Garudapurana 1.34

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, Chapter 34. / Rudra said: / Speak again of the worship of God, O Hṛṣīkeśa, O wielder of the mace; / there is no satiety in me as I listen to you speaking of your worship.

Hari said: / I shall declare to you the worship of the god Hayagrīva; / listen to that, O Lord of the World, whereby Viṣṇu is fully pleased.

I shall declare the supreme, meritorious root-mantra expressive of Hayagrīva, / O Mahādeva; hear that first, O Śaṅkara:

‘Oṃ saiṃ kṣaiṃ śirase namaḥ’—thus accompanied by the praṇava; / this nine-syllable mantra is the bestower of all sciences.

Hear its limb-[mantras], O Mahādeva, O you whose banner bears a bull: / ‘Oṃ kṣāṃ to the heart, namaḥ’; / ‘Oṃ kṣīṃ to the head, svāhā’—the head is proclaimed; and likewise ‘kṣūṃ vaṣaṭ’;

Endowed with the syllable Oṃ, it is known as the tuft of hair of the god, O you whose banner bears a bull; / ‘Oṃ kṣaiṃ to the armor, huṃ’—the armor is proclaimed;

‘Oṃ kṣaiṃ to the three eyes, vauṣaṭ’ is proclaimed as the eye of the god; / ‘Oṃ haḥ to the weapon, phaṭ’ is proclaimed as the weapon of the god.

I shall declare the ritual of worship; listen to me as I speak it: / first having bathed and likewise sipped water, one should then go to the sacrificial chamber.

Then, having entered according to rule, one should perform the desiccation and so forth, / with the seed-syllables ‘yaṃ’, ‘kṣaiṃ’, and ‘raṃ’, and having made it firm with ‘laṃ’,

And having produced the cosmic egg, one should then pierce it with the syllable Oṃ; / inside the cosmic egg one should contemplate oneself as Hayagrīva,

White like a conch, jasmine, or the moon, with the radiance of lotus fibers or silver, / like cow’s milk, likewise having the radiance of ten million suns, / four-armed, holding conch, discus, mace, and lotus,

Wearing a diadem, wearing earrings, adorned with a forest garland, / with a fine discus, lovely cheeks, the all-pervading lord clad in yellow garments.

Having meditated upon the Great Self accompanied by all the gods, / [one should perform] the placement with the limb-mantras and likewise with the root-mantra.

And then one should show the auspicious hand-gestures such as the conch and the lotus. / Having meditated, one should worship Viṣṇu with the root-mantra, O Śaṅkara.

And then, O Rudra, one should invoke the deities that belong to the seat: / ‘Oṃ deities of Hayagrīva's seat, come!’

Having invoked them into the mandala, one should worship them on a svastika or similar diagram. / At the doorway, O bull-bannered god, the worship of Dhātṛ and Vidhātṛ should be performed:

‘To Acyuta, who has the whole retinue, namaḥ!’ / Worship should be performed in the centre of this; and at the doorway one should worship Gaṅgā,

and the great goddess Yamunā, as well as the treasures Śaṅkha and Padma. / In front, one should worship Garuḍa, and in the centre one should worship the Śakti

named Ādhāra, O Mahādeva; after that one should worship Kūrma; / then Ananta and the Earth; next one should worship dharma and knowledge,

and then dispassion and divine sovereignty in the directions starting with the south-east; / and adharma, ignorance, lack of dispassion, and lack of sovereignty starting in the east.

Then, in the central region, one should worship sattva, rajas, and tamas; / and in the centre one should also worship the root-bulb, the stalk, and the lotus.

The worship of the mandalas known as sun, moon, and fire / must indeed be performed in the central region: thus it is proclaimed, O Rudra.

Vimalā, Utkarṣiṇī, Jñānā, and Kriyā, O bull-bannered god, in the practice of yoga, / Prahvī, Satyā, and likewise Īśānā and Anugrahā: these are indeed the Śaktis.

Vimalā and the rest are to be worshipped on the petals beginning in the east, / and Anugrahā is to be worshipped on the pericarp by men desiring the highest good.

With these names preceded by Praṇava and ending in namaḥ, ending with the fourth case-ending, / with these mantras, O Mahādeva, one should fully worship the seat.

By offering a bath and fragrant paste, by offering flowers and incense, / by presenting a lamp and food-offerings, the auspicious worship of the seat

is to be performed according to this rule: thus it has been proclaimed to you, O Hara. / And then one should invoke the god Hayagrīva, lord of the gods.

