈥淎U鈥� are respectively the two rows of his teeth. The letters 鈥淎峁傗�� and 鈥淎岣も�� [Anusv膩ra and Visarga] are his palates.

36. The five letters beginning with KA [ie KA, KHA, GA, GHA and 峁凙] are His five hands on the right side. The five letters beginning with CA [i.e. CA, CH, JA, JHA and 脩A] are His hands on the left side.

37. Similarly the five letters beginning with 峁珹 and the five letters beginning with TA constitute His legs. The letter PA is His belly and the letter PHA is His right side.

38. The letter BA is His left side. The letter BHA is His shoulder. The letter MA is the heart of the great yogin 惭补丑腻诲别惫补.

39. The letters YA, RA, LA, VA, 艢A, 峁�A and SA are the seven 顿丑腻迟耻蝉 (vital secretions) of the lord. The letter HA is His umbilicus and the letter K峁�A is His nose.

40. 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 and I became contented on seeing this letter-embedded form of the Sagu峁嘺 manifestation of 狈颈谤驳耻峁嘺 lord in the company of Um膩.

41. On seeing Lord 艢颈惫补 in the form of the letter-embedded Brahman, 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 bowed down along with me and looked up again.

42-47. The mantra beginning with 翱峁僰腻谤补 with its 碍补濒腻蝉 five in number, consisting of the auspicious thirty-eight syllables, being pure as crystal, increases intelligence and is an effective medium of accomplishing sacred rites. The mantras in the 骋腻测补迟谤墨 metre of twenty-four syllables and having four 碍补濒腻蝉 are conducive to enjoyment. The five-syllabled mantra of eight 碍补濒腻蝉 consisting of thirty syllables is employed for black magic. Mantras of Yajurveda consisting of twenty-five syllables and eight 碍补濒腻蝉 are used for conciliatory purpose. The mantra of thirteen 碍补濒腻蝉 consisting of sixty-one syllables is conducive to outcome, increase and destruction.

48-49. The lord 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 secured these five mantras:鈥�惭峁泃测耻帽箩补测补 mantra, five-syllabled mantra, 颁颈苍迟腻尘补峁噄 mantra, 顿补办峁�i峁嚹乵奴谤迟颈 mantra and the 鈥渢attvamasi鈥� mantra which is Hara鈥檚 惭补丑腻惫腻办测补. Lord 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 performed Japa by means of these mantras.

50-53. The lord 痴颈峁ａ箛耻 and I being glad at heart eulogised the boon-bestowing lord 艢颈惫补 with appropriate words,鈥斉毦北共� who was seen in the form of 碍补濒腻蝉, Var峁嘺s (syllables), 峁歬, Yajus, S膩man, 莫艣腻苍补, 莫艣a, Pur膩tana 笔耻谤耻峁�a (the ancient Being), the merciful, pleasing to the heart, hidden from all, ever auspicious, a great deity, of beautiful feet, bedecked with huge serpents, with legs, eyes and hands extending on all sides, the lord of 叠谤补丑尘腻, and the cause of creation, sustenance and destruction of the world.

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[1]:

The pluta is a prolated vowel, as in Om, often marked with the figure three (啶撪ォ啶�啷�, o3m), as it contains three syllabic instant in pronouncing it.