thought [**], attain to the knowledge of the conscious principle within themselves by first excluding all conditioned and unconditioned existence and then eliminating all that is perceptible as "Not this" "Not this,"--that Hari, the destroyer of the darkness of samsara, I praise. (38)

Him Who is the warp and woof of the web of this universe including the undifferentiated ether, Who is established under the designation of the Indestructible in such passages as "It is not gross, It is not atomic etc.", Who can only be understood as "There is no knower but He", but Who is not the object of cognition,--that Hari, the destroyer of the darkness of samsara, I praise. (39)

Him, the Knower, without realising Whom within one's self as "I am He", all this appears as real, but, Who being realised, all this becomes unreal,--that Hari, the destroyer of the darkness of samsara, I praise. (40)

Him Who is realised as the consciousness that ultimately remains when the self that is not free from impurity is burnt in the fire of knowledge. kindled by eightfold Yoga [**], like gold alloyed with iron in the furnace,--that Hari, the destroyer of the darkness of samsara, I praise. (41)

Him Who is the resplendent light of consciousness, the first cause, the praiseworthy, Who shines like lightning within the heart amidst the spheres of the sun, moon and fire, [**] in Whom the sages, worshipping Him with devotion as the ultimate reality within their own selves, merge themselves even in this life,--that Hari, the destroyer of the darkness of samsara, I praise. (42)

May He, the all-pervading (Vishnu), protect this devotee who is an individual self [*+] existing

in Himself, considering "This devotee praises Me Who am the essence of all organs with constant devotion and single-mindedness and withdrawing himself within his own self"--that Hari, the destroyer of the darkness of samsara, I praise. (43)

He who recites or hears this. hymn of the venerable teacher, valuable to devotees and resembling the sun in dispelling the darkness of the fear of samsara, attains the state of the All-pervading (Vishnu) and; becoming a seer, realises both knowledge and the object of knowledge [**] within himself. (44)

Thus ends the hymn to Hari.

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Footnotes

^1:* Phenomenal existence; the succession of births and deaths.

^2:* Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

^10:* Lit: Sees.

^10:+ Reflecting external colours.

^11:* Son of Varuna.

^12:* The five kosas, namely, annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, vijnanamaya and anandamaya.

^12:+ Maya-sakti, the power of illusion.

^12:++ Kshetrajna, the individual conscious self.

^12:** Chit-sakti, the power of intelligence.

^16:* The Brahma-Sutras of Vyasa.

^16:+ Kshetra, the field or the body, and Kshetrajna, the knower of the field or the individual self.