Happy Fathers'day to all on June 19, 2005

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Namaste all.

 

The famous Hindu prayer :

 

"tvam eva mAta ca pitA tvam eva

tvam eva bandhuzca sakhA tvam eva

tvam eva vidyA draviNaM tvam eva

tvam eva sarvaM mama deva! deva!"

 

"O Lord! You alone are my Mother.

O Lord! You alone are my Father.

O Lord! You alone are my Kith and Kin.

O Lord! You alone are my Friend.

O Lord! You alone are my Wealth.

O Lord! You alone are my Knowledge.

O Lord ! You alone are my everything!"

 

In Gita 9.17 Lord Krishna said-

 

'pitA 'hamasya jagato mAtA dhAtA pitAmahaH,

vedyaM pavitram oGkAra Rk sAma yajureva ca'

 

'I am the Father of this world, the Mother,

the Dispenser and the Grand-father.

I am Knowable, the Purifier, the sacred syllable OM

and also the Rik, the Samn and the Yajus.'

 

yac cApi sarva-bhUtAnAM

bIjaM tad aham arjuna

na tad asti vinA yat syAn

mayA bhUtaM carAcaram

 

10.39.

 

Furthermore, O Arjuna, I am the generating seed of all existence.

There is no being — moving or nonmoving — that can exist

without Me.

 

Arjuna prayed:

 

pitAsi lokasya carAcarasya

tvam asya pUjyaz ca gurur garIyAn

na tvat-samo 'sty abhyadhikaH kuto 'nyo

loka-traye 'py apratima-prabhAva

 

You are the father of this complete cosmic manifestation,

of the moving and the nonmoving. You are its worshipable chief,

the supreme spiritual master. No one is equal to You..

How then could there be anyone greater than You within

the three worlds, O Lord of immeasurable power?

 

Adau samuccharred rAdhAM

pazcAt kRSNaM ca mAdhavaM

zrIkRSNo jagatAM tAto

jaganmAtA ca rAdhikA

pituH zata guNe mAtA

vandyA garIyasI

 

(Narada Panca Ratram)

 

First utter the Name of Mother of the world 'rAdhA' and

afterwards the Name of Father, Supreme Self, 'kRSNa',

because, the Guru of Father is the Mother and so

she is worshippable hundred times more.'

 

The great poet-saint Kalidasa has sung-

'jagataH pitarau vande pArvatI-pramezvarau'

 

(Raghuvamsam 1.1 - Mahakavi Kalidasa)

 

I offer my salutations to the Original Parents of the world,

Lord Siva and Mother Parvati Devi.

 

Bhagavatpada Sri Shankaracarya had also glorified

the Divine Parents in his prayers.

 

''mAtA me pArvatI devI pitAdevo mahezvaraH,

bAndhavAH zivabhaktAz ca svadezo bhuvana trayam'

 

(Sri Annapurna Stotram)

 

"My Mother is Parvati Devi and my Father is Lord Siva.

My family relatives are the devotees of Lord Siva.

My homeland is the three worlds."

 

Happy Fathers'day to all!

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!