In the sacred expanse of truth, there exists a fourfold garland, the very navel from which all reality spreads forth. This wide-spreading source, vast and nourishing, is invoked to grant us life in its fullness. May it bless us all with vitality, dispelling hatred and decline, even from those who follow different paths, so that we may dwell together in harmony. Within this creation lies an essence, a heat that is the very heart of growth. By this essence, may you flourish and be filled, and may we too share in that abundance, growing and finding fulfillment alongside you. From this source emerges the mighty bull—tawny, great, and resounding like Mitra—whose presence is visible to all. With the sun, he flashes forth, radiant as the ocean, the very treasure of existence. May the waters and the plants, like true companions, be friendly to us, nurturing and kind. Let their favor turn away from those who bear us ill will, as well as from those against whom we harbor enmity. We have journeyed from the depths of darkness into the radiance of light. Now, with awakened vision, we perceive the higher world and have reached the god among gods—the sun, the highest light. With reverence, we kindle your sacred fire. You are the fuel, you are the brilliance; may that luminous power be placed within me. As vast as the heavens and the earth, as far as the seven rivers flow, so immense, O Indra, is the draught of strength I draw for myself—ever undiminished, ever renewing. May that great power abide in me; may skill and resolve fill my being. The threefold heat shines forth—resplendent with light, with Brahman, with brilliance. We have drawn up the very essence of milk; may we partake of its yield year after year. May your energy, your will, your skill, your graciousness, your gracious offerings, the sacred draught drunk by Indra and eaten by Prajapati—full of sweetness and summoned by our devotion—become my nourishment. With offerings, we honor all that is: the breaths and their lords, the earth, Agni, the midspace, Vāyu, the sky, and the sun. We offer to the directions, the moon, the stars, the waters, Varuṇa, the navel of creation, and the pure one. We make offerings to speech, to breath, to the eyes and ears—celebrating all the senses and the faculties that connect us to the world. May I obtain the desires of my mind, the intention and truth of my speech. May the form of cattle, the taste of food, fame, and prosperity abide in me. Each day is blessed by a presiding deity: Savitṛ on the first, Agni on the second, Vāyu on the third, Āditya on the fourth, the moon on the fifth, the season on the sixth, the Maruts on the seventh, Bṛhaspati on the eighth, Mitra on the ninth, Varuṇa on the tenth, Indra on the eleventh, and all the gods on the twelfth. We remember the fierce and terrible ones, the darkness and the shaker, the victorious and the assailant, the scatterer—honoring their powers. Among the deities, the fierce one with redness, the friend with good vows, Rudra with bad vows, Indra with playfulness, the Maruts with strength, the Sādhyas with joy; Bhava in the throat, Rudra in the side, Mahādeva in the liver, Śarva in the back, Paśupati in the belly—all are honored. Offerings are made to every part of the body: the hairs, the skin, the red flesh, the fat, the flesh, the sinews, the bones, the marrow, the seed, and even to the waste—recognizing the sacredness in all aspects of being. We offer to effort, to exertion, to union and separation, to rising, to the pure and shining, to the one who shines, and even to sorrow—acknowledging the completeness of existence. Oblations are given to austerity, to those who practice it, to the disciplined, to the heat, to expiation and atonement, and for healing. We offer to Yama, to Antaka, to Death, to Brahman, to the slaying of Brahman, to all the gods, to Heaven and Earth. All that moves in this world is to be enveloped by the Lord. By renouncing attachment, one may truly enjoy; covet not the wealth of others. One should aspire to live here for a hundred years, performing righteous actions. For such a person, there is no other path, and actions do not bind. Those worlds shrouded in blinding darkness are called demonic; to them go, after death, those who destroy their own selves. That One, unmoving, is swifter than the mind; the gods themselves could not reach it, for it moved before them. Though standing still, it surpasses all who run; in it, the wind sets the waters. It moves, yet it does not move. It is far, yet it is near. It is within all things and yet outside all things. Whoever sees all beings in the Self alone, and the Self in all beings, is free from all doubt. For one who knows that all beings have become the Self, what delusion or sorrow can remain, for such a one who truly sees oneness? This Self has pervaded all, pure, bodiless, woundless, sinewless, spotless, untouched by evil. The wise seer, all-pervading and self-born, has rightly assigned all things for eternal ages. Into blind darkness enter those who worship only the unmanifest; into even greater darkness go those who delight only in the manifest. The wise declare that one thing arises from the manifest, another from the unmanifest, for so have we heard from those who know. Whoever knows both the manifest and destruction together, by destruction crosses death and by the manifest attains immortality. Into darkness enter those who worship ignorance; into even deeper darkness go those who delight only in knowledge. Again, the wise declare that one thing comes from knowledge, another from ignorance. Whoever knows both knowledge and ignorance together, by ignorance crosses death and by knowledge attains immortality. The wind is immortal, but this body will surely return to ashes. O mind, remember! O doer, remember! Recall what has been done! O Agni, lead us by the good path to prosperity, O god, knowing all our deeds. Remove from us the crooked sin we have committed. To you, we offer our most abundant homage. The face of truth is concealed by a golden vessel. That person who is in the sun—I am that person. Om. This is space, this is Brahman.