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Shivananda Lahari
शिवानन्दलहरी
Śivānandalaharī
Chant
कलाभ्यां चूडालङ्कृतशशिकलाभ्यां निजतपः फलाभ्यां भक्तेषु प्रकटितफलाभ्यां भवतु मे शिवाभ्यामस्तोकत्रिभुवनशिवाभ्यां हृदि पुन र्भवाभ्यामानन्दस्फुरदनुभवाभ्यां नतिरियम् ॥१॥
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- कलाभ्यां चूडालङ्कृतशशिकलाभ्यां निजतपः
- with crescent-adorned moon-forehead, fruit of Your own austerity
- फलाभ्यां भक्तेषु प्रकटितफलाभ्यां भवतु मे
- fruit revealed to devotees, may there be for me
- शिवाभ्यामस्तोकत्रिभुवनशिवाभ्यां हृदि पुन
- with the little Shiva of the three worlds in the heart again
- र्भवाभ्यामानन्दस्फुरदनुभवाभ्यां नतिरियम्
- obeisance with experience sparkling bliss of becoming
Salutations to Shiva whose form embodies austerity's fruit and blissful becoming. The Lord of beings is the inner witness in whom devotion recognizes the Self as the source of all auspicious experience.
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