Shri Shiv PratSmaran Stotram
Shri Shiv PratSmaran Stotram is in Sanskrit. This Stotra is to be recited early in the morning. God Shiva Devotee is required to get up early in the morning, take a bath then sit in front of God Shiva idol or Photo and recite this God Shiva Morning Prayer daily with faith, concentration and devotion; to receive God Shiva’s blessings. Such devotee becomes free from all sins he had committed even in his earlier births also. All types of troubles, hardships in his life are removed by the blessings of God Shiva and his life becomes peaceful, happy and prosperous.
1 God Shiva is remover of all troubles, sorrow and unhappiness from our life. He is a leader of all other Gods. He has held holy Ganga River on his head. Bull is his vehicle. He is God of (Goddess) Ambica. He has held Khatvanga and Trishul in his hand as weapons (for destroying demons) and hand held in Abhaya Mudra (sign of protection for devotees). God Shiva’s blessings are like a medicine which removes all troubles, sorrow and unhappiness from our (Sansar Rog or disease) life. I always pray God Shiva early in the morning.
2 Goddess Parvati is his half body. He is creator, protector and destroyer of the universe. He is Adi dev (God from beginning or ancient times). He is Vishwanath. He has conquered the whole world. He is good looking. God Shiva’s blessings are like a medicine which removes all troubles, sorrow and unhappiness from our (Sansar Rog or disease) life. I always pray God Shiva early in the morning.
3 God Shiva is Adi dev who has no death (end). He can be known or understood by knowing Vedas. He is free from all type sin. He is great (God). He is free from Name and differentiation and emotions. God Shiva’s blessings are like a medicine which removes all troubles, sorrow and unhappiness from our (Sansar Rog or disease) life. I always pray God Shiva early in the morning.
4 Any God Shiva devotee, getting up early in the morning after taking bath and sitting in front of God Shiva idol recites the above three sholakas daily with faith, devotion, and concentration becomes free from all sorts of troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness from his life. All sins committed by him even in his earlier births is removed and his life becomes happy, peaceful and prosperous.
English Script
Shri Shiv PratSmaran Stotram
Praataha smaraami bhavabhitiiharam suresham
gangaadharam vruShabhavaahanambikesham
khatvaangashoolavaradaa bhayahastamiisham
sansaararogaharamouShadhamadwitiiyam II 1 II
praatarnamaami girisham girijaardhdeham
sargasthiti pralaya kaaraNamaadidevam
vishveshwaram vijitviShvmanoabhiraamam
sansaararogaharamouShadhamadwitiiyam II 2 II
praatarbhajaami shivamekamanantamaadhyam
vedaantavedyamanagham poorusham mahaantam
naamaadibhedarahitam cha vikaarashoonyam
sansaararogaharamouShadhamadwitiiyam II 3 II
praataha samutthaaya shivam vichintya
shlokatrayam yeanudinam pathanthi
te duhkahjaatam bahujanma sanchitam
hitvaa padam yaanti tadeva shambhoho II 4 II
II iti shri shiva prathasmran stotram sampoornam II
Waman Stotram
Long back one of my friend had requested for uploading this Waman Stotram. Today, on this auspicious day of Diwali, Bali Pratipada, and 7th November 2010; I am uploading this stotram. There are ten famous incarnations of God Vishnu. Out of ten Waman was born from Aditi; mother of Gods. Aditi was wife of Kashyap Rushi; his second wife was Dipti who was mother of demons. Gods were performing Yadnya when demons defeated them and made all Gods to run away from their kingdom. Aditi; being mother of Gods, could not bear it. Hence as told by God Brahma, she started a ghor (hard) tapas (can be called as worship) of God Vishnu. This stotra was created by her at that time. This stotra is from Shri Mat Bhagwat. God Vishnu pleased by her tapas and the stotra assured her to take birth as her son and defeat demons. The son and incarnation of God Vishnu is called as Waman. Waman defeated demons and their king Bali. After defeat King of demons; Bali raja was given a place in Patala. Bali raja was allowed by God Vishnu to come out of Patala on this auspicious day of Diwali every year i.e. Kartik (Name of the Month) shukla paksha pratipada (start of the New Year). This day is also called as Bali Pratipada. This stotra is in Sanskrit.
