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*Bhaja Govindam of Adi Shankara*

 

Verse 1: ~~~~~~

 

 

BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM

 

 

GOVINDAM BHAJA MUDHAMATE

 

 

SAMPRAAPTE SANNIHITE KALE

 

 

NA HI NA HI RAKSHATI DUKRINKARANE

 

 

Seek Govinda! Seek Govinda! Seek Govinda! Oh ignoramus, at the time

of death the rules of grammer, which you are trying to cram and

master, will not be able to rescue you at all.

 

(Grammer rules mean all secular knowledge and earthly acquistitions.

Mudhamati means a materialist, wholely worldly-minded, who does not

believe in God or the spiritual entity that is in man)</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 2: ~~~~~~

 

 

MOODHA JAHEEHI DHANAAGAMATRISHNAAM

 

 

KURU SADBUDHIM MANASI VITRISHNAAM

 

 

YALLABHASE NIJAKARMOPAATHAM

 

 

VITHAM TENA VINODAYA CHITHAM

 

 

(refrain from Verse 1 to be sung after every verse...BHAJA GOVINDAM,

BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)

 

 

Oh, Fool! give up your insatiable desire for earthly possessions; be

sensible and develop serenity and contentment. Be satisfied and

happy with whatever you may earn by the sweat of your brow and

whatever has destiny marked for your lot.

 

 

 

 

Verse 3: ~~~~~~

 

 

NAAREE STHANABHARA NABHEEDESAM

 

 

DHRISHTWA MAA GAA MOHAVESAM

 

 

YETAN MAAMSAVASAADI VIKAARAM

 

 

MANASI VICHINTHAYA VAARAM VAARAM

 

 

Enticed by the physical glamour of a woman, do not lose your senses;

the body is nothing but a conglomeration of flesh, do not forget

this any time.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

 

Verse 4: ~~~~~~

 

 

NALINEEDALAGATHA JALAMATITHARALAM

 

 

TADWAJJEEVITAMATHISHAYA CHAPALAM

 

 

VIDDHI VYADHYABHIMAANAGRASTAM

 

 

LOKAM SHOKAHATAM CHA SAMASTHAM

 

 

The water droplet on the lotus leaf is tremulous and unsteady. So

too is life which is as uncertain. Know the body to be in the claws

of disease, which may swallow it at any moment. Life is ultimately

nothing but worry, misery and grief.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 5: ~~~~~~

 

 

YAAVADVITTOPAARJANA SAKTHAH

 

TAAVANNIJAPARIVAARO RAKTHAH

 

 

PASCHAAJJEEVATI JARJARADEHE

 

 

VAARTHAM KOPI NA PRICHCHATHI GEHE

 

 

As long as you are fit to make an earning, so long will your kith

and kin be solicitous about you, but no sooner your limbs become

infirm and your earnings cease, none will care for you, not even

your own home-folk.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 6: ~~~~~~

 

 

YAAVATPAVANO NIVASATI DEHE

 

 

TAAVATPRICHCHATI KUSHALAM GEHE

 

 

GATAVATI VAAYO DEHAAPAAYE

 

 

BHAARYA BIBHYATI TASMINKAAYE

 

 

As long as there is life in your body, your people may have concern

for you, but once the life-breath ebbs out of your body, even your

own wife will run away from you.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 7: ~~~~~~

 

 

BAALASTAAVAT KREEDAA SAKTHAH

 

 

THARUNASTAAVAT THARUNEESAKTHAH

 

 

VRIDDHASTAAVAT CHINTHAASAKTHAH

 

 

PARASE BRAHMANI KOPI NA SAKTHA

 

 

Childhood skips off on sport and play. Youth flies off in pursuits

of love-making. As one grows older he is drowned in worry about the

security and future of his wife and children. One's whole life gets

spent in some kind of worry or other. And at no stage does man find

time to lift his thoughts to God.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 8: ~~~~~~

 

