Book Title: Atma Shatakam Or Nirvan Shatakam
Author(s): Shankaracharya
Publisher: B L Institute

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________________ 12. Oh Lord! On the destruction of the four Ghati Karmas (Ench) this phenomenal glory that has been des कर्म cribed in these Eleven Slokas has come about and it is famous in all the three worlds! (of the Devas in heavens, humans and animals on this earth and of the narahas in the hells). To whom does it not cause wonder and amazement? 13 2 4 3 even powerful than the sum itself! Here then poet lets his imagination take over The Lord's body would be so bright that it would be difficult to see for ordinary mortals therefore the Devas have collected all this brightness and put it as an aura behind his head. 14. Oh God of Gods, As a result of the myriads of lives that has lived and hence collected an infinite quantity of Karmas which is a like a dense jungle covering the pure Atma...... there is no other God, but you who has completely and in every way uprooted this vast jungle of Karmas. Oh God! You have (in your previous birth) after often other and after led such good life and followed many of the good practices of Religion, and put a supreme effort for the destruction of the armas. Yet you never cared to get this highest human birth as a Tirthankara with its undescribable glory and wealth... but such was your action that this has been the natural result. ..5

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