Om ! May He protect us both together; may He nourish us both together;May we work conjointly with great energy,May our study be vigorous and effective;May we not mutually dispute (or may we not hate any).Om ! Let there be Peace in me !Let there be Peace in my environment !Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !1. The sages, verily, with due reverence, asked the holy Asvalayana: How is thatknowledge won which illumines the content of the word Tat ? Tell us that, Holy Sir,by meditation on which you know the Truth.2. Best of Sages ! I won supreme perfection by exalting Sarasvati with the recitingof the ten verses on Her, as also the Ric stanzas with the ‘seed-syllables’.3. The sages said: How, by what meditation, Sage of Dedicated Life, is the truth of Sarasvati won ? What pleases the great and sacred goddess Sarasvati ? Speak.4. Asvalayana then spoke: Of this great mantra of the ten verse on Sarasvati, I,Asvalayana, am the seer. The eight-syllabled Anustubh is the metre; the holyVagisvari, the divinity; ‘yadvak’ is the seed; ‘devim vacham’ the power; ‘pra nodevi’ the lynch-pin; the application (of the mantra) is for pleasing Her; theconsecration of limbs is by (invoking) faith, intelligence, wisdom, memory, thegoddess of speech and Mahasarasvati.5. To win plenitude of speech, in my heart I salute the goddess Sarasvati, whoshines like snow, pearls, camphor and the moon; who confers auspicious blessing;is decked with garlands of golden Champaka blossoms; and charms the mind byher figure with the lofty, rounded bosom.6. Of this mantra (pra no devi), Bharadvaja is the seer; Gayatri, the metre; SriSarasvati, the divinity; OM, the seed, power and lynch-pin; its application is forgaining whatever is desired; consecration is with the mantra.
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