DakshinamurtiStotram (3)

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देहं प्राणमपीन्द्रियाण्यपि चलं बुद्धिम्श्च​ शून्यं विदु:

स्त्रीबालान्धजड़ोपमास्त्वहमिति भ्रान्तात्भृशंवादिन:

मायाशक्तिविलासकल्पितमहाव्यामोहसंहारिणे

तस्मै श्री गुरुमूर्तये नम इदं श्री दक्षिणामूर्तये [5]

DEHAMPRAANAMAPEENDRIYAANYAPI CHALAAM BUDDHIMCHASUNYAM VIDUHU

STREEBAALAANDHAJADOPAMAASTVAHAMITI BHRAANTAATBRSHAMVAADINAHA

MAAYAASHAKTIVILAASAKALPITAMAHAAVYAAMOHASAMHAARINE

TASMAI SHREE GURUMOORTAYE NAMA IDAM SHREE DAKSHINAAMOORTAYE [5]

देहं-प्राणं-अपि-इन्द्रियाणि-अपि-चलं-बुद्धिं-च-शून्यं-विदु:

स्त्री-बाल-अन्ध-जड-उपमा:-तु-अहं-इति-भ्रान्ता-भृशं-वादिन:

माया-शक्ति-विलास-कल्पित-महा-व्यामोह-संहारिणे

तस्मै-श्री-गुरु-मूर्तये-नमः-इदं-श्री-दक्षिणा-मूर्तये [5]

GENERAL TRANSLATION

He who destroys the great infatuation arising by the power of Maaya in those

 who understand  the body, vital air, senses, change, intellect and void as the ‘I’,

deluded like the woman, child, blind man and idiot, and  argue the same with intensity;  to that Great Guru, Dakshinaa Moorti, I offer this salutation.

DEHAM – body

PRAANAM – vital air

INDRIYAANI – sense organs

CHALAAM -moving

BUDDHI - intellect

SHOONYAM - void

VID – to know

STREE - woman

BAALA - child

ANDHA - blind

JADA- inert, dull, stupid, senseless

UPAMA – resemblance, similarity

BHRAANTA – gone astray, mistaken, wandering about, perplexed

BRSHAM –intense, excessively, repeatedly

VAADA -argument

SHAKTI - power

VILAASA- sport, play

VYAAMOHA- infatuation, bewilderment, perplexity

SAMHAARA-destruction, withdrawing, closing, restraining, conclusion

MEANINGFUL TRANSLATION

Salutations to that Great Manifestation;

 that Manifestation towards the descent!

Salutations to that Supreme state;

the realization of that state destroys the great delusion

 which arises by the deluding power of the Supremacy

which has made possible the countless theories about Self

which argue the Self to be

the gross body, vital air, senses, Change, Intellect, or void;

such that this delusion makes even learned ones to act foolish

like the non-realized, immature idiots who act blind to the Immediate Truth- our own Consciousness or awareness!

MAAYAA! The supreme deluding power of Para Brahman!

It covers up the Truth and makes it appear as something else!

The main delusion we are all suffering from is our identities!

We are not what we believe we are!

We have forgotten our true identity and thinking something else as us!

What is this misunderstood identity like?

We laugh at the brain damaged patients imprisoned within the four walls of the mental institutions when some of them say that they are Napoleons; that they are the presidents; that they are the famous film stars; etc etc; they do not lie; but live in their own world of imagination where it is true only for themselves.

We, who firmly believe in our own intellectual superiority, call them as mad and pity them because they live in an imagined world of their own. We see schizophrenics who converse with people whom we do not see; we give them medical attention anxious about their well-being. But for the schizophrenic, his hallucination is very very real.

In one sense, we are also schizophrenic, insane and blabbering nonsense about our identities. Because the whole populated world experiences the same hallucinations, we do not understand our own insane condition. Which mental institution is there to cure our misconceptions?

Some of us think that the ant colony of the body is the only reality.

We feed it, pamper it, beautify it, cover it with gold and silk and diamonds; push all that is edible into its gaping hole; and then one day vanish off with the death of the cells.

We thought we were the body; so we die with it.

We live in our hallucination of a body based world. We love our clothing with nine stinking holes.

Some are slightly a step above the body based world. They think of themselves as the PRAANA residing inside the body. The life-force is the ‘I’ they proclaim. They raise the power of Praana and experience various types of blissful states.

