Prayer to Love - from Raimundo Panniker, The Vedic Experience
in George Appleton, ed., The Oxford Book of Prayer (Oxford, 1985), p. 284
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the Gods,
the Fathers and men,
You, O Love, are the eldest of all,
altogether mighty.
To you we pay homage!
Greater than the quarters and directions, the expanses
and vistas of the sky,
you, O Love, are the eldest of all,
altogether mighty.
To you we pay homage!
Greater than all things moving and inert,
than the Ocean, O Passion,
you, O Love, are the eldest of all,
altogether mighty.
To you we pay homage!
In many a form of goodness, O Love,
you show your face.
Grant that these forms may penetrate
within our hearts.
Send elsewhere all malice!
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