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Abhanga 365Confession and Sin

The Sense of Sin

English Translation · I.P. 365

"VT~OW make me wake to consciousness. DiINI vert my intellect from this world. O sea of mercy, release and receive me; I have fallen a prey to the turning wheel of time. If thou wilt, what is impossible ? A mustard seed will become a mountain, or a mountain a seed. O mother, set me within the trench of thy pity. I have spent my life hitherto in ignorance, through my own natural temper. I know not how, but my life is passed, and I have reached, not the next stage of my path. Now I feel afraid, for day after day is passing away from me. I have travelled so far, and what have I done? I have not remembered thy feet. O best of beings, pity my sins, past and THK SENSE OF SIN future. In thy name let me know thy love; re* lease me from all doubt. Let my heart dwell amid thy attributes; give me a place by thy feet. Thy sweetness I shall taste with my voice. It will be a recompense, says Tuka.

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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