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INTRODUCTION
By Maitreya -
Bhairavi’s Words –
GURU ARATI
When we wash the holy feet of Guru and take that water,
that nectar removes all of our sins and impressions and
uplifts us. Listen carefully to the words of the Gurudev
from your inner heart. Then all of your doubts will be
dispelled.
You are the mother and father. You are the relative and
beloved friend. You are the knowledge and you are the
knowledge of the entire wealth. You are everything to me,
my Lord. That’s why I surrender at your feet.
GURU NAMASKAR
This mere mortal body which you have given to me, this
body which you have given to me, this is Nikhileshvara.
You send me as your replica. I am the Nikhileshvara, I am
the Nikhileshvara. None else, I am not different from you.
Oh my Lord, I lack the language. What do I think of you?
Because I am you. No syllables, no languages can exist at
this juncture, because I am you. I cannot be anything but
you.
You are the secret of secrets. Please kindly take all these
rituals onto your feet. May I attain your feet, my absolute
goal. In this way, whatever the ritual I have done, you
being the Absolute Reality, the Almighty God or Goddess,
may you be satisfied and bless me.
HYMN TO GANESHA FROM HEAD OF ATHARVA VEDA
rutam vachmi
satyam vachmi
ava paschāttāt
ava purastāt
avottarāttāt
ava dakshināttāt
ava chōrdhvāttāt
avādharāttāt
sarvatō mām pāhi pāhi samantāt
Please protect me from the east, west, north and south.
From above, from below, from all sides, from all time,
equally, please protect me. When we live in this society,
we’ll have negativity from all sides, not only from the
humankind or the animals, but from the unknown
Celestial Beings too. They also can harm us, but you
cannot sense them with your five senses. So that is why
the prayer has to be done from all sides.
You are a scholar, and you are the knowledge, and you
are the embodiment of bliss. You are all-pervasive, and
you are the Absolute Reality. You are not different from
that all-pervasive reality, which is totally pure. And you
are that knowledge which is given by the Satguru, the
absolute teacher who knows everything, the Guru who
has attained Absolute Reality and no impressions remain
on him, Also you are that knowledge one can attain in the
meditation after clearing all their impressions of the
mind. When one starts meditating, mala (impurity) and
vikshepa (disturbance in the mind) comes out, and you’ll
be distracted. It may manifest in your physical body too.
All is to be cleared out one by one. It’s a tedious journey.
One must go into some meditation like Vipassana to clear
it out.
The entire creation sprung out from you. And all that is
nourished by you. And again it enters into you. And you
are that energy, that consciousness which makes every
creature to move, think and do the things. You are the
embodiment of the five elements, earth, water, fire, wind
and space. You are in the form of para pashyanti
madhyama vaikari, these are the four forms of thought.
When one wants to express something, a thought springs
into his mind, this is para. But sometimes, he himself is
unable to understand what it is, so he looks at it and
analyzes it. That is called pashyanti. Now he is ready to
express it, but still he lacks the language, that is the
position of madhyama. Finally he starts talking, it is called
the vaikari. Oh Lord Ganapati, you are in these four
forms. Here, the communication gap exists on this earth
because what one thinks he can’t express clearly to
others. Even if he wanted to express it, he couldn’t.
Because of his perversion, he manipulates it. Living in
Truth means expressing it clearly and living with your
social beings in harmony. It is necessary, otherwise this
society becomes chaos. In front of Guru, if you cannot
express your darkest sins, then to whom can you express
it? It will remain as suppression, and can never be
cleared. Then it will harm you and this society too. By
expressing yourself verbally to your Guru, then only can
he help to clear out all the suppressions and perversions.
