Mudgalapurana 2.30: parāśaravarapradānaṃ nāma triṃśo'dhyāyaḥ

Homage to the glorious Gaṇeśa.

Mudgala said: / Seeing Gaṇarāja arrive, filled with joy, / he prostrated on the ground like a staff and praised him according to his capacity.

Vasiṣṭha said: / Today this earth is blessed; my parents, my penance, and my hermitage are blessed; / my learning and vows are blessed, because of the sight of your feet.

You are the agent and indeed the cause of causes, without doubt; / you are declared in the Veda by the proclaimers of the Veda to consist of both the accessible and the inaccessible.

You possess all forms, yet are devoid of all; you illuminate everything; / you consist in the non-duality of yoga. How then may I praise you, O Gaṇādhipa?

Even so, restrained by the cord of devotion, O Gajānana, / you have arrived bearing name and form in order to bestow grace, O Lord.

Through the understanding born of the sight of you, I praise you, the Lord of Brahman, / the Supreme One who is praised together with the primal Vedas and the like by yogins.

Homage to you, the Lord of the Gaṇas; homage to you, the witness of all; / homage indeed to you of all forms, who are known only through yourself; homage to you.

O Lord of Siddhi and Buddhi, giver of siddhi and buddhi, / O god of immeasurable power, O god, homage, homage to you!

To the one whose face is the unitive state beyond thought, whose body is the unitive state with thought, / and whose body is the self of yoga in the union of both: homage, homage!

To the light of the yoga of peace, to the one who consists of the yoga of peace, / to the giver of yoga to yogins and the Lord of yoga: homage, homage!

Homage indeed to you, Vakratuṇḍa, the bearer of a single tusk, / to you who bear the emblems that consist in the form of Brahman.

As he praised him, his throat choked with joy; / his hair stood on end, he danced, completely free from body-consciousness.

Seeing him immersed in the nectar of devotion, the god Gajānana, / who knows [the devotee's] inner disposition and fulfills it, spoke to that great devotee.

Gaṇeśa said: / This hymn of praise made by you, which grants the nectar of devotion, / will be the bestower of dharma, wealth, pleasure, and liberation.

Your devotion to me shall be unwavering, O sinless one; / and the moment I am remembered, I will come to your house, O best of sages.

Having spoken thus, the Gaṇādhīśa vanished as I watched; / seeing him in my heart, I remained endowed with peace.

Devoted to image worship by virtue of my Gāṇapatya nature, / I, Vasiṣṭha, highly fortunate, became worthy of honor by yogins.

Vasiṣṭha said: / This auspicious knowledge that bestows the yoga of peace has been told to you, my child; / worship Gaṇeśa with devotion by that very path.

Addressed thus, the grandson Parāśara, having first bowed down to the sage, / went to the forest and performed exceedingly severe penance.

The great yoga-bestowing knowledge that was spoken by his grandfather, / that he accomplished by degrees through the stages of yoga.

The yogin himself, having transcended the [earthly] plane, became a Gāṇapatya; / Vyāsa, the Lord Viṣṇu himself, attained the state of being his son.

Even so, exceedingly dreadful penance directed to the great-souled Gaṇeśa / was performed by that sage together with his affectionate wife.

That great sage made a resolve for the desire of a son: / ‘Gaṇarāja himself shall indeed become my excellent son.’

After ten thousand years, the Gaṇanāyaka, being pleased / and delighted by his devotional attitude, arrived to grant a boon.

Seeing him, rising up at once, bowing down with folded hands, / and becoming well-steadied, the noble-minded one praised him together with his wife.

Parāśara said: / Homage to you, the elephant-faced; homage to you who have a human form; / homage, homage to Gaṇeśa, having the form of man and elephant!

Homage to the Paramātman who is without attributes, whose form is the support of attributes, / to the god higher than the highest, who is beginningless and eternally realized.

Homage to the bearer of endless faces, whose form has endless hands and feet, / who possesses endless power, and who is the syllable Ga;

Homage, homage to the god devoid of all [limitations], free from the two māyās, / who always consists of Brahman, the syllable ṇa;

Homage, homage to you, Gaṇeśa, the master of both [letters], / who dwell in Svānanda and grant complete enjoyment and liberation.

How can I praise you, the Supreme Brahman realized by the Veda, Vedānta, and the rest, / O Lord of the gods of gods? Therefore I bow down to you.

If you are pleased, O Lord of gods, then become our son, O Lord, / O Gaṇanātha, so that my mind may be steadied.

You alone are our family deity, O Gaṇanāyaka; / we constantly worship you as Brahman, O protector from obstacles.

Having entered worldly life, O Lord of gods, let me worship you as a son; / through that, my worldly existence will be fruitful and become of the nature of Brahman.

Hearing this speech of Parāśara the sage, / the Gaṇādhīśa spoke to that devotee, the supreme bearer of yoga.

Gaṇeśa said: / All that has been requested by you, O twice-born, shall become fruitful; / I will become your son, and also for the slaying of Gajāsura.

And the hymn of praise made by you shall grant all desires; / it will bestow enjoyment and liberation for those men who recite or hear it.

Having spoken thus, Gaṇeśa, the Lord of Brahman, vanished; / and Parāśara, along with his wife, became joyful-minded.

Om tat sat. Thus ends the thirtieth chapter, named ‘The Bestowal of the Boon on Parāśara’, in the deeds of Ekadanta, in the second section of the glorious Maudgala Mahāpurāṇa, the venerable ultimate Purāṇic Upaniṣad.

Section 2, chapter 31, page 64