मूढोऽयमल्पमतिरल्पविचेष्टितोऽयं क्लिष्टं मनोऽपि विषयैर्मयि न प्रसंगि ४२.
This one is deluded, of little understanding, acting feebly; even though the mind is troubled by sense-objects, it does not become attached to me.
स त्वं प्रसीद भगवन्कुरु मय्यनाथे विष्णो कृपां परमकारुणिकः किल त्वम् ४२.
Therefore, be gracious, O Lord; show me, who am without refuge, your compassion, O Viṣṇu, for you are indeed supremely merciful.
इत्थं स्तुतः स भगवानैतरेयेण भारत ४२.
Thus was the Lord praised by Aitareya, O Bhārata.
वत्सैतरेय तुष्टोस्मि भक्त्यानेन स्तवेन ते ४२.
O Aitareya, I am pleased by your devotion and this hymn of yours.
एष एव वरो नाथमम नित्यमभीप्सितः ४२.
This alone is the boon always desired by my devotee.
मुक्त एवासि संसाराद्यस्य ते भक्तिरीदृशी ४२.
You are indeed liberated from worldly existence, for your devotion is of this kind.
यश्च स्तोत्रेण सततं गुप्तक्षेत्रसमीहितम् ४२.
And whoever, with this hymn, always seeks the well-being of the protected field—
यस्मादेतेन स्तोत्रेण पापं नाशमवाप्स्यति ४२.
By this very hymn, he will attain the destruction of sin.
एकादश्यामुपोष्यैव ममाग्रे यः पठिष्यति ४२.
Whoever, having fasted on the eleventh day, recites this before me—
सर्वेषामेव क्षेत्राणां गुप्तक्षेत्रं प्रियं यथा ४२.
For all fields, the protected field is most dear, just as—
यानि चोद्दिश्य भूतानि जप्यतेऽसौ महात्मभिः ४२.
Those beings for whom this is recited by the great-souled ones, having been indicated—
त्वं च वत्स श्रौतधर्मान्सम्यगाचर श्रद्धया ४२.
And you, dear child, should properly practice the Vedic duties with faith.
यज यज्ञैरवाप्यैव दारान्नन्दय मातरम् ४२.
Worship with sacrifices, and having obtained a wife, bring joy to your mother.
बुद्धिर्मनोथ भूतानि बुद्धिकर्मेन्द्रियाणि च ४२.
The intellect, the mind, the beings, and also the faculties of knowledge and action—
बोद्धव्यमथ मंतव्यमहंता शब्द एव च ४२.
What is to be known, what is to be considered, the sense of 'I', and even sound itself—
विहृत्युत्सर्ग आनंदस्त्रयोदश महाग्रहाः ४२.
Conduct, renunciation, joy—these thirteen are the great forces.
गृहाण ध्यानयोगेन ममैवं मोक्षमाप्स्यसि ४२.
Take hold of them through the yoga of meditation; thus you will attain liberation from me.
शुल्बंरसेन संविद्धं दक्षो हेम यथाश्नुते ४२.
Just as gold is obtained by smelting with alkali, so too by discernment.
मदनुध्यानयुक्तेन मोक्षो नास्तीह दुर्लभः ४२.
Liberation is not difficult here for one endowed with meditation on me.
उद्धृत्य सप्तपुरुषाल्लँयं मयि गमिष्यसि ४२.
Having uplifted seven generations, you will attain dissolution in me.
ततस्त्वं कोटितीर्थे च यज्ञे वै हरिमेधसः ४२.
Then you, at Koṭitīrtha, in the sacrifice of Hari the wise—
इत्युक्त्वा भगवान्विष्णुर्मूर्तिमध्ये विवेश ह ४२.
Having spoken thus, the blessed Viṣṇu entered into the image.
ततो मूर्ति नमस्कृत्य वासुदेवस्य विस्मितः ४२.
Then, bowing to the image of Vāsudeva, astonished—
पुराहमभवं शूद्रो भीतः संसारदोषतः ४२.
Formerly, I was a Śūdra, fearful because of the faults of worldly existence.
स कृपालुर्मम प्राह मन्त्रं वै द्वादशाक्षरम् ४२.
He, compassionate, spoke to me the twelve-syllabled mantra.
तेन जाप्यप्रभावेन ममोत्पत्तिस्तवोदरात् ४२.
By the power of reciting that, I was born from your womb.
इदानीं च प्रयाम्येष यज्ञं तं हरिमेधसः ४२.
Now I shall go to that sacrifice of Hari the wise.
ततो महीनगरकाख्ये कोटितीर्थतलस्थितम् ४२.
Then, at the place called Koṭitīrtha, situated in the great city—
गेहाय मातरं प्रोच्य स यज्ञे प्रोक्तवान्द्विजः ४२.
Having spoken to his mother at home, the twice-born addressed the sacrifice.
यन्मायामोहितधियो भ्रमामः कर्मसागरे ४२.
Because our minds are deluded by his illusion, we wander in the ocean of actions.