[3]
यस्यैव स्फुरणं सदात्मकमसत्कल्पार्थकं
भासते
साक्षात्तत्वमसीति
वेदवचसा यो बोधयत्याश्रितान्
यत्साक्षात्करणाद्भवेन्न पुनरावृत्तिर्भवाम्भोनिधौ
तस्मै श्री गुरुमूर्तये
नम इदं श्री दक्षिणामूर्तये [3]
YASYAIVA
SPHURANAM SADAATMAKAMASATKALPAARTHAKAM BHAASATE
SAAKSHAATTATVAMASEETI
VEDAVACHASAA YO BODHAYATYAASHRITAAN
YATSAAKSHAATKARANAADBHAVENNA
PUNARAAVRITTIRBHAVAAMBHONIDHOU
TASMAI
SHREE GURUMOORTAYE NAMA IDAM SHREE DAKSHINAAMOORTAYE [3]
यस्य-एव-स्फुरणं-सत्-आत्मकं-असत्-कल्प-अर्थकं भासते
साक्षात्-तत्-त्वं-असि-इति-वेद-वचसा-यः-बोधयति-आश्रितान्
यत्-साक्षात्-करणात्-भवेत्-न-पुन:-आवृत्ति:-भव-अम्भु-निधौ
तस्मै-श्री-गुरु-मूर्तये-नम:-इदं-श्री-दक्षिणा-मूर्तये [3]
GENERAL
TRANSLATION
He whose projection though of the nature of ‘Existence Absolute’
shines forth with the purpose of
conception of non existence;
He who enlightens those who take shelter in him
with the Vedic statement – ‘you are That in direct experience’;
by the realization of which there will not occur again
the returning in the ocean of
the worldly existences,
to that Great Guru, Dakshinaa
Moorti, I offer this salutation.
SPHURANAM - breaking forth,
quivering, shining, flashing
KALPA-imagination, conception
SAT- Existence, Real
ASAT -not real, nonexistent
ARTHAKAM –purpose of
BHAA -shine
AKSHA – senses
SAAKSHA - with senses
SAAKSHAAT - Direct experience
through senses
AAVRITTIHI - revolving,
reversion, returning, coming back
AMBHAS - waters
AMBHONIDHI – Ocean (that
which has the wealth of waters)
ARTHAKAM - purpose
MEANINGFUL TRANSLATION
Salutations to that Great Manifestation;
that Manifestation towards the descent!
Salutations to that Supreme state
by realizing which there will not be a
return
to the ocean of worldly existence;
by realizing which the contemplating one
will experience the Vedic Truth – That
Thou Art;
by realizing which one will know
the entire world of perceptions as unreal and
as emanating from his own true Self as Para Brahman!
It may be argued that even if the Supreme Brahman alone is
appearing as this world,
I love my existence as this individual Self; what need is
there for any liberation!
‘I love the hallucinations/ dreams/ virtual worlds even if
they are unreal; please do not disturb me drowned in those unreal worlds; I am
happy; I do not want to know the truth;
I have my Gods and Gurus to protect me; I have my
astrologers to predict my future;
I have my ghosts to frighten me; I have my superstitions to
guide me; I have heavens and hells to visit after death; I do not want the
bitter truth that everything I see is unreal;
I cannot call my mother as a common gene owner; I like the
stars above to control my daily life. Do not upset my contended life by this
bomb burst of facts’
That is what every alcoholic would say; every drug addict
would say; every God loving, family loving worldly person will say.
If we say we do not want to wake up from this unreal world,
we are not less idiotic than the hallucinating drug addicts.
Sri Ramakrishna explains this fact like this:
When a fisher man casts the net and is catching huge amount
of fish, some fish die; some escape quickly before they die; some do not even
try to get out feeling happy inside that net. The man who does not strive for
the Knowledge of his own Self belongs to third category.
How can we be ever happy being some one else other than us?
Let us analyze factually who we are!
All our unique physical characteristics are there because of
the parental genes dating back to the first primordial cell.
You are what you are physically because of a random mathematical
number or DNA coding that came up by chance; one chance in billion years of
evolution for you to exist as yourself; a chance to see the Earth circling
round the sun for a few decades!
One fine day your brain would send out the message to all
the members of the cell- colony, (which you call yourself) to stop working and
the cells would obey the master without questioning; then ‘you’ will be no
more! Is that all? Does your life have no meaning at all?
MIRROR AND THE REFLECTION:
The reflection in the mirror paused for a fraction of a
second; looked at itself and asked this question? Who am I? Am I worth nothing?
The mirror answered:
“You are ME! You are
worth everything as ME!”
