Kishkindha Kaanda Invocations - Sortas
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Sanskrit Original
मुक्ति जन्म महि जानि ग्यान खानि अघ हानि कर जहँ बस संभु भवानि सो कासी सेइअ कस न।। जरत सकल सुर बृंद बिषम गरल जेहिं पान किय। तेहि न भजसि मन मंद को कृपाल संकर सरिस।।
mukti janma mahi jāni gyāna khāni agha hāni kara jahaom basa saṃbhu bhavāni sō kāsī sēia kasa na.. jarata sakala sura bṛṃda biṣama garala jēhiṃ pāna kiya. tēhi na bhajasi mana maṃda kō kṛpāla saṃkara sarisa..
Why not reside in Kasi (the modern Varanasi), the abode of Sambhu and Bhavani (Goddess Parvati), knowing it to be the birthplace of Mukti (final beatitude), the mine of spiritual wisdom and the destroyer of sins? O stupid mind, how is it that you do not worship Him who drank off the deadly venom (churned out of the ocean of milk at the dawn of creation), the very presence of which was burning all the host of gods? Who else is so merciful as Lord Sankara?