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Shri Devi Atharva-Shirsham PDF
Shri Devi Atharva-Shirsham PDF
अहमानन्दानानन्दौ । अहं िवज्ञानािवज्ञाने । अहं ब्रह्माब्रह्मणी वेिदतव्ये । अहं पञ्चभूतान्यपञ्चभूतािन । अहमिखलं जगत् ॥३॥
I am bliss and non-bliss. I am knowledge and non-knowledge.
I am the desire to know Brahma and non-Brahma.
I am the five primordial principles and the non-principles.
I am the complete universe.
अहं रुद्रेिभवसु
र् िभश्चरािम । अहमािदत्यैरुत िवश्वदेवैः ।
अहं िमत्रावरुणावुभौ िबभिमर् । अहिमन्द्राग्नी अहमिश्वनावुभौ ॥५॥
5. I move about in the forms of Rudra and Vasu.
I am that infinite Aditi by whom the gods also come into being.
I hold aloft Mitra and Varuna, Indra, Agni and both the Asvins.
6. अहं सोमं त्वष्टारं पूषणं भगं दधािम। अहं िवष्णुमुरुक्रमं ब्रह्माणमुत प्रजापितं दधािम ॥६॥I place Soma Tvashta, Pushan and Bhaga.
I carry forth Vishnu, Brahma and Prajapati over vast spaces.
11. To you who are the great night of time, praised by Brahma, adored by Vishnu, you who are Mother of Skanda.
To you who are Sarasvati and Aditi and the daughter of Daksha,
To you who is the purifying wind, that beloved wife of Shiva,
We offer our namaskar.
12. We worship and meditate on that Goddess Mahalaxmi, the all powerful Shakti, may she inspire us.
13. O Daksha, your daughter Aditi was the birthplace of the auspicious immortal family of gods to whom we pray.
14. The Mother of all, the adorable, highest–born, swan-rider who holds a lotus in one hand and a thunderbolt in
the other, Mother of the lord of storms, she is born again and again.
Her marvelous power extends in all directions.
She is the embodiment of the supreme knowledge.
She is the Omkara.
15. She is the atma-shakti, wielding the noose, the hook and the bow and arrows.
She is the Great Delusion. She is the Holy Supreme Knowledge.
One who knows this overcomes sadness.
16. We bow to You O Mother Bhagavati. You must protect us always.
18. O Adikara, the sincere worshipper, participating in pujas to the gods, attains complete yoga through you: the
Om, that causal seed-sound.
19. Those who meditate, with restrained pure minds, on this one syllable science of sound, attain supreme bliss in
the Ocean of knowledge.
20. (The next verse is a coded description of the concluding bija mantra which pleases the Devi to bestow
the supreme bliss on the speaker)
“Aim hrīm klīm chamundāyai vicce.”
21. To the three-eyed Devi who dwells in the heart-lotus, shining bright as the morning sun, clothed in red,
holding the noose and goad and with her third and fourth hands in the giving and protecting posture, emitting
cool vibrations and satisfying the desires of the bhaktas.
22. We bow to you, Mahadevi, awesome destroyer, who eliminates mighty obstacles, and whose form is
compassion.
23. She whose form Brahma and others know not is therefore called “Unknown”.
She whose limits are not found is therefore called “Limitless”.
She whose meaning is unknown is therefore said to be “Without meaning”.
She whose birth is unknown is therefore called “Unborn”.
She is alone but found everywhere: she is therefore called “One”.
She is one but assumes many forms so she is called “Not alone.”
Therefore she is called:
“Ajňeya-ananta-lakshya-ajaika naikā”.
25. I who am fearful of destruction, I bow to Durga who is inaccessible to the mind. She is the one who destroys
our difficulties, the one who ferries us across the sea of illusion.