तस्यै नमोऽस्तु काष्ठायै यत्रात्मा हरिरीश्वर: । यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते शान्ता: संन्यासिनोऽमला: ॥ २२ ॥ इति ते संयतात्मान: समाहितधियोऽमला: । उपतस्थुर्हृषीकेशं विनिद्रा वायुभोजना: ॥ २३ ॥
tasyai namo ’stu kasthayai yatratma harir isvarah yad gatva na nivartante santah sannyasino ’malah iti te samyatatmanah samahita-dhiyo ’malah upatasthur hrsikesam vinidra vayu-bhojanah
- tasyai
- unto that
- namah
- our respectful obeisances
- astu
- let there be
- kasthayai
- direction
- yatra
- wherein
- atma
- the Supersoul
- harih
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- isvarah
- the supreme controller
- yat
- which
- gatva
- approaching
- na
- never
- nivartante
- return
- santah
- peaceful
- sannyasinah
- saintly persons in the renounced order of life
- amalah
- pure
- iti
- thus
- te
- they
- samyata-atmanah
- having controlled minds
- samahita
- steadied
- dhiyah
- intelligences
- amalah
- purified
- upatasthuh
- worshiped
- hrsikesam
- the master of the senses
- vinidrah
- without sleeping
- vayu-bhojanah
- eating only air
“Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto that direction where the Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated, where those purified souls in the renounced order of life, the great saintly persons, go, and from which, having gone, they never return.” Without sleep, fully controlling their minds, and living on only their breath, the predominating deities of the various planets began worshiping Hrsikesa with this meditation.