DASAKOM 7

STANZA 1

AFTER THIS BIRTH OF BRAHMA IN THE FORM OF THE FOURTEEN WORLDS,

YOU WERE YOURSELF AGAIN BORN IN ANOTHER WORLD,

ABOVE ALL THESE WORLDS,

IN THE FORM OF BRAHMA,

AND HIM THEY CALL HIRANYAGARBHA, (HE WHO HAS GOLD, IMPLYING WEALTH, INSIDE),

WHO CONTAINED ALL LIVING BEINGS IN HIMSELF

STANZA 2

HE TOO SET HIS MIND ON CREATING ALL THINGS,

BUT NOT KNOWING HOW TO DO IT,

STOOD THINKING FOR SOME TIME,

WHEN HE HEARD A DISEMBODIED VOICE FROM HIGH,

“DO PENANCE, DO PENANCE”

STANZA 3

AND LOOKING AROUND AND NOT FINDING NONE ANYWHERE,

STOOD THINKING LONG,

AND LATER UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORT OF WHAT HE HEARD,

WORSHIPPED YOU PERFORMING THAPAS FOR CRORES OF YEARS,

AND THEN YOU SHOWED HIM YOUR WONDERFUL WORLD

STANZA 4

WHERE MAAYA DOES NOT DECEIVE,

WHICH IS BEYOND THE KNOWN WORLD,

AND THERE ARE NO NEGATIVE FEELINGS,

LIKE SORROW, ANGER, CONFUSION, AND FEAR,

THE WORLD YOU SHOWED BRAHMA, THE VAIKUNTHHAM,

WHERE FLOWS ALWAYS INTENSE JOY,

IN THE FORM OF DAZZLING LIGHT

STANZA 5

HAIL THAT WORLD OF YOURS, VAIKUNTHHAM

WHERE THOSE WHO CAME, BY THEIR GOOD DEEDS,

LIVE HAPPILY,

ADORNED WITH BEAUTIFUL ORNAMENTS,

IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS,

WHO TOO CAME IN A SIMILAR WAY

STANZA 6

PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR WORLD,

WHERE LIVES GODDESS LAKSHMI HERSELF, OF UNSPEAKABLE PROSPERITY,

IN THE COMPANY OF OTHER GODDESS-LIKE GIRLS,

AND WHO BRIGHTENED, LIKE LIGHTNING,

WITH HER HANDSOME SLIM BODY ALL AROUND,

REVELLING IN THE PERFUME YOU WEAR

STANZA 7

THERE IN THAT WORLD OF YOURS, HE SAW YOU,

SEATED ON A THRONE BEDECKED WITH GEMS,

WEARING CROWN, BANGLES AND OTHER ORNAMENTS,

WITH CHEST MARKED BY SHREEVATSAM,

AND REDDENED BY THE KOUSTHUBHA GEM

STANZA 8

MAY THE FORM SHOWN HIM BY YOU,

WHO SPREAD ALL AROUND,

THE COLOURS OF YOUR WHEEL, BLACK LIKE RAINCLOUD AND CLOVEFLOWER,

SMILING LOVINGLY, CARRYING CONCH, GADA, WHEEL AND LOTUS, IN YOUR HANDS,

PROTECT ME FROM MY ILLNESS, MY LORD

STANZA 9

I WORSHIP YOU TO WHOM BRAHMA,

OVERWHELMED BY JOY, PROSTRATING,

IN GREAT EXCITEMENT, SAID, “MASTER, YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT

PLEASE GIVE ME THE ABILITY TO KNOW BOTH YOUR FORMS,

THE UNIVERSAL AS WELL AS THE INDIVIDUAL“

STANZA 10

YOU HELD WITH YOUR HAND HIS HAND AND TELLING HIM,

“THAT KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL HAVE,

AND YOU WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY ANY ADVERSE SIDE-EFFECTS"

ENTERED HIS MIND,

AND MADE HIM CREATE THE WORLD, MY LORD