PRAYERS OF PATANJALY - BY VIYASA DEVA

YASTYAKTVAA  RUUPAMAADYAM PRABHVATI

JAGATO’ NEKADHAANUGRAHAAYA

PRAKSHINAKLESHARASHIRVISHAMAVISHADHARO’

NEKAVAKTRAH SUBHOGHII

SARVAJNAANA PRASUUTIR BHUJAGA

PARIKARAH PRIITAYE YASYA NITYAM

DEVOHIISHAH SA VOVYAAT SITAVIMAL

TANUR YOGADO YOGAYUKTAH

LET US PROSTRATE BEFORE LORD

AADISHESHAA OF THE MYRIAD SERPENT

HEADS AND MOUTHS CARRYING

NOXIOUS POISONS, DISCARDING WHICH

HE CAME TO EARTH AS SINGLE HEADED

PATANJALI,  IN ORDER TO ERADICATE

IGNORANCE AND VANQUISH SORROW.

LET US PAY OUR OBEISANCE TO HIM,

REPOSITORY OF ALL KNOWLEDGE, AMIDST

HIS ATTENDANT DUTY.

LET US PRAY TO THE LORD, WHOSE

PRIMORDIAL FORM SHINES WITH PURE

AND WHITE EFFULGENCE, PRISTINE IN BODY,

A MASTER OF YOGA WHO BESTOWS ON US HIS YOGIC

LIGHT TO ENABLE MANKIND TO REST IN THE HOUSE

OF THE IMMORTAL SOUL.