Chapter XVI - Description of the mode of meditating on Vishnu as well as of the rite of sun-worship

Rudra said:—O h older of conch-shell, discus and club, do thou again describe the Dhyana (meditation) of the Deity, the Lord Vishnu, the pure, impersonal self.

Hari said:—Hear, O Rudra, Hari’s dhyana, destructive of the tree of transmigatory series, never seen before, extending all over and eternal. It is undecaying, present always and every where and consists only in the thought “I am Brahma.” [Meditate on him as] the root of the entire world, the lord of all, the Great Demiurgus, as stationed in the hearts of all creatures, as the great lord of all creatures. He is the container of all, having none to contain him and is the cause of all causes. He does not come in contact, is emancipated and is being meditated on by emancipated Yogins. He is without the gross body, the eyes, organs of vitality, the action of vital airs, the organs of generation and execretion, the organs of sense, the mind, the action of mind, intellect, mental faculties, egoism, the action of intellect, the vital airs, Prana, Apana and their actions.

Hari said:—I will describe again the adoration of the sun which had been related formerly unto Bhrigu.

Om salutation unto Khakholka.

This is the principal mantram of the sun affording emancipation and objects of enjoyment.

Om salutation unto God Khakholka. Om unto rays ta, ta, salutation unto the head. Om unto knowledge, salutation unto the tuft of hair on the head. Om unto him of thousand, ta, ta, salutation unto the amulet.

Om salutation unto the master of all light. Ta, Ta, salutation unto the weapon. Om, burn, burn, burn burn, ta, ta, salutation.

This is the fiery mantram of the sun destructive of the sin.

Om Adityaya, Vidmahe, Vishvabhavaya dhimahi, Tanna Suryye Prachodayat.

The worshipper should perform the Sakalikarana rite with this Gayatri of the sun. He should worship Dharma in the east, Yama in the south, Dandanayaka and Vaivarna in the north, dark-blue, twany and other colours in north-east and north-west, the holder of thunder-bolt in the south-west and the earth and sky in the north-west.

Om salutation unto the moon the lord of stars. Om salutation unto egoism the son of the earth. Om, salutation unto Budha, the son of Soma. Om salutation unto the lord of speech, the master of all forms of learning. Om salutation unto Bhrigu’s son, the great saint Shukra. Om salutatation unto Shani (Saturn) the son of the sun. Om salutation unto Rahu. Om salutation unto Ketu.

In all the quarters beginning with the east and ending with the north-east all these should be adored, O bull-emblemed deity.

Om salutation unto Anuruka. Om salutation unto the lord of Pramathas.^[1] Om salutation unto Budha. O lord! O thou endued with immeasurable rays! O lord of the entire world! O thou carried by seven horses! O thou having four arms! O thou, the giver of great supernatural powers! O thou twanty-coloured with scintillations! O auspicious deity, take this arghya. Salutation unto thee. Take this dreadful fire. Burn, burn, ta, ta, salutation.

Having invoked the sun-god with this mantram he should make the Visarjana (life-destroying rite) with the following mantram.

Om salutation unto the sun endued with six lordly powers, of a thousand rays. Go happily to return again.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Shiva.