Saturday, July 24, 2010

GurvaShtakam


GurvaShtakam
GurvaShtakam is in Sanskrit and it is a beautiful creation of Shri Adi Shankaracharya. This stotra indicates how Guru’s advice is important in our life. Guru Poornima is on 25th July 2010 and hence I am uploading this stotra to remember Guru. Anything we acquire in this world by our intelligence and knowledge like money, property, luxuries, gold and/or anything; we think essential to live our worldly life, is not so worthy as the Guru’s advice. We go on accumulating the things, money etc. which never comes with us when we die. Accumulating and acquiring the things creates sorrow/pain and then again protecting the things, creates a fear in mind that somebody may snatch it from me. Thus we become unhappy and worried and peace is lost. If we live according to the Guru’s advice it will certainly help us to live happily and peacefully. Guru’s teaching, advice will help us to move on to the spiritual path and take us to the Brahma Pada. Every spiritual person has an ambition of reaching to the Brahma Pada. It is believed that Brahma Pada is such a place where peace and happiness lives together. However it is very essential to have a Guru of that power (caliber), who can lift us to a higher spiritual level.
Our first Guru is our mother. Then Father is also our Guru. In ancient days after thread ceremony at the age of 8th, we were sent to the Guru’s house where we have to stay for 12 years, learn everything from the Guru, whatever he teaches us. Then come back to home and live our normal life. These 12 years in Guru’s house we learn everything from him. However Gurus were very selective in imparting the knowledge to the student according to the student’s capabilities. Fortunate students learn the real meaning of the life from the Guru. The secret principles of spirituality were also taught to them.
The meaning of the every stanza of GurvaShtakam is as under.
1 He himself is very handsome. His wife is also beautiful. He has got every thing including Money, Success. He is good orator, writer and very popular leader. (If his mind is not concentrated on the feet of Guru then everything is useless.) However having the entire above, if he is not working as per his Guru’s advice then there is no use of having everything.
2 He has a wife, son, daughter, Relatives, abundant money and property. However having the entire above, (If his mind is not concentrated on the feet of Guru then everything is useless.) if he is not working as per his Guru’s advice then there is no use of having everything.
3 He has knowledge of all the Vedas. He has learnt everything. Knowledge of the sciences and arts is on his tongue. He is a good writer and a poet. (If his mind is not concentrated on the feet of Guru then everything is useless.) However having the entire above, if he is not working as per his Guru’s advice then there is no use of having everything.
4 He is well known and respected in foreign countries as well as in own country. He is having a good humor. He is a gentle man and has a pride of it. (If his mind is not concentrated on the feet of Guru then everything is useless.) However having the entire above, if he is not working as per his Guru’s advice then there is no use of having everything.
5 He is a king of the world. All other kings are respecting him. They are serving him as their king. However having the entire above, (If his mind is not concentrated on the feet of Guru then everything is useless.) if he is not working as per his Guru’s advice then there is no use of having everything.
6 He has become very famous because of his valour and generosity. His name is spread in all directions. However having the entire above, (If his mind is not concentrated on the feet of Guru then everything is useless.) if he is not working as per his Guru’s advice then there is no use of having everything.
7 Now he can’t enjoy even if he is having a beautiful wife, money. He now dislikes’ the pleasures, stud, wars. He has become desire less and absolutely not wanting anything now. However having the entire above, (If his mind is not concentrated on the feet of Guru then everything is useless.) if he is not working as per his Guru’s advice then there is no use of having this displeasure of everything.
8 He can’t enjoy in his house or in the forest. He can’t concentrate on any work now. He now doesn’t have any liking for his body. His mind is completely detached from everything. However having the entire above, (If his mind is not concentrated on the feet of Hari then everything is useless.)if he is not working as per his Guru’s advice then there is no use of having everything.
9 We are righteous and fortunate and hence we have born as a man /woman. Anybody a king, a bachelor, Sannyasi or a normal person recite this GurvaShtakam every day with faith, concentration and devotion will go to the Brahma Pada after his death.
Thus here completes GurvaShtakam created by Adi Shankaracharya.
Thought for the Day
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
---Billy Graham
Success
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Chaakshushhopanishhad










Chaakshushhopanishhad
This Chaakshushhopanishhad is in Sanskrit. This is a stotra of God Surya. Anybody reciting this stotra daily with concentration, faith and devotion becomes free from all eye diseases.
1. Ahirbughnya is Rushi of this Chaakshushi Vidya. Gayatri is Chanda, and God Surya is devata of this Chaakshushi Vidya. I am reciting this vidya for removing my eye disease.
2 Om! O! God Surya let your luster, light be settled in my eyes. Please protect me. Protect me. Please remove my eye disease immediately. Remove my eye disease immediately.
3 Please show me your gold like luster. Please show me light which shows your power. Please make something and see that I will not become blind. Please think about my welfare. Bestow welfare to me.
4 I had committed sins in my previous births which are resulting in my eye disease. Please make me free from this bad effect of my sins and remove all my sins of my earlier births also.
5 Om! I bow God Bhaskara (surya) since you are the cause of creating light, luster in my (everybody’s) eyes. Om! Very kind God Surya, you are nectar (Amrut). Hence I bow to you. I bow to god Surya.
6 Om! I bow to him (God Surya) who is Luster of my eyes. I bow to him (God Surya) who is always sporting (travelling) in the sky. I bow to him (God Surya) who is behind everybody’s inspiration of (Rajo guna) doing something useful. I bow to him (God Surya) who has given shelter to darkness (tamo guna).
7 O! God Surya, please lead me to the truth from non truth. O! God Surya, please raise me to light from darkness. O! God Surya, please make me immortal from mortal.
8 God Surya is representing heat and He is very pious and pure. His luster and light is very powerful and beyond comparison. There is nobody as lustrous as God Surya. Anybody reciting this chakshushopanishad every day becomes free from eye diseases. He will never be a victim of eye disease. Not only has that but nobody from his family become blind. Anybody who teaches (donates) this chakshushi vidya to eight Brahmins, and then this vidya becomes very powerful to him.
Thus here completes this Krishna Yajurvediya chakshushopanishad.
Thought for the Day
Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
-Victor Hugo.
Success
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle.
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