हिन्दी
Om!
Obeisance to 'God'!
God (Hari) is Om.
Sukesha, son of Bharadvaja; Shaivya (son of Shivi) Satyakama; Suryavanshi Gargya; Ashwal, son of Kaushala; Bhargava, a resident of Vidarbha; And Katyayana Kabandhi, these Brahma-parayana and Brahmanishtha sages, engaged in the pursuit of Brahma, (with the sacrificial fire in their hands) came to Lord Pippala and said:
''Here are they who will tell us about that 'everything'
The sage said to them: “You spend another year in celibacy, devotion and penance then ask whatever questions you want, and I will undoubtedly tell you everything if I know about it without keeping anything secret."
Then Kabandhi, the son of Katya, went to him and asked:
O Lord!
Where does this whole animal world (praja) originate?
Rishi Pippalad told him:
" 'The Supreme Father' (Prajapati) desired praja (sons), so he produced his penance power and with the energy of his penance power he produced twins (pairs of creatures) 'prana' meaning 'life', which is the 'masculine essence' and 'Rayi', meaning 'the inert essence', which is the 'feminine essence', and he said, 'These will create for me many kinds of subjects."
The sun is the 'prana' (life-giving force) and the moon is nothing more than the 'ray' (inertia).
However, in fact, this entire tangible and intangible world is 'inert essence', therefore 'tangible' and 'rayi' (inert essence) are 'one'.
Then, when the rising sun enters the east (prachi), it fills the prana-vayu (prachyapranas) of the east in its rays.
But when He illuminates the southern direction, the western direction (Pratichi) and the northern direction (Udichi), the lower and upper directions and all the angles of space, whatever there is in fact, then He holds all the souls in His rays.
So, this fire that rises, this 'Vaishvanar' (Universal or Cosmic Man), the embodiment of the objects of the entire universe, is the 'prana' (force) of life.
This is the truth that was also stated in the Rig Veda.
Fire is this hot and luminous 'sun', this is the 'only' light and omniscient 'light', this is the highest sky (universe) of self-consciousness.
It shines with a thousand rays and exists in a hundred different existences.
Oh, this 'sun' that is rising is the 'life' of all its subjects.
Samvatsar (year) is also the 'Supreme Father' (Prajapati) and Samvatsar has two ayanas i.e. two paths - Uttarayan (When the Sun travels from Capricorn to Gemini while moving towards the north) and Dakshinayan (once the sun reaches north, it begins moving south and is called Dakshinayana – the sun is moving towards south.
This causes seasons which are dependent on equinoxes and solstices).
And, those who worship 'Ishvara' by offering oblations in Kupadi (the mining in which minerals are obtained by digging or making holes in the earth) and Yagyas, and consider all this as good deeds, they conquer the lunar heaven-worlds only; These are the people who come back to the world of birth. That is why sages who have not renounced the desire to have a son, follow the Dakshinayana path, which is the Pitriyana (path of the ancestors).
And this too 'Rayi' (Jadatattva) is 'Naritattva'.
But the Uttarayan path is followed by those Mahatmas who have discovered the 'soul' through celibacy, learning, devotion and penance.
Because they conquer their heaven of 'Suryaloka'.
There is the volume (resting place) of 'Pranas', there immortality gives fearlessness, there is the supreme heaven of souls.
No one returns from there.
So, this is a deterrent and this is a hindrance.
In relation to which this verse (Shrutivachan) is.
Some call it Panchapada, the five-limbed 'Father', and has twelve forms and flows in Parardha, beyond the celestials.
But others call him 'Vichakshan' (scholar) who sits in a chariot with six spokes and seven wheels (chakras).'
The month is also the same 'Prajapati', whose Krishnpaksha 'Rayi' (inert matter) is 'Stree-tattva' (femininity) and Shuklapaksha 'Prana' is Punstattva (Virility).
That's why one type of Rishis offer oblations in Shukla Paksha and others in Krishna Paksha.
Ahoratra (day and night) are also Prajapati, of whom day is 'prana' and night is 'rayi' (matter).
Therefore, those who take pleasure in sex during the day destroy their own lives.
Those who take pleasure in sex with women in the night, they follow celibacy only.
Food is the Eternal Father.
From this came the seed and of the seed, the world of creatures is born.
Therefore, those who perform the vow of the Eternal Father, produce mithuns (pairs) of living beings.
But Brahmaloka belongs to those in whom penance, and celibacy are established, within whom truth resides.
Theirs is the heaven of the Spirit, the world all spotless, in whom there is neither crookedness nor lying nor any illusion.
