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प्रातः स्मरामि हृदि संस्फुरदात्मतत्त्वं
सच्चित्सुखं परमहंसगतिं तुरीयम् ।
यत्स्वप्नजागरसुषुप्तिमवैति नित्यं
तद्ब्रह्म निष्कलमहं न च भूतसङ्घः ॥१॥

1. I meditate in the morning on the Self which shines in the heart, which is existence-consciousness-bliss,
which is the goal to be attained by Paramahamsa sannyasis, which is called the fourth because it is beyond the three states of waking, dream and deep sleep, and which always witnesses the states of waking, dream and deep sleep.
I am that Brahman which is indivisible and not the aggregate of the five elements, ether, air, fire, water and earth.

प्रातर्भजामि मनसा वचसामगम्यं
वाचो विभान्ति निखिला यदनुग्रहेण ।
यन्नेतिनेतिवचनैर्निगमा अवोचं_
स्तं देवदेवमजमच्युतमाहुरग्र्यम् ॥२॥

2. I worship in the morning that supremely effulgent Being who is spoken of (in the Vedas)
as unborn, changeless, and the highest, who is inaccessible to the mind and whom words cannot directly describe,
but by whose blessing the faculty of speech functions, and who is described in the Upanishads by the words 'not this, not this'.

प्रातर्नमामि तमसः परमर्कवर्णं
पूर्णं सनातनपदं पुरुषोत्तमाख्यम् ।
यस्मिन्निदं जगदशेषमशेषमूर्तौ
रज्ज्वां भुजङ्गम इव प्रतिभासितं वै ॥३॥

3. I bow down in the morning to the infinite, eternal Being who is known as the supreme Purusha,
who is beyond the darkness of ignorance, who is resplendent like the sun,
who is everything and on whom this entire universe appears, just as a rope appears as a snake.