One should visualize him coming through the left nostril itself. / With the formula ‘[Come] of him who comes’, with the root-mantra, O Śaṅkara,

the invocation of the conch-bearing god of gods is to be performed. / Having invoked him into the mandala, one should unweariedly perform nyāsa for him.

And having performed nyāsa, one should visualize the supreme lord residing there: / Hayagrīva, the great god, bowed to by gods and asuras,

accompanied by the guardians of the world beginning with Indra, Viṣṇu the imperishable. / Having meditated, one should show the auspicious hand-gestures such as the conch and discus.

Then one should offer water for the feet, respectful water, and water for sipping to Viṣṇu; / and then one should bathe the flawless, lotus-navelled god.

Having installed the god according to rule, one should offer clothing, O bull-bannered god; / then indeed one should offer water for sipping, and then an auspicious sacred thread.

And then, O Rudra, one should meditate in the mandala on the god, the supreme lord. / Having meditated, one should again offer water for the feet and the rest to the god, O Śaṅkara.

One should offer to the awe-inspiring god with the root-mantra, O Śaṅkara: / ‘Oṃ kṣāṃ, to the heart, namaḥ’—with this one should worship the heart.

‘Oṃ kṣīṃ, to the head, namaḥ’—there should be the worship of the head. / ‘Oṃ kṣūṃ, to the crown lock, namaḥ’—with this one should worship the crown lock.

‘Oṃ kṣaiṃ, to the armour, namaḥ’—one should worship the armour. / ‘Oṃ kṣaiṃ, to the eye, namaḥ’—and with this one should worship the eye.

‘Oṃ kṣaḥ, to the weapon, namaḥ’—and with this one should worship the weapon. / The heart, the head, the crown lock, and the armour—

these indeed one should worship in the directions beginning in the east. / In the intermediate corners one should worship the weapon, O Rudra; in the centre one should worship the eye.

One should worship the supreme, auspicious goddess Lakṣmī, the bestower of fortune. / One should worship the conch, the lotus, the discus, and the mace starting in the east.

The sword, the pestle, the noose, the goad, and the bow with arrow— / one should worship [these] beginning in the east, O Rudra, with these mantras of their own names.

The Śrīvatsa, the Kaustubha, the garland, and the auspicious yellow garments, / [and] the bearer of the conch, discus, and mace, one should worship beginning in the east, O Rudra.

Brahmā, Nārada, the Siddha, the guru, and the supreme guru, / and likewise the sandals of the guru and of the supreme guru;

and Indra with his mount and surrounded by his retinue; / Agni, Yama, Nirṛti, Varuṇa, and Vāyu;

Soma, Īśāna, and likewise Brahmā one should fully worship; / from the east up to the zenith one should worship [them], O bull-bannered god.

The thunderbolt, lance, staff, sword, noose, banner, and mace, / the trident, discus, and lotus: then one should worship the weapons.

Then one should worship the god Viṣvaksena in the north-east direction. / With these mantras, ending with namaḥ and preceded by Praṇava, O bull-bannered god,

the worship of the infinite lord should be performed, O Mahādeva, O bull-bannered god. / The worship should be performed with the god's root-mantra, O bull-bannered god.

Fragrant paste, flowers, incense, a lamp, and food-offerings, / circumambulation, prostration, and recitation—one should offer these to him.

And one should praise him with another eulogy, [with mantras] beginning with Praṇava, O bull-bannered god: / ‘Oṃ, obeisance to Hayaśiras, who is the presiding lord of learning, obeisance!

Obeisance to the one whose form is learning, to the giver of learning, obeisance, obeisance! / Obeisance to the peaceful god, obeisance to the soul of the three guṇas!

To the slayer of gods and asuras, to the destroyer of all wicked ones, / to the ruler of all the worlds, to the one whose form is Brahman, obeisance!

Obeisance to the one worthy of being worshipped by Īśvara, and to the bearer of conch and discus! / Obeisance to the primordial, the self-controlled, and the one devoted to the welfare of all beings!

To the one who has the three guṇas and is devoid of guṇas, having the form of Brahmā and Viṣṇu, / the creator, the destroyer, the lord of gods, the all-pervading: obeisance, obeisance!’

Having thus performed praise, one should meditate on the god of gods / in the stainless lotus of the heart, O Rudra, the bearer of conch, discus, and mace,

resplendent like ten million suns, beautiful in every limb, / Hayagrīva, the lord of the ruler of the earth, the supreme imperishable Self.

Thus has the worship of Hayagrīva been recounted to you, O Śaṅkara. / Whoever recites it with supreme devotion attains the highest abode.

Thus ends the thirty-fourth chapter, entitled ‘The Rule for the Worship of Hayagrīva’, in the Ācārakāṇḍa, which is the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.