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Govindashtakam
गोविन्दाष्टकम्
Govindāṣṭakam
Chant
स्नानव्याकुलयोषिद्वस्त्रमुपादायागमुपारूढं व्यादित्सन्तीरथ दिग्वस्त्रा दातुमुपाकर्षन्तं ताः । निर्धूतद्वयशोकविमोहं बुद्धं बुद्धेरन्तःस्थं सत्तामात्रशरीरं प्रणमत गोविन्दं परमानन्दम् ॥६॥
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Word breakdown
- स्नानव्याकुलयोषिद्वस्त्रमुपादायागमुपारूढं व्यादित्सन्तीरथ दिग्वस्त्रा दातुमुपाकर्षन्तं ताः । निर्धूतद्वयशोकविमोहं बुद्धं बुद्धेरन्तःस्थं सत्तामात्रशरीरं प्रणमत गोविन्दं परमानन्दम् ॥६॥
- Bow to Govinda, supreme bliss: who, having taken the garments of women agitated at their bath, climbed a tree and drew them near to give back their clothes as they covered themselves with their hands; who shakes off the twin sorrows of grief and delusion, who is pure intelligence, the inner light of intellect, whose body is pure being alone.
The Lord who strips away pretence restores the soul to its own covering of shamelessness before God. He who dispels grief and delusion is the intelligence within intelligence, the being that remains when the ego's garments fall away.
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