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

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________________ : 16 : are of wo% Explanation: Here the author has become quite passionate and wishes to say "May the fire burn them up" but realises that it would not be right, so stops himself. He realises everyone who forms the besede variety of Karmaç by showing aversion to God is bound to pay the price as per the Law of Karma....... so why should be show hatred by use of such strong language. 5 Oh my Omniscient Lord! Those who say that your Religion and other Religions are really equally good and similar; such men have been really subjugated by ignorance (87 sliot ). In reality, they have equated the immortal nectar ( Fidī<T) with poison (reti ). -- Oh Lord! May those who are jealous of you, become deaf and dramb! Explanation: A question arises that to think so ill of anyone, and that too by a great devotee of the Lord, who is kindness personified to all, is this correct? The answer is that this is in reality not thinking 111 of them, but really thinking well of them. Thus: When one is bent on sinning, the defects in the sense organs stops heh them from it and so the future is far better. one Oh Lord of all, those who have everyday truly followed this nectar like preachings of yours and absorbed themselves in them - let me bow down to them in reverence. I fold my hands in doing so and pray to them in various ways (उपासना ). ..17

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