Narayana Suktam - Vedic Chants - with lyrics

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The Narayana Suktham is a hymn in Yajurveda.

Narayana, in Hinduism, is considered as the thousand-headed one, thousand-eyed, and thousand-limbed. Narayana is the vedantic conception for the Eternal (ayana) Purusha(Nara), the Supreme divinity.

This hymn is a sung to worship Narayana, the universal Self which is identified with the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. This prayer extols Narayana as`all that is manifest and unmanifest. It beautifully and symbolically describes the soul of man (atman) as the spark of the Supreme.

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sahasraśīrṣaṁ devaṁ viśvākśaṁ viśvaśambhuvaṁ,
viśvaṁ nārāyaṇaṁ devamakśaraṁ paramaṁ padam.

viśvataḥ paramam nityaṁ viśvaṁ nārāyaṇagï harim,
viśvamevedaṁ puruṣastadviśvamupajīvati.

patiṁ viśvasyātmeśvaragï śāśvatagï śivamacyutam,
nārāyaṇaṁ mahājñeyaṁ viśvātmānaṁ parāyaṇam.

nārāyaṇaḥ paro jyotirātmā nārāyaṇaḥ paraḥ.
nārāyaṇaḥ paraṁ brahma tattvaṁ nārāyaṇaḥ paraḥ,
nārāyaṇaḥ paro dhyātā dhyānam nārāyaṇaḥ paraḥ.

yacca kiñcijjagatsarvaṁ dṛśyate śrūyate'pi vā,
antarbahiśca tatsarvaṁ vyāpya nārāyaṇaḥ sthitaḥ.

anantamavyayaṁ kavigï samudre'ntaṁ viśvaśambhuvam,
padmakośapratīkāśagï hṛdayaṁ cāpyadhomukham.

adho niṣṭayā vitasyānte nābhyāmupari tiṣṭhati,
jvālamālākulaṁ bhāti viśvasyāyatanaṁ mahat.

santatagum śilābhistu lambatyākośasannibham,
tasyānte suṣiragum sūkśmaṁ tasmin sarvaṁ pratiṣṭhitam.

tasya madhye mahanagnirviśvārcirviśvatomukhaḥ,
so'grabhug vibhajan tiṣṭhan āhāramajaraḥ kaviḥ.

tiryagūrdhvamadaḥśāyī raśmayastasya santatāḥ,
santāpayati svaṁ dehamāpātatalamastakam,
tasya madhye vahniśikhā aṇīyordhvā vyavasthitaḥ.

nīlatoyadamadhyasthād vidyullekheva bhāsvarā,
nīvāraśūkavattanvī pītā bhāsvatyaṇūpamā.

tasyāḥ śikhāyā madhye paramātmā vyavasthitaḥ,
sa brahma sa śivaḥ sa hariḥ sendraḥ so'kṣaraḥ paramaḥ svarāṭ.