* The Shivastotravali of Utpaladeva *
When everything in the world is in your form,
How could there be a place
Not suitable for devotees?
Where in the world does their mantra
Fail to bear fruit?
Triumphant are they, intoxicated
With the celestial drink of devotion.
They are beyond duality
Yet retain you as “the other.”
Only those who are immersed
In the joy of fervent devotion
Know the essence, O Lord,
Of your boundless ocean of bliss.
You alone, O Lord, are the self of all.
And everyone naturally loves his own self.
Thus victorious becomes the one who knows
That devotion is inherent in all.
Lord! When the objective world has dissolved
Through a state of deep meditation,
You stand alone—
And who does not see you then?
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