tvam gunattrayātītah
tvam avastātrayātītah
tvam kālatrayātītaha
tvam dehatrayātītaha
tvam mūlādhāre sthito asi nityam
tvam shaktitrayātmakah
tvām yoginō dhyāyanti nityam
tvam brahmā tvam vishnustvam
rudrastvamindrastvamagnistvam vāyustvam
sūryastvam chandramāstvam brahma bhūrbhuvah
suvarom
ganādīn pūrvamucharya
varnādīms tadanantaram
anusvārah paratarah
ardhēndulasitam tathā
tārēna ruddham
ētattava manusvarūpam
gakārah pūrvarūpam
akāro madhyamarūpam
anusvāraschāntyarūpam
binduruttararūpam
nādah sandhānam
sagamhitā sandhih
saishā gānēshī vidyā
ganaka rishihi
nichrid gayatrī chandah
sri mahāganapatirdēvatā
om gam ganapatayē namah
ida matharvashīrsham
ashishyāya na dēyam
yō yadi mōhād dashyasi
sa pāpīyān bhavati
sahasrāvartanāth
yam yam kāma madhītē
tam tam anēna sādhayēt
On saviti, the fourth day after the full or dark moon, one
who ceases to eat any food, fasts, and does this process,
they will know the inner meanings of all the Vedas,
Upanishads, and Tantras. This is the ordinance of
Atharvana Veda.
One who follows the path of the absolute Truth will never
have fear in their life.
yō dūrvām kurairyajati
savaishrōpano pamō bhavati
One who does the fire worship with these mantras and
puts the green grass2 in the fire will attain the knowledge.
yō lājairyāti
sa eshō vān bhavati
samēdhāvān bhavati
One who does the fire worship with popped rice paddy,
the rice with skin, will have good name and fame in this
world. They will become very intelligent.
One who does the idol worship and offers 1000 sweet
meats, all desires will be fulfilled and will attain all the
pleasures of this world.
One who does the fire worship with ghee, melted butter,
and samidhas, the various woods of the richest kind, they
2
See Mantra Pushpam for the explanation for the durva grass enumerated here.
will attain everything. The Truth, it has been repeated, is
that they will attain everything.
ashtau brāhmanān
samyak grāha yitvā
sūrya varchasvī bhavati
mahāvighnāt pramuchyatē
mahādoshāt pramuchyatē
mahāpratyavāyāt pramuchyatē
sa sarva vid bhavati
sa sarva vid bhavati
ya evam veda ityupanishad
om shānti shānti shāntih
4
Indian classical music scales are sa, ni, da, pa, ma, ga, & ri
Here, the Sungod’s all-pervasiveness is described. He is
the inner spirit for all inert and ancient beings. All of the
entire creation is taking birth from the Sungod. The
oblations, the prayers, praises, whatever we give him,
with that he showers the rain onto us and nourishes this
land. We will have the food to eat.
namastē āditya
tvamēva pratyaksham karma kartāsi tvamēva
pratyaksham brahmāsi
tvamēva pratyaksham vishnurasi
tvamēva pratyaksham rudrō asi
tvamēva pratyaksham rugasi
tvamēva pratyaksham yajurasi
tvamēva pratyaksham sāmāsi
tvamēva pratyaksham atharvāsi
tvamēva sarvam chandō asi
One who is without any taint, one who doesn’t have any
veil, one who doesn’t have any disturbance in his mind,
one who can never be explained easily, one who is all
alone, and one who is totally pure, he alone exists, that is
Narāyana. Since he is all-pervasive, he is called as
Vishnu, vishvāt pralīyate, he who is all-pervasive in the
entire universe. One individual who knows this Truth
becomes that all-pervasive ultimate Truth. This is the way
of teaching of Yajur Veda Shīrsha, head of Yajur Veda.
Then Rudra entered into the void and to all the sides, and
he started telling it like this, “I am the Absolute Reality
which ever existed. I am the Sungod. I am the Brahma,
the creator. East, west, south, north, above and below, all
are me. I’m the man. I’m the woman. I’m the Savitri,
Gayatri’s energy, which is worshipped in the morning at
sunrise. At noon, I am Gayatri. In the evening, at dusk, I
am Sarasvati. I am in Vedic poetry, all seven scales:
gayatri, ushnik, trishtup, anushtup, jagati, bruhati and
padhati. The differences of the scales are ārshi, daivi,
āsuri, prjāptya yājushi, sāmni, ārchi, brāhmi. I am in the
Vedic form of fire worship, Garhapatyam, Dakshināgni,
and Ahavanīyam. I am the Truth. I am the earth. I am the
beloved Lord of Shiva Priya, who is Gauri. I am the elder
one. I am the absolute Truth to be worshipped. I am the
one who is to be served by everyone. I am the water and
fire. I am in the form of four Vedas, Rug, Yajur, Sāma,
Atharva. I am in the form of time in past, present and
future. But I also exist in this form of creation which is
going to end. I am the secret of secrets, and it’s to be
protected as a secret. I am the all-pervasive Lord, in the
form of so many forests and rivers. I’m the pure purity. I
was there prior to this existence. I was there prior to
when the creation was there. When it ends I will still be
there. I am outside and I am inside too. I am all-pervasive
in all sides. I am the effulgence which is all-pervasive.
