vipaścitaṁ prāṇa-mano-dhiyātmanām
vipaścitaṁ prāṇa-mano-dhiyātmanām
arthendriyābhāsam anidram avraṇam
chāyātapau yatra na gṛdhra-pakṣau
tam akṣaraṁ khaṁ tri-yugaṁ vrajāmahe
We surrender to the knower of the living entities, prāṇa, mind, intelligence and ahaṅkāra, to the Lord who is not available to the senses and sense objects, who is constantly witnessing, but not affected, who has no vidyā and avidyā like the jīva, who is indestructible, and who is the form of happiness endowed with six great qualities.
Then the Lord’s omniscience is described. He is the knower (vipaścitam) of the living entities, of their prāṇa, mind, intelligence and ahaṅkara (ātmā). Ātma can also mean the body or the jīva. He cannot be grasped (abhāsam) by the senses or sense objects (artha). He is without sleep, seeing everything. But he is unaffected (avraṇam), not suffering on seeing the jīva’s suffering. The reason for all of this is that in him avidyā and vidyā (chāyā ātapau) do not exist, as in the jīva (gṛdhra-pakṣau). Therefore he is indestructible and he has his own eternal form of happiness (kham). According to the dictionary kham means the senses, happiness and Svarga. This happiness is enumerated. It is three times two, or six. The Lord has six outstanding qualities. We surrender to that Lord.
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ajasya cakraṁ tv ajayeryamāṇaṁ
manomayaṁ pañcadaśāram āśu
tri-nābhi vidyuc-calam aṣṭa-nemi
yad-akṣam āhus tam ṛtaṁ prapadye
We surrender to the real Lord whom they say is the axel of the fast-moving wheel of saṁsāra belonging to the jīva, with sixteen spokes predominated by the mind, three naves made of the guṇas, and eight rims made of the elements.
One should worship this Lord, since he is the shelter of the jīva’s avidyā. The jīva’s (ajasya) wheel of saṁsāra moves by māyā (ajayā). It has sixteen spokes made of the ten sense, five prāṇas and the mind, predominated by the mind (manomayam). It moves quickly. It has naves made of the three guṇas. It is flickering like lightening. It has eight rims or coverings, made of the material elements. The axel or the basis is the Supreme Lord. We surrender to that real form.
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