Stotra
Ghora Kashtodharana Stotram
घोरकष्टोद्धरणस्तोत्रम्
Five verses to Dattātreya by Śrī Vāsudevānanda Sarasvatī asking to be lifted out of terrible hardship.
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धन्वन्तरिमन्त्रः
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यथाऽऽदर्शे तथाऽऽत्मनि यथा स्वप्ने तथा पितृलोके ।
यथाऽप्सु परीव ददृशे तथा गन्धर्वलोके छायातपयोरिव ब्रह्मलोके ॥ ५॥yathā''darśe tathā''tmani yathā svapne tathā pitṛloke |
yathā'psu parīva dadṛśe tathā gandharvaloke chāyātapayoriva brahmaloke || 5||'As in a mirror, so (is the Self seen) in oneself (the intellect); as in a dream, so in the world of the ancestors; as (a thing) is seen in water, so in the world of the Gandharvas; as shade and light, so in the world of Brahman.'
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