 

KAA TE KAANTAA KASTE PUTHRAH

 

 

SAMSAROYAMATEEVA VICHITRAH

 

 

KASYA TWAM KAH KUTHA AAYAATAH

 

 

TATWAM CHINTHAYA TADIHA BHARATAH

 

 

Who indeed is your beloved and who indeed is your son? Strange

indeed are these family bonds; who belongs to you and to whom you

belong? Whence did you come, Oh brother! Reflect on the truth of it

all.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 9: ~~~~~~

 

 

SATSANGATWE NISSANGATWAM

 

NISSANGATWE NIRMOHATWAM

 

 

NIRMOHATWE NISCHALATATWAM

 

 

NISCHALATATWE JEEVANMUKTHIH

 

 

The company of the good weans one away from false attachments; when

attachment is lost, delusion ends; when delusion ends, the mind

becomes unwavering and steady. An unwavering and steady mind is

merited for Jeevan Mukti (liberation even in this life).

 

 

 

Verse 10: ~~~~~~~

 

 

VAYASI GATE KAH KAMAVIKARAH

 

 

SHUSHKE NEERE, KAH KAASAARAH

 

 

KSHEENE VITHE KAH PARIVARO

 

 

GYNATE TATWE KAH SAMASARAH

 

 

When youth is gone, where is lust and its play? Where is the lake

when its waters have dried up? Where are the kinsfolk when riches

are gone ? When Truth is realised, where is the snare of Samsara?

 

 

 

Verse 11: ~~~~~~~

 

 

MAA KURU DHANAJANAYOUVANAGARVAM

 

 

HARATI NIMESHAATKAALAH SARWAM

 

 

MAAYAAMAYAMIDAMAKHILAM HITHWA

 

 

BRAHMAPADAM TWAM PRAVISHA VIDITWA

 

 

The pleasures and riches of worldly life are deceptive appearances.

Understanding that they are all but a passing-show, be detached and

dispassionate, cultivate renunciation and seek Brahman.

 

 

 

Verse 12: ~~~~~~~

 

 

DINAYAAMINYOU SAAYAM PRAATAH

 

 

SHISHIRAVASANTOW PUNARAAYAATAH

 

 

KAALAH KREEDATI GACHCHATYAAYUH

 

 

TADAPI NA MUNCHATHYAASAAVAAYUH

 

 

Day and night, dawn and dusk, winter and spring, all these are

flitting across the stage of the world. While time thus is

frolicking and befooling us, our life span is also running out; yet

we do not, even a little, give up the clinging to our desires, nor

do we let the desires loosen their grip on us.

 

 

 

Verse 13: ~~~~~~~

 

 

KAA TE KAANTAA DHANAGATACHINTAA

 

 

VAATULA KIM TAVA NAASTI NIYANTAA

 

 

TRIJAGATI SAJJANASANGATIREKAA

 

 

BHAVATI BHAVAARNAVATARANE NOUKAA

 

 

Crazy man ! Why do you worry so much about your wife and property?

Why don't you seek out the Truth? Know that in these three worlds it

is only the association with the good and holy that can help you in

crossing safely the ocean of life.

 

 

 

Verse 14: ~~~~~~~

 

 

JATILO MUNDI LUNCHITAKESHAH

 

 

KAASHAAYAAMBARA BAHUKRITAVESHAH

 

 

PASYANNAPI CHA NA PASYATI MOODHO

 

 

HIUDARANIMITAM BAHUKRITAVESHAH

 

 

The ascetic with matted locks, the man with the shaven head or one

with hair pulled out, or the man parading in the ochre robes -- they

all have eyes but yet do not see. All these are but deceptions for

cheating the world, for filling their bellies. (Renunciation does

not lie in external appearance, but in inward thought, attitude and

feeling).

