Desirous of seeing Him who investing himself with vital airs, lives in the individual soul, in the form of that effulgence which is called the Mind, the Rishi Tandin, passed many years practising the severest austerities, and having succeeded in seeing Him as the reward of those penances, he lauded the great God in the following terms.
यः प्राणवन्तमात्मानं ज्योतिर्जीवस्थितं मनः। तं देवं दर्शनाकाङ्क्षी बहून् वर्षगणानृषिः॥