Text 25]
The Hainsa-guhya Prayers
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working, the conditioned souls cannot see the supreme friend sitting within their bodies. Let us therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto the Supreme, who is invisible to our material eyes.”
TEXT 25
देहोऽसवोऽक्षा मनवो भूतमात्रा- मात्मानमन्यं च विदुः परं यत् । सर्वं पुमान् वेद गुणांश्च तज्ज्ञो न वेद सर्वज्ञमनन्तमीडे ॥२५॥
deho 'savo 'kṣā manavo bhūta-mātrām ātmānam anyaṁ ca viduḥ paraṁ yat sarvaṁ pumān veda guṇāṁś ca taj-jño na veda sarva-jñam anantam īde
dehaḥ—this body; asavaḥ—the life airs; akṣāḥ—the different senses; manavaḥ—the mind, understanding, intellect and ego; bhūta-mātrām—the five gross material elements and the sense objects (form, taste, sound and so on); ātmānam—themselves; anyam—any other: ca—and; viduḥ—know; param—beyond; yat—that which; sarvam—everything; pumān—the living being; veda—knows; guṇān—the qualities of the material nature; ca—and; tat-jñaḥ—knowing those things; na—not; veda—knows; sarva-jñam—unto the omniscient; anantam—the unlimited; īde—I offer my respectful obeisances.
TRANSLATION
Because they are only matter, the body, the life airs, the external and internal senses, the five gross elements and the subtle sense objects [form, taste, smell, sound and touch] cannot know their own nature, the nature of the other senses or the nature of their controllers. But the living being, because of his spiritual nature, can know his body, the life airs, the senses, the elements and the sense objects, and he can also know the three qualities that form their roots. Nevertheless, although the living being is completely aware of them, he is unable to see the Supreme Being, who is