sivaparadha kshamapana stotram-2 by Adi Sankara

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SIVAPARADHA KSAMAPANA STOTRAM

 

By Adi Sankaracharya

(Commentary by Swami Chinmayananda)

 

Sloka I) Adau karmaprasangat kalayati kalusam matrkuksau sthitam mam

Vinmutramedhya madhye kvathayati nitaram jatharo jatavedah

Yadyad vai tatra duhkham vyathayati nitaram sakyate kena vaktum

Kshantavyo me paradhah siva siva siva bhoh srimahadeva sambho.

 

After the death of my last incarnation, under the compulsions of my karma

vasanas, at the fag end of my experiences in different levels of existence, I

came here, first perhaps, as a desire in my father’s heart, then slipped down

into his seeds, and thus reached my mother’s womb. There, having formed into a

rudimentary shape, a foetus, I grew slowly into a recognizable form in some

seven or eight months’ time. Consciousness then dawned in me: I became an

individualized ego, the unique entity ‘I’ possessing a sense of doership and

enjoyership.

 

I suffered the indignity of living in my mother’s womb, in the vicinity of her

intestinal filth, silently enduring the heat of her digestive system and the

continuous rumbling of her body’s workings. For a full nine months and nine days

I suffered thus, without choice, before I emerged out amid the suffocative

discomfort of painful squeezes and strong crushings.

 

All this happened to me due to the vasanas born out of my selfish actions in

the past.

 

Beloved Lord! Dear Parameshvara! Whatever faults I may have committed in the

past, forgive them all. O All-Merciful One!

 

Forgive me. Forgive me. May I never again get condemned to fall into another

womb!

 

 

 

To be continued…

 

Pranams,

Vanaja Ravi Nair

 

 

 

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