Prayer from Atmarpanastuti of Appayya Dikshitar

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Prayer of the Day

Prayer in Sanskrit 

 

यॊ दॆवानां प्रथममशुभद्रावकॊ भक्तिभाजां 
    पूर्वं विश्वाधिक शतधृतिं जायमानं महर्षिः ।
दृष्ट्यापश्यत् सकलजगतिसृष्टिसामर्थ्यदात्र्या
    स त्वं ग्रन्थिप्रविलयकृतॆ विद्यया यॊजयास्मान् ॥ २५ ॥

Shloka as Romanized text

 

yO dEvAnAM prathamamashubhadrAvakO bhaktibhAjAM 
    pUrvaM vishvAdhika shatadhRutiM jAyamAnaM maharShiH |
dRuShTyApashyat sakalajagatisRuShTisAmarthyadAtryA
    sa tvaM granthipravilayakRutE vidyayA yOjayAsmAn || 25 ||

(yO dEvAnAM prathamam ashubhadrAvakO bhaktibhAjAM 
    pUrvaM vishvAdhika shatadhRutiM jAyamAnaM maharShiH |
dRuShTyApashyat sakala jagati sRuShTi sAmarthya dAtryA
    sa tvaM granthi pravilaya kRutE vidyayA yOjayAsmAn ||  )

Meaning of the Prayer Song:

 One, Who is the Primary among divines, 
Who drives away the inauspicious for the devotees,
Who is above all worldly things,
Who saw by the eyes the Brahma - maker of hundred Yagna,
the superior sage - giving him the ability to create all the worlds,
that You, bless me with wisdom with which all the hurdles get thwarted!

 Notes: 

1. drAvaka - chaser; shatadhRuti - One having hundred of yagnas - brahma;
dAtr - to give; granthi - knots; pravilaya - dissolution.

2. c.f. यॊ दॆवानां प्रथमं पुरस्तात् विश्वाधिकॊ रुद्रॊ महर्षिः ।
हिरण्यगर्भं पश्यति जायमानं स नॊ दॆवः शुभया स्मृत्या संयुनक्तु ॥
          - Veda

3.  granthi pravilaya kRutE
In the spiritual journey we find hurdles on the way. 
It is prayed to the Lord Shiva that these hurdles be thwarted
through the wisdom the Lord blesses us with.
In the yogic journey three knots - brahma, vishnu, rudra granthis
- block. They need to be opened out for the yogic journey
to continue. That is prayed for here.

See Also:

1. Complete Atmarpana stuti with music