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Minakshi Stotram
मीनाक्षीस्तोत्रम्
Mīnākṣīstotram
Chant
शब्दब्रह्ममयी चराचरमयी ज्योतिर्मयी वाङ्मयी नित्यानन्दमयी निरञ्जनमयी तत्त्वंमयी चिन्मयी तत्त्वातीतमयी परात्परमयी मायामयी श्रीमयी सर्वैश्वर्यमयी सदाशिवमयी मां पाहि मीनाम्बिके ॥८॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- शब्दब्रह्ममयी चराचरमयी ज्योतिर्मयी वाङ्मयी
- Consisting of sound-Brahman, of the moving and unmoving, of light, of speech.
- नित्यानन्दमयी निरञ्जनमयी तत्त्वंमयी चिन्मयी
- Consisting of eternal bliss, of the unstained, of principle, of consciousness.
- तत्त्वातीतमयी परात्परमयी मायामयी श्रीमयी
- Consisting of what is beyond principle, of the supreme beyond the supreme, of maya, of Sri.
- सर्वैश्वर्यमयी सदाशिवमयी मां पाहि मीनाम्बिके
- Consisting of all sovereignty, of Sadashiva, protect me, O Meenambika.
The final verse names her as everything: sound, light, bliss, consciousness, maya, and Sadashiva. The Goddess worshipped as all forms is the one reality the Advaitin discovers as the Self.
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