DIVISION 92

 STANZA 1

 UNDERSTANDING THAT SCRIPTURES SAY THAT ALL ACTIONS SHOULD BE DONE WITHOUT ATTACHMENT TO RESULTS,

 MAY I ATTAIN MOKSHA, BY OFFERING WHATEVER I DO AT YOUR FEET

 MAY MY MIND, WORDS, AND ACTS NEVER TURN TO WHAT IS PROHIBITED BY THEM,

 BUT IF THE PAST IS BEYOND CORRECTION, THAT TOO I OFFER AT YOUR FEET, MY LORD

 STANZA 2

 MAY I BE ABLE TO PLEASE YOU BY PERFORMING KARMAYOGA,

 WHICH IS WORSHIPPING ONE'S FAVOURITE DIETY BY SEEING YOUR PERFECT FORM IN STONE, EARTH, HEART OR ANYWHERE,

 AND PERFORMING POOJA, WITH FLOWERS, INCENSE, OR OTHER OFFERINGS ACCORDING TO ONE'S CAPACITY

 STANZA 3

 ONE CAN SYMPATHISE WITH WOMEN AND SHOODRAS, WHO ARE BARRED FROM EVEN HEARING YOUR STORIES,

 BUT THE BRAHMINS WHO HAVE ACCESS TO YOU, BUT STILL HAVE NO DISCIPLINE,

 AND IN THEIR PRIDE OF BIIRTH, KNOWLEDGE AND OTHER THINGS,

 DONOT WORSHIP YOU ARE A SORRY LOT INDEED

 STANZA 4

 THERE ARE OTHERS, WHO CONTEMPTUOSLY LAUGH LOUDLY AT YOUR DEVOTEES, AND SAY,

 “MY BROTHER IS USELESS, HE WASTES TIME, BY ALWAYS RECITING ' RAMA, KRISHNA, ' ,

 AND BY LISTENING TO THIS SHAMEESS FELLOW, I HAVE LOST MANY A VENTURE' "

 MAY I BE NEVER LIKE THEM

 STANZA 5

 IN KRITHAYUGAM, PEOPLE WORSHIP YOU, AS WHITE IN COLOUR, BY PENANCES,

 IN THRETHA, AS RED, AND BODY MARKED BY GHEE, SPOON, ETCETERA, BY SACRIFICES,

 IN DWAAPARA, AS MIXED-COLOURED, AND WITH WHEEL, GUDGEL, AND OTHERS, BY MANTRAWAADA, BY RITUALS,

 IN KALIYUGA, AS BLACK, BY RECITAL OF HYMNS AND OTHERS

 STANZA 6

 THAT KALIYUGA IS NOW AT ITS PEAK, MY LORD,

 WHEN YOU ARE PLEASED BY PRAYERS, AND NO OTHER EFFORT AT ALL ITHA

 EVEN THOSE TOO BORN IN THRETHA, KRITHA AND OTHER YUGAS, WANT TO BE BORN IN KALIYUGA,

 AND PLEASE DONOT DECEIVE ME, WHO WAS LUCKY TO BE BORN AT THIS TIME

 STANZA 7

 IN KALIYUGA, THE DEVOTEES ARE THOSE WHO ARE MOSTLY BORN SOUTH OF THE VINDHAS

 AND EVEN THERE, IN THE AREA, BOUNDED BY THE RIVERS, KRITHAMALA, KAAVERI, AND THAMRAPARNI,

 AND DONOT CATCH ME BORN ACCIDENTALLY THERE,

 WITH THE BAIT OF WORLDLY PLEASURES, PLEASE

 STANZA 8

 PAREEKSHIT, SEEING KALI ATTACKING DHARMA, DREW HIS SWORD,

 BUT DID NOT KILL HIM, SEEING SOME GOOD EVEN IN HIM

 HIS MISCHIEFS WILL NOT SUCCEED, HE IS AFRAID OF YOU,

 PLEASE RESTRAIN HIM FROM STEALING HEALTH THROUGH DISEASES, MY LORD

 STANZA 9

 THE SAINTS HAVE SAID THAT THESE EIGHT THINGS, NAMELY GANGES, GEETHA, GAAYATHREE, EKAADASHI, RECITAL OF YOUR NAMES, THULASI, THE TURMERIC PASTE, AND SACRED SANDALWOOD, WILL ALL LEAD TO MOKSHA,

