In reverent praise, the devotee beholds the divine presence in all things. He recognizes the Lord as the moon, the ocean, the rivers, ponds, and lakes; as the creepers and vines, grasses and herbs, cattle, wild animals, and birds. The Lord is the very origin of substance, action, and quality, the giver of time, flowers, and fruits. He is the beginning, the end, and the middle; the Gāyatrī mantra and the sacred syllable Oṃ. The Lord assumes every hue—green, red, black, blue, yellow, and the fleeting shades. He is Kadru, Kapila, Babhru, Kapota, and Macchaka. Renowned as Suvarṇaretas and also called Suvarṇa, he is named Suvarṇanāma and Suvarṇapriya. He is Indra, Yama, Varuṇa, Kubera, and Agni; Utphulla, Citrabhānu, Svarbhānu, and Bhānu. He is the offering, the offerer, the object to be offered, and the oblation itself, as well as the Lord. He is the trisauparṇa, O Brahman, and the Śatarudriya among the Yajur hymns. Among purifiers, he is the greatest; among auspicious things, the most auspicious. He is prāṇa, rajas, and tamas endowed with sattva. He is the five vital airs: prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, and vyāna. He is the opening and closing of the eyes, hunger, thirst, and yawning. His form is red-bodied, with fangs, a great mouth and vast belly, pure-haired, green-bearded, hair standing upright, both moving and unmoving. His limbs are song, music, and dance. He delights in singing and playing instruments. He is the fish, the net, the water, unconquerable, a water-serpent, and a dweller in huts. He is untimely, timely, and adverse time; destroyer of time; death, imperishable, end, and the uprooter of earth and illusion. He is Samvarta and Vartaka, the Samvartaka and Balāhaka clouds, Ghantaki, Ghantaki, Ghanti, Chudala, and the salt ocean. He is Brahma, with the face of time-fire, holding a staff, shaven-headed, bearer of three staffs, the four ages, the four Vedas, the four sacrifices, and the four paths. He leads the four stages of life, creates the four castes, is both perishable and imperishable, beloved and clever, counted among groups, and leader of groups. Wearing red garlands and garments, he is lord of the mountains, beloved of the mountain-born, lord of artisans, best among artisans, originator of all crafts. He is the destroyer of Bhaga's eye, fierce, destroyer of Pūṣan's teeth; Svāhā, Svadhā, utterer of vaṣaṭ—salutation and homage to him. Hidden in vows, hidden himself, served by those with hidden vows, he is the savior, the one who saves, savior among all beings. He is creator, arranger, uniter, depositor, supporter, bearer; austerity, Brahman, truth, celibacy, and uprightness. He is the soul of beings, creator of beings, being itself, origin of past, future, and present; earth, atmosphere, heaven, being, fire, and the great lord. He is Brahmāvarta, Surāvarta, Kāmāvarta; homage to him. He destroys the image of desire and delights in garlands of karṇikāra flowers. Leader of cows, moving among cows, lord whose vehicle is the bull, protector of the three worlds, Govinda, protector, and Garga among cows. Facing the undivided moon, with a beautiful face, a difficult face, a faceless one, four-faced, many-faced, always facing battle. He is the golden womb, bird, giver of wealth, lord of wealth, vast, great unrighteousness, greatly skilled, bearer of the staff, fond of battle. Standing firm and steadfast, unmoving, well-settled, hard to restrain, hard to endure, difficult to bear, hard to surpass, hard to hold, hard to approach, eternal, hard to subdue, victorious, victory itself; hare, moon-eyed, cold and hot, hunger, thirst, old age. He is afflictions and diseases, destroyer of disease, lord of disease, enduring, hunter of sacrificial animals, source and non-source of diseases. He is Śikhaṇḍī, Puṇḍarīka, the One who gazes upon the lotus, bearer of the staff, the one with the discus and staff, and the destroyer of the portion belonging to Rudra. He drinks poison, nectar, divine liquor, milk and soma, honey, water, and everything, strong and weak alike. His limbs are those of a bull, he is the bull himself, bull-eyed, and the renowned bull, purifier of the worlds. The moon and sun are his eyes, O Ancient One, and the heart is the grandsire; Agniṣṭoma is his body, established by righteous action. Neither Brahmā, nor Govinda, nor the ancient seers are able to know his true greatness as it is, O Śiva. The devotee prays: May those subtle forms of Śiva appear before me; by them, protect me on all sides as a father protects his own son. Protect me, for I am to be protected by you, O faultless one. Salutations to you! The Lord is compassionate to devotees, and I am always devoted to you. He who, alone, stands at the edge of the ocean, enveloping thousands of beings who are difficult to perceive—may he always be my protector. Salutation to that Lord of Yoga, whom those who are ever wakeful, who have conquered their breath, who are established in purity and see all equally, behold as light while engaged in meditation. At the end of the age, when the time arrives, he consumes all beings and lies in the midst of the waters; I take refuge in that One who rests upon the waters. He who, entering the mouth of Rāhu, drinks the moon at night and devours the sun, becoming Svarbhānu, and is indeed the moon and fire. May those persons, the size of a thumb, who dwell in the bodies of all beings, always protect me and ever increase my well-being. By whom embryos are produced, and who are present in the waters and their portions—may offerings of svāhā and svadhā reach them, and may they enjoy them. By whom beings dwelling in bodies grow, weep, rejoice, and are not harmed—salutations to them always.