DASAKOM 15

STANZA 1

MIND ATTACHED TO DESIRES IS BINDING, UNATTACHED, LIBERATING,

SINCE THE WAY OF DEVOTION, BHAKTHIYOGA, REMOVES ATTACHMENT

BUT ONLY DEVOTION CAN ERADICATE ATTACHMENT FROM ITS ROOTS

YOU, AS KAPILA, THE SAGE, SAID SO TO DEVAHOOTHI, MY LORD

STANZA 2

WHOEVER KNOWS THAT MAN IS A COMPOUND OF THESE TWENTYFIVE PARTS,

NATURE, EGO, INDIVIDUALITY, HEART AND TEN SENSE ORGANS,

WOULD NOT BE BOUND BY ANY ATTACHMENT AT ALL

YOU, AS KAPILA,  

STANZA 3

MAN IS NOT AFFECTED BY NATURE,

BUT IF HE GETS ATTACHED TO IT,

ITS QUALITIES WILL BECOME PART OF HIM

KAPILA  -

STANZA 4

FIRST PURIFY YOUR MIND, BY PERFORMING ALL THE YOGA STEPS,

AND THEN MEDITATE REGULARLY ON ME,

AS SEATED ON GARUDA, AND AS HANDSOME AS A BLACK LOTUS TREE

KAPILA   

STANZA 5

DEEP DEVOTION IS A STATE OF MIND,

WHEN, FANNED BY HEARING STORIES OF ME,

AND RECITING HYMNS,

LOVE OF YOU WELLS UP LIKE GANGES WATER INTO THE HEART,

AND THAT FREES THE WORLD FROM MORTALITY

STANZA 6

A HOUSEHOLDER TOO,

WHO SPENDS HIS LIFE,

LOOKING AFTER WIFE AND CHILDREN WITH ILLGOTTEN WEALTH,

GAINED BY DEVIOUS WAYS,

SUFFERS VERY MUCH WITHOUT END

KAPILA    -

STANZA 7

SUFFERING TERRIBLE PAIN IN MOTHER'S WOMB,

AND AFTER GETTING A GLIMSE OF TRUTH AT THE TIME OF BIRTH,

BUT IMMEDIATELY LOSING THE MEMORY OF IT,

HE, IN HIS YOUTH, FALLS AGAIN INTO DELUSION

KAPILA  

STANZA 8

A HOUSEHOLDER TOO, WHO DOES ALL HIS DUTIES BY ANCESTORS AND DEVAS,

FALLS INTO THE SOUTHWARD PATH,

WHILE ACTION, WITHOUT WISH, DONE AS AN OFFERING TO ME,

LEADS IN THE NORTHWARD PATH OF LIBERATION, MY LORD

KAPILA   

STANZA 9

THUS BLESSING HER, WHO LEARNT WELL ALL THAT IS TO BE LEARNT,

AND PRAISED YOU WITH HYMNS,

YOU LEFT WITH OTHER YOGIS,

AND DEVAHOOTHI, HER MIND CLEARED OF ALL DOUBTS,

GOT LIBERATION THROUGH THE PATH OF LIBERATION SOON

STANZA 10

AGAIN WHY SAY MORE! YOU SAID THAT DEVOTION TO YOU

WILL FREE FROM FEAR, AND LEAD TO SUCCESS IN ALL WORK

AND SO FREE ME FROM MY ILLNESS,

MAKE MY DEVOTION MORE AND MORE FIRM, MY LORD

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