Verse 28

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। ॥ २८ ॥

In plain words

Worshipping you, Śiva, I take on your own form. Crying out "Mahādeva!" — the same. Sitting with the people whose love for you goes first, talking with them, I am standing right next to you. Meditating on your body — everything that moves, everything that stays still — I am living in your world. And union with you, Lord of Bhavānī, is already done, here, in this life. Master, I have everything I was made for.

Close to the Sanskrit

Likeness of form — in your worship, O Śiva, and in the chanting of 'Mahādeva!'; nearness — in the company and conversation of the community of those foremost in devotion to Śiva; and sharing your world — in meditation on your body that consists of the moving and the unmoving, O Lord of Bhavānī; union — for me it stands accomplished here, O Master; I am one whose purpose is fulfilled.