O the One, Who is the Lord of the universe, Who is the Lord of the wise, Who is the Lord of the living, Who is brilliant, Who is the supreme ruler, Who is beyond everything, Who is like our son (in the sense of doing everything for us), Who is like our father, Who absolves the cycle of life and death of everyone! Absolve me, who is troubled in this life-cycle of existence, who is bowing to you, who is the fallible one, and who has lost his wisdom and strength.||1||
O the One, Who absolves the cycle of life and death of everyone! Absolve me, who is troubled in this life-cycle of existence, who is without any qualities, poor and polluted at mind, who is away with respect to the protective and endowing glance of Your's, and who is engrossed in the maintenance and fallible activities all the time.||2||
My fish-like-life has fallen into a huge desert, without water, and you can save it by the glance of your merciful-ocean like eyes. O the One, Who absolves the cycle of life and death of everyone! Absolve me, who is troubled in this life-cycle of existence.||3||
O the One, Who absolves the universe, Who is the reason (for everything), Who is the expander of Karma, Who is eternally blissful! I am lost in the ocean-like cycle of life and death. Please bless me with Your mercy and let me float out of it. O the one, Who absolves the cycle of life and death of everyone! Absolve me, who is troubled in this life-cycle of existence.||4||
O the blissful One! Destroy my life, which has flooded this earth with huge amount of sins, and which is the cause of my interest in infinite amount of evil and sinful interests. O the One, Who absolves the cycle of life and death of everyone! Absolve me, who is troubled in this life-cycle of existence.||5||
O the One, Who is the creator of the world, Who liberates from the fear of hell, Who is the absolver of universe, Who revives the fallen ones, Who absorbs (fear, pride, passion, etc.), Who possesses bliss in His hands, Who absolves the cycle of life and death of everyone! Absolve me, who is troubled in this life-cycle of existence, and who (only) chooses to do menial things.||6||
O the One, Who is infallible, Who is blissful, Who is bountiful of boons! I am very thirsty for the ultimate potion (ambrosia), please shower it on me. O the One Who absolves the cycle of life and death of everyone! Absolve me, who is troubled in this life-cycle of existence, and who is getting destroyed by the captivity of ignorance.||7||
I continuously bow to You, Who expurgates the paraphernalia created in the mind by our birth in this world, Who is beyond the qualities, Who is infinite, Who is the way, and Who is the shelter. O the One Who absolves the cycle of life and death of everyone! Absolve me, who is troubled in this life-cycle of existence.||8||
Notes:
¹This is a very beautiful ‘‘nirguna’’ eulogy. The meter is ‘‘to.taka’’.
Poet: Unknown
Source: Stotra Ratnavali — Gitapress
© Stutimandal 2006, Mar 24.
