The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 eBook

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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,582 pages of information about The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4.
thou art of great fame, thou art of high Soul, thou art the Soul of all creatures, thou hast the universe for thy form.[94] Thou art of vast jaws (for thou swallowest the universe when the time comes for the dissolution of all things).  Thou art the protector of all the lokas (the worlds).  Thou art the soul residing in the inner heart and as such devoid of ahamkara originating from ignorance[95] and is one and undivided; Thou art anandam (gladness).  Thou art he whose car is borne by mules.  Thou art he that protects Jiva from the thunderbolt of rebirth.  Thou art adorable.  Thou art obtained by purity and self-restraint and vows.  Thou art again the refuge of all kinds of vows and observances including purity and self-restraint.[96] Thou art the celestial artificer that is conversant with every art.  Thou art Self-create (for no one has created thee).  Thou art the beginning of all creatures and things.  Thou art Hiranyagarbha, the Creator of all things.  Thou art inexhaustible puissance and felicity.[97] Thou hast a hundred eyes, thou hast eyes of vast power.  Thou art Soma.[98] Thou art he that causest all righteous creatures assume shapes of glory for shining in the firmament.  Thou art Chandramas, thou art Surya, thou art the planet Saturn, thou art the descending node (of the moon), thou art the ascending node, thou art Mangala (Mars), and thou art Vrihaspati (Jupiter) and Sukra (Venus), thou art Vudha (Mercury) thou art the worshipper of Atri’s wife, thou art he who shot his shaft in wrath at Sacrifice when Sacrifice fled away from him in the form of a deer.  Thou art sinless.[99] Thou art possessed of penances that have conferred upon thee the power of creating the universe.  Thou art possessed of penances that have rendered thee capable of destroying the universe.  Thou art high minded (in consequence of thy great liberality towards thy devotees).  Thou fulfillest the wishes of all who resign themselves to thee.  Thou art the maker of the year (for it is thou who settest the wheel of Time revolving, by assuming the form of the sun and the planets).  Thou art Mantra (in the form of Pranava and other sacred words and syllables).  Thou art the authority for all acts (in the form of the Vedas and the scriptures).  Thou art the highest Penance.  Thou art devoted to Yoga.  Thou art he who merges himself in Brahman (by Yoga-abstraction).  Thou art the great seed (being the cause of causes).  Thou art the displayer of what is unmanifest in the manifest form in which the universe exists.  Thou art possessed of infinite might.  Thou art he whose seed is gold.[100] Thou art omniscient, (being as thou art all things and the great knower).  Thou art the cause of all things.  Thou art he that has the seed of action (viz., ignorance and desire) for the means of sojourning from this world to the other and the other to this.[101] Thou hast ten arms.  Thou hast winkless eyes (for thou seest at all times).  Thou hast a blue throat (in consequence of thy bearing
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