Sambapurana 2
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Sūta said: / To Vaśiṣṭha, the tranquil-minded sage, King Bṛhadbala, / born of the Raghu lineage, asked his guru about the highest beatitude:
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“O venerable one, I desire to hear about the eternal, supreme Brahman, / from which the wise do not return to rebirth.
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Whether a householder, a chaste student, a forest hermit, or a renunciant, / if one wishes to attain liberation, which deity should he worship?
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From where is his heaven assured, and from where the highest beatitude? / And having gone to heaven, what should he do so that he does not fall again?
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Who is the god of gods, and who is the father of the ancestors, / than whom there is none higher? Tell me that, O great sage!
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From whom was this universe, both immobile and mobile, created, O sage? / And into whom does it enter at the cosmic dissolution? You ought to explain that.”
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Vaśiṣṭha said: / “He who, rising, makes the world free of darkness by his rays— / there is no other deity higher than him, O lord of men.
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For he is the Person without beginning or end, eternal and imperishable; / he heats the three worlds as he revolves with fierce rays.
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For he consists of all the gods, the creator of the auspicious rewards of austerities; / there is no other witness of actions for the entire world than Vibhāvasu.
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He dissolves all beings, and likewise emits them again; / he shines, he burns, and he draws up [water] with his rays.
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He is the creator and the ordainer, the origin and producer of beings; / he burns, he wanes, though his maṇḍala is eternal and imperishable.
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He is indeed the father of the ancestors, and the deity of the gods; / for he is ever endowed with a chariot, from which one falls no more.
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At the time of creation, the entire universe is brought forth from Āditya, / and at the cosmic dissolution it returns to Āditya of blazing splendour.
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And here the yogins and Sāṃkhya-followers, having abandoned their ancient body / and attained perfection, enter into this Divākara, the mass of light.
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His thousands of rays are like branches, where birds [dwell]; / perfected sages dwell in him together with the gods.
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Householders such as Janaka and other kings dedicated to yoga, / the Vālakhilyas and other sages who expound Brahman,
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forest hermits such as Vyāsa and others, and the renunciant Pañcaśikha— / all who are declared to be in yoga have entered the solar orb.
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The glorious Śuka, son of Vyāsa, an ascetic who understood the practice of yoga, / drank the rays of Āditya and attained the state of non-return.
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With faith here, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and the others, headed by the Vedas, [worship him], / since this Sūrya, the destroyer of darkness, is a visible deity.
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Therefore, devotion to no other should be performed by one desiring well-being, / since what is cherished is always harmed if he is angered.
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Therefore, O king, you must constantly worship the venerable Ravi, / for he is both the mother and the father of the entire universe.”
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