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Shivananda Lahari
शिवानन्दलहरी
Śivānandalaharī
Chant
धैर्याङ्कुशेन निभृतं रभसादाकृष्य भक्तिशृङ्खलया पुरहर चरणालाने हृदयमदेभं बधान चिद्यन्त्रैः ॥९६॥
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Word breakdown
- धैर्याङ्कुशेन निभृतं
- restrained with firmness-elephant-goad
- रभसादाकृष्य भक्तिशृङ्खलया
- drawn forcibly with devotion-chain
- पुरहर चरणालाने
- O city-destroyer, at foot-post of the heart-elephant
- हृदयमदेभं बधान चिद्यन्त्रैः
- bind with consciousness-fetters
The restless heart-elephant must be bound at Shiva's foot-post. Firmness and devotion-chain image disciplined binding of mind; the Self is the post to which wild thought is tethered.
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