 AND MAKE ME PRACTISE THEM WITHOUT FAIL, My LORD

 STANZA 10

 WHOEVER TAKES REFUGE IN YOU, GIVING UP ALL STRESSFUL ACIVITIES,

 WILL NOT BE A BORROWER OR A SERVANT OF GODS AND ANCESTRAL SPIRITS,

 AND YOU ERADICATE WHATEVER WRONG

 ONE COMMITS, ENTERING, AND SITTING IN, HIS HEART

    

 DASAKOM 93

 STANZA 1

 I, WITH YOUR KIND HELP, SHALL CONCENTRATE ON YOU, GIVE UP ATTACHMENT TO MY PEOPLE,

 AND SEEING ALL AS ONE, MOVE AROUND LOOKING ON ALL THINGS AS A PLAY OF MAAYA

 WHEN I, HAVING OVERCOME THE SENSE OF SEPARATENESS OF THINGS, DEVELOP THE POWER OF DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD,

 HOW CAN THERE BE PRESCRIBIING OR PROHIBITING OF ACTS, FOR ME WHO HAS OVERCOME THE FEELING OF SEPARATENESS OF EXISTENCE!

 STANZA 2

 LET THERE BE BEINGS WITHOUT LIMIT, WHO LIVE ONLY TO EAT AND DRINK,

 AND AMONG THEM, MAN IS SUPERIOR, BECAUSE OF HIS KNOWLEDGE, AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO BE BORN AS SUCH,

 AND HE, WHO WORSHIPS YOU FOR ALLEVIATION OF HIS MISERIES

 IS HIS OWN FRIEND, OTHERS, THEIR OWN ENEMIES THEMSELVES

 STANZA 3

 ONCE YOUR KINDNESS IS THERE, WHO DOES NOT SERVE AS TEACHER OF THE ART OF LIFE!

 PATIENCE FROM EARTH, WHICH DOES NOT MOVE EVEN WHEN TRAMPLED BY ALL,

 DETACHMENT FROM WIND, WHICH DOES NOT ATTACH TO ANYTHING IT BLOWS THROUGH,

 OMNIPRESCENCE OF SOUL, AND DETACHMENT FROM SKY, WHICH DOES NOT STICK TO ANYTHING THAT EXISTS IN IT

 STANZA 4

 MAY I BE CLEAN LIKE AIR, SWEET LIKE WATER,

 AND LIKE FIRE, NOT BE HARMED, EVEN WHEN IT EATS ALL THINGS,

 AND THE SOUL'S PRESCENCE IN EVERYTHING,

 LIKE ITS PRESCENCE IN ALL THE TREES

 STANZA 5

 MAY I NOT BE FRUSTRATED BY CALAMITIES, LIKE THE DOVE WHICH KILLED ITSELF, WHEN ITS SON WAS CAUGHT BY A HUNTER,

 MAY I BE ABLE TO STAND HUNGER AND THIRST, LIKE THE PYTHON, WHICH EATS ONLY WHAT IT GETS, AND LIKE THE DEEP SEE, NOT BE SHALLOW,

 AND MAY I NOT SUFFER FROM TOO MUCH LOVE OF WOMAN, AS DOES THE BEE, WHICH GETS BURNT IN FIRE,

 AND, LIKE, THE BEE WHICH GATHERS ONLY THE ESSENTIAL GOOD FROM THINGS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, NOT GET KILLED BY STORING THINGS IN ITS NEST

