śrī lakṣmīnṛsiṃha karāvalamba stotram

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) who resides on the ocean of milk, which is filled with Sri (beauty and auspiciousness), holding a chakra (discus) on his hand,... with his divine face shining with the divine light emanating from the gems on the hoods of serpent Adi Sesha, who is the lord of yoga, and eternal, and giver of refuge to the devotees like a boat over the ocean of samsara (worldly existence), O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) millions of diadems (i.e. decorated heads) of Brahma, Rudra, Maruts (wind-gods) and Arka (Sun-god)... assembles at whose stainless, pure feet, desiring to obtain its splendour, who is a royal swan floating on the lake within the heart of devi Lakshmi,... O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) in this dense forest of samsara (worldly existence), i wander, O murari (the enemy of demon Mura), many formidable and ferocious animals (in this forest of samsara), torments me with various desires and rouses deep fear in me, I am deeply afflicted and hurt in this selfishness and heat (of the samsara), O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) in this well of samsara (worldly existence), which is exceedingly terrible; to its unfathomable depth.... I have reached; where it is filled with hundreds of snakes of sorrows, to this miserable soul, O deva, who is wretched and afflicted with various calamities,... O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) in this huge ocean of samsara (worldly existence), where kala (time) cleaves asunder everything... like a crocodile; my life is restrained and being eaten away like rahu restrains and devours the planet (i.e. moon),... and my senses being engrossed in the waves of the rasa (juice) of raga (passion) is squeezing away my life,... O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) in this tree of samsara (worldly existence) - evil is whose seed, endless activities... are whose hundreds of branches, sense organ is whose leaf, Ananga (Kamadeva) is whose flower; I have mounted that tree (of samsara) and having reaped its fruits of sorrows, is now falling down; O compassionate one,... O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) this all-destroying serpent of samsara (worldly existence) with its dreadful face... and sharp fangs, has burnt and destroyed me with its terrible poison, O the one riding the enemy of serpents (garuda) (who can kill the serpents of samsara), O the one who dwell in the ocean of nectar (which can heal out burnt beings), O Shauri (Vishnu),... O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) the burning heat of this samsara (worldly existence) which creates fear in us and makes us suffer,... it's blazing flame is burning every part of my body, your lotus feet is a (cooling) lake giving refuge (to the burnt souls), O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) (like the one who) living in this world has fallen in the samsara jala (net of worldly attachment),... and whose all indriyas (sense organs) have become afflicted like a hooked fish,... (the fish) whose palate and head has been profusely torn (by the many fish hooks on the sense organs) (Such is my condition, so),... O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) this samsara (worldly existence), like a huge dreadful elephant, has struck me with its trunk,... and (with its feet) has crushed my vitals; O Lord, you who are the most beautiful and destroyer of all pains,... to me who is filled with the fear of death in this world,... O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) my blindness due to seizing away my viveka (power of discrimination between good and bad), the great wealth,... by theft, O Lord, by the indriyas (sense organs) which prompted for constant oblations,... has made my life fall inside the dark well of delusion,... O Lakshmi Narasimha, please give me your refuge by holding me with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) O Lakshmipati (consort of devi Lakshmi), O Kamalanabha (with lotus on the navel), O Suresha (lord of the Suras), O Vishnu,... O Vaikuntha, O Krishna, O Madhusudana, O Pushkaraksha (lotus-eyed),... O Brahmanya, O Keshava, O Janardhana, O Vasudeva,... O Devesha (lord of devas); please give refuge to this pitiable one by holding with your divine hands.

(Salutations to Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) (by) which power of maya (originating from the divine source) is strenghtened the beautiful form (of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) with flow of abundant divinity,... (from the same divine source) for the sake of rescuing the ones immersed in delusion has been extended the all-encompassing hand of refuge (of Lakshmi Narasimha), by being engrossed in the nectar of the lotus-feet of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha,... This stotra has been composed by Shankara (i.e. Sri Adi Shankaracharya), which gives great joy in this world (upon deeply meditating on it).