The reflection said:
“How can you be me? I am nothing; I have only a limited
form; I am bound by space and time; I have no control over my life; but you are
eternal; all mighty; God; Supreme Controller; Eternal; immortal; all knower; I
can exist only by worshiping you, pleasing you; save me please!”
“God?” The mirror laughed! “Which God? Who is there to
worship me as God? I am the only one existing”
The mirror said:
“You are not of
limited form”; the reflection lost its form!
The mirror said:
“You are not bound by
space and time”; the reflection was suddenly free of all space time
limitations!
The mirror said:
“You are me”; there
was no reflection at all; only the mirror talking to itself!
Even that slight perturbation stopped.
There was Absolute Silence.
No one was there but THAT.
The particular reflection which asked the question never had
to become the reflection again. It was now the mirror shining as countless
other reflections!
All these other reflections were making a lot of noise; this
is mine; I am beautiful; this is my son; this is my grandpa; I want this; I
hate you; I own so much property; I want to earn a lot of money; I won the
election; so on and so on.
The mirror knew everything; for it was the very awareness
which was aware of everything; yet it was without any perturbation; there was
only absolute silence; absolute bliss; absolute Knowledge!
“SALUTATIONS
to THAT DAKSHINAAMOORTI
who
dreams the dream of this world
and wakes up to the reality of his own Self!
Salutations
to my own Self!
Salutations to all the perceived forms around
me
who are
my own Self!
Salutations
to me,
the
Supreme DakshinaaMoorti,
the
Unmanifest Manifest Brahman”
[4]
नानाछिद्रघटोदरस्तिथमहादीपप्रभाभास्वरं
ज्ञानं यस्य तु चक्षुरादिकरणद्वाराबहिर्स्पन्दते
जानामीति तमेवभान्तमनुभात्येतद्समस्तम्जगत्
तस्मै श्री गुरुमूर्तये
नम इदं श्री दक्षिणामूर्तये [4]
NAANAACHIDRAGHATODARASTITHAMAHAADEEPAPRABHAABHAASVARAM
JNAANAM YASYA TU CHAKSHURAADIKARANADVAARAABAHIRSPANDATE
JAANAAMEETI TAMEVABHAANTAMANUBHAATYETADSAMASTAMJAGAT
TASMAI SHREE GURUMOORTAYE NAMA IDAM SHREE DAKSHINAAMOORTAYE
[4]
नाना-छिद्र-घट-उदर-स्तिथ-महा-दीप-प्रभा-भास्वरं
ज्ञानं-यस्य-तु-चक्षुः-आदि-करण-द्वारा-बहिः -स्पन्दते
जानामि-इति-तं-एव-भान्तं-अनुभाति-एतत्-समस्तं-जगत्
तस्मै-श्री-गुरु-मूर्तये-नमः -इदं-श्री-दक्षिणामूर्तये [4]
GENERAL TRANSLATION
He who is shines forth excellently
like the light of the lamp kept inside the hollow of the pot with many
holes;
the Knowledge of whom vibrates forth through the sense organs like eyes
etc;
the shining one whom the entire
world cognizes saying ‘I know’;
to that Great Guru, Dakshinaa Moorti,
I offer this salutation.
CHIDRA -hole
GHATA – a large earthen
pitcher
UDARA –belly, cavity
DEEPA –lamp, light (to shine,
to blaze)
PRABHAA –to shine forth, to
gleam
PRA – (prefix) – forward, in
front, onward, away, excessive, beginning etc.
BHAASVARA- greatest, best,
excellent light;
BHAA – light, luster,
brightness
CHAKSHUS - eye
KARANA – instrument or
means of an action
BAHIHI – external, outside
SPANDA – throbbing, vibration
JAANAAMI – I know
BHAANTAM - shining
ANU – to follow, to go after,
connected with
SAMASTAM – thrown together,
joined together
MEANINGFUL
TRANSLATION
Salutations to that Great Manifestation;
that Manifestation towards the descent!
Salutations to that Supreme state;
which manifestation alone is experienced
by the entire world as
‘I cognize’;
which manifestation alone as Knowledge
pours out through the senses
as an external space time experience;
which manifestation is the Supreme light
of Consciousness acting
as the individual Cognizer as if
contained in a pot filled with holes.
How does One Supremacy appear as so many?
You as the Jeeva - the collection of Vaasanaas - pause for a
second in your unceasing chase after senses objects and ponder; look at
yourself; analyze yourself.
The body you call as yourself is inert.
It is a cell-pot.
It is just a heap of atoms moving in and out.
Your body does not even have a proper shape; your brain does
it for you by drawing lines.
