41. Obeisance to Thee, O Bhavani !
Whose tresses deck the crescent moon.
Thou art the stream of nectar that
Extinguishes samsara’s heat.
42. Whoso the gift of faultless poesy,
And enjoyment and Freedom seeks,
With these ten verses, worshipping ever,
Bestows rich praise on Sarasvati,
43. To him who thus unfailingly
Worships and lauds Sarasvati,
Who has both faith and devotion,
Conviction comes in six brief months.
44. From him streams forth Sarasvati
Spontaneous, lovely-lettered,
In sounds of poetry and prose
Of import true and unmeasured.
45. A text unheard the poet grasps;
Sarasvati’s being he shares.
46. Sarasvati thus spake:
Through Me even Brahma won
Self-knowledge eternal;
Ever being Truth, Knowledge, Bliss,
Mine is perpetual Brahmanhood,
Without let or hindrance.
47. Thence through equilibrium
Of qualities, Sattva,
Rajas, Tamas, become
I Prakriti; in Me
Chit’s semblance shines,
As reflection in mirror fair.
48. Once more, Prakriti shines
Threefoldwise, through that
Reflection of the Chit;
And as determined by
Prakriti, am I Purusha too verily.
49. The Unborn, in Maya
In which pure Sattva reigns,
Is reflected; Maya,
Prakriti is, that has
Sattva dominant.
50. That Maya is adjunct,
Wholly subordinate
To all-knowing Ishwara;
For, His alone oneness,
Over Maya lordship, and
Omniscience are, in truth.
51. Being of Sattva made,
In essence collective,
Of worlds the spectator,
He is God who holds power
To make, unmake or otherwise
Make the universe; He
Has virtues like all-knowingness.
52. Maya has forces two; one projection,
The other, concealment: the first projects
The world – all that is subtle and all gross.
53. The second veils, within, the gulf
Between the Seer and seen; without,
The gulf between creation and Brahman.
Maya causes endless cosmic flux.
54. Nescience appears in Witness-light,
To subtle body conjoined,
Spirit and mind co-dwelling there
Become jiva phenomenal.
55. His Jivahood,
Through ascription shines forth, also,
In Witness-light; together with
The fall of what conceals, and so,
The shining forth of distinction,
That (Jivahood) disappears, too.
56. So also, through subservience
Of Brahman to the Power which
Veils Its difference from cosmos,
Brahman shines forth in mutations.
57. Here, too, the difference that holds
Between Brahman and the cosmos
Shows not, once Maya’s power which
Conceals falls low; their difference
Is in creation; in Brahman never.
58. Five factors are there here; being,
Shining, loving, form, and name, too;
The first three to Brahman pertain;
Two others constitute the world.
59. Leave aside the last two factors,
Be intent on the former three;
Either in the heart, or without,
Practise always concentration.
60-63. Twofold is concentration
In the human heart: with or without
Aspects; that with aspects is, then,
Twofold, conforming to ‘word’
And ‘object’; desire and its train
Are objects of the mind; of them,
As spectator, meditate on
Consciousness: that concentration
Conforms to objects. ‘I without
Taints am; being, knowing, loving
I am; self-shining, devoid of
Duality’: to ‘word’ conforms.
Thus concentration with aspects.
Abandoning ‘objects’ and ‘words’
For joy of deep Self-experience,
One wins concentration without
Aspects: a flame in windless spot.
64. Like to concentration
In the heart, outside too, in some
Object twofold concentration
Takes place with discrimination
Of name and form from pure Being.
65. The third, as said above, takes place
When taste of bliss to silence leads;
Time may, without a break, be spent
In these six concentrations well.
66. With conceit in body gone,
And Supreme Self realized,
Wherever the mind may roam
There rests immortality.
The knot of heart is cut asunder
And all doubts are slain;
67. All modes of action dwindle away
When the Supreme Self is seen.
68. A finite soul, the supreme God –
These notions are to Me imputed.
They are not real – who knows this,
In truth, is free – doubt is there none.
This is the secret wisdom.
Om ! May He protect us both together; may He nourish us both together;
May we work conjointly with great energy,
May our study be vigorous and effective;
May we not mutually dispute (or may we not hate any).
Om ! Let there be Peace in me !
Let there be Peace in my environment !
Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !
Here ends the Sarasvati-Rahasyopanishad, included in the Krishna-Yajur-Veda.
