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THE HYMN
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Strange is your might O Lord I Strange is your appearance Strange is your grace towards all creatures You are the supreme master of these rare virtues We make obeisance to you! Lord! You are an uninvoked saviour, motiveless compassionate being, a well-wisher even when unprayed, friend even when unrelated My Lord! Others have fallen back in showing compassion to their benefactors as you have shown compassion even to your malefactors All this is unparallelled 3 I am alone None belongs to me I belong to no one But since I have found refuge in your holy feet, there is no trace of inferiority in me It is hardly feasible that I stay in your kind heart If you condescend to grace my heart with your presence, I will be blessed 6 Free of all attachment! Abiding by your commandment is preforable to worshipping you Obeying your commandment conduces to deliverance and its contravention to bondage It is your perennial command to be discreet about the propriety and impropriety of conduct Asrava, that which leads to bondage, is improper and samvara that which leads to deliverance is proper Wherein the principle is emphasised and the unimportant ignored, such is your logical system, coming home to everybody The non-relative is inconclusive Such be the tirtha established by you that protects one from all disasters and brings about a universal welfare?
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'Vitaragastava', 10/8 lbid 13/1 Ibid 14/5 Ibid 1717 lbid 19/1 Ibid 19/4 'Yuktyanushasana' 61 by Acharya Samantbhadra
