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Dakshinamurti Stotram
दक्षिणामूर्ति स्तोत्रम्
Dakṣiṇāmūrti Stotram
Chant
बीजस्यान्तरिवाङ्कुरो जगदिदं प्राङ्निर्विकल्पं पुनः मायाकल्पितदेशकालकलनावैचित्र्यचित्रीकृतम् । मायावीव विजृम्भयत्यपि महायोगीव यः स्वेच्छया तस्मै श्रीगुरुमूर्तये नम इदं श्रीदक्षिणामूर्तये ॥२॥
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Word breakdown
- बीजस्यान्तरिवाङ्कुरो जगदिदं प्राङ्निर्विकल्पं पुनः
- This world, like a sprout within a seed, was once without distinction.
- मायाकल्पितदेशकालकलनावैचित्र्यचित्रीकृतम्
- Then made variegated by maya's imagined distinctions of place, time, and cause.
- मायावीव विजृम्भयत्यपि महायोगीव यः स्वेच्छया
- Who, like a magician or great yogi, unfolds it again at will.
- तस्मै श्रीगुरुमूर्तये नम इदं श्रीदक्षिणामूर्तये ॥२॥
- To that blessed Guru-form, to Sri Dakshinamurti, this salutation.
The universe unmanifest in the seed-state unfolds through maya's play of time and space. The Lord who projects it at will is the same consciousness that remains unchanged in and through the display.
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