Skandapurana 4.21
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Dhruva said:
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Obeisance to Hiraṇyagarbha, the creator of all creation,
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to You whose seed is gold, who grant pure gold. (1)
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Obeisance to the one whose form is Hara, the destroyer of creatures;
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obeisance to the self of the great elements, the lord of creatures. (2)
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Obeisance to You, the sustainer, Viṣṇu, all-powerful,
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the remover of thirst, Kṛṣṇa, the bearer of great burdens. (3)
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Obeisance to the one whose form is the forest fire to the great forest of Daityas,
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the axe to the trees that are Daityas; obeisance to You holding the Śārṅga bow in hand. (4)
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Obeisance to You whose hand is occupied with Kaumodakī, O bearer of the mace,
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destroyer of great Danujas; obeisance to the wielder of the Nandaka sword. (5)
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Obeisance to You, the lord of Śrī, and obeisance to the holder of the discus,
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the supporter of the earth, possessing the form of the Boar, the Supreme Self. (6)
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Obeisance to You who hold a lotus in hand, the beloved of Kamalā;
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obeisance to the one having forms beginning with the Fish, obeisance to the one with the Kaustubha on his chest. (7)
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Obeisance to the one to be known through the Vedānta, obeisance to the bearer of the Śrīvatsa;
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obeisance to the one whose form is the qualities, who possesses qualities, and is devoid of qualities. (8)
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Obeisance to You with a lotus in your navel, and holder of Pāñcajanya;
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O Vāsudeva, obeisance to You, and to the son of Devakī. (9)
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Obeisance to You, Pradyumna; obeisance to You, Aniruddha;
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obeisance to the destroyer of Kaṃsa, obeisance to the crusher of Cāṇūra. (10)
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O Dāmodara, Hṛṣīkeśa, Knower of the earth, Acyuta, Mādhava,
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Upendra, enemy of Kaiṭabha, slayer of Madhu, Adhokṣaja! (11)
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To Nārāyaṇa, the destroyer of Naraka, the remover of sins,
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to Vāmana, obeisance to You, to Hari, to Śauri; obeisance! (12)
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Obeisance to You, Ananta, and reclining on Ananta;
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to You, the husband of Rukmiṇī, and the crusher of Rukmin. (13)
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Obeisance to You, slayer of the king of Cedi, foe of the Dānavas, enemy of the Asuras,
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Mukunda, supreme bliss, and dear one of the cowherd Nanda! (14)
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Obeisance to You, lotus-eyed one, slayer of the lords of Danujas;
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obeisance to the one having the form of a cowherd, player of the flute. (15)
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To the beloved of the gopīs, slayer of Keśin, and uplifter of Govardhana,
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to Rāma, lord of the Raghus, Rāghava, obeisance, obeisance! (16)
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O foe of Rāvaṇa, obeisance to You, giver of refuge to Vibhīṣaṇa,
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unborn one, whose form is victory, expert on the field of battle! (17)
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To the one whose form is time beginning with moments, having multiform appearances, bearer of the Śārṅga bow,
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wielder of the mace, wielder of the discus, to You, crusher of the host of Daityas! (18)
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To Bala, Balabhadra, and the beloved of the enemy of Bala,
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O disruptor of the sacrifice of Bali, obeisance, O granter of boons to devotees! (19)
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O tearer of the chest of Hiraṇyakaśipu, lover of battle,
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obeisance to the deity of the brahmins, and the benefactor of cows and brahmins! (20)
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Obeisance to You whose form is dharma, and obeisance to the sattva quality;
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obeisance to the thousand-headed one, the supreme Puruṣa. (21)
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O thousand-eyed, thousand-footed one, and having a thousand rays,
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of a thousand forms, beloved of Śrī, obeisance to You, O Cosmic Person of sacrifice! (22)
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To the one whose nature is known through the Vedas, and obeisance to the lover of the Vedas,
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to the Veda, the speaker of the Veda, the traveler on the path of good conduct. (23)
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Obeisance to You, Vaikuṇṭha, obeisance to the dweller in Vaikuṇṭha;
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to You, Viṣṭaraśravas, obeisance to the one who rides Garuḍa. (24)
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O Viṣvaksena, obeisance to You, all-pervading, Janārdana,
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to Trivikrama, Truth, and obeisance to the lover of truth! (25)
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Obeisance to You, Keśava, master of māyā, praised by Brahmā,
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whose form is austerity, obeisance to You, the giver of the fruits of austerities! (26)
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To the one worthy of praise, whose form is praise, and delighting in the praise of devotees;
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obeisance to You whose form is revelation, and fond of conduct taught by revelation. (27)
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Obeisance to You born of an egg, obeisance be to You born of sweat;
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to the one whose nature is born of a womb, obeisance to the one whose form is born of the earth. (28)
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Among the gods, You are Indra; among the planets, You are the sun;
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among the worlds, You are Satyaloka; among the seas, the Ocean of Milk; (29)
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among rivers, You are the river of the gods; among lakes, Lake Mānasa;
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You are Himavān among mountains; you are the wish-granting cow among milk cows.
