Dakshinamurty stotram English verse translation

Dakshinamurty stotram

(Meditation on one’s own self as one’s guide)

The idea in this poem is called Advaita Vedanta.  This poem can be seen as the concise version of the book Viveka Choodamani. Both Vivekachoodamani and Dakshinamurty Stotram are known to have been authored by Sri Shankaracharya who is known for bringing Vedanta in general and Advaita Vedanta in particular into light. Self -nonself distinction and the theory of 'All is self and Self is all' are the subject matter of both Vivekachoodamani and Dakshinamoorty Stotram.

                              I

The world is like a city seen inside

a mirror; being there in own inside.  

In self he sees as if projected out

By Maya’s work as dream in sleep is seen

When wakes he turns to see it face to face

The in and out not two but one his self

His Face to South the smiling one to that

My guiding form I bow within me now.

                                II

The world around is like a germ in seed
The detail not to see before it sprouts
But later space and time and all the thrill
unfold around by Maya’s wonderwork.
He is the one who spreads it all around
At will the way the Yogis great create
Or like the magic-doer who performs 
His Face to South the smiling one to that
My guiding form I bow within me now.

                               III

Who flashed in mind illuminates the truth
That has the form of beingness along
with that which almost means ‘does not exist’.
Who teaches all approaching him for help,
With Veda’s sentence ‘That Thou Art’ direct
By Seeing Him directly self does not
Return to birth in sea of births and deaths.
His Face to South the smiling one to that
My guiding form I bow within me now

                               IV

As blaze of beams of light of mighty lamp
Inside a pot with several holes pervades
From eyes and all the other sensing parts
diffuses knowingness around the world.
The world is shining only after that
the glow of sense ‘I know this thing’ of Him.
His Face to South the smiling one to that
My guiding form I bow within me now

                              V

The 'I' to some the body some the life
 and some the senses some the fluid mind
 some naught, naive and childish thoughtless dull.
 Delluded make a lot of arguements.
 He kills the great hallucination that
 the Maya's playful act creates in them. 
His Face to South the smiling one to that
My guiding form I bow within me now
 
                                 VI
The dazzling Sun and lustrous moon appear
to have withdrawn the rays behind eclipse
The person (called the self) resembles that
He gets to total sleep when Maya shrouds
withdraws the senses dwells to just exist
When wakes recollects "was asleep  so far"
His Face to South the smiling one to that
My guiding form I bow within me now
 

                                  VII

In Childhood youth and age throughout the life
In waking dreaming sleeping deep throughout
In all the phases stages states persists
to keep to flash within as sense of 'I'
He brings to fore himself, that self his own
by using charming gesture of his hand    
His Face to South the smiling one to that
My guiding form I bow within me now

                               VIII

This person called the self perceives the world
Divorced from self and made of different things
and their relations like the cause-effect,  
the owner-owned, the teacher-student and
 the parent-child; in dream or conscious state
 the same mistake;  misled by Maya's force.
His Face to South the smiling one to that
My guiding form I bow within me now 

                                           IX

The earth, the water-world, the fire, the wind
The space, the sun, the moon, the person 'self'
immobile mobile all this, so appears
his only is the eight-fold set of forms
apart from this the all-pervading one
surpassing all, enquirers nothing found
His Face to South the smiling one to that
My guiding form I bow within me now

               Benefit Statement

The present praising poem titled as
The Truth of Everything as Self alone 
by hearing next reflecting on the  sense,
and being quite absorbed in final sense,
and singing loudly feeling all the sense,
along with great enormous power of
attaining  state of self as everything
the level of controller of the world
controling power taking eight-fold form
results thereafter on its own for sure