V M ASTAKAM

 Sriksonyau ramaniyugam suramaniputropi vanipatih

Pautrascandrasiromanih phanipatih sayya surah several

Tarksyo yasya ratho mahatma bhavanam brahmandamah puman

Srimadvenkatabhudharendramanahkuryaddharirmangalam.1.

Yattejo ravikoti kotikiranan dhikkrtya jejiyate

Yasya srivadanambujasyasusama rakendukotirapi

Saundaryam ca manobhavanapibahun kanitisca kadambinim

Srimadvenkatabhudharendraramanahkuryaddharirmangalam.2

Nanaryana kirita kundamukhirbhusaganairbhasitah Sumatra kaustubharatna bhavyahrdayah srivatsasallanchanah

Vidyudvarnasuvarnavastraruciroyah sankhacakradibhish

Srimad venkatabhudharendraramanah kuryaddharirmangalam.3

Yatphale mrganabhicarutilakonetre bjaparayate

Kasturighanasarakesaramilacchrigandha saro dravaih

Gandhair liptatanuh sugandha sumano maladharo yah prabhoh

Srimad venkatabhudharendraramanah kuryaddharir mangalam.4

Etatdivyapadam mamastibhuvitatsampasyateyadaraabhaktebhyah svakarenda  darsayati

Yaddrstya tisaukhyam gatah etadbhaktimato mahanapi

Bhavambhodhirnaditi spartan

Srimadvenkatabhudharendraramanah kuryaddharirmangalam.5

Yah svami sarasastate viharato srisvaminamnah sada sauvarnalaya mandiro

Vidhimukhair barhirmukhaih sevitahyah Saturn Hanahan nijananti ca sribhuvaratmakah

Srimadvenkatabhuddharendra ramanah kuryaddhairirmangalam.6

Yo brahmadisuranmunimsca manujam brahmotsavaya garam

Drstvahrustamana babhuva bahusastairarcitah samstutah

Technology yah pradadaduaran bahuvidhan laksminivaso vibhuh

Srimadvenkata bhudharendramanah kuryaddharir mangalam.7

Yodevobhuvivartate kaliyuge vaikunthalokasthito

Bhaktanam paripalanaya satatam karunyavsramnidhih

Srisesakhyamahindhra madtakamanirbhalaraika cintamanih

Srimadvenkatabhudharendramanah kuryaddharirmangalam.8

Sesadri prabhumangalastakamidam tustena prityartham racism yasyesituh

Ramesacaranadvandvaikanisthavata

Vaivahyadisubhakriyasu pathitamyaihsadhu tesamapi

Srimafvenkatabhudharedraramanahkuryaddarir mangalam.9

Itisri venkatesa mangalastakam.

Varnanam

 Sirasi vajrakiritam vadane sashivarna prakasam 

Phale kasturi srigandha tilakam karne vajrakundala sobhitam

Nasikayam suvasika puspadalam nayane sasimandala prakasam

Kanthe suvarna pushpamalalankrtam hrdaye srinivasa mandiram.

Kare karuna bhayasagaram bhuje sankhacakragadadharam

Skandhe suvarna yajnopvita bhusanam sarvange svarnapitambaradharam

Pade paramanandarupam sarvapapanivarakam

Sarvam svarnamayam devam namitam srivenkatesam

Srinivasam tirumslesam namami srivenkatesam.

Janaki stuti.

