DASAKOM 98

 STANZA 1

 THAT, IN WHICH, FROM WHICH, FROM WHOM EVOLVED ALL THIS WE SEE,

 AND BY WHOSE LIGHT, THE WHOLEII IS LIT,

 WHO IS BEYOND WORDS AND MIND, WHOSE REAL FORM

 IS NOT KNOWN EVEN TO SAGES OR DEVAS, WHAT TO SAY OF OTHERS?

TO THAT YOU, I BOW DOWN MY LORD

 STANZA 2

 I BOW TO YOU, WHO HAS NO BIRTH, NO NAME, HA S NO NEED OF ACTION,

 WHO, TO HELP THE WORLD, COMES TO EARTH, SUBJECTING YOURSELF TO THESE ILLUSIONARY GUNAS

 AND THOUGH, FORMLESS ALL-PERVADING SPIRIT,

 ASSUMES SEVERAL FORMS, TO THE WONDERMENT OF ALL

 STANZA 3

 NOT ANIMAL NOR MEN, NOT DEVAS NOR ASURAS, NOT FEMALE NOR MALE,

 NOT SUBSTANCE, NOR MOVEMENT, NOR GROUP, NOT GOOD NOR BAD, NONE OF THESE IS SAID TO BE YOUR TRUE FORM,

 AND WHAT IS THEN UNDERSTOOD WITH DIFFICULTY FROM SCRIPTURES BY SUGGESTION,

 IS THE BLISSFULLY CONSCIOUS FEELING, THAT IS YOU, TO WHOM I BOW IN VENERATION, MY LORD

 STANZA 4

 REFLECTED IN MAAYA, YOU CREATE THE ILLUSIONARY WORLD,

 DISTIGUISHED BY MATTER, IDENTITY ELEMENARY PARTICLES, BODY CELLS, AND SENSES,

 THEN, BY THE UNSTOPPABLE MIGHT OF TIME, DRAWING EVERYTHING IN, LIKE A TORTISE ITS LIMBS,

 SHINE BRIGHT IN THE DEEP DARKNESS, ENVELOPING ALL, AND TO THAT YOU, I BOW, MY LORD

 STANZA 5

 ESSENCE OF ALL BOOK KNOWLEDGE, OF ALL ATIVITY, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES OF MATTER, TIME,

 YOU, THE ONLY CAUSE OF THE WORLD, BUT BEING EVERYTHING, APPEARING AS ALL THINGS,

 THAT TOO, WHICH IS SUNG IN UPANISHADS, AS THE SUPREME FORM OF MAN,

 AND BY MERELY A LOOK, STIRS MATTER TO CHURN OUT THE WORLD, IS YOU, TO WHOM I BOW, MY LORD

 STANZA 7

 THE IGNORANCE CAUSED BY MAAYA, WHICH CANNOT BE CALLED REAL OR UNREAL, GOOD OR BAD,

 PRODUCES THE ILLUSION OF THE WORLD, AS THE ILLUSION OF THE ROPE TO

BE SEEN AS A SNAKE

 STANZA 8

 DUE TO FEAR OF WHOM, THE SUN RISES, THE FIRE BURNS, THE WIND BLOWS, EVEN BRAHMA AND OTHERS DO THEIR DUTIES ON TIME,

 BY WHOM THEY ARE LIFTED, AND THEN DROPPED, WE TOO BEND OUR HEADS BEFORE YOU, MY LORD

 STANZA 9

 WE ALSO BOW BEFORE YOU, WHO PRTOTECTS THE THREE WORLDS, WHOM THE COMBIINED SET OF THREE SOUNDS EXPRESS,

 WHO IS THREE PERSONS IN ONE, WHOSE SHAPE IS SUNG BY THE THREE VEDAS,

 WHO SEES THE THREE TIMES, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, WHO WAS BORN IN THREE YUGAS,

 WHO, IN THREE STEPS, COVERED THE THREE WORLDS, WHO ALSO DOES NOT CHANGE AT THREE TIMES, AND WHOM WE WORSHIP BY THREE YOGAS, MY LORD.

 STANZA 10

 YOUR BODY, THE ONLY REAL, PURE, ALL-KNOWING, ETERNALLY FREE, NOT AFFECTED BY WISHES,

 UNEQUALLED, CHANGELESS, SEAT OF ALL THAT IS GOO

 SELF-BORN, BLEMISHLESS, POWERFUL WITHOUT LIMIT, RESIDING IN THE MINDS OF SAINTS,

 WHO DONOT WANT ANYTHING, FULL OF AN UNLIMITETED JOY?

 STANZA 11

 MAY YOUR WHEEL OF TIME, ROLLING AT A TREMENDOUS SPEED,

 TWELVE-SPOKED, INESCAPABLE, CUTTING ALL AS IT RUNS,

 NOT TORTURE ME, WHO HAS NO OTHER HELP THAN YOU

 HELP ME, LORD OF GURUVAOOR, WHO IS EXTREMELY GENEROUS, AT ALL TIMES