ශිව මානස පූජා is a luminous devotional hymn composed by Adi Shankaracharya, teaching that worship can be performed inwardly even when external materials are absent. The devotee imagines a complete royal worship of Lord Shiva: seat, bath, garments, sandal paste, flowers, food, music, circumambulation, prostration, and finally the surrender of every action.
Adi Shankaracharya is remembered as the great Advaita Vedanta teacher who established the non-dual vision of the Upanishads while also composing stotrams that help ordinary devotees refine emotion into contemplation. In this hymn he does not oppose ritual worship; he interiorizes it. Every outer offering becomes a purified mental movement, showing how භක්ති and ජ්ඤාන can strengthen one another.
රත්නෛඃ කල්පිතමාසනං හිමජලෛඃ ස්නානං ච දිව්යාංබරං
නානාරත්න විභූෂිතං මෘගමදා මෝදාංකිතං චංදනම් ।
ජාතී චංපක බිල්වපත්ර රචිතං පුෂ්පං ච ධූපං තථා
දීපං දේව දයානිධේ පශුපතේ හෘත්කල්පිතං ගෘහ්යතාම් ॥ 1 ॥
Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
O Lord, treasure of compassion and Lord of all beings, I inwardly offer you a jewel-studded seat, a bath with cool water, and divine garments. I offer sandal paste scented with musk, ornaments of many jewels, jasmine, champaka flowers, sacred bilva leaves, incense, and a shining lamp. Please accept this worship that has been formed in my heart.
සෞවර්ණේ නවරත්නඛංඩ රචිතේ පාත්රේ ඝෘතං පායසං
භක්ෂ්යං පංචවිධං පයෝදධියුතං රංභාඵලං පානකම් ।
ශාකානාමයුතං ජලං රුචිකරං කර්පූර ඛංඩෝජ්ජ්චලං
තාංබූලං මනසා මයා විරචිතං භක්ත්යා ප්රභෝ ස්වීකුරු ॥ 2 ॥
Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
In a golden vessel decorated with nine gems, I offer ghee, sweet milk-rice, five kinds of food, milk, curd, bananas, a sweet drink, many vegetable dishes, pleasant water, bright camphor, and betel leaves. O Lord, I have prepared all this mentally and with devotion; please accept it.
ඡත්රං චාමරයෝර්යුගං ව්යජනකං චාදර්ශකං නිර්මලං
වීණා භේරි මෘදංග කාහලකලා ගීතං ච නෘත්යං තථා ।
සාෂ්ටාංගං ප්රණතිඃ ස්තුති-ර්බහුවිධා-හ්යේතත්-සමස්තං මයා
සංකල්පේන සමර්පිතං තව විභෝ පූජාං ගෘහාණ ප්රභෝ ॥ 3 ॥
Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
I offer you a royal umbrella, a pair of fly-whisks, a fan, and a spotless mirror. I offer the music of the lute, drums, and trumpets, along with song, dance, full prostration, and many forms of praise. O all-pervading Lord, I have offered this entire worship through inner resolve; please accept it.
ආත්මා ත්වං ගිරිජා මතිඃ සහචරාඃ ප්රාණාඃ ශරීරං ගෘහං
පූජා තේ විෂයෝපභෝග-රචනා නිද්රා සමාධිස්ථිතිඃ ।
සංචාරඃ පදයෝඃ ප්රදක්ෂිණවිධිඃ ස්තෝත්රාණි සර්වා ගිරෝ
යද්යත්කර්ම කරෝමි තත්තදඛිලං ශංභෝ තවාරාධනම් ॥ 4 ॥
Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
You are my Self; my mind is Parvati; my life-breaths are your attendants; and this body is your temple. My experiences of the world become your worship, sleep becomes absorption, walking becomes circumambulation, and all speech becomes hymns. Whatever action I perform, O Shambhu, may all of it be your adoration.
කර චරණ කෘතං වාක්කායජං කර්මජං වා
ශ්රවණ නයනජං වා මානසං වාපරාධම් ।
විහිතමවිහිතං වා සර්වමේතත්-ක්ෂමස්ව
ජය ජය කරුණාබ්ධේ ශ්රී මහාදේව ශංභෝ ॥ 5 ॥
Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
Whatever offense I have committed through hands, feet, speech, body, action, hearing, sight, or mind; whatever was improper, whether done knowingly or unknowingly, please forgive all of it. Victory, victory to you, O ocean of compassion, revered great Lord Shiva, Shambhu.
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