Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c9.75

c9.75

X, 121 gives another expression to the same conception of a Supreme Creator of the universe. In the beginning, there existed Hiraṇyagarbha, or Prajāpati, 'Lord of all creatures,' who is so called because 'He is all Intelligence up to the depth of His being (*garbha*), the Intelligence that is luminous and illumining like *hiraṇya* or gold' [Hiraṇyaṁ atyujjvalaṁ prakāśaśīlaṁ jñānaṁ tad garbhaḥ antaḥsāro yasya sa *Hiraṇyagarbhaḥ* (*Bhāsvatī-Pātañjalabhāshya*)].' As soon as He was born, He became the sole Lord of all created beings (*bhūtasya jātaḥ patireka āsīt*). He established in their proper places this earth and heaven above: He, the Oversoul, the giver of individual souls, of life and strength, whose shadow is Immortality: who has conquered Death (*Ātmadā Baladā Yasya Chhāyā Amṛitaṁ Yasya Mṛityuḥ*): He who is the sole lord of all animated beings, who are endowed with Motion and Sight, by His innate greatness (*yaḥ prāṇataḥ nimishitaḥ mahitvā Ekaḥ it Rājā jagataḥ babhūva*): By whose power the Sun rises and shines (*yatrādhi Sūra udito vibhāti*): He who is the One Supreme Source of Life of all the gods (*Devānāṁ asuḥ Ekaḥ*): Who arose out of the primeval Agni (Fire) generated in the primeval waters in which the universe was engulfed: the God of gods (*yaḥ Deveshu adhidevaḥ Ekaḥ āsīt*): the Creator of the Earth (*Janitā Pṛithivyāḥ*), Heaven, and the life-giving waters (*yaḥ cha āpaḥ chamdrā bṛihatīḥ jajāna*): Who holds the universe by His cosmic laws (*Satya-dharmā*): Prajāpati who alone can comprehend this infinite creation and none else: To that mysterious Deity do we offer worship (*Kasmai Devāya havishā vidhema*).'