 STANZA 6

 MAY I NOT BE KILLED 'LBY EXCESSIVE LOVE, M LIKE THE ELEPHANT W,HICH IS DRAWN INTO THE HUNTER'S TRAP BY A SHEELEPHANT,

 MAY I NOT LIKE THE HONEYBEE GO AFTER TOO MUCH WEALTH, WHICH GET STOLEN BY THIEVES, AND NOT BE OVERWHELMED BY CHEAP VILLAGE SONGS,

 AND, LIKE FISH BY BAIT, NOT BE ATTACHED TOO MUCH TO PLEASURES, AND SLEEP UNDISTURBED, LIKE PINGALA, WHOM HER LOVERS HAD ABANDONED, AND

 GET FAT, LIKE HIMALAYAN ANTELOPE, WHICH IS KILLED FOR MEAT

 STANZA 7

 MAY I SLEEP UNDISTURBED, LIKE A BABY, WITH NO SHAME,

 AND MOVE WITHOUT RUBBING ONE ANOTHER, LKE A GIRL'S ONLY ONE BANGLE,

 AND LIKE THE ARROWMAKER, NOT HEAR THE LOUD SOUND OF CELEBRATION OF THE KING'S TRAVELS,

 AND LIVE IN HOUSES MADE BY OTHERS, AS THE SNAKE DOES, IN THE HOLES OF BANDICOOTS

 STANZA 8

 MAY I LEARN FROM THE SPIDER, WHICH MAKES THE WEB AND THEN DESTROYS IT, HOW YOU CREATE THE WORLD AND THEN DESTROY IT,

 AND FROM THE WORM IN THE BUD, THAT DEVELOPS, AFTER BROODING FOR SOME TIME, INTO A BEE,

 AND FROM THE BODY, THAT IS NO MORE THAN DIRT AND ASHES, WHICH TEACHES US DISCRIMINATION AND DETACHMENT WHEN ONE THINKS OF IT,

 ESPECIALLY MINE, PLAGUED BY ALL SORTS OF DISEASES, MY LORD

 STANZA 9

 KRISHNA, HELP ME TO OVERCOME THIS IDENTIFICATION, BECAUSE OF WHICH, OCCUPIED WITH CARE OF WIFE AND CHILD, NEGLECT YOUR WORSIP

 AND THIS BODY, THE FEED OF FIRE OR DOG IN THE END, PULLS US HERE AND THERE, BUT ALAS! , NEVER TOWARDS YOU

 STANZA 10

 IF THIS IDENTIFICATION IS UNAVOIDABLE, PLEASE SAVE ME FROM MY ILLNESSES,

AND KEEP MY DEVOTION MORE AND MORE FIRM,

 PLEASE DONOT HURL THIS BRAHMIN'S BODY, ACHIEVED AT THE END OF SEVERAL BIRTHS,

 INTO THE SEA OF WORLDLY PLEASURES, MY LORD MEANWHILE HELP ME, MY LORD

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DASAKOM 94

 STANZA 1

 THOSE WHO, LEARNING FROM GREAT TEACHERS, YOUR NATURE, WHICH IS BEYOND THE GRASP OF SKIN AND SENSES, AND THUS PURIFIED,

 REALIZE YOUR PRESCENCE IN ALL THINGS, AND THAT YOUR VARIOUSNESS, SLIMNESS AND OTHER HUMAN QUALITIES ARE ATTRIBUTED BY US,

