Divine Light

There the sun does not shine, nor the moon and stars, nor do these lightnings shine — how then this fire? He alone shining, everything shines after him; by his light all this shines.

न तत्र सूर्यो भाति न चन्द्रतारकं नेमा विद्युतो भान्ति कुतोऽयमग्निः । तमेव भान्तमनुभाति सर्वं तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति ॥ १४॥

There the sun does not shine, nor the moon and stars; these lightnings do not shine—how then this fire? When he shines, everything shines after him; by his light all this shines.

न तत्र सूर्यो भाति न चन्द्रतारकं नेमा विद्युतो भान्ति कुतोऽयमग्निः । तमेव भान्तमनुभाति सर्वं तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति ॥ १५॥

As the one sun illuminates this whole world, so the knower of the field illuminates the entire field, Bharata.

यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः | क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत ||१३-३४||

If the light of a thousand suns were to blaze forth all at once in the sky, it might resemble the splendor of that great Being.

दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता | यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः ||११-१२||

The radiance that dwells in the sun and illumines the whole world, and that which is in the moon and in fire — know that radiance to be mine.

यदादित्यगतं तेजो जगद्भासयतेऽखिलम् | यच्चन्द्रमसि यच्चाग्नौ तत्तेजो विद्धि मामकम् ||१५-१२||

Neither the sun illuminates it, nor the moon, nor fire; reaching which they do not return — that is my supreme abode.

न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः | यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ||१५-६||

It is said to be the light of lights, beyond darkness; it is knowledge, the object of knowledge, and what is attained through knowledge, seated in the hearts of all.

ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते | ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं ज्ञानगम्यं हृदि सर्वस्य विष्ठितम् ||१३-१८||

You are my father, you are my mother, you are my kinsman, and you are my divinity. Salutations to the Guru who awakens the soul to the true nature of this world.

त्वं पिता त्वं च मे माता त्वं बन्धुस्त्वं च देवता । संसारप्रतिबोधार्थं तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः

The Blessed Lord said: Through my grace, Arjuna, and by my own power, I have shown you this supreme form — radiant, universal, infinite, primal — which none but you has ever seen before.

श्रीभगवानुवाच | मया प्रसन्नेन तवार्जुनेदं रूपं परं दर्शितमात्मयोगात् | तेजोमयं विश्वमनन्तमाद्यं यन्मे त्वदन्येन न दृष्टपूर्वम् ||११-४७||

I see you without beginning, middle, or end, of infinite power, with countless arms, the moon and sun for your eyes, your face a blazing fire, scorching this universe with your radiance.

अनादिमध्यान्तमनन्तवीर्य- मनन्तबाहुं शशिसूर्यनेत्रम् | पश्यामि त्वां दीप्तहुताशवक्त्रं स्वतेजसा विश्वमिदं तपन्तम् ||११-१९||

I see you crowned, armed with mace and discus, a mass of radiance blazing on all sides, hard to look upon, immeasurable, glowing like a blazing fire or the sun.

किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रिणं च तेजोराशिं सर्वतो दीप्तिमन्तम् | पश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ताद् दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिमप्रमेयम् ||११-१७||

Whoever meditates on the seer, the ancient one, the ruler, finer than the finest, the sustainer of all, whose form is beyond conception, radiant like the sun, and beyond all darkness —

कविं पुराणमनुशासितार- मणोरणीयंसमनुस्मरेद्यः | सर्वस्य धातारमचिन्त्यरूप- मादित्यवर्णं तमसः परस्तात् ||८-९||

But for those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, that knowledge, like the sun, illuminates the Supreme.

ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः | तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ||५-१६||

The face of truth is covered by a golden disc. Uncover it, O Pushan, so that I, whose law is truth, may see.

हिरण्मयेन पात्रेण सत्यस्यापिहितं मुखम् । तत्त्वं पूषन्नपावृणु सत्यधर्माय दृष्टये

Whoever knows this and meditates on this four-part foot of Brahman as the Luminous becomes luminous in this world; luminous worlds he wins, whoever knows this and meditates on this four-part foot of Brahman as the Luminous.

स य एतमेवं विद्वाꣳश्चतुष्कलं पादं ब्रह्मणो ज्योतिष्मानित्युपास्ते ज्योतिष्मानस्मिꣳल्लोके भवति ज्योतिष्मतो ह लोकाञ्जयति य एतमेवं विद्वाꣳश्चतुष्कलं पादं ब्रह्मणो ज्योतिष्मानित्युपास्ते

Now the light that shines above this heaven, above everything, above all, in the highest and unsurpassed worlds—that is truly the same as this light here within a person.

अथ यदतः परो दिवो ज्योतिर्दीप्यते विश्वतः पृष्ठेषु सर्वतः पृष्ठेष्वनुत्तमेषूत्तमेषु लोकेष्विदं वाव तद्यदिदमस्मिन्नन्तः पुरुषे ज्योतिः

O Pushan, sole seer, Yama, Sun, son of Prajapati, spread out your rays and gather up your light. I see that form of yours which is most blessed; that Person who dwells there—I am he.

पूषन्नेकर्षे यम सूर्य प्राजापत्य व्यूह रश्मीन् समूह तेजः । यत्ते रूपं कल्याणतमं तत्ते पश्यामि योऽसावसौ पुरुषः सोऽहमस्मि

Devouring on every side, you lick up all the worlds with your flaming mouths; filling the whole universe with radiance, your fierce rays scorch it, O Vishnu.

लेलिह्यसे ग्रसमानः समन्ताल्- लोकान्समग्रान्वदनैर्ज्वलद्भिः | तेजोभिरापूर्य जगत्समग्रं भासस्तवोग्राः प्रतपन्ति विष्णो ||११-३०||