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Parasara said: Maitreya, I will repeat the prayer offered by the Prachetasas. Follow it
attentively:
"We bow down to the Lord, The Most High, who is the beginning and ending of all creation,
in whom stands eternal the goal of all our words uttered. We worship that Light which is
the beginning of all, and which has no parallel to anything ranging from atom to eternity.
You stand as the birthplace of all that is stable and moving. Our day is your first shape, our
night is your existence beyond shape. Our twilight is your form as time. You have taken the
shape of Soma, the ambrosia and essence of all life, and you are daily being consumed
and enjoyed by the Pitrus. (The Pitrus make universal life individual and keep in
equilibrium the consciousness of the created entities so that they can enjoy what we call
their span of life.) At the same time you destroy our darkness by your sharp and positive
rays shining through the firmament. Hence we praise you as the abode of the warmth and
coolness that permeates the waters of life through your spirit as Sun God.
The principles of sound, touch, shape, taste and smell have you as their abode. You are
shaped and solidified by them and hence this earth globe takes its shape from your
hardness. We bow down to your manifestation as water, the womb of all worlds and the
germinator of the seeds of all beings. We bow down to your pervasion as fire, which is the
mouth (the tool for consuming) of all Devas and by which the Devas live upon oblations
and combustions. Even the Pitrus live upon your fire-form. We bow down to your form of
Vayu which takes its birth in space and exists in the various bodies as the five pulsations
that produce the various behaviours. We bow down to your boundless form of space which
provides opportunity for the living beings to exist and which stands pure and untouched
forever. We bow down to your dark and mysterious manifestation which stands as the
nucleus of all senses, organs and their objects in the constitution of a living being. We bow
down to your form of Will which continuously receives objects of perception, which exists
as the spirit of the senses and as the source of awareness, the indestructible letter of all
destructible forms. We bow down to your Universal Soul which took shape as the inner
implement of mind, which receives the objects of perception through the senses and offers
them before the Indweller. We bow down to your nature, the duality of merging into which
the whole creation disappears in the end in the same order of its emergence. We bow
down to your spirit in all, the highest form of manifestation upon whose surface your pure
quality of existence is understood as the individual being with its attributes by the
illusionary perceiver.
We bow down to your splendour of pervasion and expansion, the highest of all the abodes
and the seed of the unchangeable, unborn, unveiled and pure existence beyond attributes.
As pervasion you are not long in the lengthy objects; not short in the short objects; not
gross in the grossness of matter; not even an atom in the atom. You are not dark in
darkness; not red in redness; not oily in oil; not grown in growing; not adherence in the
adhering and not the body in any part of the body. Your pervasion is beyond the sky in the
sky, beyond touch in touch, beyond smell in smell, beyond taste in taste. In the eye you
are not the eye, in the ear you are not the ear, in movement you are not the movement, in
the word you are beyond the word, in the hand you are behind the hand and in the mind
you are above the mind. Named as a being, you are beyond name; in a clan you are
Text of discourses by Dr. E. Krishnamachaya, originally published in MY LIGHT, the magazine of
the World Teacher Trust, India

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beyond clan. In happiness you are above happiness. In brilliance you are above brilliance
and in every cause you are beyond the cause. In fear you are above fear, in illusion you
are above illusion, in sleep you are above sleep, in the forms of old age you exist above
age and in the deathless you are beyond deathlessness. You are the word beyond the
vibration of sound. On the floating phenomena you are above floating and in involution you
are beyond involution. You are before the beginning and after the ending of everything.
Such is the highest abode of your pervasion. You are the higher principle; you are the
ruling Lord, who assembles attributes in the form of the various beings but still you live
beyond abode and shelter. Since our heart, tongue and eye cannot comprehend beyond
this 'beyond' we simply bow down to you, that is all."
Thus the Prachetasas prayed to the Lord Vishnu and lived in their state of pure absorption
and penance for ten thousand years amidst the ocean. Then the Lord showered His grace
upon them by appearing before them amidst the water. He appeared as the blue colour of
the unfolding petals of the night lotus. As he appeared on the back of Garuda the
Prachetasas fell upon His feet, their heads touching His feet full of devotion. Then the Lord
said: "I am pleased and I came to favour you. Express your wish." They prayed for the
multiplication of the creation, as suggested by their father. The Lord granted what they
wanted and disappeared when the Prachetasas came out of the waters.
As the Prachetasas conducted their penance the beings of this earth disinte grated since
there was no protection. All trees covered the whole earth and there was no possibility for
a little breeze to move. During these ten thousand years, people had no space to live or to
move. When the Prachetasas saw the situation they grew furious. They began to blow out
through their mouths air and fire continuously. The fire burnt the trees to ashes and the air
blew up the remnants in all directions.
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Text of discourses by Dr. E. Krishnamachaya, originally published in MY LIGHT, the magazine of


the World Teacher Trust, India

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