 LIKE FIRE, WHICH IS PRESENT IN VARIOUS TREES,

 AND ARE THOUGHT TO BE HOT, RED BIG, ETCETERA By US

 STANZA 2

 WHEN THE TEACHER, LIKE THE TOP PLATE, INTERACTS WITH THE STUDENT, LIKE WITH THE BOTTOM PLATE,

 WHEN THE FOREST OF SEPARATENESS, NURTURED BY THE ALL THE IMPULSES OF THE PAST

 IS BURNT TO ASHES, IN THE BRIGHT FLAME OF KNOWLEDGE,

 AND, FOR WANT OF FUEL, IT CEASES TO BURN, COMES THE REALIZATION OF ONENESS WITH YOU

 STANZA 3

 THERE IS NO WAY OTHER THAN YOUR WORSHIP, TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS OF EXISTENCE,

 THE SIX TYPES OF MEDICAL TREATMENT, AND THE SIX TYPES OF KARMAYOGA, ARE RID WITH UBCERTAITY, LIKE AGRICULTURE,

 THE VEDAS ARE, BECAUSE OF MANY ARCHAIC WORDS, DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTANTD,

 BUT SOME, WHO ATTAINED THE RESULTS OF WOFSHIPPING YOU,

 UNFORTUNATELY TURN VAIN, AND, WHEN THEY FALL, SUFFER MISERIES WITHOUT END

 STANZA 4

 WHICH OTHER WORLD THAN YOURS IS WITHOUT FEAR! EVEN BRAHMA IN SATHYALOKAM TREMBLES IN FEAR, AT THE END OF TWO YUGAS,

 AND WHAT CAN WE SAY OF SINNERS, WHO ARE IN DEPTHS OF DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE CAUSED BY BAD DEEDS OF THE PAST!

 PLEASE KINDLY CUT MY BOND OF MISERIES, MY LORD

 STANZA 5

 ACTUALLY, I AND YOU ARE ONE, AND THERE NO BONDAGE OR FREEDOM, FOR ME TOO,

 THEY ARE CREATED BY THE BODY AND MAAYA'S MAGIC, LIKE DREAM AND SLEEP,

 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BONDAGE LIBERATION WHILE LIVING, IS ONLY THIS MUCH,

 WHILE ONE, SITTING ON THE TREE OF LIFE ENJOYS THE SENSUAL PLEASURES,

 THE OTHER DOES NOT DO SO

 STANZA 6

 WHAT IS THE USE OF SAYING THAT LIBERATION WHILE LIVING IS LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT?

 IT IS FAR AWAY, FOR IMPURE MINDS, AND THE ONLY WAY OF PURIFYING MIND, IS DEVOTION TO YOU

 O GOD, CREATE IN ME THAT INTENSE DEVOTION, AS AN OFFERING AT YOUR FEET,

 SO THAT, TAUGHT BY GREAT TEACHERS I CAN ATTAIN IDENTIFICATION WITH YOU

 STANZA 7

 SOME, WHO HAVE STUDIED BOOKS ON ALL SUBJECTS, WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING, CARRY COW, WHICH IS BEYOND THE AGE OF BEARING CHILDREN,

 AND MAY I UTTER NO WORD OTHER THAN WHAT NARRATES YOUR ENCHANTING STORIES OR DESCRIBES YOUR BODY, FULL OF THE ONE UNIVERSAL TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS

 STANZA 8

 I DONOT UNDERSTAND, WHO, HOW BIG, AND OF WHAT SHAPE, YOU ARE, AND SO I SHALL CONTINUE TO WORSHIP YOU, MY LORD,

 MAY I HAVE THE OPPURTUNITY TO SEE AND TOUCH THOSE WHO WEAR YOUR MARKS, AND WHO WORSHIP AT YOUR FEET,

 WITH CONTINUED INTEREST IN THE RITUALS OF WORSHIP,

 AND PROSTRATING BEFORE YOU, RECITE HYMNS OF PRAISE

 STANZA 9

 I LAY AT YOUR FEET ALL I GET, I AM YOUR SERVANT,

 AND WANT ONLY TO SWEEP AND WASH YOUR TEMPLE PREMISES,

 AND SEE YOUR FOURARMED FORM IN THE SUN,

 FIRE, BRAHMINS, AND IN ONESELF, MY LORD

 STANZA 10

 INTEGRATION WITH YOU, DIFFIULT EVEN FOR SAANKHYAYOGIS,

 THE FORTUNATE GOPIS EASILY GOT BY LOVE,

 AND MORE THAN OTHERS' YOU VALUE THEIRS,

 THEREFORE DEEPEN MY DEVOTION, AND SAVE ME FROM MY ILLNESSES, MY LORD

DASAKOM 95

 STANZA 1

 YOU TOOK IN THE BEGINNING, THE CREATOR'S FORM, AND THEN THAT OF A LIVING BEING,

 AND NOW REMAIN IN A BODY, MADE OF THE THREE GUNAS, THEN MAY I BECOME ONE WITH YOU, WITH INCREASED SATHVAGUNA, IN THE FORM OF DEVOTION,

