In Praise of Brahmcharin

The Brahmcharin sets in motion both the heaven and earth I him the gods are in harmony. He sustains heaven and earth, he fills the teacher with creative fervour.

The fathers, the fold and all the gods severally follow the Brahmcharin. The Gandharvas follow him, six thousand three hundred and thirty. He fills all the gods with tapas.

When the teacher takes the Brahmcharin under him as a disciple, he makes him an embryo within hem. He bears him for three nights in his belly, and when he is born the gods assemble to see him.

This piece of fuel is earth, the sky the second, and the atmosphere also he fills with the piece of firewood. The Brahmcharin fills the worlds with fuel, girdle, austerity and creative fervour.

Born prior to Brahma, the Brahmcharin, clothed in heat, by creative fervour did he rise. Form him was born the Brahman, the highest Brahman, and all the gods together with amrita.

The Brahmcharin advances kindled with fuel, clothed in black antelope skin, consecrated and bearded. He moves from eastern to the western ocean, grasping the worlds he shapes again and again!

The Brahmcharin, generating the Brahma, the waters, the world Prajapati, Parmesthin and Viraj, having become an embryo in the womb of immortality, became verily Indra, and pierced the demons.

The teacher fashioned out booth these hemispheres, the wide and the deep, earth and heaven. The Brahmcharin preserves them by his creative fervour, in him the gods are harmonized.

This wide earth and the heaven the Brahmcharin brought hither as alms. Having turned them into two fuel stick, he worships them, upon them all beings rest.

Prayer to Gods for Deliverance

We address Agni, the trees, the plants and the herbs, Indra Brihaspati and Surya. May they all deliver us from distress!

We call on god Savitar, Dhatar and Pushan. We call on Tvastar, the first born. May they deliver us from distress!

We address the Gandharvas and Apsaras, the two Ashvins and Brahamanaspati, the god called Aryaman. May they deliver us from distress.

Now do we call Day and Night, Surya and Chandrma, all the Adityas we call. may they deliver us from distress!

Vata we address, Parjanya, the atmosphere, and quarters of the space, and all the regions we address. May they deliver us from distress!

May Day and Night, and also the Dawn, free thee from curses! May god Soma, whom they call Moon, deliver me from distress!

The earthly, the divine cattle, also the beasts of wild we address. Likewise we address the hawks and the birds. may they deliver us from distress!

Now we address Bhava and Sarva, and Rudra, the lord of cattle, their shafts do we all know well. May these be ever auspicious to us!

We address the heaven and the stars, the earth, the yakshas, the mountains, the seas, the rivers and the ponds. May they deliver us from distress!

We address now the Seven Sages, the divine waters, Prajapati. We address Fathers with Yama as their chief. May they be free us from distress!

The gods dwelling in heaven, and those who swell in the atmosphere and the mighty ones who are set on earth, may they deliver us from distress!

The Adityas, the Rudras, the Vasus, the Atharvans, the Angirases, the wise, the gods in heaven, may they deliver us from distress!

we now address the Sacrifice, the sacrificers, the verses, the chants, the remedies, the ritual formulas and the invocations. may they deliver us from distress!

The five kingdoms of herbs with Soma (Moon) as their chief, we address and also the sacred grass, hemp and barley. May they deliver us from distress!

We address the niggard and demons, the serpents, the pious folk and Fathers, the hundred and one deaths, May they deliver us from distress!

The seasons we address, the lord of the seasons, the sections of the year and the winters, the summers, the years and the months. May they deliver us from distress!

Come ye gods from the south, from the west, come ye along from the east. From the east, from the north, all the gods, mighty shall assemble here. May they deliver us from distress!

We speak now to all the gods, of true agreements, promoters of righteousness, together with all their consorts. May they deliver us from distress!

We speak to the lord of existence, and him who controls all the existence, all the existence assembled. May they free us from distress!

The five divine regions, the twelve divine seasons, the fangs of the years, may they all be propitious to us.

The amrita bough for a chariot, which Matali knows, that Indra deposited in the waters; that amrita, O waters ye give us!