Monday, October 18, 2010

Venkatesh stotra - 2

Pradyumna :
NARAYANA in his moolarupa , took the forms of Vasudeva , pradyumna , sankarshana ,aniruddha , before the start of the creation . His wife MAHALAXMI also took the forms of MAYA , KRITI , JAYA , SHANTI .
  • MAYAPATI VAsudev gives mukti to all
  • kritipati Pradyumna creates the srishti
  • Jayapati sankarshana destroys the bramhanda
  • Shantipati Anirudhha maintains the srishti
Srinivas [ Lord Venkatesh ] is Vasudev as stated earlier thus he is the one who confers Mukti , now we call HIM PRADYUMNA so that the task of creation also belongs to HIM.
Pra means SARVOTTAMA the superiormost , 'dyumna ' means one with auspiscious qualities infinite and complete with a golden hue .Thus VENKATESHA is known as PRADYUMNA.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

VENKATESH STOTRA!!!

!! SRIVENKATESHO VASUDEV: PRADYUMNO AMITVIKRAMA !
SANKARSHANO ANIRUDHHASHCHA SHESHADRI PATIREVACHA !!

VENKATESHA STOTRAM IS FROM BRAMHANDA PURANA WHICH IS RECITED IN EVERY HOUSE WITH PIETY . EVEN IN THIS AGE OF KALI LORD IS MAKING MANY BEND TO HIS FEET WHICH IS EVIDENT BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO VISIT THIS PLACE EVERYDAY .

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    GURU SHRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMIJI

WAS ALSO BORN AS A RESULT OF GREAT TAPASYA DONE BY THEIR PARENTS AT TIRUPATI AND NAMING THE CHILD AS VENKATNATH. VENKATNATH WENT ON TO BECOME SHRIRAGHAVENDRA TEERTHA .

IT IS VERY MUCH EVIDENT THAT RECITING THIS STOTRAM WITH MEANING WILL ENSURE MOKSHA AND FULFILLMENT OF ALL WISHES . LET THIS TRANSLATION BE A SEVA TO THE FEET OF LORD AS PRESENT IN SHRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY

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1> THE WORD VENKATESH HAS THREE WORDS ‘VEN’ ‘KAT’ AND ‘EESH’ .
ACCORDING TO THE BHAVISHYOTTAR PURANA ‘VEN’ MEANS SINS .’KAT’ MEANS BURNS UP .

MADHAV WAS A VERY ELIGIBLE BRAMHIN WHO DUE TO PRARABDHA KARMA LEAVING ASIDE PARENTS AND WIFE AND HIS BRAMHIN STATUS , WENT AWAY TO LIVE WITH A CHANDAAL WOMAN AND INDULGED IN ALL KINDS OF SINS ALL THROUGH HIS LIFE .SUCH MADHAV’S SINS BURNT UP JUST BY THE MERE TOUCH OF THIS MOUNTAIN . THUS THE MOUNTAIN IS KNOWN AS ‘VENKAT’ BECAUSE IT BURNS UP THE SINS .

‘EESH’ -MEANS LORD .VISHNU WHO RESIDES AND LORDS OVER THIS MOUNTAIN IS KNOWN AS ‘VENKATESH’

‘Vasu ‘ means one who is inside ‘ deva ‘ means one who sports . Lord resides in all of us . He sports being inside us . As lord resides in everyone . When we have extreme happiness we should owe it to God and thank . because it is He who has given us all this being in others . Similarly when we face sorrow we must think God has given us sorrow to wash off our sins . We should not hate the person who is responsible for sorrow .

‘Vasu’ means one who covers everywhere , everything . God Srinivasa covers us like a sheet and protects us from external dangers and calamities . He regulates the entire universe by being outside and inside it . Thus he is vasudev .

Va means one with complete strength. ‘asu’ means one who controls everyone . ‘de ‘ means one who gives everything and ‘va’ again here means one who is present everywhere . Being present everywhere , he controls everyone and gives whatever wished for to those who pray him . Thus Srinivas is vasudev .

being the son of vasudev He is also known as VASUDEV .

