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Song Name:
Official Name: Purusa Sukta; Section
10 Canto 7 Chapter 90 Verses 1 - 16
Author: Vyasadeva
Book Name: Rg Veda
Language: Sanskrit
LYRICS:
(Invocation)
oḿ
taccham yoravṛni mahe
ghatun
yajñāya
ghatun
yajñapataye
daivi
svastirastu
svastir
manuṣebhyāḥ
urdhvam
jigatu bhesajam
śam
no astu dvipade
śam
catuś-pade
oḿ
śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ
(1)
oḿ
sahasra śīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt
sa
bhūmim viṣvato vṛtvā
atyatiṣṭad daśāngulam
(2)
puruṣa
evedagaḿ sarvam yad bhūtam
yac ca bhavyam
utāmṛtatvasyeṣānaḥ
yad annenātirohati
(3)
etāvān
asya mahima ato
jyāyāgaḿśca pūruṣaḥ
pādo
'sya viṣvā bhūtāni
tripādasyāmṛtam divi
(4)
tripād
ūrdhva udait puruṣaḥ
pādo 'syehābhavatpunaḥ
tato
viṣva.n vyakrāmat
sāśanānaśane abhi
(5)
tasmāt
virād ajāyata virājo
adhipūruṣa ḥ
sa
jāto atyaricyata paścād
bhūmimatho puraḥ
(6)
yatpuruṣena
haviṣā devā yajñam
atanvata
vasanto
asyāsī-dājyam
grīṣma idhma śaraddhaviḥ
(7)
saptāsyā
san paridayaḥ triḥ
saptaḥ samidaḥ krtāḥ
deva
yad yajñam tanvānāḥ
abadhnan puruṣam paśum
(8)
tam
yajñam barhiṣi prokṣan
puruṣam jātam agrataḥ
tena
devā ayajanta sādhyā
ṛṣayaś ca ye
(9)
tasmād
yajñat sarvahutaḥ sambhṛtam
prṣadājyam
paṣūgaḿstya
gaś cakre vāyavyān
āraṇyān grāmyās ca ye
(10)
tasmād
yajñat sarvahutaḥ ṛcaḥ
sāmāni jajnire
chandāgaḿsi
jajnire tasmāt yajus tasmād
ajāyanta
(11)
tasmādaṣvā
ajāyanta ye ke
cobhayādataḥ
gāvoham
jagnyire tasmāt tasmajjatā
ajāvayaḥ
(!2)
yat
puruṣam vyadadhuḥ katidhā
vyakalpayan
mukham
kimasya kau bāhū
kavūrū pādā ucyete
(13)
brāhmaṇo
asya mukhamāsīt bāhū
rājanyaḥ krtaḥ
ūru
tadasya yad vaiṣya padbhyām
ṣūdro ajāyata
(14)
candramā
manaso jātaḥ cakṣo
sūryo ajāyata
mukhādīndrascāgnischa prāṇādvāyurajāyata
(15)
nābhyā
āsīdantarikṣam
ṣīrṣṇau dhyauḥ samavartata
padbhyām
bhūmir diṣaḥ ṣrotrāt tathā lokām akalpayan
(16)
vedāhametam
puruṣam mahāntam
ādityavarṇam tamasastu pāre
sarvāṇi
rūpāṇi vicitya dhīraḥ nāmāni krtvābhivadan
yadāste
(17)
dhātā
purastādhyamudājahāra
ṣakraḥ pravidvān
pradiṣaṣcatasraḥ
tamevam
vidhvānamrta iha bhavati
nānyaḥ panthā ayanāya vidhyate
(18)
yagnyena
yagnya-mayajanta devaḥ tāni
dharmāṇi prathamānāsann
te
ha nākam mahimānaḥ sacante yatra pūrve sādhyāḥ santi
devāḥ
(19)
adbhyassambhootaḥ prthivyai rasācca viśvakarmaṇassamavartatādhi
tasya tvaṣṭā vidadhadroopameti tatpuruṣasya
viśvamājānamagre
(20)
vedāhametam puruṣam mahāntam ādityavarṇam tamasas pārastāt
tamevam vidhvānamrta iha bhavati nānyaḥ panthā vidhyate
ayanāya
(21)
prajāpatischarati garbhe antaḥ ajāyamāno bahudhā vijāyate
tasya dhīrāḥ parijānanti
yonim marīchīnām
padamiccanti vedhasaḥ
(22)
yo devebhya ātapati
yo devānām purohitaḥ
purvo yo devebhyo jātaḥ namo rucāya brāhmaye
(23)
rucam brāmham janayantaḥ deva agre tadabruvan
yastvaivam brāhmaṇo vidhyāt tasya deva asan vaśe
(24)
hṛśca te lakṣmīśca patnyau ahorātre pārśve
nakṣatrāṇi roopam aśvinau vyāttam
iśtam maniśana
amun maniśana
sarvam maniśana
oḿ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ
TRANSLATION
(Invocation)
We worship and pray to the Supreme Lord for the welfare of all beings. May all
miseries and shortcomings leave us forever so that we may always sing for the
Lord during the holy fire ceremonies. May all medicinal herbs grow in potency
so that all diseases may be cured. May the gods rain peace on us. May all the
two-legged creatures be happy, and may all the four-legged creatures also be
happy. May there be peace in the hearts of all beings in all realms.
1)
The Purusa (the Supreme Being) has a thousand heads, a thousand eyes and a
thousand feet. He has enveloped this world from all sides and has (even)
transcended it by ten angulas or inches.
2)
All this is verily the Purusa. All that which existed in the past or will come
into being in the future (is also the Purusa). Also, he is the Lord of
immortality. That which grows profusely by food (is also the Purusa).
