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Shiva Keshadi Padanta Varnana Stotram
शिवकेशादिपादान्तवर्णनस्तोत्रम्
Śivakeśādipādāntavarṇanastotram
Chant
न्यक्कुर्वन्नुर्वराभृन्निभघनसमयोध्दुष्टमेघौघघोषं स्फूर्जद्वार्ध्युत्थितोरुध्वनितमपि परब्रह्मभूतो गभीरः सुव्यक्तो व्यक्तमूर्तेः प्रकटितकरणः प्राणनाथस्य सत्याः प्रीत्या वः संविदध्यात्फलविकलमलं जन्म नादः स नादः ॥११॥
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Word breakdown
- न्यक्कुर्वन्नुर्वराभृन्निभघनसमयोध्दुष्टमेघौघघोषं
- Humbling the roar of cloud-hosts at the time of dense mountain-like clouds,
- स्फूर्जद्वार्ध्युत्थितोरुध्वनितमपि परब्रह्मभूतो गभीरः
- deep, becoming supreme Brahman, like the vast sound rising from the roaring ocean,
- सुव्यक्तो व्यक्तमूर्तेः प्रकटितकरणः प्राणनाथस्य सत्याः
- well manifest, of the embodied form revealing the senses, of the true lord of life,
- प्रीत्या वः संविदध्यात्फलविकलमलं जन्म नादः स नादः
- may that sound, with love, grant you flawless birth as fruit - that sound, that sound.
The voice deep as thunder and supreme Brahman is Nada, the primal sound from which form unfolds. The lord of life's utterance grants birth without blemish because it arises from silence and returns to the silence that is the Self.
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