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Shivananda Lahari
शिवानन्दलहरी
Śivānandalaharī
Chant
धर्मो मे चतुरङ्घ्रिकः सुचरितः पापं विनाशं गतं कामक्रोधमदादयो विगलिताः कालाः सुखाविष्कृताः ज्ञानानन्दमहौषधिः सुफलिता कैवल्यनाथे सदा मान्ये मानसपुण्डरीकनगरे राजावतंसे स्थिते ॥३९॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- धर्मो मे चतुरङ्घ्रिकः सुचरितः पापं विनाशं गतं
- virtue is my four-legged one, good conduct; sin has gone to destruction
- कामक्रोधमदादयो विगलिताः कालाः सुखाविष्कृताः
- lust, anger, pride and others have dissolved; times reveal happiness
- ज्ञानानन्दमहौषधिः सुफलिता कैवल्यनाथे सदा
- the great medicine of knowledge-bliss has borne good fruit
- मान्ये मानसपुण्डरीकनगरे राजावतंसे स्थिते
- O honoured one, when You stand as crest-jewel in the mind's lotus-city
With Shiva as mind's sovereign, virtue thrives and passions dissolve. Knowledge-bliss medicine bears fruit when the Lord is crowned in the heart; the Self's presence transforms the inner kingdom.
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