Shanakra Jayanthi - Guru Vaani
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Shri Gurubhyo Namaha , Harih OM 🙏
Author's note : I am incredibly blessed that our Guru recognized the translation work of the past work and I do not want to take it for granted . With all humility, I would touch the lotus feet of our Guru for the blessings. Sarvam krishnarpaNamastu.
There is a smriti vaakya ( sentence ) which says only human beings have this advantage and opportunity. No animal kingdom has this kind of special advantage . Animal kingdom tries hard to find food for their survival. There are many incidences they go to sleep without food. Where as for human beings, “Swalpa mattino gantavyam sahayate mayato bayat“ (Guruji to correct if I spelled wrongly)- With Little effort , he can have food for up to 7 generations. Taking a leaf out of same smriti vaakya, When we purchase a car, we only know how to drive and thats it. When it breaks down, we do not even know how to fix it. We drive thousands of miles in it but we do not know how to fix the engine. You need not know how to fix the engine but if we learn it , what an advantage we have , right ?
Same way, Smart Phones today , we use some features without reading user manual. We do not know how it works from inside when we make a call to see someone far off from our home .( Research says Smart phone users uses only less than 20% of features from software )
Extending this example , our human life is also comprised of too many gatherings and impressions. Our elders have compared human life to Taamra ( Bronze ) and HittaaLe ( Copper ) . If we do not wash the vessels made out of these material, it turns black. When we wash it every week and if it is shining , we feel like doing sandhyavandane and to use those mettles for our dharmic activities. Same way, for human life, way of living has to be Dharmic with thoughts soaked in dharmic achara( Rituals) and vichaara ( thoughts).
We all assembled to chant Rudra Parayana as satsangha to show our gratitude and thank so many Individuals and universal consciousness which we call divine energy, that has still kept all of us alive . We are all celebrating 1232nd Jayanthi ( birthday ) of greatest scholar of highest calibre Jagadguru Sri Adishankaracharya ( Shankaracharya ) hence we have assembled to chant Veda mantras with Rudra parayana .
Shankaracharya’s contribution to this planet is immense. His Speciality is he lived in the human body for only 32 years and achievement wise no one can match to his level till date. By the time he turned 8 years old boy he completed all 4 Vedas ( Rigveda , Yajurveda , Samaveda , AtharvaNaveda ) . By the time he completed 12 years, he has done adyayana ( learning ) completing the work of 18 Puranas ( Essence of Vedas is depicted in the story form ). By the time he completed 16 years he has fully completed the work of writing Bhaashyas (commentary ) to the prastanatrayas ( Bhagavadgeete , 10 Upanishads and Brahma Sutras ) . Not only that he invited everyone to debate on his work and defeated everyone who challenged the work and there by took Sanatana Dharma to its highest level with most logical debate and established Advaita Siddanta ( Non dual philosophy ) as the supreme authority.
When people used to challenge his work to debate, agreement was Shanakracharya mentioned to challengers that he would go back to normal life if he gets defeated otherwise the person who challenges his work should become Sanyasi and follow the guidelines. Thats how he defeated the man of highest calibre those days called Mandana Mishra . As per the verbal agreement, Mandana Mishra became Sanyasi once Adishankaracharyaru has defeated himcin the debate. His Sanyasashrama name was changed to Sureshwaracharya and Jagadguru Adishanakracharya made him first peetadhipathi of current day Sringeri Sharada Peeta .
Today is Vaishaka Shukla Panchami as per our Sanatana Dharma Calendar ( we follow this calendar all over the world to celebrate the festivals and to see planetary positions .
We have katapaya sutra in sangeeta .
0
ಅ(0) ಆ(0) ಇ(0) ಈ(0) ಉ(0) ಊ(0) ಋ(0) ೠ(0) ಎ(0) ಏ(0) ಐ(0) ಒ(0) ಓ(0) ಔ(0) ಅಂ(0) ಅಃ(0)
10
ಕ ( 1) ಖ(2) ಗ(3) ಘ(4) ಙ(5)
ಚ(6) ಛ(7) ಜ(8) ಝ(9) ಞ(10)
10
ಟ(1) ಠ(2) ಡ(3) ಢ(4) ಣ(5)
ತ(6) ಥ(7) ದ(8) ಧ(9) ನ(10)
5
ಪ ಫ ಬ ಭ ಮ
8
ಯ(1) ರ(2) ಲ(3) ವ(4) ಶ(5) ಷ(6) ಸ(7) ಹ(8)
Vaishaka masa , Shukla Paksha , Panchami tithi is the day Adishankaracharya was born and how did he get the name "Shankara". Follow this table below which is very interesting how ancient times they used to keep the names based on numbers as per Maasa( Month of birth ) Paksha ( there are two pakshas - Shukla and Krishna ) and Tithi .
