1. Adhyaropa Darsanam (Vision of Supposition)
In the beginning, there was
Non-existence indeed!
Dream-wise then again, by mere willing,
Everything existent created He, the Lord Supreme. - 1
In the beginning, in the form of incipient memory-
factors,
(All) this remained. Then the Lord,
By His own power of false presentiment, like
a magician,
Created all this world (of change). - 2
This (world) before creation was
Latent within Himself.
Thereafter, like sprout from seed,
From Himself, by His power, by itself it was
created. - 3
The power, however, as of two kinds
Is to be known, as the bright and the dark;
There is no co-existence between these two,
As with light and darkness. - 4
In the beginning, this world,
Which was in the form of mind-stuff, like a picture
Achieved with all this picturesque variety,
Like an artist the Lord. - 5
Potentially, what even as Nature remained
Like the psychic powers of Yoga -
Like a Yogi did He, the Lord of the world,
work out
His varied psychic powers thereafter. - 6
When Self-knowledge shrinks,
Then prevails nescience fearful;
Ghost-like, taking name and form,
In most terrible fashion looms here. - 7
Terrible and empty of content
Like a city infernal,
Even as such a marvel
Did the Lord make the whole universe. - 8
If from a sun in graded succession
This world came, such was not the case at all.
Presented as if out of slumber,
At one stroke, all came to be. - 9
He from whom, like a fig tree as from seed,
Came out this world manifested -
He is Brahma, He is Siva and Vishnu,
He is the Ultimate, everything is He indeed.
- Sree Narayana Guru (Translated by his disciple Nataraja Guru)
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