1 O! God Vishnu! We like to hear your praise. You are Yagnesha, Yagnya Purusha, and you are always there to help all the people who are in trouble and in miserable state. You always offer blessings to such people. Your feet are very holy and pious to us.
2 You are always in peace. You are creator of Maya still you are very stable and still. You always destroy darkness i.e. false knowledge and lead us to light, enlightenment and true knowledge. Hence I always bow to you.
3 O! God Vishnu! Please bless us with Long life, sound health, prosperity, knowledge, Moksha and Victory over demons. When you are able to give us all the above things; why you can’t bless us with all these things?
Thus here completes this Waman Stotra created by Aditi.
Thought for the Day
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-----Anne Frank.
Success
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
----- Florence Scovel Shinn.
Waman Stotram
English Script
II Shri Ganeshaya Namaha II
AditirUvaacha
yadnesha yadnapurushaachuta tirthapaada thirthaSharvaha ShravaNaMangalnaamadheya II
aapannaloka vrujino pashamodayaaaadya shan naha krudhiisha bhagvannasi diinanaatha II 1 II
viShvaaya viShvabhavan sthithi sanyamaaya svairam gruhiit purushakti guNaaya bhumne I
svasthaaya shaShvadupa brunhit poorna bodhavyaapaaditaatmatamase harave namaste II 2 II
aayuhu param vapuhu abhishtam atulya laxmidyou bhurasaha sakala yogagunaha trivargaha I
dnyam cha kevalam ananta bhavati dushataattvatto nruNaam kimu sapatnajayaadi raashiihi II 3 II
II iti shrimat bhaagavataantargatam waman stotram sampoornam II
Waman Stotram
Dhenu Stotram
Dhenu Stotram is in Sanskrit. It is a very beautiful creation of Shri Sridhar Swami on the auspicious day of Govatsa Dwadashi at Vardapuram Karnataka in the year 1964. Dhenu (Cow) is very pious, holy and as per our belief all Gods and Goddess have taken her shelter i.e. they live in her. Dhenu is just like our mother. Whenever we worship Dhenu they (Gods and Goddess) become pleased. This Dhenu Stotram describes why we worship Dhenu and why Dhenu is pious for us. In Diwali festival many people in India worship SaVatsa Dhenu (Cow having a Calf) on VasuBaras i.e. Aswin (Name of the Month in which Diwali is celebrated.) Krushana Dwadashi. This year we celebrated it on 3rd November 2010.
1 O! GoMata (Cow as mother)! I bow to you; being pious you make us like you. In the world in which we live, you are our boat which can lead us to the bank in a righteous way. We can live in this world filled with many difficulties and troubles; taking your shelter.
2 O! Dhenu! Gods and Goddesses live in you i.e. they have taken your shelter. They become pleased when we worship you. Vedas have also praised you in many ways. Your milk is our life energy and Ghee is the life for us.
3 O! Dhenu! Gods are always become powerful; acquire knowledge, peace, devotion, intelligence and good position because of your Milk and Ghee (prepared by milk). Hence we ordinary people can also receive all such blessings by worshiping you.
4 As Aghni (Fire) burns wood, so your Panchagavya of holy Dhenu burns our sins and purify us. Panchagavya is described as very pious and Brahmin people drink it as pious water. Dhenu you are very pious and you feed and protect us.
5 In Vedas you are described as Brahma. God Shri Krishana had served you and hence my serving you or worshiping is not of much importance or of much value. So also I am being ordinary man unable to describe your greatness and virtues.
6 Anybody worshiping Dhenu every day and serving her with devotion, chanting this Dhenu Stotram; will become happy and receive Knowledge, Wealth, Sound Health and devotion.