Vaishaka maasa represents “Ra” kaara in Ya varga ( last line )which is number 2 in the last line because Vaishaka comes after Chaitra maasa (which is the first month in a calendar )
Shukla paksha “ka” varga ( Second line ) represents akshara "ka" which is equated to 1
Panchami represents "sha " kaara in ya varga which equates to number 5 .
Ankaanam Vaamato gatih is a sutra in sanskrit ( Vaidhika Vaangmaya ) - This says when we start writing numbers 1 2 3 4 etc value increases on the left side if we keep writing .
Eg: 04 14 24 34 etc
Using the above logic with the numbering Panchami ( 5 = Sham ) Shukla ( 1 = ka) Vaishaka ( 2= Ra ) = Shankara
Hence acharya was named as Shankara in 7th century. Such profound thought , Isn’t it ?
This is how the name is derived . Such a perfect way to keep the name to the newborn hence even today , many follow sanskrit name at least for their children . Such a scholar arrived to Bharata ( present day India ) and he travelled all over Bharata 3 times to establish Dharma and educated everyone to lead the dharmic path to achieve chaturvidha phala ( Dharma Artha Kama Moksha ) in one’s life by leading righteous and conscious living .
Shankaracharya has not only given high scholarly bhaashya (For Vedas , Upanishads and Brahmasutras ) to intellectual people but also has given many shlokas, simple stothras to common people. His great work should be studied in this order 1. Bhagavadgeete ( Ask for Shankara Bhashya or attend lectures of non dual school of thoughts) 2. Upanishads ( Ask for Shankara Bhashya ) 3. Brahma Sutras( Shankara Bhashya)
For common and easy understandings , One can start with Soundarya lahari stothras , Shivaaparadha Kshama Stothras, Devi Aparadha Kshama Stothras . All these are real gems once you start reading, you will know what real happiness is all about. Real happiness is hidden here . Eg : Suputro jaayet twat kwaschitapi kumaata bhagavathi ( I stand corrected, Guru to correct the spelling ) ( from Devi Aparadha Kshama Stothra ) - We can get a bad son in the worst case but never ever we will get bad mother. ( This is one of the reason why Jagadguru Shankaracharyaru as Sanyasi fell down at the feet of the mother ( poorvarshrama) and took care of her cremation process granting her "Moksha" )
Such a work is very heart touching if you start reading hence Acharya still lives on in the hearts of people( Author's inspiration to learn Veda Mantras started off at young age after looking at photo image Jagadguru Adishankaracharya ) . Shankara Jayanthi is celebrated because he is considered as “Shiva Swaroopi “. Chanting of Rudra is a must for such a noble avatara purusha who gave this world exemplified work in such a short span of 32 years in human body (form) with the name “Shankara”.
If not for Covid-19, we could have been together in one place and we would have performed Rudrabhisheka . But never mind, at least we are able to do Rudra paarayana ( even though less effective in relative comparison to Rudrabhisheka ) through this webex technology sitting in our homes. May be if we were to do the same activity say some 25 yrs back, It would not have been possible. Now a days Science is deviating to technology development because of our human mind trying to Engineer the outer world like never before with the growth in science /Vignaana ( Vishesha+Jnaana ) . Because of growth in human mind, it is invested in Vignaana and thanks to this technology, we are all sitting in various corners of the world and still able to see each other’s face. This is the reason we should be thankful to the divine always and do our work with more dedication . We all should express our utmost gratitude with all humility to the divine and so many people and for this beautiful world.
Last but not the least we have this pain called “Corona Virus “ today. We do not know how it came and what happened. But we as group of people ( with more collective energy concentrated with the sankalpa ), It is always best to worship the divine as community of people as universal consciousness has the capability to get rid of such mahamaari ( pandemic ) .
Small Story as ending note :
We all asthikas clearly believe and agree that there are many Devastas in Devaloka .
In devaloka , trimurthis ( Brahma Vishnu and Maheshwara ) came with their better halves to one common gathering with other Devi devathas. They all gathered , spent quality time and had lunch.
After lunch during their free time, they decided to play a game.
They were playing game similar to today’s Antyakshari and musical chair .
Rule of the game is in each round, 2 Devatas has to exit . They played many rounds and at last 5 devastas remained for the semi finals. Vishnu, Lakshmi, Shiva, Parvati and Shaneeshwara remained as last 5 after many rounds of play.
