{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htg/htg05.htm","path":"tantra/htg/htg05.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg05.htm","text":"Hymns to the Goddess, by John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), [1913]\n1\nI WORSHIP K\u0101labhairava,\u00a01 Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\u00a02\n Whose sacred lotus feet are worshipped by the King of Devas,\u00a03\n The compassionate One,\n Whose sacrificial thread is made of serpents,\n On whose forehead shines the moon.\u00a04\n The naked one,\u00a05\n Whom N\u0101rada\u00a06 and multitudes of other Yogis adore.\n K\u0101\u015bik\u0101pur\u0101dhin\u0101tha k\u0101labhairavam bhaje.\u00a07\n2\nI worship K\u0101labhairava, Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n Blazing like a million suns,\nOur great Saviour in our voyage across the ocean of the world.\u00a01\n The blue-throated,\u00a02 three-eyed\u00a03 grantor of all desires,\n The lotus-eyed, who is the death of death,\u00a04\n The imperishable One,\n Holding the rosary of human bone\u00a05 and the trident.\u00a06\n K\u0101\u015bik\u0101pur\u0101dhin\u0101tha K\u0101labhairavam bhaje.\n3\nI worship K\u0101labhairava, Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n The primeval cause,\u00a07\n Holding in His hands trident, axe, noose, and staff\u00a08\n --Him of the black body,\u00a09\n The first of all Deva\u00a010, imperishable, incorruptible,\n Lord formidable and powerful,\nWho loves to dance wonderfully.\u00a01\n K\u0101\u015bik\u0101pur\u0101dhin\u0101tha k\u0101labhairavam bhaje.\n4\nI worship K\u0101labhairava, Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n Of great and beautiful body,\n The giver of both enjoyment and liberation,\u00a02\n Who loves and smiles upon all His devotees,\n Whose body is the whole world,\n Whose waist is adorned with little tinkling bells;\u00a03\n Beautiful are they, and made of gold.\n K\u0101\u015bik\u0101pur\u0101dhin\u0101tha k\u0101labhairavam bhaje.\n5\nI worship K\u0101labhairava, Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n The protector of the bridge of dharma,\u00a04\n Destroyer of the path of adharma,\u00a05\n Liberator form the bonds of karma,\u00a06\n The all-pervading giver of welfare to all,\nWhose golden body is adorned with serpent coils.\n K\u0101\u015bik\u0101pur\u0101dhin\u0101tha k\u0101labhairavam bhaje.\n6\nI worship K\u0101labhairava, Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b\n Whose feet are beautiful with the lustre of the gems thereon--\n The stainless, eternal I\u1e63\u1e6dadevat\u0101,\u00a01\n One without a second,\u00a02\n Destroyer of the pride, and liberator from the gaping jaw of the God of Death.\u00a03\n K\u0101\u015bik\u0101pur\u0101dhin\u0101tha k\u0101labhairavam bhaje.\n7\nI worship K\u0101labhairava, Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\u00a04\n Whose loud laughter broke the shell of many an egg of the lotus-born;\u00a05\n Strong ruler, at whose glance the net of sin is broken; Giver of the eight powers,\u00a06\n Whose shoulders serpents garland.\n K\u0101\u015bik\u0101pur\u0101dhin\u0101tha k\u0101labhairavam bhaje.\n8\nI worship K\u0101labhairava, Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n The Saviour of all, giver of great fame,\n The all-pervading One,\n Who purifies of both sin and virtue the people of K\u0101\u015b\u012b;\u00a01\n The ancient Lord of the world,\n Wise in the wisdom of all moralities.\u00a02\n K\u0101\u015bik\u0101pur\u0101dhin\u0101tha k\u0101labhairavam bhaje.\n15:1 \u015aiva as such.\n15:2 Benares. The K\u0101\u015bipanchakastotra of \u015aankara says that the pure Ganges is the flow of knowledge and K\u0101\u015b\u012b is \u015aiva's mind (Jn\u0101naprav\u0101h\u0101vimal\u0101digang\u0101 sak\u0101\u015bik\u0101ham nijabodhar\u016bpah).\n15:3 Devar\u0101ja or Indra.\n15:4 Hence \u015aiva is called Candra\u015bekhara.\n15:5 Digambaram, as are the Yogis of whom He is Master. For He is clothed with space itself.\n15:6 The \u1e5a\u1e63i of that name.\n15:7 The refrain is: \"I worship K\u0101labhairava, Lord of the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b.\"\n16:1 A constant simile. The world is a storm-tossed ocean not free of danger, even in moments of calm, for therein many dangers, perils, and terrors lie.\n16:2 For \u015aiva swallowed the poison which issued at the churning of the ocean to save the earth from its dangerous presence.\n16:3 For with the ordinary eyes He bears in the forehead the eye of wisdom.\n16:4 \u015aiva is the conqueror of death (\"mrityunjaya\"), for he gives that knowledge which frees man of its terrors.\n16:5 Even often of the low-caste Cand\u0101las and others, for \u015aiva is the adored and protector of all.\n16:6 His peculiar weapon.\n16:7 For all causes potentially lie in His destructive energies, the manifestation of which is the prelude of re-creation.\n16:8 \u015a\u016bla, tangka, p\u0101\u015ba, da\u1e47\u1e0da, His implements.\n16:9 As K\u0101labhairava. Usually he is white and smeared with ashes \"shining like a mountain of silver.\"\n16:10 Hence He is called Mah\u0101deva.\n17:1 Vichitrat\u0101\u1e47\u1e0davapriyam. \u015aiva is often pictured dancing as Natar\u0101ja. The place of the dance is the body of the individual and the world spoken of as vanam (the forest), on account of the multitude of its components. He as the inner \u0101tman causes all things to dance into and out of life, and again into it. All life and activity comes through Him, \"the unseen Lord of the stage.\"\n17:2 Bhuktimuktid\u0101yakam--that is, He gives both worldly and heavenly enjoyment, and that release from both which is the unending bliss of liberation.\n17:3 Hung on a girdle.\n17:4 Righteousness. For dharma, religion, law, and duty, are the bridge whereby the dangerous waters of the world are passed.\n17:5 Unrighteousness.\n17:6 The cause and fruit of action whereby man is bound to the phenomenal world until by knowledge, karma is exhausted and destroyed, and liberation (through \u015aiva, with whose essential being His worshipper becomes one) is attained.\n18:1 The desired (or patron) Deity of the devotee.\n18:2 For He is the Supreme Unity.\n18:4 Each world (for there are many) is called an egg of Brahm\u0101 the creator (brahm\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da). \u015aiva the great Destroyer by His loud laughter shatters them.\n18:5 Brahm\u0101.\n18:6 Siddhi--namely, a\u1e47im\u0101, mahim\u0101, gar\u012bm\u0101, laghim\u0101, pr\u0101pti, pr\u0101k\u0101mya, i\u1e63itva, and va\u1e63itva. The power to become very small, vast, light, heavy, power of vision and movement, the powers of creation and control over the worlds and their Lords. These siddhi are powers of the all-pervading \u0101tm\u0101, and to greater or less degree may be acquired by \u015aivayogins according as they realize their unity therewith.\n19:1 K\u0101\u015biv\u0101siloka punyap\u0101pa\u015bodhak\u0101m: for to the liberated there is neither sin nor virtue which are qualities of the phenomenal jiv\u0101tma only. The liberated are above both.\n19:2 N\u012btimargakovidam.","title":"Hymns to the Goddess: K\u0101labhairava (K\u0101labhairav\u0101\u1e63\u1e6daka)","type":"page"}