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Sixteen Verses of Prayer of Atonement




1. Prenatal Phase

 Life begins in the embryonic stage

Includes congenital defects in cage

Difficulty in birth is many fold

Complications are many to unfold

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you


2. Fetal phase

Swimming in one's own excreta

Bondage begins with the placenta

Karma is the reason to trace back 

Which determines what one lack

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you


3.Infancy 

 Addicted to the breast milk

I cried all day with colic 

I could not move around freely

Fear and insecurity grew easily

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

4. Childhood 

I had no say over my limbs

Was always dependent on things

Primary care givers were scary

Created emotions that made weary

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you5

5. Youth

Feeling proud and arrogant

With great sense of entitlement

Was bitten by snakes of longing 

And personified them as belonging

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

6. Adulthood

Desires kept sprouting making dizzy

Exhausted in the process of being busy

Discrimination was bitten due to this addiction

Created a sense of dependency and affliction

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

7. Midlife crisis

The catch and kill mentality continued

Weakened body, devoid of dancing dreadlocks

Misery of wants and insecurity continued

Miserly adulthood wasted without a direction

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

8. Old age 

With age sense organs lose potency

The organs of action fail slowly

The diseases appear with bereavement 

The loneliness malingers with delusions 

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

9.  Omissions and commissions

Never did I do proper worship

Never did I do proper rituals 

Never did I do Sravanam 

Never did I do Dyanam

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

10. Omissions and commissions

Never did I chant sacred hymns

Never did I do Yoga and pranayama

The list of omissions and commissions

Are extending beyond my cognition

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

11.Omissions and commissions

 Never did I visualized You

Never did I absorb in You

Never did I praise the one who is free of triguna

Never did I worship the one who is free of papa and punya 

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

12.Lack of clarity in pursuit

I was always nurturing likes and dislikes 

I was pursuing Yoga and Kshema 

Never listened to the promise of Gita

Kept wandering here and there forever

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

13. Fleeting nature of Universe

No use with gaining wealth 

No purpose with progeny and family

Nothing is permanent including time and space

Fickle as the ripples in the water

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

14. Removal of cataract by Guru

I was the lady with the flower basket 

Carrying the burden beyond the casket

Sraddha in Guru who opened my eyes

My darkness is burnt with the light 
 
Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you      

15. The self-effulgent Siva

 Life is momentary like a streak of lightning

I salute the self-effulgent consort of Uma

The one whose eyes are sun, moon and fire

The one who is covered with ashes

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

16. Sixteen verses of Prayer of Atonement

     Sixteen represents completeness 

     Sixteen step Puja invokes Isvara

     Sixteen verses of this prayer 

    I surrender at your feet for atonement 

Oh Siva!  Oh, the auspicious Lord of lords!

My omissions and commissions be forgiven by you

Om Tat Sat 

Swamini Svatmavidyananda Bahamas Retreat

Siva Aparadha Ksamapana- Stotram 

 


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