Your shape is somewhat like a puddle in the muddy ground.
The brain somehow conceives proper shapes and superimposes perfect shapes on
the vague collections of atoms and makes you feel comfortable.
It codes color symbols for the speeding electromagnetic
waves and keeps you happy.
It creates sound- symbols inside itself to decode the
changing pressures of the atmosphere and makes you feel secure.
Though all these coding systems evolved in the surviving
race of the gene groups, we can ignore all that just for now and just analyze
our present existence.
Actually you are a moving wave of atoms; a collection of
cells busily going on about their work without an idea of why they are doing
whatever they are doing.
As they work like automatons some neural cells flash forth
in different symbolic forms as commands without knowing why they are doing
whatever they are doing.
The whole structure labeled as ‘you’ is like an ant colony
where innumerable ants are busily moving in different formations without
knowing why they are doing whatever they are doing.
In this mobile colony, where are ‘you’ situated?
Who are you?
The cells? Atoms?
Collections of cells? Piles of atoms? Symbols which arise in the gooey mass at
the top of this anthill?
Who are you? Where are you?
Something still says ‘I’ am there; ‘I’ am in control of
everything!
What control? Whose control?
The whole ant colony or rather the cellular colony of you
body is obeying the command of the chemicals oozing out in the gooey mass at
the top!
Still you are screaming ‘I’ am there!
What is this ‘I’?
This I is not the cell colony; not the pile of atoms; not
the chemically moved mobile vehicle; but ‘I’!
Again look at the body you call yourself.
There are some holes here and there; these holes came into
existence in the evolutionary cycle just for the sake of survival!
Let us just look at the body as it is now at twenty first
century.
Two holes on two sides created in a particular shape to
catch the changes in air pressure and pass it to the brain which makes a noise
within itself and says – sound.
Two holes at the top of the so called face; the light rays
travelling at the speed of one lakh eighty six thousand miles per second, hit
the object and hit these two holes; which convey the message to the brain and
the brain sees an upside down picture; it quickly colors it up; straightens it
up and says - sight.
To tell you the secret of light, if it was not speeding at
that particular speed, the whole world you see would just become a picture
scribbled by an insane person. No wonder humans worship this electromagnetic
wave as a form of God!
Another two holes below a cone-structure; which filter the
atmospheric gaseous garbage, take only the oxygen and throw away the rest of
the gaseous matter regularly without a break; these holes also decode the
molecules that enter them saying this smell is good; this is fragrant, this is
rotten etc. and inform the brain about the dangers and good things of the
world.
Another huge gaping hole exists at the bottom of the round
wobbling mass of flesh, with a soft padded door, with crushing mechanisms and a
snaky fleshy carpet alert for any thing that enters inside.
The snake-carpet warns the brain about the good and bad of
the fuel intake of the chemical automaton; yet the brain ignores its warnings
and pushes whatever is available into the pit like shoveling garbage into a
pit. The snake-carpet also is capable of altering air pressures coming out of
it, so other brains decode it as language and communicate.
Seven holes are over; the other two are the excretory and
reproductive organs.
Eat and push out; mate and reproduce; this is the set rule
for this survival machine.
This cellular mechanism has never stopped working from the
time the first cell started its business of survival and is going on now and
will go on forever unless man-made machines take over the world in the future
and put a stop to gene commands.
You are the nine holed ant colony with a screaming ‘I’
somewhere inside.
What is this ‘I’?
This ‘I’ is the Supreme Brahman. It is pure Consciousness.
This awareness leaks out through these holes and says I see,
I hear, I feel; I taste;
I reproduce; etc etc.
The Vaasanaas inside the One big ‘I’ of Para Brahman write
the picture of the world for their play; and that is perceived by the one and
only ‘I’ as the perceived world.
And this One and only Para Brahman ‘I’ creates a ‘ghost I’
and starts imagining the cell colony as itself; believes the inert body which
is not aware of anything as the ‘I’ and
experiences a life bound by space and time limitations; the
‘ghost I’ starts to suffer by identifying itself with every perception
occurring through the senses; and that is the story of our existence!
That ‘One I’ pours out through the screen of the Vaasanaa
and through the brushes called senses and draws the colorful picture of the
world and imagines itself to be a bound being.
“SALUTATIONS
to THAT DAKSHINAAMOORTI
who
dreams the dream of this world
and wakes up to the reality of his own Self!
Salutations
to my own Self!
Salutations to all the perceived forms around
me
who are
my own Self!
Salutations
to me,
the
Supreme DakshinaaMoorti,
the
Unmanifest Manifest Brahman”
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