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Abhyasa : Why giving the right blessings (aas’eervaadam) is important..
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Nariistanabhara naabhiideshaMdRishhTvaa maagaamohaavesham.etanmaaMsaavasaadi vikaaraMmanasi vichintaya vaaraM vaaram. .. (3)
Do not get drowned in delusion by going wild with passions and lust by seeing a woman's navel and chest.
These are nothing but a modification of flesh.
Do not fail to remember this again and again in your mind
.
naliniidalagata jalamatitaralaMtadvajjiivitamatishayachapalam .viddhi vyaadhyabhimaanagrastaMlokaM shokahataM cha samastam .. (4)
The life of a man is as uncertain as rain drops trembling on a lotus leaf. Know that the whole world remains a prey to disease, ego and grief.
yaavadvittopaarjana saktaHstaavannija parivaaro raktaH .pashchaajjiivati jarjara dehevaartaaM ko.api na pRichchhati gehe .. (5)
So long as a man is fit and able to support his family, see the affection all those around him show. But no one at home cares to even have a word with him when his body totters due to old age.
yaavatpavano nivasati dehetaavatpRichchhati kushalaM gehe .gatavati vaayau dehaapaayebhaaryaa bibhyati tasminkaaye .. (6)
When one is alive, his family members enquire kindly about his welfare. But when the soul departs from the body, even his wife runs away in fear of the corpse.
baalastaavatkriiDaasaktaHtaruNastaavattaruNiisaktaH .vRiddhastaavachchintaasaktaHpare brahmaNi ko.api na saktaH .. (7)
The childhood is lost by attachment to playfulness. Youth is lost by attachment to woman. Old age passes away by thinking over many past things. But there is hardly anyone who wants to be lost in parabrahmam.
kaate kaantaa kaste putraHsaMsaaro.ayamatiiva vichitraH .kasya tvaM kaH kuta aayaataHtattvaM chintaya tadiha bhraataH .. (8)
Who is your wife ? Who is your son ? Strange is this samsara.
Of whom are you ? From where have you come ?
Brother, ponder over these truths here."
"Shivananda Lahari by Adi Sankaracharya
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Ghato vaa mrithir pando apyaraunubhi cha dhoomogni rachala
Pato vaa thanthurva pariharathi kim ghorasamanam
Vridha kantakshebham vahasi tharasa tharka vachasa
Padhambhojam shmbhor bhaja parama soukhyam vrijasudhi.
This is the pot, no, this is only mud,
This is the earth, no , it is only atom,
This is the smoke, no, it is only fire,
This is the cloth, no , it is only the thread,
Can all this debate ever cure the cruel God of death?
Vainly you give pain to your throat,
By these torrent of words,
Instead worship the lotus like feet of Shambu,
Oh , intelligent one, and attain supreme happiness."
Gabheeram kaasare vimsathi vijane
ghora vapine,Vishale shaile cha brahmathi kusumartha jada mathi
Samarpaikam chetha sarasijamumanatha
bhavathe,Sukhenawasthathum jana iha na janathi kimaho.
9Searches and hunts the dim witted one,In the deep dark lake,In the lonely dangerous forest, And in the broad high mountains For a flower to worship thee.It is a wonder,That these people do not know,To offer to you the single lotus,From the lake of one’s own mind, And be happy at one’s own place
Oh God who is the consort of Uma,"
na guror adhikaṃ tattvaṃ
na guror adhikaṃ tapaḥ
tattva jñānāt paraṃ nāsti
tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ
There is no higher truth than the Guru,
no higher penance than (service to) the Guru,
there is nothing higher than Realization of the Knowledge of the truth imparted by the Guru.
My salutations to such a Gurudev, who is himself that very timeless truth (and who has taken up a form to bless his disciples like us with real knowledge).
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this sthothra, is a flow of heart ,
the shishya, having had the glimpse of all-fulfilling absolute within ,
ie, his internal guru having been lit
----as a result of practicing the instruction taught by his guru,----
----and having accessed the source of every thing worthwhile,within, ---
has become immersed in the ecstasy, is now seeing the transcendental reality of his external guru
as nothing but the same as the internal guru, the gyan jyothi
and singing the glory of both together , the plane of reference becoming transparent, non existent
Tattvam, tat tvam , that you
ie, the essence, what that exists basically, fundamentally,and really,
ie truth of existence of you / truth of existence of individual ,
or simply the truth
when shishya experiences this truth, and since he could experience only with the help of guru , and comes to know that himself, and external guru are nothing but truth , he simply utters what he felt
that is guru himself is the truth
hence there is no greater thing as guru
so no greater thing than guru guidance
so na guror adhikam tattvam
applicable for external guru and internal guru both , they both merged, merged with his own self in essence, the truth
hence
My salutations to such a Guru, who is himself that very timeless truth (and who has taken up a form to bless his disciples like us with real knowledge.
Devotee goes from form to formless,
from visible to invisible,
from relative to absolute,
from earthly to heavenly
from apara to para
we see this transparent walk in the devotional songs of saints ,
and---- the reader too ----experiences such ecstasy
in reading/ listening such expressions from great souls
sanskrit,
no doubt,
great personalities like vivekananda learnt engilsh,
and
communicated their great messages to the world thru english,
...yet let us not be content only with one
language,
but be
master of our own maathru bhaasha, sanskrit,
mother of
all languges and see what great things it can accomplish to the world civilization
thru its perfect script and pronunciation, richness of vocabulary, and
precision in expression ,the great value of vibrations in vedik recitation
etc
