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Shivananda Lahari
शिवानन्दलहरी
Śivānandalaharī
Chant
किं ब्रूमस्तव साहसं पशुपते कस्यास्ति शम्भो भव द्धैर्यं चेदृशमात्मनः स्थितिरियं चान्यैः कथं लभ्यते भ्रश्यद्देवगणं त्रसन्मुनिगणं नश्यत्प्रपञ्चं लयं पश्यन्निर्भय एक एव विहरत्यानन्दसान्द्रो भवान् ॥३४॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- किं ब्रूमस्तव साहसं पशुपते कस्यास्ति शम्भो भव
- what shall we say of Your boldness, O Pasupati; who has such courage, O Shambhu
- द्धैर्यं चेदृशमात्मनः स्थितिरियं चान्यैः कथं लभ्यते
- this standing of Yours, how could others obtain it
- भ्रश्यद्देवगणं त्रसन्मुनिगणं नश्यत्प्रपञ्चं लयं
- seeing gods fleeing, sages terrified, universe perishing in dissolution
- पश्यन्निर्भय एक एव विहरत्यानन्दसान्द्रो भवान्
- You alone sport fearlessly, dense with bliss
While gods flee the dissolution, Shiva sports alone in bliss. That fearless standing is the nature of the Self untouched by universal destruction; courage here is abiding in one's own being amid all change.
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