 AND THEN, RENOUNCING EVEN THAT, BECOME ONE WITH YOU

 STANZA 2

 WHEN, THE ACTIVE PART, RAJOGUNAM, DEVELOPS, ATTACHMENT TO THE PLEASURES OF LIFE,

 IN SPITE OF KNOWING IT IS BAD, IS UNAVOIDABLE, MY LORD

 THE MIND AND IMPULSES OF NATURE ARE FULLY INTERTWINED ONEANOTHER,

 AND IT IS POSSIBLE TO BREAK THIS BOND, ONLY BY DEVOTION, YOU, IN THE FORM OF SWAN, SAID

 STANZA 3

 THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS TO HAPPINESS, AVAILABLE FOR VARIOUS TASTES,

 AND MOST OF THEM ARE TRANSIENT AND PROVIDE ONLY PETTY JOYS

 YOU TOLD YOUR FRIEND THAT THE GREATEST HAPPINESS COMES FROM ONLY DEVOTION

 WHERE IS ENJOYMENT OF WORLDLY SENSUOUS THINGS, COMPARED TO DEVOTION, MY LORD!

 STANZA 4

 YOUR DEVOTEE, WHO MOVES CAREFREE, WILL BE HAPPY EVERYWHERE, AS, FOR A DWELLER INSIDE WATER, EVERYWHERE IS ONLY WATER,

 DOES NOT WANT SATHYALOKAM, YOGIC ATTAINMENTS, NOT EVEN THE JOY OF LIBERATION, GAINED WITHOUT EFFORT OF ANY SORT

 STANZA 5

 YOUR DEVOTEE, EXPOSED TO ATTACK BY SENSUOUS PLEASURES, FOR WANT OF SELFCONTROL, WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THEM, SINCE THEY ARE POWERLESS AGAINST YOUR DEVOTEES,

 WHEN LIKE FIRE, WHICH BURNS FUEL IN ITS LEAPING FLAME, YOUR DEVOTION BURNS OUT ALL SINS, WHERE IS ITS PRIDE?, MY LORD

 STANZA 6

 HOW CAN THE MIND BE PURIFIED, EXCEPT THROUGH THE MELTING OF HEART IN THE WARM TEARS OF JOY, AND TINGLING OF SKIN! ,

 WHEN MY SELF, WASHED CLEAN BY THE MEDICINAL EYEBKLACK OF YOUR ENCHANTING STORIES, NOT BY THE STUDY OF MANY LOGIC BOOKS,

 LIKE THE EYE, WILL SEE THE DEEP-LYING TRUTH OF THE WORLD WITHOUT DIMNESS OF ANY SORT

 STANZA 7

 I SHALL PRACTISE MEDITATION, SITTING STRAIGHT COMFORTABLY IIN SUKHAASANAM,, AND PURIFYING MY MIND BY CONTROLLING BREATH WITH POORAKA AND OTHERS, SEEING YOU, BEAUTIFULLY DARK, LIKE THE BLUE LOTUS, INSIDE THE HEART, IMAGINED TO BE A DIVINE LOTUS POINTING UP, ABOVE WHICH ARE SEATED THE SUN, BRAHMA AND FIRE

 STANZA 8

 I SEE IN MY MIND YOU, WITH BLACK THICK HAIR, FISHSAPED EARRINGS, SMILE BLOOMING ON YOUR LIP, ADORNED WITH THE PRETTY KOUSTHUBHA GEM, FLOWER GARLAND AND NECKLACE, SHREEVATSA MARK, GOLDEN-YELLOW CLOTHES, BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES, LOTUS-PINK FEET, MY LORD UNT