And I am in the form of everything.”
What do you call tāram? Tarati iti means that which uplifts
you, that makes you to go beyond the bondages of the
ocean of samsāra. That word which really clears
everything, like birth. Because of the soul’s karmic
pattern, we take birth in the womb of the mother, incur
all diseases related to the past karmas, go through life’s
pain, agony, old age, and create new karmic patterns, to
again get linked with death and birth. From everything, it
has to uplift us. That is tāram. It means that we have to
come out of everything by chanting tāra shabda, the
sound of tāra.
Upāsanā Phalam
vedōham avēdoham
vidyāham avidyāham
ajāham anajāham
atha schordhvam cha tiryakchāham
ēshā ātmashaktih
ēshā vishvamōhinī
pāshānkushadhanurbānadharā
ēshā shrīmahāvidyā
ya evam veda sa shokam tarati
saishāshtau vasavah
saishā ēkādasha rudrāh
saishā dvādashādityāh
saishā vishvadevāh somapā asomapāshcha
saishā yātudhānā asurā rakshāmsi pishāchā
yakshāh siddhāh
saishā sattvarajastamāmsi
saishā brahmavishnurudrarūpinī
saishā prajāpatīndramanavah
saisha grahanakshatra jyotīmshi
kalākāshtādilakālarūpinī
tāmaham prānaumi nityam
She has taken the form of 8 Vasus, the form of 11 Rudras,
the Vishva Devātah, in which there are 2 categories,
those who drank the nectar and those who did not. She
took all the forms. She took the form of Yātudhānā,
protector of the Sungod. She took the form of asurās,
Devīls who have taken over the lands of the Celestial
Beings with their power, rakshas, who are demons,
pishāchās, who are phantoms, yakșas, who are half
Celestial Beings and half demons, and siddhas, those who
attained siddhis. She remained in the three gunas. She
took the form of nava brahmas, the nine creators, also,
God of all Celestial Beings, Indrah, and she took form of
14 manurs, rulers. She is in the form of nine planets, all
stars and so many galaxies. In Indian philosophy, time is
divided into kāla and kaștha; that is the scale. So she is in
the form of time, and we bow at her feet again and again
everyday.
viyadīkārasamyuktam vītihotrasamanvitam
ardhendulasitam devyā bījam sarvārtha sādhakam
hrutpundarīkamadhyasthām
prātahsūryasamaprabhām
pāshānkushadharām saumyām varad
abhayahastakām
trinētrām raktavasanām bhaktakāmadughām bhajē
I salute that Mother which drives away all our fears. She
brings us out of the ocean of terrible problems. That’s
why she’s called Durga, who makes us cross over all of
the bondages. She, who has a lot of compassion, I salute
her again.
idamatharvashīrsham yo adhītē sa
pañchātharvashīrshajapaphalamāpnōti
idamatharvashīrshamajñātvā yō archām sthāpayati
shatalaksham prajaptva api narchāsiddhim vindati
shata ashtottaram chāsyā purashcharyāvidhih
smrutah
dashavāram pathēd yastu sadyaha pāpaih
pramuchyatē
mahādurgāni tarati mahādēvyāh prasādatah
Those who chant this Atharva Shīrsha daily will get the
result of all 5 Atharva Shīrshas, Ganapati, Sūrya,
Narāyana, Rudra and Devī. Those who chant it at the time
of fire worship and prāna pratishta, establishing the idol
with energy, will attain the siddhi of it. In one stretch,
those who chant this Atharva Shīrsha 108 times, will
attain the energies of remembering it again and again,
purashcharana. Those who chant this Atharva Shīrsha 10
times will be freed from their sins. With the blessings of
MahaDevī, they will cross over all their problems.
Those who chant this in the morning will come out their
sins committed in the night. Those who chant it in the
evening will cross over from the sins committed in the
day. If both times, somebody chants this, they will cross
over all their sins and become purified souls. Those who
chant this in 4 sandhyas, dawn, dusk, noon and midnight,
will attain vak siddhi. Which means, whatever they say, it
will be done. And they will attain absolute knowledge,
become a scholar. At the time of prāna pratishta, if one
chants this, they will attain the nearness of Mother,
especially if chanted at prāna pratishta in the yantra.
