Verse 21

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The sea is not crossed by a dog's tail· Verses 21–27

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We of the three worlds, wind and sky and fire and water and earth, Brahma and the rest of us, shrinking in fear, bring our offering to him; and even the Ender is afraid of him. He is where we can go. He is amazed at nothing, all his wishes are full, he is equal in his own having, he is at peace. Anyone who goes to another than him is a fool: he is crossing the sea by a dog's tail. It was to his great horn that Manu tied the world for his boat and crossed the hard place. He, even moving in the water, will surely save us who have come to him from this endless fear of Tvastr's son. Long ago even the self-born, fallen alone from his lotus into the water of the ending, dreadful with the roar of wind-driven waves, was carried across by him. Let him be our farther shore out of this fear.

He is the one Lord who made us by a power of his own, and by whom we make the world after him. Taking ourselves for separate lords, we do not see the mark of him even when he works in front of us. When we are hard pressed by our rivals, he, who is always here, takes his descent in bodies among gods and sages and animals and men, by a power of his own, and makes us his own, and guards us age after age. To that god, the god of our own selves, the highest, the ground, the Person, other than this world, we all go for refuge, who is worth taking refuge in. Great of soul, he will bring peace to his own.