  श्रीजानकीस्तुतिः 

जानकि त्वां नमस्यामि सर्वपापप्रणाशिनीम् ।

जानकि त्वां नमस्यामि सर्वपापप्रणाशिनीम्  ॥ १॥

दारिद्र्यरणसंहत्रीं भक्तानाभिष्टदायिनीम् ।

विदेहराजतनयां राघवानन्दकारिणीम्  ॥ २॥

भूमेर्दुहितरं विद्यां नमामि प्रकृतिं शिवाम् ।

पौलस्त्यैश्वर्यसन्त्री भक्ताभीष्टां सरस्वतीम्  ॥ ३॥

पतिव्रताधुरीणां त्वां नमामि जनकात्मजाम् ।

अनुग्रहपरामृद्धिमनघां हरिवल्लभाम्  ॥ ४॥

आत्मविद्यां त्रयीरूपामुमारूपां नमाम्यहम् ।

प्रसादाभिमुखीं लक्ष्मीं क्षीराब्धितनयां शुभाम्  ॥ ५॥

नमामि चन्द्रभगिनीं सीतां सर्वाङ्गसुन्दरीम् ।

नमामि धर्मनिलयां करुणां वेदमातरम्  ॥ ६॥

पद्मालयां पद्महस्तां विष्णुवक्षस्थलालयाम् ।

नमामि चन्द्रनिलयां सीतां चन्द्रनिभाननाम्  ॥ ७॥

आह्लादरूपिणीं सिद्धि शिवां शिवकरी सतीम् ।

नमामि विश्वजननीं रामचन्द्रेष्टवल्लभाम् ।

सीतां सर्वानवद्याङ्गीं भजामि सततं हृदा  ॥ ८॥

इति श्रीस्कन्दमहापुराणे सेतुमाहात्म्ये श्रीहनुमत्कृता

           श्रीजानकीस्तुतिः सम्पूर्णा ।

हिन्दी भावार्थ -

श्रीहनुमान्जी बोले-- जनकनन्दिनी ! आपको नमस्कार करता हूँ । आप

सब पापों का नाश तथा दारिद्र्य का संहार करनेवाली हैं । भक्तों को

अभीष्ट वस्तु देनेवाली भी आप ही हैं । राघवेन्द्र श्रीरामको आनन्द

प्रदान करनेवाली विदेहराज जनक की लाड़ली श्रीकिशोरीजी को मैं

प्रणाम करता हूँ । आप पृथ्वी की कन्या आर विद्या (ज्ञान) -स्वरूपा

हैं, कल्याणमयी प्रकृति भी आप ही हैं । रावण के ऐश्वर्य का संहार

तथा भक्तों के अभीष्टका दान करनेवाली सरस्वतीरूपा भगवती सीता को

मैं नमस्कार करता हूँ । पतिव्रताओं मे अग्रगण्य आप श्रीजनकदुलारी

को मैं प्रणाम करता हूँ । आप सबपर अनुग्रह करनेवाली समृद्धि,

पापरहित और विष्णुप्रिया लक्ष्मी हैं । आप ही आत्मविद्या, वेदत्रयी

तथा पार्वतीस्वरूपा हैं, मैं आपको नमस्कार करता हूँ । आप ही

क्षीरसागर की कन्या महालक्ष्मी हैं, जो भक्तों को कृपा-प्रसाद

प्रदान करनेके लिये सदा उत्सुक रहती हैं । चन्द्रमा की भगिनी

(लक्ष्मीस्वरूपा) सर्वांगसुन्दरी सीताको मैं प्रणाम करता हूँ ।

धर्म की आश्रयभूता करुणामयी वेदमाता गायत्रीस्वरूपिणी श्रीजानकीको

मैं नमस्कार करता हूँ । आपका कमल में निवास है, आप ही हाथमे

कमल धारण करनेवाली तथा भगवान् विष्णुके वक्षःस्थल में निवास

करनेवाली लक्ष्मी हैं, चन्द्रमण्डल में भी आपका निवास है, आप

चन्द्रमुखी सीतादेवी को मैं नमस्कार करता हूँ । आप श्रीरघुनन्दन

की आह्लादमयी शक्ति हैं, कल्याणमयी सिद्धि हैं और भगवान् शिव

की अर्द्धांगिनी कल्याणकारिणी सती हैं । श्रीरामचन्द्रजी की परम

प्रियतमा जगदम्बा जानकी को मैं प्रणाम करता हूँ । सर्वांगसुन्दरी

सीताजी का मैं अपने हृदयमे निरन्तर चिन्तन करता हूँ ।

इस प्रकार श्रीस्कन्दमहापुराणान्तर्गत सेतुमाहात्म्य में

श्रीजानकी स्तुति सम्पूर्ण हुई ।

 

Relationship.

SWEET MOTHER — on how to grow through relationship by looking at others as a mirror…

It is rather remarkable that when we have a weakness—for example a ridiculous habit, a defect or an imperfection—since it is more or less part of our nature, we consider it to be very natural, it does not shock us. 

But as soon as we see this same weakness, this same imperfection, this same ridiculous habit in someone else, it seems quite shocking to us and we say, “What! He’s like that?”—without noticing that we ourselves are “like that.” And so to the weakness and imperfection we add the absurdity of not even noticing them.

There is a lesson to be drawn from this. 

When something in a person seems to you completely unacceptable or ridiculous—“What! He is like that, he behaves like that, he says things like that, he does things like that”—you should say to yourself, “Well, well, but perhaps I do the same thing without being aware of it. 

I would do better to look into myself first before criticising him, so as to make sure that I am not doing the very same thing in a slightly different way.” 

If you have the good sense and intelligence to do this each time you are shocked by another person’s behaviour, you will realise that in life your relations with others are like a mirror which is presented to you so that you can see more easily and clearly the weaknesses you carry within you.

In a general and almost absolute way anything that shocks you in other people is the very thing you carry in yourself in a more or less veiled, more or less hidden form, though perhaps in a slightly different guise which allows you to delude yourself. 

And what in yourself seems inoffensive enough, becomes monstrous as soon as you see it in others.

Try to experience this; it will greatly help you to change yourselves. 

At the same time it will bring a sunny tolerance to your relationships with others, the goodwill which comes from understanding, and it will very often put an end to these completely useless quarrels.

One can live without quarrelling. 

