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Shivaparadha Kshamapana Stotram
शिवापराधक्षमापणस्तोत्रम्
Śivāparādhakṣamāpaṇastotram
Chant
बाल्ये दुःखातिरेको मललुलितवपुः स्तन्यपाने पिपासा नो शक्तश्चेन्द्रियेभ्यो भवगुणजनिताः जन्तवो मां तुदन्ति । नानारोगादिदुःखाद्रुदनपरवशः शङ्करं न स्मरामि क्षन्तव्यो मेऽपराधः शिव शिव शिव भो श्रीमहादेव शम्भो ॥२॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- बाल्ये दुःखातिरेको मललुलितवपुः स्तन्यपाने पिपासा
- In childhood excessive suffering, body smeared with filth, thirst in drinking mother's milk,
- नो शक्तश्चेन्द्रियेभ्यो भवगुणजनिताः जन्तवो मां तुदन्ति ।
- unable to ward off creatures born of the gunas of becoming that pierce me through the senses,
- नानारोगादिदुःखाद्रुदनपरवशः शङ्करं न स्मरामि
- from various illnesses and sorrows, overcome by weeping, I do not remember Shankara.
- क्षन्तव्यो मेऽपराधः शिव शिव शिव भो श्रीमहादेव शम्भो
- My offence must be forgiven, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, O glorious Mahadeva, Shambho.
Childhood's helpless pain and forgetfulness of the Lord expose the gap between suffering and remembrance; forgiveness is sought not for malice but for the natural blindness in which the Self remains unthought while the body weeps.
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