14 - Meditation

Hari Said: 

1. I shall now expound Yoga conducive to enjoyment and final beatitude. Hari, the lord, is to be contemplated, so say the devotees who regularly contemplate.

2. O Isha listen, Vishnu, the lord of all, is infinite, remover of all sins, devoid of ground of rest for the feet.¹

1. The reading padbhirbhruparivarjit is suggested.

3. I am Vasudeva, the lord of the universe, the soul of Brahman, the immanent soul, the eternal, free from all kinds of physical bodies. 

4. Devoid of the attributes of the body, free from Kshara (perishable) and Akshara (imperishable) presiding over the six types of living beings), the seer, the hearer, the smeller and beyond the pale of the senses. 

5. Free from its attributes, the creator, devoid of name and race, the thinker residing in the mind, the lord free from mind. 

6. Devoid of the attributes of the mind, he is the worldly knowledge, the spiritual knowledge, the knower the presiding being in the intellect, the omniscient witness devoid of the attributes of) the intellect. 

7. Free from the attributes of the intellect, all in-all, the omnipresent mind, free from all living beings, and devoid of the attributes of the vital breath. 

8. The Vital breath of living beings, the quiet, devoid of fear, free from egotistic feelings and devoid of the attributes (of the ego). 

9. The witness (of ego), the controller, (of ego), Bliss personified, the presiding being of the three states of) wakefulness, dream and sleep, devoid of their attributes. 

10. The fourth, the great Creator Drugrupa (Having the form of the Vision), free from qualities, the independent, the enlightened, the unageing, the all-pervading, the Truth. I am the soul, the auspicious one. 

11. Those men of knowledge who contemplate upon (me) and the lord thus, attain the great status and also that form; no doubt need be entertained. 

12. O Shankara of good vows, thus I have narrated to you the procedure of contemplation. He who reads this constantly attains to Vishnu's world.