This Arti (Devotional prayer ) was written by Sri Amichand, a follower of Swami Dayanand, the founder of Arya Samaj, a sect of Hindu religion. Sri Amichand previous to it was a dacoit just as Balmikiji was a dacoit before writing Ramayan. He wrote it about 150 years back in Hindi
Almighty GOD is One and not two or three or four as is mentioned in Atharva Veda. So this being divine prayer to Lord of Universe applies to all religions who believe in one God but who call him by different names or words. OM is impersonal absolute ie omnipotent, omnipresent etc and is source of all manifested existence which Hindus call as Parbramha Parmeshwar, when he is formless and without any thought or attributes.
Now read as below:-
Stanza 1:
Oh ,Lord of Universe. Victory to thee. Please forgive me as you are my lord and i'II bestow praises on you. Please remove the troubles of your devotees all at once.
Stanza 2:
Those who meditate on you, they reap good fruits as all their sufferings of mind vanish due to this and their troubles and pain due to hurt and injuries to the body are dispensed with, and they are gifted with wealth, property and all things required for livelihood are bestowed upon them.
Note: That sufferings are experienced in mind whereas hurt and injuries resulting in pain occurs in body is clear from stanza 2.
Stanza 3.:
You are my father and mother, so we surrender to you and no body else.other than you on whom we can depend.
Stanza 4:
You are complete and absolute God and you are omnipresent and omniscient. You are superior to all gods and goddesses and are supreme and you are the master of every body.
Note:- Difference between BRAHM (Ishwar) and Permeshwar (Purshottam or all mighty God) is to be understood clearly. Where as Brahm ( God as some body said is Trinity i.e G stands for Generater ( Brahma creates ), O stands for operater (Vishnu is our savior keeper) and D stands for Mahesh is destroyer ) is God for all those who live in our Galaxy and All mighty GOD is for all living beings who live in universe. Therefore we say Parbrahm Parmeshwar or Allmighty God.
Stanza 5:
You are merciful and you are the ocean of grace and bliss and keeper of all and nourish all of us. I am an idiot who is full of passion and desires and therefore I pray to you to forgive all my sins and wrong doings and correct me to follow the right path.
Stanza 6:
You are one and cannot be seen, heard,touched, smelt or tasted by our organs of body senses as you are beyond senses and you reside in our heart. I humbly ask you how can I meet you as I am ignorant and therefore I pray to you to guide me.
Note-Here it is to be noted God is one and only one. and he cannot be visualized by any of our senses.Though he has no senses but has powers to visualize all this as he is omnipresent..He is one and only one unparralled ,limitless infinite invisible,,omnipresent,omnipotent omniscient etc.
Stanza:-7.You are remover of our sufferings and specially of poor and downtrodden as you are benevolent and my lord and spiritual teacher and therefore I implore you to remove my sufferings.I have come to your door steps and pray to you to lift me by your hands so that my sins are absolved.
Stanza:-8.Please remove my impurities and greed and desire of worldly objects and remove my sins and, increase my faith in you so that I may serve saints and humanity.
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From this divine prayer, we can perceive and know about Almighty God which is represented by primal word OM .
In hindu, muslim and christian religions where we believe and have faith in God, this prayer applies equally well as it is prayer of Universal God which is One and only one called by different names.
Note: In Jains they have no God but parmeshwar which is collection of souls which attain Nirvana, and in budhist religion they don ot believe in soul and are silent about GOD, they have also prayers of different types for arhant, parmatma for Jains and budhist priest to show method to get nirvana.They also meditate for getting Nirvan.
Om shanti shanti shanti
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Avdhesh kumar Mathur,Senior member ICC Milpitas and Cupertino
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