Translation contd
mercy that knows no reason, and a friend of all good people who prostrate themselves before him :—
[Fire ... fuel. — Cf. Svetasvatara, VI. 19. The state of mergence in Brahman, and the perfect cessation of all activity of the relative plane is meant. The Sloka is an adaptation of the language of Srutis. ]
Sloka #34
- तमाराध्य गुरुं भक्त्या प्रह्वप्रश्रयसेवनैः ।
- प्रसन्नं तमनुप्राप्य पृच्छेज्ज्ञातव्यमात्मनः ॥३४॥
Translation
34. Worshipping that Guru with devotion, and approaching him, when he is pleased with prostration, humility and service, (he) should ask him what he has got to know :—
Sloka #35
- स्वामिन्नमस्ते नतलोकबन्धो कारुण्यसिन्धो पतितं भवाब्धौ ।
- मामुद्धरात्मीयकटाक्षदृष्ट्या ऋज्व्यातिकारुण्यसुधाभिवृष्ट्या ॥३५॥
Translation
3$. O Master, O friend of those that bow to thee, thou ocean of mercy, I bow to thee; save me, fallen as I am into this sea of birth and death, with a straightforward glance of thine eye, which sheds nectar-like grace supreme.
[The expression, abounding in hyperbole, is characteristically Oriental. The meaning is quite plain.]
