Mahabharata · Chapter 12.354
dhanyosyanugṛhītosi yatte dṛṣṭaḥ svayamprabhuḥ /
na hi taṃ dṛṣṭavānkaścitpadmayonirapi svayam //
avyaktayonirbhagavāndurdarśaḥ puruṣottamaḥ /
nāradaitaddhi nau satyaṃ vacanaṃ samudāhṛtam //
nāsya bhaktātpriyataro loke kaścana vidyate /
tataḥ svayaṃ darśitavānsvamātmānaṃ dvijottama //
tapo hi tapyatastasya yatsthānaṃ paramātmanaḥ /
na tatsamprāpnute kaścidṛte hyāvāṃ dvitottama //
yā hi sūryasahasrasya samastasya bhaveddyutiḥ /
sthānasya sā bhavettasya svayaṃ tena virājatā //
tasmāduttiṣṭhate vipra devādviśvabhuvaḥ pateḥ /
kṣamā kṣamāvatāṃ śreṣṭha yayā bhūmistu yujyate //
tasmāccottiṣṭhate devātsarvabhūtahitādrasaḥ /
āpo hi tena yujyante dravatvaṃ prāpnuvanti ca //
tasmādeva samudbhūtaṃ tejo rūpaguṇātmakam /
yena saṃyujyate sūryastato loke virājate //
tasmāddevātsamudbhūtaḥ sparśastu puruṣottamāt /
yena sma yujyate vāyustato lokānvivātyasau //
tasmāccottiṣṭhate śabdaḥ sarvalokeśvarātprabhoḥ /
ākāśaṃ yujyate yena tatastiṣṭhatyasaṃvṛtam //
tasmāccottiṣṭhate devātsarvabhūtagataṃ manaḥ /
candramā yena saṃyuktaḥ prakāśaguṇadhāraṇaḥ //
sadbhūtotpādakaṃ nāma tatsthānaṃ vedasañjñitam /
vidyāsahāyo yatrāste bhagavānhavyakavyabhuk //
ye hi niṣkalmaṣā loke puṇyapāpavivarjitāḥ /
teṣāṃ vai kṣemamadhvānaṃ gacchatāṃ dvijasattama //
sarvaloke tamohantā ādityo dvāramucyate / jvālāmālī mahātejā yenedaṃ dhāryate jagat //
ādityadagdhasarvāṅgā adṛśyāḥ kenacitkvacit /
paramāṇubhūtā bhūtvā tu taṃ devaṃ praviśantyuta //
tasmādapi ca nirmuktā aniruddhatanau sthitāḥ /
manobhūtāstato bhūtvā pradyumnaṃ praviśantyuta //
pradyumnāccāpi nirmuktā jīvaṃ sankarṣaṇaṃ tataḥ /
viśanti viprapravarāḥ sāṅkhyā bhāgavataiḥ saha //
tatastraiguṇyahīnāste paramātmānamañjasā / praviśanti dvijaśreṣṭhāḥ kṣetrajñaṃ nirguṇātmakam /
sarvāvāsaṃ vāsudevaṃ kṣetrajñaṃ viddhi tattvataḥ //
samāhitamanaskāśca niyatāḥ saṃyatendriyāḥ /
ekāntabhāvopagatā vāsudevaṃ viśanti te //
āvāmapi ca dharmasya guhe jātau dvijottama /
ramyāṃ viśālāmāśritya tapa ugraṃ samāsthitau //
ye tu tasyaiva devasya prādurbhāvāḥ surapriyāḥ /
bhaviṣyanti trilokasthāsteṣāṃ svastītyatho dvija //
vidhinā svena yuktābhyāṃ yathāpūrvaṃ dvijottama /
āsthitābhyāṃ sarvakṛcchraṃ vrataṃ samyaganuttamam //
svārthena vidhinā yuktaḥ sarvakṛcchravrate sthitaḥ / āvābhyāmapi dṛṣṭastvaṃ śvetadvīpe tapodhana //
samāgato bhagavatā sankalpaṃ kṛtavāṃstathā /
sarvaṃ hi nau saṃviditaṃ trailokye sacarācare //
yadbhaviṣyati vṛttaṃ vā vartate vā śubhāśubham /
sarvaṃ sa te kathitavāndevadevo mahāmune //
vaiśampāyana uvāca /
etacchrutvā tayorvākyaṃ tapasyugre ca vartatoḥ /
nāradaḥ prāñjalirbhūtvā nārāyaṇaparāyaṇaḥ //
jajāpa vidhivanmantrānnārāyaṇagatānbahūn /
divyaṃ varṣasahasraṃ hi naranārāyaṇāśrame //
avasatsa mahātejā nārado bhagavānṛṣiḥ /
tāvevābhyarcayandevau naranārāyaṇau ca tau //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0