Daily Invocations: 8. Swami Krishnananda.

 

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Friday 13, June 2025, 06:00.
Books
Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Daily Invocations: 
2.The Satarudriya-8.
Swami Krishnananda

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27.Prostration to Thee who art (in the form of) the hosts of celestial attendants and their chiefs; prostration to Thee who art the formless and the universal-formed; prostration to Thee who art the great as well as the small; prostration to Thee who art those that ride in chariots and those that do not; prostration to Thee who art the chariots as well as the chariot owners.

28.Prostration to Thee who art (in the form of) armies and army chiefs; prostration to Thee who art the trained charioteers and apprentices in chariot driving; prostration to Thee who art the carpenters and the chariot makers; prostration to Thee who art the potters and blacksmiths; prostration to Thee who art the fowlers and the fishermen.

29.Prostration to Thee who art (in the form of) the artisans who make arrows and bows; prostration to Thee who art the hunters and the huntsmen; prostration to Thee who art the hounds and the keepers of hounds.

30.Prostration to the Creator and Destroyer of the Universe; prostration to the Remover of sins and the Protector of all beings; prostration to the blue-necked One and the fair-necked One; prostration to the matted-locked One and the clean-shaven One; prostration to the thousand-eyed One and Him who wields multiple bows.

Note: —“In the form of an austere mendicant, Siva is matted-locked; as a sannyasin, He is clean-shaven; as Indra, He is thousand-eyed; in His multiformed manifestation, He holds numberless bows,” says Sayana.

31.Prostration to the Resident of the mountains (as Siva) and the Immanent One in all beings (as Vishnu); prostration to the One who wields arrows and rains heavily through the clouds; prostration to the One who is dwarfed in size and small in limbs; prostration to the One who is huge in size and multi-formed in limbs; prostration to the Ancient One who is glorified through eternity.

32.Prostration to the Primeval One and the Chief of beings; prostration to the Omnipresent One and the agile among things; prostration to the One in the quick and the flowing; prostration to the One in the roaring waves and the still water; prostration to the One in the swift rivers and the islands.

33.Prostration to Him who is the eldest as well as the youngest; prostration to Him who is the Ancient Being as well as all that emanates from It; prostration to Him who is the middling creation (such as the celestials, etc.) as well as the infant; prostration to Him who is the last in creation (e.g. the animals, birds, etc.) as well as the trees and plants with their branches and foliage; prostration to Him who is mixed in character (e.g. virtue and vice, representing the human beings), as well as all that is moving.

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