Prahlada
O Bhagawan, supreme soul, salutations to you. I am fortunate. After a long time, the Self, which is beyond all states, is once again revealed.
O Bhagavan, who else is a greater friend than you in the three worlds?
You are the one who gives, protects, moves about and also destroys. Now that this Self is gained, it is clear why you do something and where and why you go.
With your enormous power you are spread all over the universe. You are the benefactor of all in the universe. You are thus seen everywhere. Where then can you flee!
Because of many births there was considerable distance between us. Now all that is wiped. Fortunately you are my dear one.
-10 Salutations to you. You are the doer. You are the lord. You are the one who fulfills. You are the foots talk of this mustable world. You are eternal and pure. Salutations to the One with lotus -like hands. Salutations to the One who wears the crown of moon. Salutations to the lord of the knowers of Truth. Salutations to the lotus -born. All differences are in terms of semantics. They are untrue. It is like the difference between waves and waters of sea. You are the multitudinous, multifarious variety of objects and things. The eternal swells as existence and non-existence being and non-being. Salutations O witness, O creator, O, the luminous Infinite, the All-Natures, O immanent in all existence.
All my births are long and grief ridden. By being in me you have nullified all those births (the vasanas).
Considering critically, all these are mere illustratious of the worldly existence. They could not give me more than a small taste (of your nature)
O Lord, all this world is mere mud, wood, water and stone. Nothing else. Nothing exists like you. If I get you, I do not want anything else.
O Lord, I have now got you, seen you. I have received (your grace). Salutation to you. I am no longer deluded.
Lord, who is seated as the light of the eye, can never be away from one's sight. How can he escape?
What touches the skin, touches everything as fragrance. When it touches the inside, how can one not experience it?
When one hears a sound, the hairs stand on end due to its sound-power. How can such a thing be called as distant?
One who eats with his tongue with joy, how can he be without enjoyment of eating?
If one looks with indulgence at a flower in his hand and enjoys its fragrance holding against his nose, how can one say, 'He does not exist?'
If one becomes enlightened by the hymns of Veda and becomes a jnani, how can those hymns be forgotten?
O Lord, after seeing you, I am not able to relish any of the earlier pleasurable things.
-23 . Sun is shining because of you. Because of you moon is cool. Because of you the nountains are high and steady. It is because of you this earth is carrying all its burden with steadiness.
O Lord, you are I and I am you. There is no difference between us.
I and you are synonyms of great souls. Salutations to all aspects of you and me.
My salutation to myself who am infinite, the very embodiment of egolessness, the One without form and the Self in total equality.
You are in my Self which is equal, pure and One in witness mode, and which is formless and undifferentiated.
-30 . Mind becomes turbulent. Sense activities sparkle. The vital airs flow far and wide with power the charriot of body with its senses and drawn by desires is charioteered by mind. I am the body of knowledge. I have nothing to do with the (former) mind. What does it matter to me whether body falls or stays. Let it be as it wants.
After a long time I have gained my Self. Peace and tranquility have arrived. The illusion about the world has blown off.
Having lived and moved about in this world I am tired. Now I am relieved and rested. It is like the quenched fire at deluge.
Salutations to you who is beyond all, who is all. Salutations to those who have and disclosed and taught this knowledge.
Victory and glory to the Supreme Self who is like a witness to all activity, and who is untouched by the corruptions inspite of enjoying all the infinite kinds of pleausres.
O Supreme Self, you abide in all like oil in sesame seed, fragrance in flower and air in bellows.
Your maya is intriguing. You kill, hurt and save. You give. You fight. You are greatly mobile.
O Lord, I have been successful in unfolding the world with my flaming luminoisty (at the time of creation and later). Afterwards when the cessation started, I am successful in closing up the world.
This world is indeed inside an atom like a banyan tree which resides in its seed.
O Lord, you appear in myriad forms like a cloud which takes several shapes like horse, chariot etc.
By breaking up moods and passions, become One who is without them. Expelling them, become liberated from them.
Casting off pride, anger, cruelty and prestige and such pollutants, great people do not get immersed in lowly dangers and problems.