Thus here completes Dhenu Stotram created by Sridhar Swami.
Thought for the Day
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
-----Thomas Carlyle.
Success
To many people, holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
---Phillip Andrew.
Dhenu Stotram
Shri Hanumat Stotram
Shri Hanumat Stotram is in Sanskrit. It is a very beautiful creation of Shri Sridhar Swami while construction of a Hanuman Temple in front of Shri Ram Temple at Vardahalli (Kameshwarpith) Karnataka.
1 I always worship God Hanuman who is son of Anjani. God Hanuman is always recites God Ram Bhajan and his name. He has destroyed pride of Madan. He doesn’t like people who are not God’s devotees.
2 God Hanuman can make the devotees free from the bondage of life and death. He is an incarnation of God Shiva. He can do and he had done many astonishing and daring adventures. I always worship God Hanuman who is son of Anjani.
3 God Hanuman is an ocean of virtues. He is very calm, very kind and successful. He makes his devotees like him. I always worship God Hanuman who is son of Anjani.
4 God Hanuman is destroyer of bad people, promoter of good virtues and looks after the well being of devotees. I always worship God Hanuman who is son of Anjani.
5 God Hanuman thinks himself as the servant of God Ram. He always sings the Bhajanas and Songs of God Ram. He makes his devotees like him i.e. devotees of God Ram. I always worship God Hanuman who is son of Anjani.
6 God Hanuman has no desires, unattached to worldly things. Great Rushi, Munies, learned People and Great devotees adore him. I always worship God Hanuman who is son of Anjani.
7 God Hanuman is unattached to worldly things. He is disinterested. He is always found in devotion of God Ram. I always worship God Hanuman who is son of Anjani.
8 God Hanuman knows only God Ram. He believes that Brahma is nothing but filled by God Ram. He also makes his devotees to know what is Brahma. I always worship God Hanuman who is son of Anjani.
9 This God Hanumat Stotram is very pious and gives freedom to his devotee who recites this stotra daily with devotion, concentration and faith.
Thus here completes Shri Hanumat Stotram, created by Shri Sridhar Swami.
Thought for the Day
One kind word can warm three winter months.
----Japanese Proverb.
Success
A very small hope is sufficient to bring success.
Shri Hanumat Stotram
Shri Sharda Stotram
This is a Goddess Sharda Stotra. It is in Sanskrit. This is created by Shri Sridhar Swami when he was at ShigehaLali while opening a VedPathashala (Veda School) and requesting Goddess Sharda Mata (Goddess Saraswati) to stay in the VedPathshala. Sridhar Swami was a great devotee of God Ram and Ramadas Swami.
1 O! Goddess Sharda, you are worshiped by Gods and Rushi and Munies. Educated people, Scholars and brilliant people took your shelter. Please offer your blessings to us.
2 O! Goddess Sharda, people who are always after acquiring more and more knowledge who are always after increasing knowledge and purifying their intelligence are always worshiping you. Hence please bless us as you are always doing well to the people.
3 O! Goddess Sharda, you are giver of true and pure knowledge. Your blessing are always making happy to the devotee. (Hence bless us.)
4 O! Goddess Sharda, darshan of your feet generates pure and true knowledge in the mind of any person who is having no pure knowledge. (We think that after taking a birth, anybody’s aim is to get him educated for making money. But there is a different true aim of our life other than making money; and that is a pure/true knowledge. )
5 O! Goddess Sharda, please bless me and see that my mind is attracted to your beautiful feet (so that I can get Pure and True Knowledge).
6 O! Goddess Sharda, please see that your beautiful and pure roopa (Darshan) is spread among people and world. (So that pure and true knowledge is spread in the world.)
7 O! Goddess Sharda; Because of your blessing Scholars, Learned people acquire pure and true knowledge and they always take efforts to destroy the false knowledge and spread pure and true knowledge. Let there be such many Scholars and Learned people in this world.
