The One Dressed In White

The One Dressed In White, Who is Present Everywhere,

Who is of the Colour of the Moon, Who has Four Shoulders (Sides,Trunks, Coils)

Who has a Happy Face, Must be Meditated Upon,

For the Calming of All Obstacles.

The Remover Of Obstacles by Rajan Iyer

शुक्लाम्बरधरं विष्णुम् शशिवर्णं चतुर्भुजम् ।
प्रसन्नवदनं ध्यायेत् सर्व विघ्नोपशान्तये ॥

s’uklAmbaradharaM viSNum s’asivarNaM caturbhujam |
prasannavadanaM dhyAyEt sarva vighnOpas’Antaye ||

Notes:

1. purandaradAsa said that gaNEs’a is the colour of sindhoora.
2. Most people use this s’lOkam to invoke gaNE’sa.
3. Some people think it is about Vishnu, but he is pItAmbaradhara – one who wears yellow. It is correct to translate Vishnu as omni-present.
4. तिङन्त ध्यै, अप्रत्ययान्तधातु, विधिलिङ्,परस्मैपदे, प्रथम, एकः, ध्यायेत्

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Peace Invocation : Perfection gives rise to perfection

When a perfect child is born of a perfect mother, the mother is still perfect and complete.

Similarly when a perfect world emerges from a perfect being, or a complete world is taken from a complete being, the original being is still perfect and complete.

We normally think that when you take something out of something else there is less of the original stuff to go around. However when you look at the infinity concept in mathematics you can see that subtracting infinity from infinity leaves infinity.

From perfection – only perfection can arise.

‘This’ is all that we see. ‘That’ is the Brahman, the great, the divine, the perfect.

All ‘this’ came from ‘that’.

That means that all that we see is also perfect. It is also complete.

If you look at the world around you and look at it as imperfect and incomplete – you will not have inner peace or santhi.

Without inner peace you cannot think, contemplate or meditate and understand the truth.

So first let us accept that the world around us is pURNa since it comes from that perfect complete divine Brahman. And perfection can only give rise to perfection.

 

Every Upanishad begins with an invocation for inner peace. We do not wish to be disturbed by causes internal, external or divine.

The inner peace invocation (s’Anti mantram) at the beginning of the Isa Upanishad (Is’A vAsya upaniSad)  says :

AUM pUrNamadah pUrNamidam pUrNat pUrNamudacyatE

pUrNasya pUrNamAdAya pUrNamEvAvas’iSyatE.

AUM s’Antih, s’Antih, s’Antih.

Aum – is the divine sound and represents the brahman.

purnam adah – that is complete

purnam idam  - this is complete

purnat purnamudachyate – completeness arises from completeness

purnasya purnamadaya – having taken completeness from completeness

purnameva avasishyate – only completeness remains.

AUM, this is complete and that is complete. From completeness, completeness arises.

Having taken the completeness of completeness, only completeness remains.

satyA s’Arada kandula

Manuscripts at sanskrit university, kaladi, kerala and other treats.

Today’s gifts -
A puja to vArAhI dEvI, for vidyavRddhi since it is a thursday.
Then a trip to kAlaDI’s engineering college and to the sanskrit  university.

The sanskrit university has many interdisciplinary courses and modern courses and also has a sanskrit division. This university is run by the govt. of kerala.

The library has old sanskrit manuscripts written in malayalam lipi – script. We were lucky to be shown those palm leaf manuscripts. Before this I have only seen photographs.

Then in the evening – listening to the students learning veda mantrAs in the pATha s’Ala, very uplifting. Often makes me sorry that I am not one of those vaTUs!
Then a dars’ana of the pUrNA river.

And a masala dosa for dinner, at lakshmi bhavan – the only pure veg hotel in this town. They don’t serve meals at night in this town – so we are told.

Yesterday evening we saw the beautiful kRSNa temple and it rained something awesome.Today we didn’t get caught in the rain.

         (Autos run at prefixed rates between predetermined stops. We paid Rs 140 from angamali to kAlaDi. We heard that it is Rs 300 to aluva.)

So now, I have two lives. One in the As’rama when my eyes are closed – that is the real one and the other general nonsense one that I live outside the As’rama with my eyes open.

There I know who I am, here I go with the mis-labelling. Almost everything is mis-labelled outside.

satyA