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You are gold among minerals, and you are crystal among stones.
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You are the blue lotus among blossoms; you are tulasī among plants.
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Among all stones worthy of worship, you indeed are the Śālagrāma stone.
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Among sacred fields of liberation, you are Kāśī; you are Prayāga among lines of sacred fords.
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You are the color white among colors; you are the brahmin among two-footed beings.
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You are Garuḍa among the egg-born, O Lord; you are speech in transactions.
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You are the form of the Upaniṣads among the Vedas; you are indeed the praṇava among mantras.
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You are the syllable 'a' among letters; you bear the form of Soma among sacrificers.
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You are fire among those with splendour; you are forbearance among the forbearing.
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You are Parjanya among givers; you are the supreme among purifiers.
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You are the bow among all weapons; you are the wind among the swift.
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You are the mind among the faculties of sense; you are the hand among the fearless.
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You indeed are the sky among all-pervading things, and you are the Supreme Self among selves.
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You, O Lord, are the twilight worship among all regular duties.
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You are the horse sacrifice among sacrifices; you are the gift of fearlessness among gifts.
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You are the gain of a son among gains; O, you are spring among seasons!
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You are the first among yugas; you indeed are the new-moon day among lunar days.
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You are Puṣya in the host of asterisms, [and] the solar transit among all festival days.
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You are the Vyatīpāta among planetary yogas; you are indeed the kuśa among grasses.
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You are indeed the final emancipation of all striving efforts, O Lord!
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Among all thoughts here, you are the righteous thought, O unborn one!
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You are the sacred fig among all trees, and the soma vine among creepers.
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O, you are breath control among all pure spiritual practices!
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Among all liṅgas, you are the illustrious Viśveśvara, the bestower of all.
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For you are the wife among friends, you are righteousness among all relatives.
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Other than you there is nothing in this world of the moving and unmoving, O Nārāyaṇa!
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You alone are mother, you are father, you are son, you are immense wealth;
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you alone are the treasure of happiness, you are life-span, the Lord of life.
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That [alone] is a true story wherein is your name; that is mind which is offered to you;
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that is deed which is truly for your sake; that is austerity which is remembrance of you.
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That wealth of the wealthy is pure which is spent for your sake.
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That alone is fruitful time in which you are worshipped, O victorious one!
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And life is auspicious only so long as you abide in the heart.
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Diseases go to complete cessation by partaking of the water from your feet.
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Even great sins, O Govinda, acquired across many births,
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instantly go to dissolution through chanting 'Vāsudeva!'
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Ah, what great delusion of men! Ah, what heedlessness of men!
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That having disregarded Vāsudeva, they have exerted effort elsewhere!
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This alone is auspiciousness; this alone is the acquisition of wealth;
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and this is the fruit of life: chanting the name of Dāmodara.
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There is no righteousness higher than Adhokṣaja; there is no goal higher than Nārāyaṇa;
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there is no desire other than Keśava; there is no liberation without Hari.
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This alone is the supreme loss, this indeed is a dire calamity,
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and this is supreme misfortune: that one should not remember Vāsudeva.
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What, alas, does worship of Hari not accomplish for men?
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It bestows sons, friends, wives, wealth, kingdoms, heaven, and liberation.
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It removes evil, destroys diseases, restrains anxieties,
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swiftly increases righteousness, and grants every desire of the heart.
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Free from dualities, supreme meditation upon the pair of the Lord's feet,
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performed even inadvertently by a sinner, brings about supreme welfare for oneself.
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Whatever sins sinners have, even those sharing the title of 'great'—
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the utterance of Hari's name, accompanied by deeply absorbed contemplation, takes them all away.
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Just as a spark of fire burns even if touched by accident,
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so Hari's name, having touched the cavity of the lips, takes away evil.
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Whoever, having made his mind completely calm in the beloved of Kamalā,
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practices contemplation for a moment, Kamalā surely remains steadfast for him.
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This alone is supreme righteousness; this alone is supreme austerity;
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this alone is the supreme sacred ford: that one drinks water from Viṣṇu's feet.
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He who partakes with devotion of your offering, O Person of sacrifice,
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by that one of great intellect, the sacrificial cake has surely been enjoyed.
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He has taken the final sacrificial bath, and he has been submerged in the water of the Gaṅgā,
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that man who takes the water from Viṣṇu's feet into a conch and bathes [with it].
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By whomsoever the Śālagrāma stone has been worshipped with tulasī leaves,
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he is worshipped with garlands of pārijāta flowers in the abode of the gods.
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Be he a brahmin, a kṣatriya, a vaiśya, a śūdra, or even another,
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if he is endowed with devotion to Viṣṇu, he should be known as the highest of all.