After continuation , for the last round we had only two - Lakshmi and Shaneeshwara.
Now there is real problem !!! Lakshmi is Vishnu's wife as you know. The main issue is whoever wins, other person might get angry and it would be difficult for the people in Earth if either of them get angry. Many discussed someone should step forward to judge but no one dared to judge the winner (between the two- One is most needed and the other is better if he is not around ) . Shiva said he has suffered Shaneeshwara and will be not judge for sure.
Brahma , Looking at Shiva's painful answer said when Shiva himself has suffered , He would definitely not comfortable so no way he will decide who is the best among the two.
When Vishnu was asked, He said Lakshmi is his wife , By any chance if he says she is not the winner, he will have a tough time in Vaikunta. When everyone declined to judge the winner , they decided Brahmachari Naarada Mahamuni to give the judgement.
Narada said Lakshmi is his aradhya devate and he fears Shaneeshwara as well . But he thought about it for while and said both Lakshmi and Shaneeshwara to walk from the place where Indra sits to the Dwaraka ( which is like a furlong walk ) . Both agreed and finished walking and came back. Narada Maha muni could not decide in first round competition so he requested to walk two more rounds and gave verdict.
Verdict : Narada maharani said while going to Dwaraka - Shaneeshwara looked good and while coming from dwaraka to the place where I am standing , Lakshmi was fabulous. Smart Narada Maha muni ....Right ???
The way to interpret the story is simple . None of us wants Shaneeshwara in the first place , thats why we have to like the pain going away from us. Who does not like Lakshmi ( Lakshmi meaning ashTa lakshmi - not only Dhana Lakshmi )
Lakshmi is awesome when she is coming to us, Isn’t it ?
Now map the story to the current situation :
Pain like corona has to go like Shaneeshwara . It will feel good when any pain and pandemic is gone.
Health and safety is like Lakshmi and it feels great when all are doing great in their life.
Let that Parameshwara called Jaagadguru Shankaracharya ’s Advaita siddanta be followed by everyone so that greatest health happiness prosperity , clarity and joyfulness could be yours .
Jaya Jaya Shankara Hara Hara Shankara.
May god bless you and have a peaceful life.
Harih OM Tatsat - Subramanya Padmanabha
We should meet in person on Vaishaka Shudda Panchami day of 2021
--------------------
Shri Gurubhyo Namaha , Harih OM 🙏
Author's note : I am incredibly blessed that our Guru recognized the translation work of the past work and I do not want to take it for granted . With all humility, I would touch the lotus feet of our Guru for the blessings. Sarvam krishnarpaNamastu.
There is a smriti vaakya ( sentence ) which says only human beings have this advantage and opportunity. No animal kingdom has this kind of special advantage . Animal kingdom tries hard to find food for their survival. There are many incidences they go to sleep without food. Where as for human beings, “Swalpa mattino gantavyam sahayate mayato bayat“ (Guruji to correct if I spelled wrongly)- With Little effort , he can have food for up to 7 generations. Taking a leaf out of same smriti vaakya, When we purchase a car, we only know how to drive and thats it. When it breaks down, we do not even know how to fix it. We drive thousands of miles in it but we do not know how to fix the engine. You need not know how to fix the engine but if we learn it , what an advantage we have , right ?
Same way, Smart Phones today , we use some features without reading user manual. We do not know how it works from inside when we make a call to see someone far off from our home .( Research says Smart phone users uses only less than 20% of features from software )
Extending this example , our human life is also comprised of too many gatherings and impressions. Our elders have compared human life to Taamra ( Bronze ) and HittaaLe ( Copper ) . If we do not wash the vessels made out of these material, it turns black. When we wash it every week and if it is shining , we feel like doing sandhyavandane and to use those mettles for our dharmic activities. Same way, for human life, way of living has to be Dharmic with thoughts soaked in dharmic achara( Rituals) and vichaara ( thoughts).
We all assembled to chant Rudra Parayana as satsangha to show our gratitude and thank so many Individuals and universal consciousness which we call divine energy, that has still kept all of us alive . We are all celebrating 1232nd Jayanthi ( birthday ) of greatest scholar of highest calibre Jagadguru Sri Adishankaracharya ( Shankaracharya ) hence we have assembled to chant Veda mantras with Rudra parayana .
