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Shivananda Lahari
शिवानन्दलहरी
Śivānandalaharī
Chant
आकाशेन शिखी समस्तफणिनां नेत्रा कलापी नता ऽनुग्राहिप्रणवोपदेशनिनदैः केकीति यो गीयते श्यामां शैलसमुद्भवां घनरुचिं दृष्ट्वा नटन्तं मुदा वेदान्तोपवने विहाररसिकं तं नीलकण्ठं भजे ॥५३॥
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Word breakdown
- आकाशेन शिखी समस्तफणिनां नेत्रा कलापी नता
- with sky as peacock, all serpents' eyes as tail, bowed
- ऽनुग्राहिप्रणवोपदेशनिनदैः केकीति यो गीयते
- praised as peacock by the teaching-sound of gracious Om
- श्यामां शैलसमुद्भवां घनरुचिं दृष्ट्वा नटन्तं मुदा
- seeing the dark mountain-born one of cloud-beauty dancing gladly
- वेदान्तोपवने विहाररसिकं तं नीलकण्ठं भजे
- in the Vedanta-garden sporting, I worship that blue-neck
Peacock of sky and serpent-eyes praise Om's teaching; the poet worships blue-neck Shiva dancing in the Vedanta-garden. Philosophy and devotion meet where the Lord sports as beauty in the garden of wisdom.
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