DASAKOM 97

 STANZA 1

 KNOWLEDGE, FAITH, MAN, HOUSE, PLEASURE, FOOD,

EVERYTHING CAN BE WORST, BETTER, BEST,

DUE TO THE THREE GUNAS, SATHWA, RAJAS, THAMAS,

 WHILE ALL ACTIVITIES DEDICATED TO YOU,

LIKE ATTENDING YOUR TEMPLE, AND PRAYING TO YOU

ARE NOT AFFECTED BY THESE GUNAS, AND BRING ONE NEAR TO YOU,

 PERFORMING WHICH DILIGENTLY,

I SHALL QUICKLY BECOME A REALIZED SOUL MY LORD

 STANZA 2

 KEEPING YOUR IMAGE IN MY MIND, I AS AN OFFERING AT YOUR FEET, WOULD VISIT THE FAMILIAR PLACES,

 VISITED BY YOUR DEVOTEES, LOOKING DETACHED, ON FOE, FRIEND, BRAHMIN, ANIMALS, AND THE LIKE,

 AND OVERCOMING SHAME, ONE-UP-MANSHIP, ENVY, AND SUCH BAD FEELINGS,

 SEE AND WORSHIP YOU IN ALL BEINGS ALWAYS

 STANZA 3

 WHEN I AM NOT ABLE TO SEE YOUR IMAGE CLEARLY IN ALL BEINGS,

 I SHALL PRAY TO YOU, AND WHEN REALIZATION COMES, BE ONE WITH YOU, AND MOVE AROUND CAREFREE

 THERE IS NO GIOING BACK, ONCE YOUR WORSHIP IS BEGUN

 THEREFORE PUT ME IN THE BEAUTIFUL PATH OF DEVOTION, MY LORD

 STANZA 4

 TO MAKE MY DEVOTION FIRMLY FOUNDED, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO HAVE HEALTH AND LONG LIFE,

 THERE TOO YOUR WORSHIP IS THE REMEDY, LIKE MILK THAT IS PRESCRIBED AS MEDICINE MILK

 ONCE MARKANDEYA, WHOSE DEATH WAS PREDICTED BY ASTROLOGERS AT TWELVE YEARS OF AGE,

 WORSHIPPED YOU DEVOTELY FOR ONE YEAR, AND WHEN YAMA'S SERVANTS CAME, THEY WERE DRIVEN AWAY BY YOUR SERVANTS

 STANZA 5

 HE, NOW LONGLIVED, DID PENANCE VERY HAPPILY

 FOR SIX MANUANTHARAS, (YEARS?), ON THE BANK OF THE PUSHPABHADRA,

 AND WHEN DEVENDRA, TRYING TO TEMPT YOU, CAME WITH HEAVEN'S BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, SOFT COOL BREEZE, AND CUPID,

 THEY GOT BURNT IN THE BLAZING FIRE OF YOGIC POWER, AND FLED AS FAST AS THEY CAME

 STANZA 6

 YOU, IN THE FORM OF NARAAYANA, CAME ALONG WITH NARA, AND PLEASED WITH HIM, OFFERED BOONS,

 BUT HE DID NOT WANT ANY THING OTHER THAN CONTINUED DEVOTION TO YOU,

 AND WHEN PRESSED, EXPRESSED A WISH TO SEE THE GREAT FLOOD WONDER THAT

 ONE WHO DOES NOT HAVE ANY SORROWS CAUSED MY MAAYA, WANTS TO EXPERIENCE THEM INSTEAD

STANZA 7

 AFTER YOUR DEPARTURE, HE FOUND HIMSELF IN A VAST OCEAN OF SEVEN SEAS,

 WITH WHIRLING WATERS CAUSED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN FROM THICK BLACK CLOUDS,

 AND LYING IN IT FOR CRORES OF YEARS, SAW FAR IN THE DISTANCE,

 A DARK PRETTY WONDERBOY, WITH TOE IN MOUTH, LYING IN A BANYAN LEAF

 STANZA 8

 WITH HAIR ON END, HE GLADLY SWAM NEAR TO IT,

 WHEN HE WAS DRAWN INTO ITS BELLY, BY ITS BREATH,

 AND SAW THERE THE WHOLE WORLD, AND THEN THROWN OUT,

 SAW HIMSELF AS BEFORE IN HIS HERMITAGE

 STANZA 9

 LORD SHIVA, ALONG WITH SHREEPAARVATHY, APPEARED BEFORE HIM,

 AND LEFT, GIVING BOONS LIKE ETERNAL YOUTH AND IMMORTALITY, WHICH HE HAD ALREADY GOT

 THIS SHOWS THAT SHIVA IS PLEASED BY YOUR WORSHIP, AND THAT YOU COMPRISE THE THREE ASPECTS OF GOD,

 AND THAT YOU ARE THE CONTROLLER OF EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE, AS A WHOLE

 STANZA 10

 IN THE THREESTORIED SATHYALOKAM, THERE ARE THE WORLDS OF BRAHMA, VISHNU, AND SHIVA, ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER RESPECTIVELY,

 ABOVE ALL THESE THREE, IS YOUR VAIKUNTHHAM, WHERE NO TRACE OF MAAYA EXISTS AT ALL,

 THERE, AND IN THE ORIGINAL MATTER, WATER, FROM WHICH DEVELOPED ALL THE WORLDS, AND AMONG COWHERDS,

 YOU, NO OTHER THAN THE UNIVERSAL SELF, EMBODIMENT OF ' SATCHITAANANDA, ‘, LIVED SAVE ME FROM MY ILLNESS, THRIPPOONITHHURAPPA, MY LORD