Chapter 11 - Glory of Sadyojāta

The Sages said:

1-2 Flow did Brahmā see the great lord as Sadyojāta, Vāmadeva, Tatpuruṣa, Aghora and Īśāna? It behoves you to recount it precisely.

Sūta said:

The twenty-ninth kalpa should be known as śvetalohita.

3. In that (kalpa) when Brahmā was pursuing intense meditation a son with tuft was born unto him. He was called Śvetalohita

4-5. On seeing that Puruṣa, the glorious lord Brahmā with faces all round, thought of the noble-souled lord in the form of Brahman. Brahmā retained Sadyojāta in the heart and became engaged inmeditation. After realising the greatest being through meditation Brahmā, the lord of Devas, saluted him.

6-7. Brahmā contemplated again over Sadyojāta. Thereupon from his sides were born Śvetas (white ones) of great fame, viz. Sunanda, Nandana, Viśvananda and Upanandana; these noble-souled ones were the disciples of Brahmā by whom he was always surrounded.

8. In front of him the sage Sveta, glittering in his white colour, was born. Then there was born Hara of great splendour.

9-11. There all the sages resorted to the great lord Sadyojāta with perfect devotion. They praised the eternal Brahman. Hence all those persons O brahmins, who resort to lord Viśveśvara after being engrossed in breath-control and mentally devoted to Brahman, become liberated from sins. They will have the splendour of brahman and be free from impulses. They will go beyond Viṣṇu’s abode and enter Rudra’s world.