Chapter Three - Kuru bhuṅkṣva ca (तृतीयोध्यायः - कुरु भुङ्क्ष्व च)
Always perform and experience your own allotted karma with your mind bowed at Hari’s feet. Hari alone is supreme; Hari alone is the teacher; Hari alone is the father, mother, and refuge of the world. (1)
There is nothing higher than him or more worthy of praise in the world—nothing beyond the Supreme, nothing higher than Puruṣottama. Therefore, enough of contemplating many worlds; set your mind upon the Lord’s feet. (2)
Even when one merely strives to remember Hari’s feet, all sin quickly dissolves; but for one who remembers them, the supreme state of liberation will certainly come. Why, then, is that cast aside? (3)
Hear this supreme, spotless, true declaration, uttered under oath with both arms raised: none is higher than Hari, and none is equal to Hari. He indeed is higher than the entire host of conscious selves. (4)
If Hari were not supreme, how did this world come under his control? If everything were not under his control, why, then, would it not be eternally happy? (5)
Karma, measure, impurity, time, the qualities, and the like—being insentient forms—would not govern the Lord; for there is a Vedic declaration that Hari himself governs everything, all sentient and insentient forms. (6)
Even though the teacher of the worlds makes distinctions in his dealings, they are not merely in his mind; this is indeed beyond objection. Hari himself said, “There are many persons; Hari is the foremost person.” (7)
Having reached Hari, however, the hosts of liberated beings headed by the Four-faced One attained their own stations forever, exactly as before and strictly according to the fixed hierarchy of higher and lower ranks. This indeed is the supreme declaration. (8)
Hari is pleased with one who devotedly recites this octet of verses to Hari, composed by Ānandatīrtha, who bears the name Pūrṇaprajña. (9)
Thus ends the third chapter of the Dvādaśastotra, composed by the venerable Ānandatīrtha Bhagavatpādācārya.