 STANZA 9

 FIRST I SHALL WITH MOUMTING ENTHUSIASM, CONCENTRATE ON ALL YOUR LIMBS TOGETHER AT ONE TIME,

 THEN ONE BY ONE, BEGINNING WITH YOUR SMILING FACE,

 AND AFTER DWELLING ON IT FOR SOME TIME,

 START ALL OVER AGAIN, IMMERSED IN YOUR BLISSFULLY CONSCIOUS FORM

 STANZA 10

 THUS AS MY MEDITATION PROGRESSES, ABILITY TO HEAR DISTANT SOUNDS

AND MANY OTHER SUCH POWERS WILL COME IN A TORRENT,

 BUT I WILL DISMISS THEM, AND ADHERE ONLY TO YOUR FORM,

WHICH GIVES JOY MUCH MORE THAN OTHER ATTAINMENTS CAN EVER GIVE

DASAKOM 96

 STANZA 1

 YOU ARE BRAHMA ITSELF, “A “AMONG LETTERS, THAARA AMONG MANTHRAS, MANU AMONG KINGS,

 BHRIGU AND NAARADA AMONG SAINTS, PRAHLAADA AMONG ASURAS, SURABHI AMONG COWS WHO IS

 GARUDA AMONG BIRDS, ANANTHA AMONG SNAKES, GANGES AMONG RIVERS,

 KRISHNA, BODY HOLDS THE WHOLE WORLD INSIDE IT

 STANZA 2

 YOU ARE MAHAABALI AMONG THOSE, WHO GIVE BRAHMINS ALL THEY WANT, AMONG YAGYAS, YOU ARE JAPAYAGYA, RECITAL OF HOLY NAMES,

YOU ARE ARJUNA AMONG THE ARCHERS, YOU ARE UDHHAVA AMONG DEVOTEES, YOU ARE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG, YOU ARE ENERGY OF THE ENERGETIC,

 THERE IS NO LIMIT TO YOUR POWERS, YOU ARE ALL THAT IS GREAT, YOU ARE ALL THAT LIVES,

 YOU ARE THE ELEMETARY MATTER FROM WHICH THE WORLD IS MADE, THERE IS NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE, WHICH IS NOT YOU, MY LORD

 STANZA 3

 HE, WHO WITH DEVOTION TO YOU, PERFORMS THE DUTIES PRESCIBED

 BY SCRIPTURES FOR DIFFERENT CASTES AT DIFERENT STAGES IN LIFE,

 REALIZE WHEN COMPLETE DETACHMENT ARISES INSIDE, THAT YOU ARE THE "I"

 THAT IS THE ULTIMATE TRUTH APPEARING DIFFERENT, BUT REALLY NOT DIFFERENT, IN ALL BEINGS, MY LORD

 STANZA 4

 ALL THESE THREE, KNOWLEDGE, ACTION, DEVOTION EASILY LEAD TO YOU,

 KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT THE LEAST ATTACHMENT OF ANY KIND,

