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Devi Upanishad Rishi Atharvan

Om! Devas! With ears let us hear what is good; Adorable ones! With eyes let us see what is good. With steady limbs, with bodies, praising, et us en!oy the li"e allotted by the #ods. $ay %ndra, o" wide renown, grant us well&being; $ay 'usan, and All&#ods, grant us well&being. $ay (ar)sya, o" unhampered movement, grant us well&being. $ay *rihaspati grant us well&being. Om! 'ea+e! 'ea+e! 'ea+e! ,. All the Devas waited upon Devi -and as)ed./ 0$aha Devi, who art (hou12 3. 4he replied/ % am essentially *rahman. 5rom $e -has pro+eeded. the world +omprising 'ra)riti and 'urusha, the void and the plenum. % am -all "orms o". bliss and non&bliss. 6nowledge and

ignoran+e are $ysel". *rahman and non&*rahman are to be )nown 7 says the s+ripture o" the Atharvans. 8. % am the "ive elements as also what is di""erent "rom them. % am the entire world. % am the 9eda as well as what is di""erent "rom it. % am the unborn; % am the born. *elow and above and around am %. :. % move with Rudras and 9asus, with Adityas and 9isvedevas. $itra and 9aruna, %ndra and Agni, % support, and the two Asvins. ;. % uphold 4oma, (vastir, 'usan and *haga, the wide&stepping 9ishnu, *rahma, 'ra!apati. <. (o the =ealous sa+ri"i+er o""ering oblation and pressing the 4oma !ui+e do % grant wealth; % am the nation, the *ringer o" Wealth; Above it all, pla+e % its prote+tor. >. Whoso )nows $y essen+e in the water o" the inner sea, attains Devi?s abode. @. (hose Devas said/ 4alutation to Devi, $aha Devi! (o 4iva, the auspi+ious, salutation, "or ever more. (o blessed 'ra)riti, salutation! Aver to Ber we bow. C. Re"uge % see) in Ber who is the +olour o" "ire, *urning with as+eti+ ardour, #oddess resplendent, delighting in a+tions? "ruits; O (hou, hard to rea+h, dispel (hy gloom. ,D. (he Devas engendered divine 4pee+h; Ber, beasts o" all "orms spea); (he +ow that yields sweet "ruits and vigour 7 (o us may lauded 4pee+h appear. ,,. (o holy 4iva, to Da)sha?s daughter, (o Aditi and 4araswati, (o 4)anda?s mother, 9ishnu?s power, (o Eight o" Death by *rahma lauded, We render obeisan+e. ,3. 6now we #reat a)shmi, #oddess o" good "ortune; On all "ul"ilment do we meditate. $ay the #oddess inspire us! ,8. (hrough Fou, Da)shayani, was Aditi born; 4he is your daughter; a"ter her were born the #ods auspi+ious, "riends o" deathlessness. ,:. ove, womb, love?s part, the bearer o" the thunderbolt, the +ave, ha&sa, the wind, the +loud, %ndra; again the +ave, sa&)a&la with $aya. 4o runs the "ull primeval s+ien+e begetting all. ,;. (his is the power o" 4el", en+hanting all, armed with the noose, the hoo), the bow and the arrow. (his is the great and holy 4+ien+e. ,<. Who )nows thus tides over grie". ,>. Divine $other! 4alutation to Fou; prote+t us in all possible ways. ,@. 4he, here, is the eight 9asus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Adityas, 4he is the All&#ods, -those. who drin) 4oma and -those. who do not; 4he is the goblins, the demons, the evil beings, the ghosts; 4he also, beings super&human, the semi&divine. 4he is 4attva, Ra!as and (amas. 4he is 'ra!apati, %ndra and $anu. 4he is the planets, stars and luminous spheres. 4he is the divisions o" time, and the "orm o" primeval (ime. % salute Ber ever/ ,C. #oddess who banishes distress, grants pleasure and deliveran+e ali)e, in"inite, vi+torious, pure, 4iva, re"uge, the giver o" good. 3D. 4eed all&power"ul o" Devi?s mantra, is s)y, +on!oined with Gi? and "ire, with +res+ent moon adorned. 3,. On the single&syllabled mantra meditate the pure&hearted sages, supremely bliss"ul; o" wisdom the veriest o+eans. 33. 5ashioned by spee+h; born o" *rahman; the siHth with "a+e eIuipped; the sun; the le"t ear where the point is; the eighth and the third +on!oint. 38. (he air, with Earayana united, and with the lip; vi++e, the nine&lettered; the letter, shall delight the lo"ty ones. 3:. 4eated in the lotus&heart, resplendent as the morning sun, Devi, bearing noose and hoo), with gesture granting boons, dissolving "ears; tender, three&eyed, red&robed, granting devotees their hearts? desires, (hee % adore. 3;. % bow to (hee, #oddess, (hou dispeller o" gravest "ears, vanIuisher o" obsta+les; (hou wearer o" great mer+y?s "orm. 3<. *rahma and others )now not Ber essen+e; so is 4he +alled the Un)nowable. 4he has no end; so is 4he +alled the Andless. 4he is not grasped and so is 4he +alled the %n+omprehensible. Ber

birth is not )nown and so is 4he +alled the Unborn. 4he alone is present everywhere, and so is 4he +alled the One. 4he alone wears all "orms, and so is 4he +alled the $any. 5or these reasons is 4he +alled the Un)nowable, the Andless, the %n+omprehensible, the Un)nown, the One and the $any. 3>. (he #oddess is the sour+e o" all mantras/ O" all the words the )nowledge is Ber "orm. Ber +ons+ious "orm trans+ends all +ognitions; 4he is the witness o" all emptiness. 3@. *eyond Ber is nothing; renowned is 4he as unapproa+hable; a"eared o" li"e, % bow to the ina++essible One, bulwar) against all sins; the 'ilot who steers me a+ross the sea o" worldly li"e. 3C. Be who studies this Atharva Upanishad gains the "ruit o" repeating "ive -other. Atharva Upanishads; he who, having mastered this Atharva Upanishad, persists in worship. 8D. O" this vidya ten million +hants are less than the worship?s "ruit. Aight and hundred re+itations thereo" ma)e but this rite?s inauguration. 8,. Who reads it but ten times, is released at on+e "rom sins; (hrough the gra+e o" $aha Devi, tides he over obsta+les great. 83. Reading it in the morning one destroys the sins o" the night; reading it in the evening one destroys the sins +ommitted by day. (hus, reading both in the evening and morning, the sinner be+omes sinless. Reading it midnight, too, the "ourth 0!un+tion,2 there results per"e+tion o" spee+h. %ts re+itation be"ore a new image brings to it the presen+e o" the deity. %ts re+itation at the time o" +onse+ration -o" an image. ma)es it a +entre o" energy. Re+iting it on (uesday under the asterism Ashvini, in the presen+e o" the #reat #oddess, one over+omes "ell death. One who )nows this, this is the se+ret. Om! #ods! With ears let us hear what is good; Adorable ones! With eyes let us see what is good. With steady limbs, with bodies, praising, et us en!oy the li"e allotted by the #ods. $ay %ndra, o" wide renown, grant us well&being; $ay 'usan, and All&#ods, grant us well&being. $ay (ar)sya, o" unhampered movement, grant us well&being. $ay *rihaspati grant us well&being. Om! 'ea+e! 'ea+e! 'ea+e!

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