Some imagine themselves as souls residing inside the heart region. They imagine worlds after death where they will go as a white light up somewhere.

They imagine hells that boil us and heavens where pretty maidens hug and kiss us; they think of God worlds where Krishna will play his flute or a Shiva will dance to reward their devotion. They think of eternal worlds where they sing ‘Bhajans’ unceasingly and imagine a God to patiently hear all their blabbering of fanatic love.

They imagine ghosts and spirits; they imagine devils and demons; they imagine evil gods and good devils!

Which mental institution is ready to cure this type of hallucination?

Some people are not even aware of their own existence. The evolutionary level of Self awareness itself is not reached by them. They live in the world of senses.

Eyes want to see something; they see; ears wants to hear; they hear; tongue wants to taste; they taste any thing and everything - even loathsome cockroaches fried in oil. Living every moment only for fulfilling the ever rising wants of the mind they chase sensual pleasures; they live in the sense-world only. They do not understand love, or patriotism, or Knowledge or values. They understand only the dopamine secretions in their brains and strive only for attaining such chemically induces pleasures.

‘Enjoy every moment’ is their motto; and they enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, till one day all the poison of the enjoyments bursts out as diseases and leads them towards destruction through the path of  untold miseries.

Some people are at a higher level than these lost identities.

They do not go after these mean enjoyments; they revel in intellectual pleasures.

They understand the subtlest truths of science or philosophy yet will tread the roads of their life with arrogance and vanity. They will discover the truths of the science and religion and parade it as their intellectual property and lock it up in their cup boards or exchange it for some green papers; some will talk for hours in a flowery language about the Supreme Godhead and Upanishads and will watch the video coverage of their lectures with a grin like that of a chimpanzee inside their private chambers, when alone. Not realizing what they understood intellectually, living as bloated egos of intellectual supremacy, they also die along with the destruction of their cell colony.

Some go even above that; they see nothing as truth. They see everything as Change. Of course everything changes every fraction of a second; there is no permanency in anything. But they adhere to only this principle of Change and disregard everything else. They believe neither in the perceiver nor in the perceived.

For them everything is void; pure void; nothing exists.

Once Shankara was arguing with such a person; the opponent was saying- ‘everything is changing; every moment you are also changing and I am also changing; nothing can be the unchanging reality’. Shankara said with a mischievous smile – ‘then with whom am I arguing?’ and walked away.

All these people are truly deluded.

‘पुरि शेते इति पुरुषः’

One who sleeps in the city (of nine doors) is PURUSHA.

This term refers to both genders. Purusha is the Self who perceives with the help of Prakriti. Purusha is said to be lame and Prakriti is considered as blind.

One who acts in the level of worldly activities only; one who does not identify with the PURUSHA, the Self   - is indeed a STREE – opposite of Purusha – the inert body!

One who is engaged in a limited world of toys like sense pleasures is just a BAALA.

A person who does not know his own Self and imagines the perceived world to be real is truly a blind person, ANDHA.

A person who thinks is he is a body and acts as body, lives as the inert body is inert himself, so a JADA.

This is the delusion; great delusion; greatest infatuation yet a conception created for sport by the deluding power of the Supreme Brahman.

He alone has the power to destroy this delusion also.

He alone is capable of making us know ourselves as the Purusha; he alone can make us mature; he alone can cure our blindness; he alone can make us know of our conscious nature.

“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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राहुग्रस्तदिवाकरेन्दुसदृशो मायासमाच्छादनात्

सन्मात्रःकरणोपसंहरणतो योsभूत्सुषुप्त: पुमान्

प्रागस्वाप्तमिति प्रबोधसमये यःप्रत्यभिज्ञायते

तस्मै श्री गुरुमूर्तये नम इदं श्री दक्षिणामूर्तये [6]

RAAHUGRASTA DIVAAKARENDUSADRSHO MAAYAASAMAACCHHAADANAAT

SANMAATRAHKARANOPASAMHARANATO YOABHOOTSUSHUPTAHPUMAAN

PRAAGASVAAPTAMITI PRABODHASAMAYE YAHPRATYABHIJNAAYATE

TASMAI SHREE GURUMOORTAYE NAMA IDAM SHREE DAKSHINAAMOORTAYE [6]