 

 

 

Verse 15: ~~~~~~~

 

 

ANGAM GALITAM PALITAM MUNDAM

 

 

DASANAVIHEENAM JAATAM TUNDAM

 

 

VRIDHDHO YAATI GRIHEETWA DANDAM

 

 

TADAPI NA MUNCHATYAASHAAPINDAM

 

 

The body has become decrepit, the hair on the head has turned

completely gray; the mouth has become totally toothless; the back is

bent down and the old man cannot take even a step witout the aid of

his stick; yet he does not loosen even a bit, his hold on the bundle

of desires.

 

 

 

Verse 16: ~~~~~~~

 

 

AGRE VAHNIH PRISHTE BHAANUH

 

 

RAATHROW CHUBUKASAMARPITAJAANUH

 

 

KARATALABHIKASHAS TARUTALAVAASAH

 

 

TADAPI NA MUNCHATYAASHAAPAASAH

 

 

Homeless he is; his back is bent down with age. His body has lost

its heat and he has to warm himself before a fire or in the sun.

Tree is his only shelter; he lives by begging and by the crumbs

thrown into his palms by others; in the night he sleeps by holding

his chin on his knee (because the back is bent and he cannot stretch

himself and lie down). Yet, he does not let and allow the grip of

desires on him loosen even a bit.

 

 

 

Verse 17: ~~~~~~~

 

KURUTE GANGAASAAGARAGAMANAM

 

 

VRATAPARIPAALANAMATHAVAA DAANAM

 

 

JNANAVIHEENAH SARVAMATENA

 

 

MUKTIM NA BHAJATI JANMASATENA

 

 

One may have bathed in the holy Ganges or even in the Ganga Sagar;

he may have performed many charities and observed many vows; yet

unless one has glimpsed the Truth (God), he will not gain release

even after a hundred lives.

 

 

 

Verse 18: ~~~~~~~

 

 

SURAMANDIRA TARUMOOLA NIVAASAH

 

 

SAIYAA BHOOTALAMAJINAM VAASAH

 

 

SARVAPARIGRAHA BHOGATYAAGAH

 

 

KASYA SUKHAM NA KAROTI VIRAAGAH

 

 

Who can disturb the peace and happiness of a man if he has the true

spirit of renunciation and has controlled his desires, even if he be

the poorest, sleeping only in the temple halls and choultries or

under trees or on the bare ground and just with a deer skin to

cover.

 

 

 

Verse 19: ~~~~~~~

 

 

YOGARATO VAA BHOGARATO VAA

 

 

SANGARATO VAA SANGAVIHEENAH

 

 

YASYA BRAHMANI RAMATE CHITHAM

 

 

NANDATI NANDATI NANDATYEVA

 

 

Whether one is immersed in yoga or is revelling in bhoga (i.e,

outward enjoyment), whether he is enjoying himself in social company

or has retired into solitude, true happiness certainly cannot be

his; but who alone is revelling inwardly in Brahman, (wherever he

be), he alone will be truly happy and will verily enjoy.

 

 

 

Verse 20: ~~~~~~~

 

 

BHAGAVADGEETA KINCHIDADHEETAA

 

 

GANGAAJALALAVAKANIKAA PEETAA

 

 

SAKRIDAPI YENA MURARISAMARCHAA

 

 

KRIYATE TASYA YAMENA NA CHARCHA

 

 

Even a little study and understanding of the Bhagawad Gita, or

sipping of even a tiny drop of the waters of the holy Ganges or even

a little worship of Murari -- these will surely save one from

confrontation with death!

 

 

 

Verse 21: ~~~~~~~

 

 

PUNARAPI JANANAM PUNARAPI MARANAM

 

 

PUNARAPI JANANEE JATARE SAYANAM

 

 

IHA SAMSAARE BAHUDUSTAARE

 

 

KRIPAYAA(A)PAARE PAAHI MURARE

 

 

Undergoing the pangs of birth again and again, passing through the

throes of death again and again, lying in the mother's womb over and

over again, this process of samsara is hard to cross over. Save me

from it, Oh merciful Lord !

