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Shivananda Lahari
शिवानन्दलहरी
Śivānandalaharī
Chant
मा गच्छ त्वमितस्ततो गिरिश भो मय्येव वासं कुरु स्वामिन्नादिकिरात मामकमनःकान्तारसीमान्तरे वर्तन्ते बहुशो मृगा मदजुषो मात्सर्यमोहादय स्तान् हत्वा मृगयाविनोदरुचितालाभं च सम्प्राप्स्यसि ॥४३॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- मा गच्छ त्वमितस्ततो गिरिश भो मय्येव वासं कुरु
- do not go from here to there, O Girisha; dwell in me alone
- स्वामिन्नादिकिरात मामकमनःकान्तारसीमान्तरे
- O primal hunter, in the border of my mind's forest
- वर्तन्ते बहुशो मृगा मदजुषो मात्सर्यमोहादय
- many deer drunk with pride, jealousy, delusion and others roam
- स्तान् हत्वा मृगयाविनोदरुचितालाभं च सम्प्राप्स्यसि
- having slain them, You shall obtain sport befitting the hunter
The poet asks Shiva the hunter to stay within and slay inner deer of passion. Spiritual hunt is not outward but the Lord's sport of destroying ego-passions in the forest of mind.
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