All this universe, being other than the SELF, is unreal; for, the SELF alone is all-inclusive, constitutes the ultimate goal and is self-established and self-dependent. I am therefore the secondless, uncontradictable, attributeless Bliss (Siva). (9)

It cannot even be said that It is One. How then can there be a second, other than That? There is neither absoluteness nor non-absoluteness, neither non-entity nor entity; for It is absolutely non-dual in Its nature. How then can I describe That which is established by all the Vedantas!

Thus ends the ten-versed hymn.

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Footnotes

^26:* Lit. the ultimate remnant.

Hymn to Dakshinamurti.

Who, by virtue of the illusion residing in the self, sees, as in a dream, the universe as existing outside Himself although (more truly) it exists within Himself like the reflection of a city in a mirror, but Who, at the time of the awakening, sees naught but His own secondless self,--to that Teacher incarnate, the Lord facing the south, be this bow. (1)

Who, like a magician or like a yogi, manifests, by His own will, this universe which at the beginning was undifferentiated like the sprout latent in the seed but which subsequently became differentiated under the various conditions of space and time induced by illusion,--to that Teacher incarnate, [**] the Lord facing the south, be this bow. (2)

Whose light alone that is the reality shines in things that resemble non-entities [**]; Who directly awakens His devotees by means of the Vedic sentence "That thou art"; and Who being realised, there is no more coming hack in this ocean of Samsara,--to that Teacher incarnate, the Lord facing the south, be this bow. (3)

Whose consciousness flows out through the eye and other senses like the light of a big lamp placed inside a jar with many holes, and (thus) this whole universe shines solely because He shines, namely, by the consciousness "I know,"--to that Teacher incarnate, the Lord facing the south, be this bow. (4)

Deluded persons who talk much, but who are as ignorant as women and children, the blind and the stupid, understand, as the "I," the body, or the breath, or the senses, or the ever-newly-springing knowledge [**], or non-entity.

[paragraph continues] To Him who dispels this great ignorance induced by the expansive power of illusion [**],--to that Teacher incarnate, the Lord facing the south, be this bow. (5)

Who is the inner self which, under the veil of illusion, like the sun or the moon eclipsed, merely exists [*+] in deep sleep owing to the withdrawal of the senses, but which when He wakes, is recognised by Him as "I have slept",--to that Teacher incarnate, the Lord facing the south, be this bow. (6)