1 A, as its first of letters, every speech maintains; The "Primal Deity" [GOD] is first through all the world's domains.

2 No fruit have men of all their studied lore, Save they the 'Purely Wise One's' feet adore.

3 His feet, 'Who o'er the full-blown flower hath past,' who gain In bliss long time shall dwell above this earthly plain.

4 His foot, 'Whom want affects not, irks not grief,' who gain Shall not, through every time, of any woes complain.

5 The men, who on the 'Ruler's' true praise delight to dwell, Affects not them the fruit of deeds done ill or well.

6 Long live they blest, who 've stood in path from falsehood freed; His, 'Who quenched lusts that from the sense-gates five proceed.'

7 Unless His foot, 'to Whom none can compare,' men gain, 'Tis hard for mind to find relief from anxious pain.

8 Unless His feet, 'the Sea of Good, the Fair and Bountiful,' men gain, 'Tis hard the further bank of being's changeful sea to attain.

9 Before His foot, 'the Eight-fold Excellence,' with unbent head Who stands, like palsied sense, is to all living functions dead.

10 They swim the sea of births [lives], the 'Monarch's' foot who gain; None others reach the shore of being's mighty main.