‘VASUDEVA ‘

    THERE ARE THREE WORDS IN THIS : ‘VA’ ‘SU’ ‘DEVA’
    ‘VA’ MEANS ONE WHO IS OF THE FORM OF KNOWLEDGE .
    ‘SU’ MEANS ONE WHO CREATES ENTIES WORLD [SRUSHTI]
    ‘DEVA’ MEANS ONE WHO SPORTS AND ENJOYS IN THIS WORLD .

    AS HE CREATES THE ENTIRE WORLD /UNIVERSE HE HAS A NAME ‘SU’ [ WHO? LORD VISHNU!]
    AS HE CREATES ALL OF US ,SINCE WE ARE CREATED WE ARE ALL UNDER HIS CONTROL i.e PARADHEEN .
    BUT A BODY IS ACQUIRED AS THE SRUSHTI PROCEEDS , THUS A BODY IS PRESENT ONLY IN THE SRISHTI , SO SRINIVASA [LORD] SHOULD ALSO HAVE A BODY , BUT HOW CAN HE HAVE A BODY BEFORE SRISHTI . IF HE DOES HAVE ONE ? THEN IT MUST HAVE BEEN CREATED BY SOMEONE . IF IT IS INDEED CREATED THEN EVEN HE BECOMES PARADHEEN JUST LIKE US AS HE HAS BEEN CREATED . [ THIS DOUBT CAN CREEP UP ]
    THUS EITHER SRINIVASA SHOULD BE BODYLESS BEFORE CREATION OR ELSE HE BECOMES SUBSERVIENT LIKE US .
    TO ELIMINATE THIS DOUBT , THE WORD ‘VA’ IS USED ie HE HAS A BODY OF KNOWLEDGE AND NOT THAT OF PRAKRUTI . APRAKRUT SHARIR IS WHAT WE SEE IN TIRUPATI AND NOT A STONE OR IDOL AS LORD HIMSLEF IS STANDING THERE AND IT IS NOT AN IDOL INSTALLED BY SOME . SINCE IT NOT A STONE , INFACT NOT MADE UP OF ANY MATERIAL IN UNIVERSE IT IS KNOWN AS APRAKRUT AS CONVEYED BY THE WORD ‘ VA’.

    THE BODY OF MATERIAL WORLD WILL HAVE BIRTH AND DEATH BUT NOT THAT OF APRAKRUT BODY BECAUSE THERE IS NO BIRTH OR DEATH TO A BODY WHICH IS MADE UP KNOWLEDGE , HAPPINESS AND OTHER AUSPICIOUS ATTRIBUTES.
    THUS SRINIVASA EXISTS EVEN BEFORE CREATION . AND HE IS SWATANTRA AND NOT PARADHEEN .AND SINCE HE HAS A BODY OF HIS OWN HE CAN CREATE AS WELL .

    IN THIS WORLD EVERYONE DOES WORK FOR SOME PURPOSE . NO ONE IS ACTIVE WITHOUT PURPOSE AND AIM . THUS THIS SRINIVASA MUST ALSO BE CREATING THIS WORLD WITH SOME PURPOSE .
    IF THERE IS A PURPOSE BEHIND A WORK THERE HAS TO BE SOME RESULT OR FRUIT OF SUCH PURSPOSE AND TOIL . IF SUCH A TOIL ENDS IN FRUITION MEANS THE TOILER /WORKER [ IN THIS CASE SRINIVASA] MUST BE UNDER THE SUBSERVIENCE OF THE GIVER OF THE FRUITS . [ THIS GIVER OF FRUITS FOR THE LABOR OF CREATION MUST PRESIDE OVER SRINIVASA] SO SRINIVASA BECOMES PARADHEEN .
    HOW CAN A PARADHEEN CREATE?

    ie IN SHORT IF THERE IS A SELFISH PURPOSE BEHIND CRAETION THEN GOD IS SELFISH TO CREATE THIS WORLD AND HE HAS SOME FRUITS TO BE ACHIEVED THROUGH CREATION FOR HIS OWN SELF . THEN HE IS DEPENDENT ON FRUITS AND ACHIEVEMENT FOR WHICH HE IS TOILING TO CREATE THIS WORLD . SUCH INCOMPLETE DEPENDENT ENTITY CANNOT BE GOD OR CREATOR !
    PRECISELY TO DISPEL THIS DOUBT THE WORD ‘DEVA’ HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO LORD SRINIVASA .

