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Sharada Bhujanga Prayatashtakam
शारदाभुजङ्गप्रयाताष्टकम्
Śāradābhujaṅgaprayātāṣṭakam
Chant
सुशान्तां सुदेहां दृगन्ते कचान्तां लसत्सल्लताङ्गीमनन्तामचिन्त्याम् । स्मरेत्तापसैः सर्गपूर्वस्थितां तां भजे शारदाम्बामजस्रं मदम्बाम् ॥५॥
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Word breakdown
- सुशान्तां सुदेहां दृगन्ते कचान्तां लसत्सल्लताङ्गीमनन्तामचिन्त्याम् । स्मरेत्तापसैः सर्गपूर्वस्थितां तां भजे शारदाम्बामजस्रं मदम्बाम् ॥५॥
- I ever worship Sharada, my mother, very peaceful, of beautiful form, with hair curling at the corners of her eyes, with limbs like shining creepers, infinite and inconceivable, remembered by ascetics as established before creation.
Peaceful and inconceivable, meditated on since before creation, she is the eternal ground of all knowing; the sage's remembrance of her predating the world mirrors the Self known prior to the rise of the universe in awareness.
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