ಶ್ರೀ ಭುವನೇಶ್ವರೀ ಹೃದಯಮ್

From the Bhuvaneshvari chapter of the Nilasarasvati Tantra, opening with the Goddess asking Ishvara for the hymn after hearing which nothing else is worth hearing. Its viniyoga is unusual in naming Shakti herself as the seer, and it takes a single seed apart into its letters. Twelve verses follow and every one of them ends on the same line: her we worship, Shri Bhuvaneshvari. What they say she is, is the condition of everything else. At whose command the unborn creates, Vishnu carries and Bhava destroys at the end; who has no birth anywhere, no continuance and no ceasing; from whose womb the world came, in whose middle it stands, and who eats it at the close. One verse takes the three states as its argument, deep sleep drawing the person in, dream leaving him knowing a little, waking waking him; another says that poetry, lordship and independence come from nothing but her glance.