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

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________________ CHAPTER 10 yer The Praise of Amazement. ( 3724a Ida ) Oh Bhagwan, When I am happy or joyous (towards you), you shower your blessings - i.e. you become happy - towards me. So please, my lord, break the cycle of this inter-dependence and just shower your blessings upon me. Explanation: The author is telling the Lord, that my happiness and joy towards you is an ordinary matter ... while your blessings are of far greater importance. Hence please give up the thought that if I - your servant pleases you, then only you shall be pleased towards me. If I get your blessings I shall undoubtedly be joyous. O Lord! to see your great and wonderous glory and beauty in all its respects - even a person with a thousand eyes is not fully capable of it. Similarly, to speak of all your qualities, a person with a thousand tongues also is not fully capable. (Because, as it is said, God is beyond speech, mind and the intellect!) 3 O Master! You are capable of removing the doubts of even the Devas who live in the heavens known as Annuttar Deva Loka (3167612 aer costas - these Devas lead a life ...2

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