Upanishads

Devi Upanishad

Atharvaveda
group of Upanishads – Shakta

The Secret Teaching of Goddess

This is the Secret Teaching of Goddess,
The Secret Teaching of Power.
The Secret Teaching of Goddess, creator of knowledge, wisdom and transcendental good.

Om. Shanti. Shanti. Shanti.

Hari. Om. Verily, all the gods without exception were in union with the Goddess, who is you, the Great Goddess!
She said: I am the perfect proper form of Brahman, the orgiastic world, the essence of which is the union of the original ascending spirit and the original primordial essence of creation, I am emptiness and I am fullness,
I am the ultimate enjoyment of non-enjoyment, I am knowledge in ignorance,
Brahman in Brahman which must be known.
Thus she spoke in the ear of the fire-sacrifice. (1)

I am the five elements, non-elements,
I am the entire world,
knowledge, ignorance – I,
knowledge, ignorance – I,
born, unborn I,
both above and below and across,
I play with the Rudras, the Vasus, as with dolls, and also with the Adityas and all the gods, I
have both Mitra-Varuna, I have Indra-Agni
I am both Ashvins, I am Soma, Tvastaru, Pushana, Bhage
the creator.
The great-stepping cherry, and also the creator of Brahma Prajapati, I
give the power of dynamics to the very zealous adept, the priest who makes an abundant sacrifice of Soma. (2)

I am the benevolent mistress, I am like one of the Vasavas! the forehead of the fathers of this (world) is mine, yoni is the end of the waters in the ocean,
whoever knows this will reach the Path of Goddess,
these gods said:
glory to Goddess, the Great Goddess!
always glory!
glory to the beautiful primordial,
always remember her, the unshakable, the benevolent! (3)

to her fiery glory with the passion of devotion, incandescent, truly shining in the fruits of doing, dear,
to the unapproachable Goddess I resort as a refuge,
to the light-footed one I willingly hide. (4)

By the voice of the Goddess the gods were born, of her speak the various living beings:
She is our beloved powerful Lady Omnipotent King Serpent, greatly praised by us! (5)

The night of time, the liturgical vibration, the sleeping, unsleeping mother of trembling, the flowing grace, the boundlessness, the daughter of immutability – we glorify – the purifying, the merciful! (6)

And the great blessing, happiness we know, and all-perfection let us understand,
for here the Goddess has arisen! (7)

Daksha was completely sterile, but with the help of Aditi, his daughter, he succeeded in giving birth to the gods, bound by immortality. (8)

the art of desire of the lustful womb is the secret laughter of the secret keeper of the diamond.
The mother who whirls the king tomorrow becomes again the secret perfect by means of magic – and again she is the contemplative mother, all-encompassing in the radiance of the day. (9)

This is the immanent essence of power.
This is the archer who seduces all
with the bonds of closeness of volitional impulses, carrying arrows.
This is the most pure mahavidya,
whoever knows this will step over suffering. Glory to you, O magnificent essence,
may you always, comprehensively protect us!

She is the Lady of the eight vasas, she is the Lady of the eleven rudras, she is the Lady
of the twelve adityas, she is the Lady of all the gods,
both those who drink soma and those who do not drink soma, she is the Lady of the evil spirits of the guardians of treasures, the asuras, rakshasas, pishachas, yakshas and other forces,
she is the Lady of the clear, swift and stagnant, she is the Lady of the creator of beings, the king and man,
she is the Lady of the shining stars and constellations
of the limits and paths, the primordial form; to her I eternally say OM,
the Goddess who removes painful heat, who gives wealth and liberation,
the endless, the conquering, the pure, the giving of protection, the thankful, the merciful! (10)

Connecting the divided, appearing as the sun, playing with the crescent moon, the Goddess' root is all-perfectly magical. (11)

This monosyllabic incantation is understood by the adepts of pure consciousness as the magical forms of the highest enjoyment of the oceans of knowledge (12)

Verbally, the sixth element of the epiphany is our utterance,
in the light of the sun united by good hearing, connected by the eightfold and the trinity. (13)

United by Narayana, and let the nine-wave wave divide Vayu connected with the lower one, let there be great grace! (14)

Rising from the center of the white lotus, shining equally with the sun in the early morning,
the bearer of the causes of living beings, raising her hand for blessing,
the owner of three eyes, dressed in purple, the desired and beloved mammal, I worship with devotion! (15)

I glorify you, Goddess – destroyer of the greatest horror,
deliverer from great difficulties, embodied mercy! (16)

She whose essence has its origin in Brahman and is not known, wherefore she is called unknown,
whose end is unknown, wherefore she is called infinite,
whose fixation is unattainable, wherefore she is called invisible,
whose birth is indefinable, wherefore she is called unborn,
she alone is everywhere, wherefore she is called one,
she alone is the embodied universe, wherefore she is called not one,
thus she is called unknown, infinite, invisible, unborn, one and not one,
the parent of sacred incantations, Goddess – embodied knowledge of sounds,
of knowledge – the all-wise mover, the emptiness contemplating emptiness! (17)

She, beyond whom there is nothing, she is the Lady, unapproachable, glorious,
triple, static as a fortress amidst the turmoil. (18)

I resort to the Goddess as my protection: deliver me from grave misfortunes!
her, the Goddess, the unapproachable fortress, crushing the unfavorable,
I glorify, embraced by existential fear,
the saving Goddess in the turbulent ocean of incarnations! (19)

This high priest, master of fire, who is skilled
in the sacrifice of the five fires, – his prayer reaches the goal,
this high priest, expert in ceremony, who sets up an image
and recites a hundred thousand times, he will achieve the perfection of the image,
and receive the hundred and eightfold law of her auspicious wisdom. (20)

and learn ten ways of daily salvation from evils,
for in great misfortunes – the guiding star shines the most grace of the Pure Goddess! (21)

Rising in the morning – destroys the evils produced by night,
Rising in the evening – destroys the evils produced by day,
thus, in the evening and in the morning it constitutes good and evil,
at midnight it gives the perfection of expression of recitation,
such as this recitation it gives the presence of divine dynamics,
in the basis of life recitation is the basis of life,
Great Goddess Bhaima Ashvinya, with your participation recitation saves from the great dying!
such is the Secret Teaching of the Vedas. (22)

Om. Shanti. Shanti. Shanti.

This is the Secret Teaching of the Most Pure Goddess. Devi-Upanishad.