Recollecting repeatedly the earlier foolish and evil actions and inquiring 'who I am' why I am born', develop a pearly smile.
The kind of things that burnt up all your initiations and action with the fire of sorrow, are gone and will not arise again.
You are now the king of the city of your body with all your aims and desires fulfilled. No grief seizes you. No happiness grips you. It is like sky which cannot be held in one's fist.
Today you have overwhelmed the wild house of senses. You have vanquished the mind-elephant. You have conquered the enemies called pleasures. Thus you have ascended the throne of (spiritual) empire.
You are a traveller in the skyways, you have both rising and setting. You are the Sun inside, illuminating both.
You are constantly in tranquil state (asleep). But all your powers are awakening you to the play in the world. It is like a lustful woman awakening her lover.
You are drinking the honey brought by the fly of sight through the windows of your eyes.
You are seeking the way to Brahmapuri in the movements of prana and apana through the halls of the universe.
You are the frogrance of the flower of body. You are the ambrosia of the body-moon. You are the sap running through the body-tree. You are the coolness of the body-snow.
You are the wonderful oiliness of the ghee from the milk called body. You abide inside as the bright fire of the wood called body.
You are perfect nectar. You are luminoity of all light. You are the knower of all purposes. You are the light in all lights.
You are the vibration in all winds. You are the arrogance of all mind-elephants. You are luminosity of all Intelligence. You are the sharp intensity in all brightness.
Because of you this body loses its ability to speak (during death). It again revives like a lamp in another body.
Like many kinds of jewels which are formed out of gold, many kinds of things and beings in this world are formed and become active because of you.
You create, become and play-on in dalliance, with names like 'I, you, this, that' etc. You then sing praises of them.
Just like wind which drives the clouds into several formations and shapes like elephants, horses etc, you also form and appear in several shapes like beings.
Just like a flame which takes different kinds of shapes like horse, elephant etc, You appear in different kinds of forms on the earth's creation.
You are like the running thread through the pearl of universe. You are the field of the crop of beings which is wetted by the water called 'Chit'.
Your essence and nature illumine the nonexistent and unmanfest things (into existence and manifesation). It is like cooking which gives taste to flesh.
Without you, all existence is as if non existent. Before a blind man, the beauty of a woman has no meaning.
Without your energy, manifest things do not have any energy. Beauty reflected in a mirror is not useful to quench the desire.
Without you this body is like a piece of wood. Without illuminating light even a mountain connot show up its height and magnitude.
When you are gained, all griefs and happinesses will get destroyed. When light arrives, darkness is chased away and snow melts.
When morning sun appears everything acquires a white sheen. Similarly, when you are seen then all joys acquire meaning.
When the Self is gained, all bondages get destroyed in a trice. When light appears all darkness vanishes.
Darkness clearly persists in the absence of light. The moment it comes into contact with a lamp, it gets destroyed.
In the same way joys and sorrows are chased away by your very sight.
Because of the tendency for transience, time is existent. Not even a nano- second can exist without the time-aspect of years.
The feelings about joys and sorrows are like a 'A Gandharva City'. They sparkle because of your grace and dissolve on gaining you.
Whoever cares for those which die being born and be born when dead?
How can anything be of some use and purpose, it it is not stable even for a moment? How can one form a garland with waves which look like lotuses?
If something that dies as soon as it is born becomes purposefully active, then one can be happy with a garland made out of lightnings.
You are making even discrimainating people receive both sorrows and joys without discarding their state of equalibrium.
O, One who dwells in the highest state, I am too small and incapable of describing the way you deal with stupids.
You accept ownership for everything existent and non existent with your desirelessness, holistic unity and egolessness.
-79 . Victory unto you the Vast, the one who is all peace, one who is beyond all Vedas, who is the refuge of all Vedas, who is born and who is unborn, who is hurt and who is unhurt, who is all mind and who is without mind, who is defeat and who is victory. I am delighted and am established in peace. I am (finally) victorious and so I am alive. Salutations to you and (also) to me.
Established in you, I am free from all disease. Established in myself all attachments and delusions are gone. Where then is bondage for me? Where is danger? Where is wealth, becoming and nonbecoming? I am eternally tranquil and peaceful.
