Cato
08-24-2009, 11:42 PM
http://www.openbuddha.com/?p=569
“Almighty, borne by age-old heavens, amid Thy myriad virtues
Thou art ever One, and no one can measure Thee with number or with time.
Now (if by any name it is meet to invoke Thee) Thou shalt be invoked by the
unknown name in which Thou, the Holy One, dost rejoice, whereat the mighty earth
trembles, and the wandering stars stand in their swift course.
Thou art One and likewise Many, Thou art First and Last, Thou art at once the
Center and the Survivor of the universe.
For Thou art without end, yet Thou bringest an end to the swift passage of
time, and on high, from eternity, Thou dost behold harsh fate swept on with
immutable whirl, Thou dost behold lives enclosed in time and again led back and
returned to the upper spheres so that the vitality, exhausted by births,’ which
the universe has lost may return to it and may again circulate through the
(celestial) bodies.
If indeed we may turn our mind to Thee to assay Thy holy form wherewith Thou,
the Immeasurable, dost gird the stars and dost embrace all at once the vast
ether, with limbs, perchance, swift as the flash of lightning Thou art as it
were a fiery radiance, by whose blaze Thou dost see all and dost rule our sun
and day.
Thou art the whole race of gods, Thou the cause and strength of all things,
Thou art all nature, one god innumerable, in Thee are both male and female, to
Thee was once born this god, this universe, the home of both men and gods,
gleaming and sparkling with the sublime flower of youth.
Breathe Thy favor on my
prayer, and grant me to know how this universe was created, how born or made.
Grant, O Father, that I may know the sublime causes, by what bond Thou hast
sustained the cosmic mass, with what insubstantial numbers, even and odd, Thou
hast, in Thy greatness, woven the Soul, and what vigorous force lives in the
Swift Bodies.”
“Almighty, borne by age-old heavens, amid Thy myriad virtues
Thou art ever One, and no one can measure Thee with number or with time.
Now (if by any name it is meet to invoke Thee) Thou shalt be invoked by the
unknown name in which Thou, the Holy One, dost rejoice, whereat the mighty earth
trembles, and the wandering stars stand in their swift course.
Thou art One and likewise Many, Thou art First and Last, Thou art at once the
Center and the Survivor of the universe.
For Thou art without end, yet Thou bringest an end to the swift passage of
time, and on high, from eternity, Thou dost behold harsh fate swept on with
immutable whirl, Thou dost behold lives enclosed in time and again led back and
returned to the upper spheres so that the vitality, exhausted by births,’ which
the universe has lost may return to it and may again circulate through the
(celestial) bodies.
If indeed we may turn our mind to Thee to assay Thy holy form wherewith Thou,
the Immeasurable, dost gird the stars and dost embrace all at once the vast
ether, with limbs, perchance, swift as the flash of lightning Thou art as it
were a fiery radiance, by whose blaze Thou dost see all and dost rule our sun
and day.
Thou art the whole race of gods, Thou the cause and strength of all things,
Thou art all nature, one god innumerable, in Thee are both male and female, to
Thee was once born this god, this universe, the home of both men and gods,
gleaming and sparkling with the sublime flower of youth.
Breathe Thy favor on my
prayer, and grant me to know how this universe was created, how born or made.
Grant, O Father, that I may know the sublime causes, by what bond Thou hast
sustained the cosmic mass, with what insubstantial numbers, even and odd, Thou
hast, in Thy greatness, woven the Soul, and what vigorous force lives in the
Swift Bodies.”