    HE SPORTS IN HIS OWN CREATION .HE HAS NO GOALS TO BE ACHIEVED FOR HIS OWN BETTERMENT . HE IS ALWAYS FULL OF HAPPINESS . IN THIS WORLD A WHEN IN FULL HAPPINESS PEOPLE DRINK AND IN THAT INTOXICATED STATE THEY DANCE AND SPORT .
    LORD HAS NO PURPOSE OF HIS OWN . THUS HIS CREATING THE WORLD IS NO HINDRANCE TO HIS COMPLETENESS AND INDEPENDENCE .
    HE CREATES TO GIVE HAPPINESS TO INFINITE SOULS THAT COME INTO EXISTENCE THROUGH CREATION AND ATTAIN BLISS .

    THUS ENDS THE FIRST OF THE MANY MEANINGS OF VASUDEV AS ENUMERATED IN SHRUTI . REST OF THE MEANINGS WE SHALL INSPECT ONE BY ONE !!!!


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Saturday, October 9, 2010

GUNASVABHAV!!

MUKTAJEEVA - Satva satva satva
  1. Bramha ,Vayu Sarsvati, Bharati Satva -Rajas-satva
  2. Sesha , GAruda ,Rudra , varuni ,sauparni ,parvati,jambavati ,kalindi, mitravinda , neela ,bhadra , lakshana , satva tamo satva
  3. Indra ,kama ----------------------------------------- raja satva satva
  4. ahankarik prana , indradwar sharirabhimani , brihaspati ---------------------- raja satva raja
  5. shachi ,anirudhha ,guru,dakshprajapati svayambhu manu ratidevi - raja satva tama
  6. Pravaha vayu, yama, chandra ,surya , shatarupa ,varun , narada, bhrigu , agni , prasuti , marich ,mitra surya , tara , pravahi ,vishwamitra - rajo raj satva
  7. nirruti rajo raj satva
  8. ganapati , vishwaksen , kubera , 85 shesha shatastha devata - rajorajsatva
  9. karmaj devata (100) kings , janaka etc 8 apasaras urvashi etc , 8 gandharva tumbura etc , 8 pitrus prabhas etc , 10 indras bali etc , 8 manus , 80 rishi ,36 agniputras , jaya vijaya dwarpalak , mangal rahu , ketu , chitragupta , vishwakarma - ---------------- rajo raj rajas
  10. ganga , sangya , shyamala , rohini , anirudhha patni , usha , parjanya , svaha - rajo raj raj
  11. usha , ashvini devta patni , shani , pushkar ajanaj devata , gandharvas , siddha charan, yaksha , vidydhar , chirapitru , 100 less 100crores rishi , 16100krishna wives , other gopikas ,----------- rajo raj tam
  12. Deva gandharva , rishi gandharva,risis ,muni rajo tamo raj
  13. manujgandharva , manushya raja [ kings on earth] tamo satva satva
  14. MAnushyauttama [ baramhana kshatriya vaishya etc ] - tamo satva raj
  15. MOkshadhikari trina jeeva [ trees , animals ] ---------------- tama satva tamo
  16. Nitya samsari manushyamadhyama [ other castes races ]
  17. svarga prachura --------------------------------------------------------------- tamo raja satva
  18. bhuprachur ------------------------------------------------------------------------- tamo raj raj
  19. niraya prachur -------------------------------------------------------------------- tamo raja tamas
  20. Tamoyogya
  21. manushyaadhama [evil among humans ], servants of demons - tamo tam satva
  22. Major demons --------------------------------------------------------------------------- tamo tam raj
  23. KAlI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tamo tam tam
Note ; there is difference in the body composition of KINGS and normal humans , best among humans and medium among humans and evils among humans .

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