राहु-ग्रस्त-दिवाकर-इन्दु-सद्र्षः-माया-समाच्छ्हादनात्

सत्-मात्रः-करण-उपसंहरणतः-यः-अभूत्-पुमान्

प्राक्-अस्वाप्तं-इति-प्रबोध-समये-यः-प्रत्यभिज्ञायते

तस्मै-श्री-गुरु-मूर्तये-नमः-इदं-श्री-दक्षिणा-मूर्तये [6]

GENERAL TRANSLATION

Enveloped by the deluding power of Maayaa

like the Sun and Moon getting swallowed up by Raahu ;

He who remains as Existence alone, withdrawing all the instruments of perception;

He who understands –‘I was asleep’ at the time of waking up;

to that Great Guru, Dakshinaa Moorti, I offer this salutation.

RAAHU- eclipse (A mythical demon taking revenge on the Sun and Moon Gods for getting cheated by them both)

DIVAAKARA- one who makes the light/day - Sun

INDU-moistens and dampens the Earth with its rays - Moon

SADRSHAM -equal

SAMAACCHAADANAM – complete enveloping

UPASAMHARANA- withdrawal

SUSHUPTAHA- one who is in deep sleep

PUMAAN -Purusha- the individual Self

PRATYABHIJNA- to recover consciousness

MEANINGFUL TRANSLATION

Salutations to that Great Manifestation;

that Manifestation towards the descent!

Salutations to that Supreme state;

 which state enveloped by Maayaa

 is equal to that of the Sun or Moon enveloped by the eclipse;

is akin to the deep sleep state where all senses are withdrawn

and Existence alone remains;

where one just remembers -‘ Ah, I was asleep!’

at the instance of complete awakening.

 (At the instance of realization, the individual Self knows its identity as the Supreme Self and understands both the delusory state and the state free of delusion as its own aspects and there exist not in that state, ideas of differentiations between deluded and non-deluded states)

How does all this occur? How can the One Absolute Pure Brahman become deluded ‘as’ the myriad limited selves and suffer?

But HE actually does not get deluded in reality. He does not ever ‘become’ the individual Self.

Then what indeed happens?

Many of you might have played shadow games. With the source of light at the back, you just extend your hand and move your fingers in different ways; the shadow on the wall will appear to be like a rabbit, crow, man etc etc.

You can run a whole story of the rabbit and the lion in the shadow world if few talented friends join together. But is the shadow story true? Did your fingers in any way get affected by the shadow rabbit or shadow lion? Did the fingers ever feel even the touch of the wall?

You were involved in the story as a rabbit all through yet you were unaffected by any thing that happened in the shadow world. Para Brahman is unperturbed too!

Light caused the shadows to appear, but by itself it has no connection with the shadows.

Para Brahman is the cause of all these perceptions, yet is unaffected by all this show.

Shadows were seen when the light was blocked. Where Knowledge is blocked, delusion arises.

The Sun or the Moon get covered by Raahu (mythical character) and disappear from view; but they do not cease to exist. Once the eclipse is over the sun and the moon shine again in their full glory. Actually sun and the moon were not at all affected by the eclipse and never became non existent because of the eclipse.

The eclipse appears only for the earth dweller.

His vision alone is blocked. The sun and moon shine as usual.

Similarly this world of appearances arises because of the covering up of Para Brahman by Maayaa.

Maayaa is that which hides the truth and make it appear as something else; like seeing a rope as a snake; like seeing the conch shell as a piece of silver.

We can see a miniature example of the eclipse when we fall asleep.

When we sleep all our senses stop working; the body is in a paralyzed state; we are not aware of the body at all; eyes remain shut; not even a dream experience is there;

we suddenly wake up and look at the clock; we are shocked; already the night is over;

we had a good sleep of nine hours; yet we think that we slept just a few minutes back.

We were unaware of ourselves during sleep. We did not cease to exist; but were covered by the veil of ignorance when we slept and woke up as ourselves after the sleep was over.

Similarly this world of appearances is just a sleep state, where Para Brahman is dreaming this life as you and me and others; when we realize our true nature, HE alone- you alone- I alone will wake up to the true nature of the Self and exclaim – ‘Ah I was asleep!’ - and laugh at the whole thing as of no value.

“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”