The Agni Purana
by N. Gangadharan | 1954 | 360,691 words | ISBN-10: 8120803590 | ISBN-13: 9788120803596
This page describes Knowledge of Brahman (continued) which is chapter 378 of the English translation of the Agni Purana, one of the eighteen major puranas dealing with all topics concerning ancient Indian culture, tradition and sciences. Containing roughly 15,000 Sanskrit metrical verses, subjects contained in the Agni-Purana include cosmology, philosophy, architecture, iconography, economics, diplomacy, pilgrimage guides, ancient geography, gemology, ayurveda, etc.
Chapter 378 - Knowledge of Brahman (continued)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Fire-god said:
l. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of earth, water and fire. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of wind and sky.
2. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of the primary undertaking. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light bereft of the first creation and the soul.
3. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence devoid of waking place. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre devoid of the feeling of universality.
4. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of the syllable ‘a’. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence devoid of speech, hands and feet.
5. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre devoid of anus and penis. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of ears, skin and eyes.
6. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence bereft of taste and form. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre devoid of all smells.
7. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light without tongue and nose. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence bereft of touch and sound.
8. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence bereft of mind and intellect. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre devoid of consciousness and ego.
9. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence free from (the vital winds) prāṇa and apāna (in the body). I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre bereft of (the vital winds) vyāna and udāna (in the body).
10. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of (the vital wind) samāna (in the body). I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence devoid of old age and death.
11. I am Brahman. the Supreme Effulgence bereft of grief and ignorance. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light free from hunger and thirst.
12. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre devoid of all modifications of sound. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence bereft of the golden egg.
13. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of the dreaming state. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence devoid of luminosity etc.
14. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light free from harm etc. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre devoid of knowledge relating to an assembly.
15. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre bereft of inference. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of the qualities such as sattva (goodness) and the like.
16. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence devoid of the feeling of sat and asat (existence and non-existence). I am Brahman, the Supreme Light, bereft of all components.
17. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre devoid of difference and non-difference. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of the location of deep sleep.
18. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence free from the feeling of being learned. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light free from the syllables such as ‘ma’.
19. I am Brahman, the Supreme Lustre free from the means and objects knowledge. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light free from knowledge and knower.
20. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence devoid of being a witness etc. I am Brahman, the Supreme Light devoid of effect and cause.
21. I am Brahman devoid of body, organs, mind, intellect, life-breath and ego. I am Brahman, the fourth state that is free from (the states of) waking, dreaming and deep sleep.
22. (I am) eternal, pure, wise and free, truth, bliss and without a second. I am Brahman. (I am) Brahman endowed with knowledge and absolutely free. Oṃ. I am Brahman, the Supreme Effulgence, deep meditation and the supreme being that confers emancipation.