Verse 45

⁴¹The first descent of the supreme one is the Person; then time, own-nature, what is and what is not, and mind; substance, change, strand and the senses; the vast form and the self-ruling one; what stands and what moves — all of the abundant one. ⁴²I, and Bhava, and Yajna; these lords of creatures beginning with Daksa; those beginning with you; the guardians of heaven's world, the guardians of the world of birds, the guardians of the world of men, the guardians of the worlds below; ⁴³the lords of the singers and the knowledge-holders and the bards; the chiefs of yaksas and raksasas and snakes and serpents; the bulls among seers and among the fathers; the Daitya kings, the masters of the perfected, the Danava kings; and others, the rulers of ghosts and goblins and spirits and gourd-imps, of water creatures and beasts and birds —

⁴⁴Whatever in the world has fortune, has brightness, has force, has endurance, has strength, has patience; whatever has beauty and modesty and greatness and command of itself, whatever is a flood of wonders — all of it is the supreme reality wearing a form, though it has no form of its own. ⁴⁵Sage, those descents in play of the abundant Person which they hand down as the chief ones, lovely, and drying up the foulness of the ear — I shall set them out for you in order. Drink them in.