Daily Invocations: 5 - Swami Krishnananda.

 

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Saturday 21, February 2026, 05:40.
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Daily Invocations: 
4.The Purusha Suktam
Swami Krishnananda.

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6.

तस्मादश्वा अजायन्त ये के चोभयादतः ।

गावो ह जज्ञिरे तस्मात्तस्माज्जाता अजावयः ॥

यत्पुरुषं व्यदधुः कतिधा व्यकल्पयन् ।

मुखं किमस्यासीत् किं बाहू किमूरू पादा उच्येते ॥

tasmādaśvā ajāyanta ye ke cobhayādataḥ,

gāvo ha jajñire tasmāt tasmād jātā ajāvayaḥ.

yatpuruṣaṁ vyadhadhuḥ katidhā vyakalpayan,

mukhaṁ kimasya kau bāhū kā vūrū pādā vucyete.

From Him were born horses and whatever animals have two rows of teeth. Verily, cows were born of Him; from Him were born goats and sheep. And when they contemplated the Purusha (as the Universal Sacrifice), into how many parts did they divide Him (in their meditations)? What was His mouth called, what were His arms, what were His thighs, what were His feet called?

7.

ब्राह्मणोऽस्य मुखमासीद्बाहू राजन्यः कृतः ।

ऊरू तदस्य यद्वैश्यः पद्भ्यां शूद्रोऽजायत ॥

चन्द्रमा मनसो जातश्चक्षोः सूर्यो अजायत ।

मुखादिन्द्रश्चाग्निश्च प्राणाद्वायुरजायत ॥

brāhmaṇo'sya mukhamāsīd bāhū rājanyaḥ kṛtaḥ,

ūrū tadasya yadvaiśyaḥ padbhyāṁ śūdro'ajāyata.

candramā manaso jātaḥcakśoḥ sūryo ajāyata,

mukhādindraścāgniśca prāṇādvāyurajāyata.

The Brahmana (spiritual wisdom and splendour) was His mouth; the Kshatriya (administrative and military prowess) His arms became. His thighs were the Vaisya (commercial and business enterprise); of His feet the Sudra (productive and sustaining force) was born. The Moon (symbol of the mind) was born from His (cosmic) mind; the Sun (symbol of self and consciousness) was born from His eyes. Indra (power of grasping and activity) and Agni (will-force) came from His mouth; from His vital energy air was born.

8.

नाभ्या आसीदन्तरिक्षं शीर्ष्णो द्यौः समवर्तत ।

पद्भ्यां भूमिर्दिशः श्रोत्रात्तथा लोकाँ अकल्पयन् ॥

सप्तास्यासन् परिधयस्त्रिः सप्त समिधः कृताः ।

देवा यद्यज्ञं तन्वाना अबध्नन् पुरुषं पशुम् ॥ १५॥

nābhyā āsīdantarikśam śīrṣṇo dyauḥ samavartata,

padbhyāṁ bhūmirdiśaḥ śrotrātathā lokāṁ akalpayan.

saptāsyāsṇ paridhyasṛitaḥsapta samidḥa kṛtaḥ,

devā yadyajñam tanvānā abaḍhnaṇ purūṣaṁ paśum.

(In that Universal Meditation as Sacrifice) the firmament came from His navel; the heavens were produced from His head; the earth from His feet; from His ears the quarters of space—so they constituted the worlds. The enclosures of the sacrificial altar were seven (the seven metres like the Gayatri), and twenty-one (the twelve months, the five seasons, the three worlds and the sun) were the logs of sacrificial fuel, when the gods (the pranas, the senses and the mind) celebrated the Universal Sacrifice with the Supreme Purusha as the object of contemplation therein.

9.

यज्ञेन यज्ञमयजन्त देवास्तानि धर्माणि प्रथमान्यासन् ।

ते ह नाकं महिमानः सचन्त यत्र पूर्वे साध्याः सन्ति देवाः ॥

yajñena yajñamayajanta devāḥtāni dharmāṇi prathamānyāsan,

te ha nākaṁ mahimānaḥ sacante yatra pūrve sādhyāḥ santi devāḥ.

By sacrifice (universal meditation) did the gods adore and perform (visualise) the sacrifice (Universal Being). These were the original creations and the original laws (that sustain creation). Those great ones (the worshippers of the Cosmic Being by this type of meditation) attain that Supreme Abode in which abide the primeval contemplators (the gods mentioned above) who thus worshipped that Being.

10.

वेदहमेतं पुरुषं महान्तमादित्यवर्णनं तमासः परस्तात्।

तमेव विदित्व'तिमृत्युमेति नान्यः पन्थ विद्यातेऽयनाय॥

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

vedāhametaṁ puruṣaṁ mahāntamādityavarṇaṁ tamasaḥ parastāt,

tameva viditva'timṛtyumeti nānyaḥ panthā vidyate'yanāya.

ōṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.

I know this Great Purusha who shines like the sun beyond darkness. By knowing Him alone does one cross beyond death; there is no other way of going over there. Om. May there be Peace, Peace, Peace.

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः॥

ōṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.

Om. May there be Peace, Peace, Peace.

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