When ashvini star6 appears on Tuesday, if one chants this
108 times, they can cross over the fear of death. Those
who know all this knowledge, as it is told here, certainly
they will attain all those results that are enumerated
here.
6
In Hindu astrology, there are 27 stars or constellations, or the 27 wives of the Moongod.
Ashvini is the first one. Each star is divided into 4 parts. Totally this is 108 parts. In 12
zodiacs, there will be 9 parts. When the moon enters Ashvini, if that day is Tuesday, that is a
particular time to attain the energies of this knowledge.
HYMN OF RUDRA FROM YAJUR VEDA
RUDRA NAMAKAM
You are the Almighty Lord; you are the all-pervasive God;
You are the Gods of God
You have got three eyes, and you have destroyed our
three worlds; those are the mind, the intellect and the
ego
You are holding so many fires in your hand
You are in the form of time; you are the one going to end
this world; and you do not have any death
You posses poison in your throat to protect us, because
neither can you swallow it to kill yourself, nor are you
going to vomit it out to kill the entire creation
You are my heartily deciding Lord; and you are the one
who is going to bless us forever; you are the Lord of all
riches
I salute you, at your feet
One who is the military commander of the Celestial
Beings
One who is the Lord of all sites and corners
To that Lord Rudra, I salute
I salute to the Lord Rudra whose hair is the color of
greenery;
it means that he’s in the form of all the trees
Oh foolish man, that’s why you’re not supposed to
destroy these forests
I salute that Rudra who’s the Lord of pashus, animals,
which comes from pashatiti pashuhu, it means those
foolish human beings that look at this world and think this
world only exists, nothing else; and those who don’t who
believe in Lord Rudra are also called animals because
they don’t have the reasoning or heartily feeling
I salute to that Rudra who is in the form of green grass,
because it is the food of the animals; and in this beautiful
creation the color of grass can give us good landscapes
I salute to the Lord Rudra who is the Lord of all the paths
I salute to that Rudra who is never touched by any
disease
One who is having a vehicle of a bull; and also who is the
Lord of all the food
One who has black hair, one who has the holy thread, and
who covers himself with one loincloth on the waist
One who is the nourishing Lord; to such Rudra, I salute
I salute to that Rudra , one who destroys all the cravings
He is the weapon for it; to that Rudra, I salute
One who is nourishing this world; I salute to that Rudra
I salute to that Rudra; one who has already pulled his
thread on his bow and the arrow is on it
One who is the Lord of all worlds; one who is my leading
Lord; one who guides me; one who has no death
One who presides over all the forests; I salute that Rudra;
One who is the creator; one who has the color of
reddishness; one who is presiding over the trees, and one
who protects them, who praises them and who protects
the bushes
And he is the protecting deity of the businessmen; to that
Rudra, I salute
One who creates all the forms of the animals and the
human beings and who nourishes them
One who gives clothes, houses, and food
And who develops such things, to such Rudra I salute
I salute to that Rudra who makes big sounds in the form
of thunder and lightning; so he’s also in the form of one
who makes lots of chaotic noises
And he’s the protector of those who go on walks to
anywhere; one who is already pervaded by so many
people; he’s also in the form of those who are running
And those who have sattvaguna, pleasant manners; I
salute him; so he’s all-pervasive; one who has the
patience
Oh Rudra, you are the one who is going to destroy all the
demons
Oh Lord Rudra, you are the presiding deity for food
Oh Lord Rudra, but you never posses anything
You are in the colors of red and black
Please don’t torture us or our animals
With your blissful holy form may we cross over all our
negative energies and diseases
Oh Rudra please treat us in the form of a doctor, a healer
May you give us the happiness
Please give us the peace to those who are walking on two
legs and to the animals which are walking on four legs
Please bless us in our village
No living being will ever have any trouble
You are the one who is capable to do it
Oh Lord, the one who is having a lot of hair
Oh Lord, who is the destroyer of our enemies we always
try to keep you in our heart
Oh Lord, Rudra, please give us happiness, peace, and
comfort
Oh Lord, we salute you because you are the one who is
going to give a lot of fear to our enemies
As a father, as the governor, please give us peace and
happiness
