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In plain words
He is the supreme light of lights of intense radiance, beginning with the sun. He is the cause of the world’s beginning, and no measure of ‘this much’ applies to him. He is the Lord of all, worthy of praise. I contemplate him, inward-facing and south-faced.
Close to the Sanskrit
Him who is the supreme light of lights of intense radiance, beginning with the sun; who is the cause of the world’s beginning; of whom there is no ‘he is this much’; the Lord of all, worthy of praise; the inward-facing, south-faced one—I contemplate.