स होवाचाब्जयोनिः । व्यक्तानां मूर्तीनां प्रोक्तानां कथमाभरणानि भवन्ति ॥ कथं वा देवा यजन्ति रुद्रा यजन्ति ब्रह्मा यजति ब्रह्मजा यजन्ति विनायका यजन्ति द्वादशादित्या यजन्ति वसवो यजन्ति अप्सरसो यजन्ति गन्धर्वा यजन्ति ॥ स्वपदं गता अन्तर्धाने तिष्ठति कां मनुष्या यजन्ति
sa hovācābjayoniḥ | vyaktānāṁ mūrtīnāṁ proktānāṁ kathamābharaṇāni bhavanti || kathaṁ vā devā yajanti rudrā yajanti brahmā yajati brahmajā yajanti vināyakā yajanti dvādaśādityā yajanti vasavo yajanti apsaraso yajanti gandharvā yajanti || svapadaṁ gatā antardhāne tiṣṭhati kāṁ manuṣyā yajanti
And the Lotus-born said: what are the ornaments of the manifest forms declared? and how do the gods worship them — the Rudras, Brahmā, the sons of Brahmā, the Vināyakas, the twelve Ādityas, the Vasus, the apsarases, the gandharvas? And the form that has gone to its own abode, and the one that abides hidden — which do men worship?
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Brahmā asks the last great question of the book, and it has three parts.
The first is about the adornments of the manifest forms: he asks that what has just been said be extended to all twelve.
The second is about the gods: how exactly each class worships. The list repeats mantra 46 and shows that the creator was listening closely.
The third, the chief one, is about men. Of the twelve forms, one "has gone to its own abode", another "abides hidden"; and Brahmā asks: which then do men worship?
For a book addressed to us, this question is the most pressing. Everything said about the woods, the gods and the quaternity concerned other beings; now our own share is asked about.
The answer that follows will be unexpectedly brief and general: the Lord's manifestations abide in all the worlds, in all the gods and in all men — and so access belongs to everyone.