 AND THE PATH OF ACTION IS FOR THOSE BORN ACTIVE

 WHILE, FOR THOSE, NOT COMPLETELY ATTACHED, NOR COMPLETELY DETACHED, DEVOTION IS THE SUITABLE PATH

 STANZA 5

 KNOWLEDGE OR REALIZATION LEAD FAST TO MOKSHA, AND BOTH THOSE IN HEAVEN AND IN HELL

 PLEASE, PILOT ME, FORTUNATELY BORN IN THE BODY OF A MAN,

 WHICH IS LIKE A BOAT FOR CROSSING THE SEA OF LIFE-DEATH CYCLE,

 WITH GURU, SERVING AS THE WIND, MY LORD

 STANZA 6

 THOSE WHO SEEK YOUR FORM, AND WANT TO GET MORE AND KNOWLEDGE,

 REALIZE YOU, AFTER SEVERAL BIRTHS, AND THOSE WHO WORK FOR IT BY TAKING ACTION AS THE WAY TO REALIZATION,

 MAY REACH YOU AFTER SEVERAL BIRTHS WHILE THE WAY OF DEVOTION, BHAKTHIYOGA, TAKES ONE THERE WITHOUT ANY EFFORT AT ALL

 LET ME ADHERE TO THAT BHAKTHIYOGA, WHICH IS, FROM THE BEGINNING PLEASANT, AND WHICH QUICKLY TAKES ONE TO YOU, MY LORD

 STANZA 7

 THE SAGES DONT ADVISE TOO MUCH EFFORT FOR ONLY KNOWLEDGE, AND HE, WHO HAS UNDERSTOOD YOUR TRUTH, AND PRACTISES BHAKTHYOGA, REACHES YOU IN NO TIME,

 LET THAT BHAKTHIYOGA GROW MORE AND MORE IN ME, AND TAKE ME TO YOU FAST!

 AND MEDITATION IS NOT EASY, BECAUSE OF THE MIND'S RESTLESSNESS,

 BUT MIND CONTROL IS POSSIBLE, THROUGH YOUR GRACE AND YOUR BEAUTY, MY LORD

 STANZA 8

 EVEN AFTER BEING DETACHED FROM PLEASURES, AND GETTING DEVOTED TO YOU

 I AM NOT ABLE TO GIVE UP ALL ACTIONS COMPLETELY, THOUGH KNOWING THEY ARE BAD,

 AND SO, SHALL WITH MORE DETERMINATION, CONTINUE MY DEVOTION, KEEPING MY MIND IN THOUGHT OF YOU ALWAYS

 AND ALL ATTACHMENTS WILL DIE OUT, WHEN YOU ARE PRESENT IN THE MIND

 STANZA 9

 ONCE A BRAHMIN, WHO LOST ALL HIS WEALTH MADE WITH TROUBLE, WHEN ASKED BY PEOPLE, ANSWERED,

 “IT IS NOT MY PEOPLE, NOR TIME OR PAST ACTIONS, THAT IS THE CAUSE, IT IS ONLY MY RESTLESSNESS OF MIND”

 AND FINDING PEACE IN RENUNCIATION, GOT YOU

 MAY I TOO HAVE SUCH MENTAL PEACE ALWAYS

 STANZA 10

 THE KING, YAYAATHI, ONCE FELL IN LOVE WITH URVASHI,

 AND AFTER SEVERAL YEARS, BECAME DETACHED TO WORLDLY PLEASURES,

 FULLY DEVOTED TO YOU, MOVED AROUND, WITH NO CARE

 MAKE ME THUS FIND PEACE, AND PROTECT ME FROM DISEASES OF ALL ILLNESSES, PLEASE

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 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

 

DASAKOM 98

 STANZA 1

 THAT, IN WHICH, FROM WHICH, FROM WHOM EVOLVED ALL THIS WE SEE,

 AND BY WHOSE LIGHT, THE WHOLEII IS LIT,

 WHO IS BEYOND WORDS AND MIND, WHOSE REAL FORM

 IS NOT KNOWN EVEN TO SAGES OR DEVAS, WHAT TO SAY OF OTHERS?

