Purva Khanda: Achara Kanda

Chapter 195: A seven-night vidya praising Vasudeva

इति श्रीगारुडे महापुराणे पूर्वखण्डे प्रथमांशाक्ये आचारकाण्डे पञ्चनवत्यधिकशततमोऽध्यायः ॥

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What happens in this chapter

A seven-night vidya praising Vasudeva

A short chapter of six verses. Hari announces a vidya that grants every wish within seven nights, and gives it as a hymn. Salutation to Bhagwan Vasudeva, on whom we meditate, and to Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Sankarshana. Salutation to him who is pure awareness, whose form is supreme bliss, who delights in the Self, who is at peace and in whom the sight of duality has ceased; all forms are his, and so salutation to him again and again. He is Hrishikesha of endless forms, in whom this world rests and from whom it is born; he bears the earth, and is Brahman, whom mind, intellect, senses and breath cannot touch or know. The chapter ends with a long prose mantra to the Mahapurusha, Lord of the great elements.

हरिरुवाच

195.1

सल्वकामप्रदां विद्यां सप्तरात्रेण तां शृणु ।
नमस्तुभ्यं भगवते वासुदेवाय धीमहि

salvakāmapradāṃ vidyāṃ saptarātreṇa tāṃ śṛṇu |
namastubhyaṃ bhagavate vāsudevāya dhīmahi

195.2

प्रद्युम्नायानिरुद्धाय नमः सङ्गर्षणाय च ।
नमो विज्ञानमात्राय परमानन्दमूर्तये

pradyumnāyāniruddhāya namaḥ saṅgarṣaṇāya ca |
namo vijñānamātrāya paramānandamūrtaye

195.3

आत्मारामाय शान्ताय निवृत्तद्वैतदृष्टये ।
त्वद्रूपाणि च सर्वाणि तस्मात्तुभ्यं नमो नमः

ātmārāmāya śāntāya nivṛttadvaitadṛṣṭaye |
tvadrūpāṇi ca sarvāṇi tasmāttubhyaṃ namo namaḥ

195.4

हृषीकेशाय महते नमस्तेऽनन्तमूर्तये ।
यस्मिन्निदं यतश्चैतत्तिष्ठत्यग्रेऽपि जायते

hṛṣīkeśāya mahate namaste'nantamūrtaye |
yasminnidaṃ yataścaitattiṣṭhatyagre'pi jāyate

195.5

मृन्मयीं वहसि क्षोणीं तस्मै ते ब्रह्मणे नमः ।
यन्न स्पृशन्ति न विदुः मनोबुद्धीन्द्रियासवः ।
अन्तर्बहिस्त्वं चरसि व्योमतुल्यं नमाम्यहम्

mṛnmayīṃ vahasi kṣoṇīṃ tasmai te brahmaṇe namaḥ |
yanna spṛśanti na viduḥ manobuddhīndriyāsavaḥ |
antarbahistvaṃ carasi vyomatulyaṃ namāmyaham

195.6

ओं नमो भगवते महापुराषाय महाभूतपतये सकलसत्त्वभाविव्रीडनिकरकमलरेणूत्पलनिभधर्माख्यविद्यया चरणारविन्दयुगल परमेष्ठिन्नमस्ते ।
अवाप विद्याधरतां चित्रकेतोश्च विद्यया

oṃ namo bhagavate mahāpurāṣāya mahābhūtapataye sakalasattvabhāvivrīḍanikarakamalareṇūtpalanibhadharmākhyavidyayā caraṇāravindayugala parameṣṭhinnamaste |
avāpa vidyādharatāṃ citraketośca vidyayā

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