3)
So much is His greatness. However, the Purusa is greater than this. All the beings
form only a quarter (part of) Him. The three-quarter part of His, which is
eternal, is established in the spiritual domain.
4)
The Purusa with the three-quarters (of His energy) ascended above (the
spiritual energy). His one quarter of material energy becomes this creation
again (and again). Then He pervades this universe comprising a variety of
sentient beings and insentient objects.
5)
From Him (the Adi Purusa or original Supreme Being) was born the Virat (or
Virat Purusa, the immense universal form). Making this Virat as the substratum
(another) Purusa (or being, Brahma) (was born). As soon as he was born, he
multiplied himself. Later, he created this earth and then, the bodies (of the
living beings).
6)
When the devas (the demigods or beings of light)
performed a yajna (or sacrificial ritual), using the Purusa as the havis
(sacrificial material) for the yajna (ritual), the Vasanta (spring) became the
ajya (ghee), the Grishma (summer) served as idhma (pieces of wood) and the
sharad (autumn) filled the place of havis (obligatory material like the
purodasha or rice-cake).
7)
For this (yajna or spiritual ceremony) there were seven paridhis (fuel pieces
serving as borders). And, twenty-one items were made the samit or sacrificial
fuel sticks. When the devas were performing this yajna or ceremony, they tied
the Purusa (himself) as the pasu (sacrificial animal).
8)
The devas, the sadhyas and the rsis performed the sacrifice by using that
Purusa as the means of yajna, the Purusa who had been born in the beginning,
after sprinkling him with water by the barhis (or sacrificial grass).
9)
From that yajna (or sacrificial ritual) wherein the Cosmic Being was Himself
the oblation, was produced the prasajya (or curds mixed with ghee). Birds
flying in the air, wild animals of the forest as also the domesticated animals
of the villages were also produced.
10)
From that yajna (or sacrifice) wherein the Cosmic Being was Himself the
oblation, were born the riks (the mantras of the Rg-veda) and the samans (the
mantras of the Sama-veda). From that (yajna) the meters (like Gayatri) were
born. From that (yajna again) the yujas (the Yajura-veda) was born.
11)
From that were born the horses, as also animals (like donkeys and mules) which
have two rows of teeth. From that were born the cattle. From that (again) were
born goats and sheep.
12)
(Now some questions are raised by the sages) When the gods decided to
(mentally) sacrifice the ViratPurusa (and produce further creation), in how
many ways did they do it? What became of his face or mouth? What became of his
two arms? What became of His two thighs? What were (the products of) the two
feet called?
13)
From His face (or the mouth) came the brahmanas. From His two arms came the
rajanya (the ksatriyas). From His two thighs came the vaisyas. From His two
feet came the sudras.
14)
From His mind was born the moon. From His two eyes was born the sun. From His
mouth were born Indra and Agni. From His breath was born the air.
15)
From (His) navel was produced the antariksha (the space between the earth and
the heavens). Dyuloka (or heaven) came into existence from His head. The bhumi
(the earth) evolved out of His feet, and deek (or spacial directions) from His
ears. Similarly (the demigods) produced the worlds (too).
16)
I know (through intuitive experience) this great Purusa (the Supreme Being),
the wise one, who, having created the various forms and the nomenclatures (for
those forms), deals with them by those names, and who is beyond darkness and is
brilliant like the sun.
17)
In the ancient days, Prajapati (Brahma) praised Him. Indra who knows all the
four quarters also spoke about Him. Anyone who knows Him thus, will become
immortal even in this life. For attaining liberation there is no other path
(than knowledge of this Purusa, the Supreme Lord).
18)
The (demi)gods worshiped (the Supreme Creator in the form of) yajna through
yajna (sacrifical ceremonies). Those very processes became the primary dharmas
(laws guiding humanity). Those great ones attain that heaven where the ancient
devas (demigods) and sadhyas live.
19)
The ViratPurusa manifested Himself from out of (the all-pervading) water as
also the essence of the element of earth. This ViratPurusa was born out of the
greatness of the ParamaPurusa, the Creator. The (ParamaPurusa, known as)
Tvashta engaged Himself in the act of creating (the fourteen planetary
systems), (which form of the expanded) figure (of the ViratPurusa). (Thus) the
entire creation (related to the ViratPurusa) came into existence in the very beginning
of creation.
20)
I have known that great Purusa (Supreme Being) who is brilliant like the sun
and who is beyond all darkness. One who knows Him thus becomes immortal (even)
here. There is no other path for liberation than this.
21)
Prajapati (the Supreme Creator) moves inside the cosmic womb. (Though) unborn
He takes birth in a variety of ways. The wise ones know His (real nature) as
the origin (of the universe). The (secondary) creators desire to attain the
positions of Marichi and others.
22)
Obeisances to Him, the self-luminous Brahman, who shines for the (demi)gods,
who is the leader of the rituals of the gods and who was born even before the
gods.
23)
In the beginning of creation, the gods, manifesting the light of Brahman,
addressed Brahman thus: "That brahmana who realizes (You) thus, all the
gods will come under his control."
24)
O Purusa! The goddesses Hri (modesty) and Sri (Lakshmi, wealth) are Your
consorts. Day and night are Your lateral limbs. The stars are Your form. The
Ashvins are your widely opened (mouth). (O Purusa) fulfill our desire for
self-knowledge as also our desire for the enjoyments of this world (like
longevity, cows, and horses). Give us all that we need.
REMARKS/EXTRA INFORMATION:
This was originally sung by Lord Brahma. This prayer
is very dear to Lord Krsna.
This song was sung in the album “Harmony of Space.”
Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami sang this song along with the Mayapuri Gurukula
students.