Shankaracharya’s contribution to this planet is immense. His Speciality is he lived in the human body for only 32 years and achievement wise no one can match to his level till date. By the time he turned 8 years old boy he completed all 4 Vedas ( Rigveda , Yajurveda , Samaveda , AtharvaNaveda ) . By the time he completed 12 years, he has done adyayana ( learning ) completing the work of 18 Puranas ( Essence of Vedas is depicted in the story form ). By the time he completed 16 years he has fully completed the work of writing Bhaashyas (commentary ) to the prastanatrayas ( Bhagavadgeete , 10 Upanishads and Brahma Sutras ) . Not only that he invited everyone to debate on his work and defeated everyone who challenged the work and there by took Sanatana Dharma to its highest level with most logical debate and established Advaita Siddanta ( Non dual philosophy ) as the supreme authority.
When people used to challenge his work to debate, agreement was Shanakracharya mentioned to challengers that he would go back to normal life if he gets defeated otherwise the person who challenges his work should become Sanyasi and follow the guidelines. Thats how he defeated the man of highest calibre those days called Mandana Mishra . As per the verbal agreement, Mandana Mishra became Sanyasi once Adishankaracharyaru has defeated himcin the debate. His Sanyasashrama name was changed to Sureshwaracharya and Jagadguru Adishanakracharya made him first peetadhipathi of current day Sringeri Sharada Peeta .
Today is Vaishaka Shukla Panchami as per our Sanatana Dharma Calendar ( we follow this calendar all over the world to celebrate the festivals and to see planetary positions .
We have katapaya sutra in sangeeta .
0
ಅ(0) ಆ(0) ಇ(0) ಈ(0) ಉ(0) ಊ(0) ಋ(0) ೠ(0) ಎ(0) ಏ(0) ಐ(0) ಒ(0) ಓ(0) ಔ(0) ಅಂ(0) ಅಃ(0)
10
ಕ ( 1) ಖ(2) ಗ(3) ಘ(4) ಙ(5)
ಚ(6) ಛ(7) ಜ(8) ಝ(9) ಞ(10)
10
ಟ(1) ಠ(2) ಡ(3) ಢ(4) ಣ(5)
ತ(6) ಥ(7) ದ(8) ಧ(9) ನ(10)
5
ಪ ಫ ಬ ಭ ಮ
8
ಯ(1) ರ(2) ಲ(3) ವ(4) ಶ(5) ಷ(6) ಸ(7) ಹ(8)
Vaishaka masa , Shukla Paksha , Panchami tithi is the day Adishankaracharya was born and how did he get the name "Shankara". Follow this table below which is very interesting how ancient times they used to keep the names based on numbers as per Maasa( Month of birth ) Paksha ( there are two pakshas - Shukla and Krishna ) and Tithi .
Vaishaka maasa represents “Ra” kaara in Ya varga ( last line )which is number 2 in the last line because Vaishaka comes after Chaitra maasa (which is the first month in a calendar )
Shukla paksha “ka” varga ( Second line ) represents akshara "ka" which is equated to 1
Panchami represents "sha " kaara in ya varga which equates to number 5 .
Ankaanam Vaamato gatih is a sutra in sanskrit ( Vaidhika Vaangmaya ) - This says when we start writing numbers 1 2 3 4 etc value increases on the left side if we keep writing .
Eg: 04 14 24 34 etc
Using the above logic with the numbering Panchami ( 5 = Sham ) Shukla ( 1 = ka) Vaishaka ( 2= Ra ) = Shankara
Hence acharya was named as Shankara in 7th century. Such profound thought , Isn’t it ?
This is how the name is derived . Such a perfect way to keep the name to the newborn hence even today , many follow sanskrit name at least for their children . Such a scholar arrived to Bharata ( present day India ) and he travelled all over Bharata 3 times to establish Dharma and educated everyone to lead the dharmic path to achieve chaturvidha phala ( Dharma Artha Kama Moksha ) in one’s life by leading righteous and conscious living .
Shankaracharya has not only given high scholarly bhaashya (For Vedas , Upanishads and Brahmasutras ) to intellectual people but also has given many shlokas, simple stothras to common people. His great work should be studied in this order 1. Bhagavadgeete ( Ask for Shankara Bhashya or attend lectures of non dual school of thoughts) 2. Upanishads ( Ask for Shankara Bhashya ) 3. Brahma Sutras( Shankara Bhashya)
For common and easy understandings , One can start with Soundarya lahari stothras , Shivaaparadha Kshama Stothras, Devi Aparadha Kshama Stothras . All these are real gems once you start reading, you will know what real happiness is all about. Real happiness is hidden here . Eg : Suputro jaayet twat kwaschitapi kumaata bhagavathi ( I stand corrected, Guru to correct the spelling ) ( from Devi Aparadha Kshama Stothra ) - We can get a bad son in the worst case but never ever we will get bad mother. ( This is one of the reason why Jagadguru Shankaracharyaru as Sanyasi fell down at the feet of the mother ( poorvarshrama) and took care of her cremation process granting her "Moksha" )
Such a work is very heart touching if you start reading hence Acharya still lives on in the hearts of people( Author's inspiration to learn Veda Mantras started off at young age after looking at photo image Jagadguru Adishankaracharya ) . Shankara Jayanthi is celebrated because he is considered as “Shiva Swaroopi “. Chanting of Rudra is a must for such a noble avatara purusha who gave this world exemplified work in such a short span of 32 years in human body (form) with the name “Shankara”.