8 O! Goddess Sharda, your are always destroy the sins of devotees and give pure knowledge to them. I request you to please stay in the house of Scholars and Learned people who are having a pure and holy heart.
9 Ved Mata Sharda be always victorious. Sharda Devi is always victorious who is giver of true knowledge and Moksha. Sharda Devi is always victorious who is being worshiped by Gods. Sharda Devi who is Chit (Pure), Nitya (always present) and Swaroop, is always victorious.
Thus here completes Shri Sharda Stotram, created by Shri Sridhar Swami.
Thought for the Day
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
--Buddha.
Success
You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon.
--Adlin Sinclair.
Shri Sharda Stotram
Shri Renuka Stotram
This is a Goddess Renuka Mata Stotra. It is in Sanskrit. This is created by Shri Shridhar Swami when he was at Mahurgad for darshan of Goddess Renuka Mata. Shridhar Swami was a great devotee of God Ram and Ramadas Swami.
I am uploading this stotra for the Navaratri Festival starting from today i.e. 8th October 2010 (Ashwin [name of the month] Shudha Pratipada) to 17th October 2010 (Dasara [Ashwin Shudha Dashami]). It is of nine days. These nine days are very holy days and the entire atmosphere found, filled with divine power. Anybody practicing any spiritual practice or reciting any Mantra, Stotra or reciting of the name of His God (as per his belief) gives him success and fulfills his good, genuine desires. This festival is of Goddess which is celebrated, almost in all parts of India.
1 I worship Goddess Renuka. She is very calm, quite and always doing good to her devotees. She is beyond mind and words i.e. all her virtues, kindness are beyond description. She is greatest, she is praised in Vedas, and she is Brahma and all people must worship her to have a little knowledge about her.
2 Devotees can know her only by their good behavior (bad behavior is not tolerated by Goddess Renuka mata), devotion, acquiring true knowledge and respect for Guru (who teaches true knowledge). She is always in happy (Poornanand) state. I worship Goddess Renuka mata.
3 By disqualifying many Brahma like things and saying No, No; Shruti found out Brahma and that Brahma is the only one, very old, occupying everything in the world, always enthusiastic, and giving pleasure, happiness and which is always pure; that Brahma is Goddess Renuka Mata only. I worship Goddess Renuka who is beyond death.
4 Any devotee who is thinking of Goddess Renuka is always found in a state where he forgets everything such as his sufferings, his karma and fruits of the karma, Maya, jiva and shiva. I worship Goddess Renuka Mata who is an ocean of happiness, pleasure.
5 We are not able to know Goddess Renuka. She is beyond darkness, insufficient knowledge, sorrow and differentiation. She is always pure, holy. She is a source of Spiritual knowledge and she spreads it every where. Hence I always worship Goddess Renuka Mata.
6 She makes the devotees free from all troubles and hence her devotees worship her. She gives happiness and pleasure. She helps her devotees to lead a good life free from worries, tension and bondage of life and death. I worship Goddess Renuka Mata.
7 She is like a moon in the heart of her devotees. She is a source of all type of happiness and always described as Onkar roopa. She removes unhappiness, sorrow and all types of troubles of her devotees. She is an ocean of happiness for her devotees. I worship Goddess Renuka Mata.
8 She is always kind and offering blessings to her devotees. She is always happy. God Indra and other Gods always praise her with Suktas (hymns found in Vedas). Her devotees are always worshiping her. I worship such Renuka Mata.
9 Anybody with devotion, performing his/her duty, with concentration and faith recites this Stotra of Goddess Renuka Mata receives blessing from her and becomes happy.
Here completes Goddess Renuka Mata Stotra created by param poojya Sri Shridhar Swami.
Thought for the Day
Chang is never loss: it is change only.
----Vernon Howard.
