Ekadanta Stotram (Ekadanta Sharanagati Stotram) — Word-by-Word Meaning

Salutations to Sri Ganesha. The gods and sages said: To Him who is of the nature of eternal Being, the first source of all, free of illusion, the very 'I am' of inconceivable awareness, without beginning, middle or end, the One — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. To Ganesha who is the infinite form of consciousness, the primal One free of all distinctions of difference and non-difference, the bearer of the light within the heart, abiding in our own intellect — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. To Him whom the yogis behold seated in the samadhi of the heart, shining there as pure light, ever attainable through support-less samadhi — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. To Him who, sporting through His own reflected being, grants His power to the directly-perceived Maya of manifold forms — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. To Him by whose power this whole universe is fashioned by His potent Maya, the Fourth state known as the pure awareness of the Self — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. By Your command all the planets shine and the luminaries glow in the sky, ever wandering in their appointed courses — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. By Your command Brahma creates, by Your command Vishnu protects, and by Your command Hara too dissolves — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. By whose command the hosts of gods in heaven ever grant the fruits of action, and by whose command the mountains stand firm — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. Within whom Ekadanta abides, by whose command all this shines forth, of infinite form, the awakener within the heart — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. What the great yogis accomplish by the power of yoga, who can praise by mere hymns? Therefore may He, granting perfect attainment through our prostration, be pleased — to that Ekadanta we take refuge. Ekadanta said: I am pleased by your hymn, O gods and hosts of sages. Ask a boon — I shall grant your heart's desire. This hymn composed about Me by you is dear and pleasing, and it shall grant every accomplishment — there is no doubt. Whoever recites these twenty-one verses twenty-one times, remembering Me in the heart, for twenty-one days — for him nothing in the three worlds is hard to gain; the mortal accomplishes the unachievable and becomes victorious everywhere. The person who recites this hymn daily verily becomes one with Brahman, and by his very sight all the gods are made pure. Thus ends the Ekadanta Sharanagati Stotram from the Mudgala Purana.