 

 

 

Verse 22: ~~~~~~~

 

 

RATHYAACHARPATA VIRACHITAKANTHAH

 

 

PUNYAAPUNYA VIVARJITAPANTHAH

 

 

YOGEE YOGANIYOJITACHITHO

 

 

RAMATE BAALONMATTAVADEVA

 

 

Clad in stray rags, treading the path beyond good and evil, caring

for neither earning merit by taking to good deeds nor stooping to do

any evil, and lost in meditation the yogi revels in the Supreme

always, lost to all outward norms and decorum -- his behaviour may

look prankish like that of a child or may be even queer like that of

a lunatic.

 

 

 

Verse 23: ~~~~~~~

 

 

KASTWAM KOHAM KUTA AAYAATAH

 

 

KAA ME JANANEE KO ME TAATAH

 

 

ITI PARIBHAVAYA SARVAMASAARAM

 

 

VISWAM TYAKTWAA SWAPNAVICHAARAM

 

 

Who are you ? Who am I ? From Where did I come? Who is my mother,

who is my father? -- enquire thus and you will then realise that the

entire world of experience, all the worries and problems are but a

dream, a mere hallucination, born of imagination and delusion. With

such a realisation, you will be freed from the delusions of the

world.

 

 

 

Verse 24: ~~~~~~~

 

 

TWAYI MAYI CHAANYATRAIKO VISHNUH

 

 

VYARTHAM KUPYASI MAYYASAHISHNUH

 

 

BHAVA SAMACHITTAH SARVATRA TWAM

 

 

VANCHHASYASHIRAADYADI VISHNUTWA

 

 

In you, in me and everywhere, there is but the one Vishnu.

Mistakenly viewing me with a sense of difference, you are ill-

disposed towards me. Try to see in all beings only the Vishnu who is

your own self. Give up your false and egoistic sense of separateness

from other beings. Cultivate a sense of kinship, unity and oneness

with all.

 

 

 

Verse 25: ~~~~~~~

 

 

SATROU MITRE PUTRE BANDHOU

 

 

MAA KURU YATNAM VIGRAHASANDHOU

 

 

SARVASMINNAPI PASYAATMAANAM

 

 

SARVATROTSRIJA BHEDAAJNYANA

 

 

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin;

do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship

or enemity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded

towards all, treating all alike.

 

 

 

Verse 26: ~~~~~~~

 

KAAMAM KRODHAM LOBHAM MOHAM

 

 

TYAKTWAA TMAANAM PASHYATI SOHAM

 

 

AATMAJNANA VIHEENAA MUDAAH

 

 

TE PASYANTE NARAKANIGOODAAH

 

 

Free yourself from lust, anger, greed and delusion. Contemplate

on 'who you are'. Enquire within yourself, who am I? The fools who

fail to apprehend the Self are caught in hell-fire even here and now

itself and suffer torture.

 

 

 

Verse 27: ~~~~~~~

 

 

GEYAM GEETAANAAMASAHASRAM

 

 

DHYEYAM SHREEPATIROOPAMAJASRAM

 

 

NEYAM SAJJANASANGE CHITTAM

 

 

DEYAM DEENAJANAAYA CHA VITTAM

 

 

Recite the Gita; chant the thousand Names of the lord (Vishnu

Sahasranama), meditate ceaselessly on the Consort and Lord of

Lakshmi; lead the mind towards association with the good. Give away

your wealth in charity to those in need and who are poor.

 

 

 

Verse 28: ~~~~~~~

 

 

SUKHATAH KRIYATE RAAMAABHOGAH

 

 

PASCHADDHANTA SHAREERE ROGAH

 

 

YADYAPI LOKE MARANAM SARANAM

 

 

TADAPI NA MUNJCHATI PAAPAACHARANAM

 

 

As readily as one takes to indulging in carnal pleasures, with the

same readiness, alas, he is taken over by disease too. Even seeing

death as the inevitable and only end of all, man does not refrain

from sinful ways.

