Prayer from Atmarpanastuti of Appayya Dikshitar

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Prayer of the Day

Prayer in Sanskrit 

 

क्षन्तव्यं वा निखिलमपि मॆ भूतभावि व्यलीकं
    दुर्व्यापारप्रवणमथवा शिक्षणीयं मनॊ मॆ ।
न त्वॆवार्त्या निरतिशयया त्वत्पदाब्जं प्रपन्नं
    त्वद्विन्यस्ताखिलभरममुं युक्तमीश प्रहातुम् ॥ ३० ॥

Shloka as Romanized text

 

kShantavyaM vA nikhilam api mE bhUtabhAvi vyalIkaM
    dur vyApAra pravaNam athavA shikShaNIyaM manO mE |
na tvEvArtyA niratishayayA tvatpadAbjaM prapannaM
    tvadvinyastAkhilabharamamuM yuktamIsha prahAtum || 30 ||

(kShantavyaM vA nikhilamapi mE bhUtabhAvi vyalIkaM
    durvyApArapravaNamathavA shikShaNIyaM manO mE |
na tvEvArtyA niratishayayA tvatpadAbjaM prapannaM
    tvadvinyastAkhilabharamamuM yuktamIsha prahAtum ||  )

Meaning of the Prayer Song:

 You either pardon all my past and future offenses or
teach my mind a lesson that indulges in the misdeeds!
Oh Lord! It is not appropriate for You discard me,
who is in unsurpassed suffering, 
surrendered at Your Feet, resting at You all the load I am carrying!

 Notes: 

1. kShantavya - pardon; nikhilam - completely; vyalIka - untruthful;
vyApAra - transaction; niratishaya - unsurpassed; prahAtum - relinquish.

2. When one commits a mistake, the loving people 
either pardon the mistake or make the other realize the mistake
by teaching a lesson. If they discard the one who committed the mistake,
it is the most painful! Appayya Dikshithar pleads the Lord Shiva to
either pardon or teach a lesson to the sinful mind, but never discard
from His Grace!

c.f. இருந்தென்னை ஆண்டுகொள்; விற்றுக்கொள், ஒற்றி வை என்னினல்லால்
   விருந்தினனேனை விடுதி கண்டாய் - திருவாசகம்

புன்மையேனை ஆண்டு ஐயா புறமே போக விடுவாயோ - திருவாசகம்

See Also:
1. Complete Atmarpana stuti in with music