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Shivananda Lahari
शिवानन्दलहरी
Śivānandalaharī
Chant
पापोत्पातविमोचनाय रुचिरैश्वर्याय मृत्युञ्जय स्तोत्रध्याननतिप्रदक्षिणसपर्यालोकनाकर्णने जिह्वाचित्तशिरोङ्घ्रिहस्तनयनश्रोत्रैरहं प्रार्थितो मामाज्ञापय तन्निरूपय मुहुर्मामेव मा मेऽवचः ॥४१॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- पापोत्पातविमोचनाय रुचिरैश्वर्याय मृत्युञ्जय
- for release from sin-rise, for sovereignty, for conquest of death
- स्तोत्रध्याननतिप्रदक्षिणसपर्यालोकनाकर्णने
- in hymn, meditation, bowing, circumambulation, service, hearing
- जिह्वाचित्तशिरोङ्घ्रिहस्तनयनश्रोत्रैरहं प्रार्थितो
- by tongue, mind, head, feet, hands, eyes, ears I am asked
- मामाज्ञापय तन्निरूपय मुहुर्मामेव मा मेऽवचः
- command me; examine again and again; do not refuse me
Every faculty is enlisted in Shiva's service for liberation and sovereignty over death. The devotee asks only to be commanded; surrender of refusal opens the path to the Self's unconditional grace.
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