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Krishnashtakam
कृष्णाष्टकम्
Kṛṣṇāṣṭakam
Chant
विना यस्य ध्यानं व्रजति पशुतां सूकरमुखां विना यस्य ज्ञानं जनिमृतिभयं याति जनता । विना यस्य स्मृत्या कृमिशतजनिं याति स विभुः शरण्यो लोकेशो मम भवतु कृष्णोऽक्षिविषयः ॥६॥
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Word breakdown
- विना यस्य ध्यानं व्रजति पशुतां सूकरमुखां विना यस्य ज्ञानं जनिमृतिभयं याति जनता । विना यस्य स्मृत्या कृमिशतजनिं याति स विभुः शरण्यो लोकेशो मम भवतु कृष्णोऽक्षिविषयः ॥६॥
- May that all-pervading Lord become the object of my sight: without whose meditation beings go to animal states headed by the boar's face; without whose knowledge people meet the fear of birth and death; and without whose remembrance they go to births among worms by the hundred.
Meditation, knowledge, and remembrance are three doors to the same Lord. Neglect of them is pictured as descent through lower births, a stern image of how identity follows what the mind holds.
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