In a fair path, without a sin, may we have the happiness
and serve you
Oh Lord Rudra please protect us, our elderly people, our
children, those who are weak and those who are young
and energetic, and those children who are in the womb of
our mother, give peace to our mom and dad
We are full of love, don’t incur any pain, don’t kill us,
please protect us all
Please protect our children, please protect those who are
going to come into our hierarchy, please give us longevity
Never incur any pain to our cows and horses
Sometimes we may do mistakes, still, please never incur
any pain to us; for that, we are doing fire worship and
saluting you
Your terrible form which kills our people and our animals,
may it not come near us
May we always see your peaceful form
Please give us a good name and fame in this universe
May we be happy on this earth and also in the higher
celestial worlds
Oh Lord Rudra we are praising you, you are in the form of
great people and those who are not popular
You are also in the form of young men, and you are also
in the form of killing others
Like a lion, you are there
We praise you, oh my Lord Rudra, I praised you a lot, so
may you please remain in my body, which is
impermanent
May your soldiers kill our enemies
May Rudra’s weapons go all the way, towards all the
places, and may they kill all our enemies
Those who are angry at us, those who are sinful, those
who want to incur pain to us, those who want to cheat us,
all those forms belong to you
May you take away all those forms from us
We are the one who gave the oblations in the fire worship
to you
So bless us, take away your angry form from us
May you bless and fulfill the desires of our children and
grandchildren
Oh Lord Rudra, in the form of the cloud you always
shower us with much more than what we ask for
You are in a peaceful form, may you bless us
May you have a good heart towards us
Please put all your weapons on a tree and wear animal
skin clothes and you always possess a bow called a
pinākini
May you live in the middle of us and protect us
Oh Lord Rudra, we salute you who is in the color of
reddishness, you just shower so much of wealth upon us
You have so many weapons, may all of them be used
towards our enemies
Oh Lord Rudra, may your sharp weapons not attack us
idā dēvahūrmanūryagya
nīrbrihaspatirukthāmadāni shagum
syishadvishvēdevās sūktavācha ha
prithivimātarmā mā higumsīrmadhu manishhyē
madhu janishyē madhu vakshyāmi madhu
vadishyāmi madhumatīm dēvēbhyō
vāchamudyāsagum
shatrushēnyām manushyēbhyastam mā devā
avantu shōbhā yai pitarōanumadantu
om shānti shānti shāntih
iti shri rudram chamakam samarpam
DURGA SŪKTAM
Oh Lord Agni, you are the one who makes us cross all of
our sorrows
Please take us in a ship and please protect us from our
sorrows
Oh, protector of our bodies
One who is above all the three gunas: sattva -
peacefulness, rajas - activity, tamas - lethargy
One who always thinks of the good of this universe is
Athri Maharshi, he is the father of Dattatreya
In this way, may you may bless us
SRI SŪKTAM
You, the FireGod, who has risen from the Vedas and who
is effulgent to give us light, Please give us the riches
which never will abandon us. That Goddess of the riches
whose rays may fall upon us so that we can have the
riches in cows, horses, and that we too may get children,
grandchildren and disciples.
MEDHĀ SŪKTAM
BHAVANOPANISHAD
The sweet, sour, salt, spicy, bitter and astringent, all the
six tastes, are the six rutus, rutayanti iti, means always
they will be circulating. It means that is the time, every
year.
One who feels that with five senses, if they cannot sense
the Mother Almighty, that is anupachāra, means sin.
Whatever we see with our eyes in this world is Mother
Almighty. If you can feel it, then you will attain her. And
you have to attain it.
The Mother Sungod whose left leg is in red color and right
leg is in white color, if you worship that Kāmeshvari with
the meditation of no duality, then you will attain her. To
analyze it, can anybody have two colored feet in two
different colors? But she is Almighty Mother. And if you
can think in that way, that is mishra bindu, means
everything is mingled in her. Not only she, she becomes
your own Guru who led you onto this path. Her feet are
also like that.
Other than me, nothing exists and one who feels one with
the mother, nothing else exists. He is with her and he is
all-pervasive. That feeling itself is the mother’s
alangkarana, her ornaments, clothes, etc.
All that mind which goes into the senses and that mind
which wants to enjoy all the sensual pleasures, all that if
you keep in Mother’s feet, that itself is Mother’s
naivedyam, means just offering yourself, offering all of
the food to her.