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His body marked with the conch and disc, bearing flower-spikes on his head,
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his limbs smeared with gopīcandana—if he is seen, whence could there be sin?
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Whoever worships daily twelve Śālagrāma stones,
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accompanied by a stone from Dvāravatī, is magnified in Vaikuṇṭha.
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In whose house tulasī is worshipped every day,
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to that house the servants of Yama never approach.
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Whose mouth bears the syllables of Hari's name, whose forehead is marked with gopī clay,
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whose chest is adorned with a tulasī garland—the followers of Yama cannot touch him.
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Gopī clay, tulasī, a conch, a Śālagrāma along with a disc:
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in whose house these five are present, whence could there be fear of sin for him?
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Whatever muhūrtas, whatever moments, whatever kāṣṭhās, and whatever twinklings of an eye
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have passed without the remembrance of Viṣṇu, in those he has been robbed by Yama.
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Where is the two-syllabled name of Hari, blazing like a spark,
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and where is the great heap of sins, comparable to cotton?
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Govinda, Supreme Bliss, Mukunda, Madhusūdana—
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leaving aside [Him], I know no other, worship no other, remember no other.
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I bow to none, nor do I praise any, nor do I look upon any here with my eye;
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I touch none, nor do I smell, nor do I sing of anyone except Hari.
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In water, on land, and in Pātāla, in wind, in fire, on a mountain,
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among vidyādharas, asuras, gods, kinnaras, monkeys, and men,
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in grass, among women, in stone, in trees, shrubs, and creepers,
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everywhere I behold the dark-complexioned body, the chest marked with the Śrīvatsa.
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You alone are the resident within the hearts of all, the manifest witness;
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without You, outside and inside, I indeed know no other all-pervading one."
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Having spoken thus, O Śivaśarman, Dhruva then fell silent.
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The god, Lord Viṣṇu, with a gracious look, spoke to him:
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The Holy Lord said:
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“O child, large-eyed Dhruva, of steadfast mind, sinless one,
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the desire abiding in your heart has been fully understood by me.
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From food beings arise; from rain is the production of food;
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the cause of that rain is the sun. O Dhruva, become the support of the sun!
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Of the entire circle of lights, the planets, constellations, and the rest on every side,
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wandering constantly in the sky, you shall be the support.
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Having become the central pivot [holding] all of them bound by cords of wind,
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remain in that place until the end of the kalpa, turning the host of celestial lights.
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Formerly, having worshipped the glorious Mahādeva, this position was obtained
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by me; that very [position] has now been bestowed upon you by your austerity.
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Some remain for four yugas, some for a manvantara, O Dhruva;
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but you indeed shall rule over this place for a kalpa.
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That which was not attained even by Manu, what to say of other men, O Dhruva?
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That place, difficult to attain even for Śakra and others, has been made yours.
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Pleased by this hymn of praise, I grant you other boons:
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your mother Sunīti also will dwell near you.
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Whosoever, concentrated in mind, recites this excellent hymn of praise
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at the three junctures of the day, that man's sin will go to destruction.
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Lakṣmī will not abandon his dwelling, beyond doubt,
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nor will there be separation from a mother, nor the arising of quarrels with kinsmen.
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This holy praise of Dhruva destroys great sins;
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even the killer of a brahmin is purified—what need to speak of other sinners?
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It is the mother of great merit, the bestower of great wealth,
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the pacifier of great portents, the destroyer of serious diseases. / Whosoever has supreme devotion to me with a pure mind,
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by him this praise of Dhruva, which brings about my pleasure, should be chanted.
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Whatever fruit a man obtains by bathing in all the sacred fords,
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he fully attains that fruit by chanting with joy this hymn of praise.
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There are many hymns of praise that bring me pleasure,
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yet they are not worth a sixteenth part of this hymn by Dhruva.
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Even upon hearing this hymn of praise with supreme faith and joy, a mortal
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is instantly freed from sins and would obtain great merit.
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One without a son obtains a son; one without wealth would obtain wealth;
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and one lacking devotion obtains devotion from reciting Dhruva's hymn.
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The gains a man obtains by giving numerous gifts
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and performing diverse vows, he obtains just so through this hymn.
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Setting aside all tasks and abandoning numerous mantras to be recited,
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this hymn of Dhruva should be recited, which grants all desires."
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The Blessed Lord said:
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"Dhruva, pay attention; I shall tell you what is beneficial, O large-minded one,
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whereby this position of yours shall become completely immovable.
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I was indeed desirous of going to the auspicious city of Vārāṇasī,
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where Viśveśvara himself dwells, the cause of liberation,
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and where Viśveśvara himself into the ear of dying creatures
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performs the recitation capable of uprooting all karma.
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For this suffering of saṃsāra, which brings about every affliction,
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there is only one remedy: the ground of joy that is Kāśī.
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