Translation -
[N.B. Odana is here used in very comprehensive sense. Accor ding to shatapath Brahmana (13.1.1.4) and Taitiriya Brahmana (3.8.2.4) Retas, the generative vigor is called Odana, God who desires to create the world from its material cause, the matter, first produce universal generative power. Everything is basically depending on its strength which is the result of this power. A banian tree is lying hidden in its generative power, the seed-power. Same is the case with all the objects of the world. Whatever shape and stature will the sun assume under the creator's will and design worked out on the material cause is lying in its atomic seed-power. In the same manner an individual creature is the product of his seed-power or retas. This generative vigor being preserved under the discipline of Chastity and celibacy makes one attain Brahman, the Vedic knowledge, and God as well as immortality. In this hymn the term Odana represents universal generative vigor.] I, the observer of celibacy conquer mortality or death with this Odana, the generative staminal vigor which Prajapati, the Lord of all creatures, who is first manifested ordainer of the eternal law, prepared for the creation of Brahma, the universal by His heating power and which is the supporting power of the worlds and which never embraces decay.

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