PURUSHA SŪKTAM
NARĀYANA SŪKTAM
VISHNU SŪKTAM
One who has come from the abode, jumped onto this
earth, like a lion, the Vāmana, who has taken the form of
the Trivikrama, all-pervasive Lord. One who has occupied
all these three worlds with the three feet has become
holy, and all has started worshipping him. He, that
effulgent Lord, we pray for him, the energy, and we
always serve his feet. We pray like this, oh Lord Vishnu.
You wanted to equalize this creation. You wanted to make
the balance in it. Oh Lord, Varada, varandadāti, one who
blesses us and one who fulfills our desires. One who is the
Lord of the riches, the Laksmi, what can we give him? As
men and women we think this is our dynasty, our
creation, and we try to possess it. What can you give to
him? This is the cause for our sorrow. So he has to put his
third foot on our head, the ego, because he wants to give
us happy and egoless pleasures.
Those nitya sūras means the seers of the Truth into the
depth of knowledge. They can have the fully powerful
eyes. They can peep like seeing through the dark clouds
in the sky. They can see the all-pervasive Lord Vishnu. So
they remember it and all day will be chanting his glory.
Those who glorify him again and again everyday, they
can never commit any mistakes. When all Vedic hymns
are chanted by them daily, without any mistakes, they
become the great seers and will be remembered by the
next generations, and they will become happy.
MANTRA PUSHPAM
Oh, Almighty Lord, you are in the form of fire. Also you
are in the form of rasa, the taste which is beautiful, which
is very tasty. You are in the form of the nectar. You are
Absolute Reality. And you exist in the form of bhuhu,
earth, bhuvah and suvahah, all the subtle worlds. And
you are in the form of omkara.
One who knows the base for the waters, attains his base.
One who knows that the Sungod is the cause for the
waters, he becomes the base for everything. He, who
knows that the base of the entire creation is the Sungod,
will become effulgent. The Sungod is the effulgent energy
that heats up the waters into steam, changes into clouds,
and comes down as rain. Those who know the power of
the Sungod in relation to water, knows the Truth.
One who knows what the base for these waters is, will
attain that Absolute Reality which is the base for his
growth. One who knows the Moongod as the cause for the
waters, he will attain the base. The water which is the
base for the Moongod, he who knows this knowledge,
attains the Absolute Reality. When the moon rises and the
rays reach the earth, it fertilizes the earth. This fertility
gives food to the people. And the human being is
contained primarily of water. That’s why with the moon
itself, he thinks, feels, works, and takes the food from the
earth. That’s why they say the moon is the base for the
water, which is very essential for the humankind.
One who knows that the base is the water for everything,
then he will attain the base for himself. He who knows
that clouds are the base for the water, he will attain the
Absolute Reality. It is repeated again that he who knows
the Truth that clouds are the base for the water, he will
attain the Absolute Reality.
yo apāyatanam veda āyatanavān bhavati
sambatsarovā apa mayatanam āyatanavān bhavati
ya sambatsa rōyam sambatsarōya veda
āyatanavān bhavati āpovai sambatsara ayatanam
āyatanavān bhavati ya evam veda
One who has the steel claws, and he who has the sharp
saber tooth, we are worshipping that half-lion and half-
man. May he propel us into good deeds.
Oh, Mother Earth, like a holy cow, you fulfill our desires.
Though you appear to be a small planet, but you have
provided us everything, food, wind, fire, water, etc. You
have been uplifted by the Vishnu in a form of a boar. A
boar is attached to the earth; that is why he has to take
that form to protect her.
Oh mud, may you remove all my sins. May you remove all
my bad deeds, and their effects. And you have been
created by Brahma, the creator, and so many rishis of the
yore as Kasyapa, they have used you and put their
energies of penance into you. The entire creation is
established in you, oh mud. May you give us the energy
and health.
The fire worship itself is the Vishnu’s form. Only with his
blessings can it be established. What we offer in that fire
worship, cooked by the jiggery and rice, called charu, we
may offer it to the all-pervasive Lord of Vishnu, in the
form of fire. I’m sorry to say, who is doing this worship, is
the Vishnu himself. He’s not different from him.
SHRADDHĀ SŪKTAM
KĀLA SŪKTAM