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Ananda Lahari
आनन्दलहरी
Ānandalaharī
Chant
तटिल्लेखातन्वीं तपनशशिवैश्वानरमयीं निषण्णां षण्णामप्युपरि कमलानां तव कलाम् । महापद्माटव्यां मृदितमलमायेन मनसा महान्तः पश्यन्तो दधति परमाह्लादलहरीम् ॥२१॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- तटिल्लेखातन्वीं तपनशशिवैश्वानरमयीं
- Your art, slender as a streak of lightning, composed of sun, moon and fire
- निषण्णां षण्णामप्युपरि कमलानां तव कलाम् ।
- seated above the six lotuses, is beheld by the great
- महापद्माटव्यां मृदितमलमायेन मनसा
- with mind having washed away impurity of illusion
- महान्तः पश्यन्तो दधति परमाह्लादलहरीम् ॥२१॥
- and they experience the supreme wave of bliss
The Goddess as lightning-art above the six centres is seen when illusion's stain is washed away. Great souls experience the wave of supreme bliss when the mind recognizes Shakti as the dynamic face of the one consciousness.
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