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 V MARRIAGE* SERVICE ( 1916 ) Om! Prajapathayt Namah!!

Unto the great Unifier, unto the sublime Harmoniser, unto the holy Sanctifier, praise and glory, thanks and salutations! Unto Him who has produced this united, harmonised and hallowed world out of nothing and nowhere; unto the supreme Saviour; unto the Effulgence that has shot forth light through darkness and life out of emptiness, praise and glory, thanks and salutations! Unto Him who holds particles together as granite, who climbs as sap through all shrubs and trees, and produces freshness and fruit and beauty and joy; unto Him who courses as life-blood through all creatures and sustains them daily, who increases and multiplies the many out of two and parcels out love and self-denial, who