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Sloka for Requesting Forgiveness for One’s Offence

Typically all pooja vidhanas end with this aparadha shodhana. This is basically to gwt rid of all offences unknowingly caused by us in the pooja, mantra, neivedhyam, etc

Sri Aparadha-shodhana

mantra-hinam kriya-hinam bhakti-hinam janardana

yat pujitam maya deva paripurnam tad astu me

Meaning: O my Lord, O Janardana, whatever little puja or worship that has been performed by me, although it is without devotion, without proper mantras, and without the proper performance, please let that become complete.

yad-dattam bhakti-matrena patram puspam phalam jalam

aveditam nivedyan tu tad grihananukampaya

Meaning: Whatever has been offered with devotion–the leaf, the flower, the water, the fruit, the food offering–please accept it out of Your causeless mercy.

vidhi-hinam mantra-hinam yat kiñcad upapaditam

kirya-mantra-vihinam va tat sarvam kshantum arhasi

Meaning: Whatever has happened without the proper chanting of the mantra, or without following the proper procedure, kindly forgive all that.

aparadha-sahasrani kriyante ‘har-nisham maya

daso ‘ham iti mam matva kshamasva madhusudana

Meaning:Thousands of offenses are performed by me day and night. But thinking of me as Your servance, kindly forgive those, O Mashusu

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