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Shiva Namavalyashtakam
शिवनामावल्यष्टकम्
Śivanāmāvalyaṣṭakam
Chant
विश्वेश विश्वभवनाशक विश्वरूप विश्वात्मक त्रिभुवनैकगुणाधिकेश हे विश्वनाथ करुणामय दीनबन्धो संसारदुःखगहनाज्जगदीश रक्ष ॥८॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- विश्वेश विश्वभवनाशक विश्वरूप
- O Vishvesha, destroyer of worldly becoming, O Vishvarupa,
- विश्वात्मक त्रिभुवनैकगुणाधिकेश
- O world-Self, sole supreme over the gunas of the three worlds,
- हे विश्वनाथ करुणामय दीनबन्धो
- O Vishvanatha, full of compassion, friend of the humble,
- संसारदुःखगहनाज्जगदीश रक्ष
- from the dense sorrow of samsara, O lord of the world, protect.
Destroyer of becoming and Vishvarupa, world-Self beyond the gunas, the final cry names the Lord as compassion itself; when sorrow's density is admitted, the dinabandhu answers as the one Self in whom the universe arises and subsides.
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