If not for Covid-19, we could have been together in one place and we would have performed Rudrabhisheka . But never mind, at least we are able to do Rudra paarayana ( even though less effective in relative comparison to Rudrabhisheka ) through this webex technology sitting in our homes. May be if we were to do the same activity say some 25 yrs back, It would not have been possible. Now a days Science is deviating to technology development because of our human mind trying to Engineer the outer world like never before with the growth in science /Vignaana ( Vishesha+Jnaana ) . Because of growth in human mind, it is invested in Vignaana and thanks to this technology, we are all sitting in various corners of the world and still able to see each other’s face. This is the reason we should be thankful to the divine always and do our work with more dedication . We all should express our utmost gratitude with all humility to the divine and so many people and for this beautiful world.
Last but not the least we have this pain called “Corona Virus “ today. We do not know how it came and what happened. But we as group of people ( with more collective energy concentrated with the sankalpa ), It is always best to worship the divine as community of people as universal consciousness has the capability to get rid of such mahamaari ( pandemic ) .
Small Story as ending note :
We all asthikas clearly believe and agree that there are many Devastas in Devaloka .
In devaloka , trimurthis ( Brahma Vishnu and Maheshwara ) came with their better halves to one common gathering with other Devi devathas. They all gathered , spent quality time and had lunch.
After lunch during their free time, they decided to play a game.
They were playing game similar to today’s Antyakshari and musical chair .
Rule of the game is in each round, 2 Devatas has to exit . They played many rounds and at last 5 devastas remained for the semi finals. Vishnu, Lakshmi, Shiva, Parvati and Shaneeshwara remained as last 5 after many rounds of play.
After continuation , for the last round we had only two - Lakshmi and Shaneeshwara.
Now there is real problem !!! Lakshmi is Vishnu's wife as you know. The main issue is whoever wins, other person might get angry and it would be difficult for the people in Earth if either of them get angry. Many discussed someone should step forward to judge but no one dared to judge the winner (between the two- One is most needed and the other is better if he is not around ) . Shiva said he has suffered Shaneeshwara and will be not judge for sure.
Brahma , Looking at Shiva's painful answer said when Shiva himself has suffered , He would definitely not comfortable so no way he will decide who is the best among the two.
When Vishnu was asked, He said Lakshmi is his wife , By any chance if he says she is not the winner, he will have a tough time in Vaikunta. When everyone declined to judge the winner , they decided Brahmachari Naarada Mahamuni to give the judgement.
Narada said Lakshmi is his aradhya devate and he fears Shaneeshwara as well . But he thought about it for while and said both Lakshmi and Shaneeshwara to walk from the place where Indra sits to the Dwaraka ( which is like a furlong walk ) . Both agreed and finished walking and came back. Narada Maha muni could not decide in first round competition so he requested to walk two more rounds and gave verdict.
Verdict : Narada maharani said while going to Dwaraka - Shaneeshwara looked good and while coming from dwaraka to the place where I am standing , Lakshmi was fabulous. Smart Narada Maha muni ....Right ???
The way to interpret the story is simple . None of us wants Shaneeshwara in the first place , thats why we have to like the pain going away from us. Who does not like Lakshmi ( Lakshmi meaning ashTa lakshmi - not only Dhana Lakshmi )
Lakshmi is awesome when she is coming to us, Isn’t it ?
Now map the story to the current situation :
Pain like corona has to go like Shaneeshwara . It will feel good when any pain and pandemic is gone.
Health and safety is like Lakshmi and it feels great when all are doing great in their life.
Let that Parameshwara called Jaagadguru Shankaracharya ’s Advaita siddanta be followed by everyone so that greatest health happiness prosperity , clarity and joyfulness could be yours .
Jaya Jaya Shankara Hara Hara Shankara.
May god bless you and have a peaceful life.
Harih OM Tatsat - Subramanya Padmanabha
We should meet in person on Vaishaka Shudda Panchami day of 2021
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