It seems strange to say this because as things are, it would seem, on the contrary, that life is made for quarrelling in the sense that the main occupation of people who are together is to quarrel, overtly or covertly. 

You do not always come to words, you do not always come to blows —fortunately—but you are in a state of perpetual irritation within because you do not find around you the perfection that you would yourself wish to realise, and which you find rather difficult to realise—but you find it entirely natural that others should realise it.

“How can they be like that?...” You forget how difficult you find it in yourself not to be “like that”!

Try, you will see.

Look upon everything with a benevolent smile. 

Take all the things which irritate you as a lesson for yourself and your life will be more peaceful and more effective as well, for a great percentage of your energy certainly goes to waste in the irritation you feel when you do not find in others the perfection that you would like to realise in yourself.

You stop short at the perfection that others should realise and you are seldom conscious of the goal you should be pursuing yourself. If you are conscious of it, well then, begin with the work which is given to you, that is to say, realise what you have to do and do not concern yourself with what others do, because, after all, it is not your business. 

And the best way to the true attitude is simply to say, “All those around me, all the circumstances of my life, all the people near me, are a mirror held up to me by the Divine Consciousness to show me the progress I must make. Everything that shocks me in others means a work I have to do in myself.”

And perhaps if one carried true perfection in oneself, one would discover it more often in others.

THE MOTHER

Yogah prabhavapyayau

 Celebrating 150th birth anniversary of Rishi, Yogi, Revolutionary and Prophet—SRI AUROBINDO ——

Yoga is not a modern invention of the human mind, but our ancient and prehistoric possession. 

The Veda is our oldest extant human document and the Veda, from one point of view, is a great compilation of practical hints about Yoga. 

All religion is a flower of which Yoga is the root; all philosophy, poetry & the works of genius use it, consciously or unconsciously, as an instrument.

“Yogah prabhavapyayau”, Yoga is the birth and passing away of things. When Srikrishna reveals to Arjuna the greatness of His creation and the manner in which He has built it out of His being by a reconciliation of logical opposites, he says “Pasya me yogam aishwaram”, Behold my divine Yoga. 

Yoga may be done without the least thought for the breathing, in any posture or no posture, without any insistence on concentration, in the full waking condition, while walking, working, eating, drinking, talking with others, in any occupation, in sleep, in dream, in states of unconsciousness, semiconsciousness, double-consciousness. It is no nostrum or system or fixed practice, but an eternal fact of process based on the very nature of the Universe.

Yoga stands essentially on the fact that in this world we are everywhere one, yet divided; one yet divided in our being, one with yet divided from our fellow creatures of all kinds, one with yet divided from the infinite existence.

Essays Divine & Human

Chapter - The Psychology of Yoga

Page/s-18 & 19.

Sri Aurobindo.

Indian Yoga, in its essence a special action or formulation of certain great powers of Nature, itself specialised, divided and variously formulated, is potentially one of these dynamic elements of the future life of humanity. 

The child of immemorial ages, preserved by its vitality and truth into our modern times, it is now emerging from the secret schools and ascetic retreats in which it had taken refuge and is seeking its place in the future sum of living human powers and utilities. 

But it has first to rediscover itself, bring to the surface the profoundest reason of its being in that general truth and that unceasing aim of Nature which it represents, and find by virtue of this new self-knowledge and self-appreciation its own recovered and larger synthesis. Reorganising itself, it will enter more easily and powerfully into the reorganised life of the race which its processes claim to lead within into the most secret penetralia and upward to the highest altitudes of existence and personality.

In the right view both of life and of Yoga all life is either consciously or subconsciously a Yoga. 

For we mean by this term a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being and — highest condition of victory in that effort — a union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent Existence we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos.

The Synthethis of Yoga

Life and Yoga

Chapter - 1

Page/s - 5 & 6.

SRI AUROBINDO

The object of our Yoga is self-perfection, not self-annulment. Let ours be the path of perfection, not of abandonment; let our aim be victory in the battle, not the

escape from all conflict.

Essays Divine & Human

Chapter - The object of our Yoga

Page/s-96.

Sri Aurobindo.

By Yoga we can rise out of falsehood into truth, out of weakness into force, out of pain and grief into bliss, out of bondage into freedom, out of death into immortality, out of darkness into light, out of confusion into purity, out of imperfection into perfection, out of self-division into unity, out of Maya into God.

Essays Divine & Human

Chapter - The Entire Purpose of our Yoga.

Page/s-98.

Sri Aurobindo.

[[ Remembering ( Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga ) on INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY ]]

ordained

 It is ordained in the daily religious duties of the Hindu that they should spend at least a few hours a day in reflection on the divine.                The conditions under which this is to be done is laid out.

as in acoustics in order that the string may catch the vibrations of sound it must be tuned so that it may be moved by that sound. similarly it is with our brain.

to be continued.