The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Viṣṇupādādikeśāntastotram

Verse 52

मोदात्पादादिकेशस्तुतिमितिरचितां कीर्तयित्वा त्रिधाम्नःपादाब्जद्वन्द्वसेवासमयनतमतिर्मस्तकेनानमेद्यः ।उन्मुच्यैवात्मनैनोनिचयकवचकं पञ्चतामेत्य भानो-र्बिम्बान्तर्गोचरं स प्रविशति परमानन्दमात्मस्वरूपम् ॥

In plain words

This hymn was made from his feet upward to the hair of his crown, in praise of the Lord who dwells in the three worlds. Whoever sings it out of gladness, mind bent low in the very moment of serving those two lotus feet, and lays his head down too — the piled-up sins strapped round him come unbuckled and fall away by his own hand. When the body goes back to its five elements, he enters what lies within the orb of the sun: bliss with nothing beyond it, which is his own nature, the Self.

Close to the Sanskrit

Whoever, out of joy, having recited this praise-hymn of the Lord of the three abodes, composed thus from the feet to the hair, his mind bowed at the moment of service to the pair of lotus feet, should bow also with his head — he, having stripped off from himself the armor that is the heap of his sins, having reached the fivefold state, enters the supreme bliss whose range lies within the orb of the sun, the very nature of the Self.