अतश्चहृतोद्धततमस्तान्तिःप्लुष्टाशेषभवेन्धना ।त्वद्बोधदीपिका मेऽस्तुनाथ त्वद्भक्तिदीपिका ॥ ५८ ॥हे नाथ, त्वद्भक्तिरेव प्रकाशकत्वात् दीपशिखा, त्वद्बोधस्य - भवदीयमहाप्रकाशस्य दीपिका अस्तु - अभिव्यञ्जिका अस्तु, कीदृशी असौ ? हृता उद्धता तमस्तान्तिः - अख्यातिकदर्थना यया, तथा प्लुष्टं - दग्धम् अशेषं भवेन्धनं - संसारदारु यया ।दीपशिखा कृतकज्जलात्मकतमस्तान्तिः अदग्धसमस्तवर्तिः घटादि प्रकाशयति, अतो विलक्षणा इयं त्वद्बोधदीपिका इति व्यतिरेकालङ्कारः ॥ ५८ ॥
In plain words
And therefore: May the lamp of devotion to You, O Lord, which has carried off the swollen weariness of darkness and burnt up all the fuel of becoming, be for me a lamp of Your awareness. O Lord, devotion to You, since it makes things shine, is itself the flame of a lamp: let it be the ‘lamp’, that is, let it be what makes manifest, ‘of Your awareness’, that is, of Your great prakāśa. What kind is it? One by which the ‘swollen weariness of darkness’, that is, the torment of non-recognition, has been ‘carried off’; and so too, one by which ‘all the fuel of becoming’, that is, the wood of saṃsāra, has been ‘burnt up’, that is, consumed. The flame of a lamp, whose weariness of darkness is the lampblack it makes, and which has not burnt up the whole wick, makes a pot and such things shine; so this lamp of Your awareness is unlike it: that is the figure of contrast.