TO THAT YOU, I BOW DOWN MY LORD

 STANZA 2

 I BOW TO YOU, WHO HAS NO BIRTH, NO NAME, HA S NO NEED OF ACTION,

 WHO, TO HELP THE WORLD, COMES TO EARTH, SUBJECTING YOURSELF TO THESE ILLUSIONARY GUNAS

 AND THOUGH, FORMLESS ALL-PERVADING SPIRIT,

 ASSUMES SEVERAL FORMS, TO THE WONDERMENT OF ALL

 STANZA 3

 NOT ANIMAL NOR MEN, NOT DEVAS NOR ASURAS, NOT FEMALE NOR MALE,

 NOT SUBSTANCE, NOR MOVEMENT, NOR GROUP, NOT GOOD NOR BAD, NONE OF THESE IS SAID TO BE YOUR TRUE FORM,

 AND WHAT IS THEN UNDERSTOOD WITH DIFFICULTY FROM SCRIPTURES BY SUGGESTION,

 IS THE BLISSFULLY CONSCIOUS FEELING, THAT IS YOU, TO WHOM I BOW IN VENERATION, MY LORD

 STANZA 4

 REFLECTED IN MAAYA, YOU CREATE THE ILLUSIONARY WORLD,

 DISTIGUISHED BY MATTER, IDENTITY ELEMENARY PARTICLES, BODY CELLS, AND SENSES,

 THEN, BY THE UNSTOPPABLE MIGHT OF TIME, DRAWING EVERYTHING IN, LIKE A TORTISE ITS LIMBS,

 SHINE BRIGHT IN THE DEEP DARKNESS, ENVELOPING ALL, AND TO THAT YOU, I BOW, MY LORD

 STANZA 5

 ESSENCE OF ALL BOOK KNOWLEDGE, OF ALL ATIVITY, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES OF MATTER, TIME,

 YOU, THE ONLY CAUSE OF THE WORLD, BUT BEING EVERYTHING, APPEARING AS ALL THINGS,

 THAT TOO, WHICH IS SUNG IN UPANISHADS, AS THE SUPREME FORM OF MAN,

 AND BY MERELY A LOOK, STIRS MATTER TO CHURN OUT THE WORLD, IS YOU, TO WHOM I BOW, MY LORD

 STANZA 7

 THE IGNORANCE CAUSED BY MAAYA, WHICH CANNOT BE CALLED REAL OR UNREAL, GOOD OR BAD,

 PRODUCES THE ILLUSION OF THE WORLD, AS THE ILLUSION OF THE ROPE TO

BE SEEN AS A SNAKE

 STANZA 8

 DUE TO FEAR OF WHOM, THE SUN RISES, THE FIRE BURNS, THE WIND BLOWS, EVEN BRAHMA AND OTHERS DO THEIR DUTIES ON TIME,

 BY WHOM THEY ARE LIFTED, AND THEN DROPPED, WE TOO BEND OUR HEADS BEFORE YOU, MY LORD

 STANZA 9

 WE ALSO BOW BEFORE YOU, WHO PRTOTECTS THE THREE WORLDS, WHOM THE COMBIINED SET OF THREE SOUNDS EXPRESS,

 WHO IS THREE PERSONS IN ONE, WHOSE SHAPE IS SUNG BY THE THREE VEDAS,

 WHO SEES THE THREE TIMES, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, WHO WAS BORN IN THREE YUGAS,

 WHO, IN THREE STEPS, COVERED THE THREE WORLDS, WHO ALSO DOES NOT CHANGE AT THREE TIMES, AND WHOM WE WORSHIP BY THREE YOGAS, MY LORD.

 STANZA 10

 YOUR BODY, THE ONLY REAL, PURE, ALL-KNOWING, ETERNALLY FREE, NOT AFFECTED BY WISHES,

 UNEQUALLED, CHANGELESS, SEAT OF ALL THAT IS GOO

 SELF-BORN, BLEMISHLESS, POWERFUL WITHOUT LIMIT, RESIDING IN THE MINDS OF SAINTS,

 WHO DONOT WANT ANYTHING, FULL OF AN UNLIMITETED JOY?

 STANZA 11

 MAY YOUR WHEEL OF TIME, ROLLING AT A TREMENDOUS SPEED,

 TWELVE-SPOKED, INESCAPABLE, CUTTING ALL AS IT RUNS,

 NOT TORTURE ME, WHO HAS NO OTHER HELP THAN YOU

 HELP ME, LORD OF GURUVAOOR, WHO IS EXTREMELY GENEROUS, AT ALL TIMES