Every word opens.
Sanskrit verse in its own script, the sounds written out, the meaning line by line, and every word taken apart into the roots it was made from.
The word layer, working
ātmā tvaṁ girijā matiḥ
You are the Self; Girijā is the mind.
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Four ways of reading one line
Devanagari
रत्नैः कल्पितमासनं हिमजलैः स्नानं च दिव्याम्बरं
IAST
ratnaiḥ kalpitam-āsanaṃ himajalaiḥ snānaṃ ca divyāmbaraṃ
English
A throne fashioned of jewels, a bath in cold water, and divine garments,
Roots
कल्पितमासनं kalpitam-āsanaṃ, a seat, fashioned · कल्पित kalpita, fashioned, imagined, arranged from √kḷp, to shape or make ready · आसन āsana, seat, throne from √ās, to sit
The texts4 texts
- शिवमानसपूजाWorship of Shiva in the Mind · Adi Shankaracharya · 5 versesA full temple ritual performed without a single object in hand, and then set aside for something simpler: the recognition that ordinary life had been the worship all along.
- रुद्राष्टकम्Eight Verses to Rudra · Tulsidas · 9 versesEight verses of almost pure negation, sung by a teacher to buy mercy for the student who had just insulted him in front of the god.
- शिवपञ्चाक्षरस्तोत्रम्The Five-Syllable Hymn to Shiva · Adi Shankaracharya · 6 versesFive verses on five syllables: each one opens with a syllable of namaḥ śivāya and closes by saying the whole mantra back, so the hymn takes the mantra apart and puts it together five times over.
- शिवप्रातःस्मरणस्तोत्रम्Remembering Shiva at Dawn · Adi Shankaracharya · 4 versesThree verses said on waking, each ending in the same line: that Shiva is the one medicine, without a second, for the disease of being born. A fourth verse says what happens to whoever repeats them.