Prayer to the Divine Mother

Praises

Japo jalpah shilpam sakalam’api mudrā-virachanā
Gatihi prādakshinya-kramanam-ashan’ādy’āhuti-vidhihi
Pranāmah saoṅveshah sukham-akhilam-ātm’ārpana-dṛushā
Saparya-paryāyas-tava bhavatu yanme vilasitam

Through the sight of self-surrender, let my prattle become recitation of Your name; the movement
of my limbs, gestures of Your worship; my walk, perambulation around You; my food, sacrificial
of ering to You; my lying down, prostration to You. Whatever I do for my pleasure, let it become
transformed into an act of worship to You.

From Adi Shankaracharya’s ‘Saundarya Lahari’, v.27