Success
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
--Mollere
Shri Renuka Stotram
ShivNamavalyaShtakam
This Stotra is in Sanskrit. This is created by param poojya shri Adya Shankaracharya. This consists of many names of God Shiva. Creator of this Stotra is asking God Shiva to remove all his troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness by calling God Shiva with different names. As we know that Adya Shankaracharya was beyond all the troubles, difficulties, sorrow or unhappiness, as he was always in peace, happiness and in with Love for humanity as a whole. He has nothing to ask from God Shiva. He has created this Stotra for us, to recite it daily with devotion, concentration and faith; so that God Shiva will bless us.
1 O! Chandrachud (who has held Moon on his head. i.e. God Shiva), O! Madanantka (who has made ashes of Kamdeva, name of God Shiva), O! ShoolaPane (name of God Shiva), O! Sthano (who is always steady, name of God Shiva), O! Girish (name of God Shiva), O! Girijapate (name of God Shiva), O! Mahesh, O! Shambo, O! Bhutesh; you protect those who come to you frightened by the death, old age and many troubles. O! Jagadishwar please protect us from the troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness.
2 O! Husband of Goddess Parvati, O! ChandraMoule, O! Bhootadhip, O! Head of Pramatas (Rund- Munda-Tunda), O! Caretaker of Girija(Goddess Parvati), O! Vamdev, O! Rudra, O! Bhava, O! PinakaPane, O! Jagadishwar please protect us from the troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness.
3 O! Nilkantha (who has a blue throat, name of God Shiva), O! Vrushaketu, O! PnachaMukha (who is having five mouths, name of God Shiva), O! Lokesh, O! God who has worn bangle of a serpent (Shesh Nag is found around wrist of God Shiva), O! Chief of Pramath Ganas, O! Sharva (name of God Shiva), O! Dhurjate (name of God Shiva), O! Pashupate, O! Girijapate, O! Jagadishwar please protect us from the troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness.
4 O! VishwaNath, O! Shiva, O! Shankar, O! God of all the Gods, O! GangaDhara (who has held Ganga (holy river of India) on his head), O! Chief of Pramath Ganas, O! Nandikeshwar, O! Baneshwar, O! Destroyer of Andhakasoor (Demon), O! Hara, O! Loknath, O! Jagadishwar please protect us from the troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness.
5 O! Owner of Varanashi, O! Manikarnikeshwar, O! Viresh, O! Destroyer of Daksha-yagnya, O! Vibho, O! Ganesh, O! Sarvadnya (Who knows everything and anything), O! Sarvantaratman (who is present in everybody’s Atma), O! Nath, O! Jagadishwar please protect us from the troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness.
6 O! Shriman Maheshwar, O! Krupamaya (always offering blessings), O! Dayalo (with kind heart), O! Vyomakesh (Sky is your hairs), O! Nilkantha, O! GanadhiNath, O! God Bhasmangrag (Who has applied ashes on his body), O! God Shiva, O! Jagadishwar please protect us from the troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness.
7 O! Kailas-Nivasi (Who lives on Kailas Mountain in Himalaya), O! Vrushakape, O! Mrutunjaya (Who has conquered death), O! Trinayana (who has three eyes), O! God (who is liked by God Vishnu {Narayan}), O! Destroyer of Pride and Ego, O! ShakatiNath, O! Jagadishwar please protect us from the troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness.
8 O! Vishvesh, O! Vishvaroopa, O! Vishvatman, O! God Shiva (remover of Birth-Death i.e. life bondage), O! God Shiva (having all the Gunas of TriBhuvanas), O! VishvaBandho, O! Kindhearted God, O! Brother of Humble, meek people, O! Jagadishwar please protect us from the troubles, difficulties, sorrow and unhappiness.
9 I bow to God Shiva who is husband of Goddess Gouri, who is Panchanan (with five heads/mouths), who is Protector of devotees, who is destroyer of all my troubles, difficulties, poverty and sorrow.
Thus here completes ShivNamavalyaShtakam created by p.p. Adya Shankaracharya.
Thought for the Day
The friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton.
Success
I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.
--Ray Charles.
ShivNamavalyaShtakam
