Oh holy Siddhas ! you are sentient, enjoying your own
self, the true, the good and ever pure. You are the all knowing and
perceiving Lord of the universe.
I implore you to remain with me during the ritual.
WATER
The more I consumed water, the greater the thirst for
possessions of worldly pelf.
My heart, burnt with desires and passions, I have come
to you with this water.
Having been disillusioned of the world, I have come to
the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you this water for destroying my circle
of life and death,
This has not been able to quench my eternal
thirst.
SANDALWOOD
I served my body in various ways, applied sandal paste
for comfort,
Took bath applying toilets and thus tried to remove
physical impurities.
Now I have realised that for the good of my soul, you
are the real sandalwood.
Having been disillusioned of the world, I have come to
the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you this sandal-water to exterminate
the fire of worldy existence.
RICE
You are in fact everlasting, unbroken and without
destruction
You are formless, static, pure, free and a successful
recluse.
Taking support of the rice grains, I have comprehended
the indestructible nature of the Siddhas.
Having been disillusioned of the world, I have come to
the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you this unbroken rice to achieve
undestroyable glory of the self.
FLOWER
You have conquered lust, which is the
common enemy of all the creatures,
We rejoice in the defeat of this common
enemy of all worldly beings.
With a happy mind in full bloom, I have
come to you to discard this Lord of lust.
Having been disillusioned of the world, I
have come to the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you these flowers to
destroy lust and passion in my being.
SWEETS
I was under the illusion that life exists only on
account of food,
Life, however, sustains without food in Hell, and human
die even well feeded.
You are eternally happy without food, I have come to you
to discard my wrong faith.
Having been disillusioned of the world, I have come to
the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you these sweets in order to win victory
over my passion of greed.
LAMP
I thought light is the cause of consciousness and senses
help in its achievement
But inanimate things cannot create animate existence, as
preached by other faiths.
I am, by nature, all sentience, I am happy to realise
this faith,
Having been disillusioned of the world, I have come to
the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you this lamp in order to destroy
the darkness of delusions.
INCENSE
I am all sentience, there is no smell of lifeless
existence in myself.
I am a mass of knowledge sentience, having nothing to do
with non-self entities.
It is not incense, but the dust of karmic matter, which
I have come to throw to the winds.
Having been disillusioned of the world, I have come to
the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you this incense in order to
destroy the karmic matter of the eight kinds that settles in my
being.
FRUITS
I have been immersed in the pleasures of the senses that
have come my way as fruition of merits.
New desires have ever been rising and I have been
engaged in satisfying these.
All these wrong inclinations have ever resulted in
restlessness.
Having been disillusioned of the world, I have come to
the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you this fruit in order to achieve the
fruit of complete liberation for myself.
MASS OF ALL THE EIGHT
SUBSTANCES
I drank water and applied sandal paste, enjoyed the
sweet smelling flowers,
I enjoyed all sorts of delicious dishes, and lighted
lamps of jewels,
Fragrance of incense was inhaled by me, I enjoyed the
fruits of the merit of the past.
Even then I remained uneasy, I have not understood this
mystery.
When I came to you, my Lord, I realised my own soul
force.
I realised from your presence that there is no joy in
the pleasures of mind and senses,
I have come to abjure the pleasures arising out of these
eight substances.
Having been disillusioned of the world, I have come to
the Siddhas for shelter.
I offer to you this mass of the eight substances in
order to achieve everlasting happiness of the soul.
HOMAGE
Let the whole world he illumined with the divine light
of the soul,
And the thirst of all be quenched with the nectar of
joy.
Victory to you oh, omniscient being, you are eternal and
all consciousness.
You are indivisible and a mass of bliss, a strong fire
to destroy delusions.
Burning all attachments and unnatural inclinations, you
have become passionless.
You are without any conflict, have no foundation, devoid
of attachments and formless.
Always enjoying the everlasting bliss, you are happy in
your own existence.
You are the garland of the heart of lady of liberation,
always attuned to thyself.
Oh Lord, this ocean of the world is very deep and we are
flowing in it without any support.
I have never known my own being and the fundamentals
leading to liberation.
I always thought of them as very different from what
they are,
Regarding soul as physical form considering both one and
the same.
I indulged in merits and demerits, which are a mine of
miseries,
And regarded demerits as undesirables and merits as
desirables.
Blissful spiritual activities were regarded by me as
painful.
I only craved for sensual pleasures and regarded them as
conducive
to happiness.
I never liked abstinence; how could the fire of sensual
joys be extinguished ?
Worldly pleasures are all disturbing and in reality lead
to great unhappiness.
I craved for these day and night, how could worldly
bondage be removed ?
I thought that non-self entities of this existence cause
grief and joy in life.
I offered charity, but with pride, never cared for its
consequences.
I worshipped you for worldly gains, how could this
mundane existence be annihilated ?
I have known your noble attributes today and consider
myself to be fortunate.
Discrimination, with which I have known your divine
being, has risen in me.
You never do or undo things, you only know them, as
they are.
You don't give anything to your devotees, only make them
like your self.
I heard of this glory of yours, that whoever knows you,
Attains complete omniscience and becomes perfect and
supreme.
All others are full of' troubles, only our own abode is
full of joy.
I only have one desire, Oh Jinendra, I should realise my
own self.
I do not desire anything other than my own self.
Let me remain stationed in my inner being, discarding
all else.
Dr. H.C. Bharill