 

 

 

Verse 29: ~~~~~~~

 

 

ARTHAMANARTHAM BHAAVAYA NITHYAM

 

 

NAASTI TATAH SUKHALESAH SATHYAM

 

 

PUTHRAADAPI DHANABHAAJAAM BHEETIH

 

 

SARVATRAISHA VIHITA REETIH

 

 

It is wealth only that causes all harm and brings about one's ruin.

Bear this truth in mind always. Know that the pursuit of wealth does

not lead one to happiness at all. The rich fear and are even afraid

of their own sons. This is the outcome of riches anywhere and ever.

 

 

 

Verse 30: ~~~~~~~

 

 

PRAANAAYAAMAM PRATYAAHAARAM

 

 

NITYAANITYA VIVEKAVICHAARAM

 

 

JAAPYASAMETA SAMAADHIVIDHAANAM

 

 

KURVAVADHAANAM MAHADAVADHAANAM

 

 

Regulated breathing and sense control, discrimination between the

Enduring and the fleeting, the Eternal and the transcient, Japa and

meditation, and submerging of the bodily and mental consciousness in

the Consciousness of the Spirit, merging oneself into the total

Inner Silence -- one must practice these with unrelenting fervour.

 

 

 

Verse 31: ~~~~~~~

 

 

GURUCHARANAAMBUJA NIRBHARABHAKTHAH

 

 

SAMSAARAADACHIRAADHAVA MUKTHAH

 

 

SENDRIYA MAANASA NIYAMAADEVAM

 

 

DRAKSHYASI NIJAHRIDAYASTHAM DEVAM

 

 

Surrender yourself to the Lotus Feet of the Guru; with your senses

and mind disciplined, and freed from the shackles of Samsara you

will behold the Lord who is seated in your heart.

 

 

********

 

 

Govindam Adi-Purusam?

 

"Seek Govinda, Seek God, Bhaja Govindam", in this refrain comprising

of two words, Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada, has summed up in a nutshell

as it were, the entire preaching of Vedanta and religion for the

redemption of mankind. It gives us the key for entering into the

realm of Bliss, the abode of Govinda and for terminating the misery

of life we are in at present.

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Dear Loveing Babaji

 

Namaskar My Friend and thank you for takeing the time to place verse 23 in

perspective with the other verses of the Bhaga Govindam of Adi Shankara

 

Really makes for a better understanding when reading this verse in relation to

the context of the other verses

 

Thank you for the time you have taken to do this My Friend

 

Dhanyavaad cha Pranams Seva Mitra

 

DharmaDev

 

Sri Janaardana Kalianandaswami <baba108

 

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Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:18 AM

*Bhaja Govindam of Adi Shankara*

 

 

*Bhaja Govindam of Adi Shankara*

 

Verse 1: ~~~~~~

 

 

BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM

 

 

GOVINDAM BHAJA MUDHAMATE

 

 

SAMPRAAPTE SANNIHITE KALE

 

 

NA HI NA HI RAKSHATI DUKRINKARANE

 

 

Seek Govinda! Seek Govinda! Seek Govinda! Oh ignoramus, at the time

of death the rules of grammer, which you are trying to cram and

master, will not be able to rescue you at all.

 

(Grammer rules mean all secular knowledge and earthly acquistitions.

Mudhamati means a materialist, wholely worldly-minded, who does not

believe in God or the spiritual entity that is in man)</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 2: ~~~~~~

 

 

MOODHA JAHEEHI DHANAAGAMATRISHNAAM

 

 

KURU SADBUDHIM MANASI VITRISHNAAM

 

 

YALLABHASE NIJAKARMOPAATHAM

 

 

VITHAM TENA VINODAYA CHITHAM

 

 

(refrain from Verse 1 to be sung after every verse...BHAJA GOVINDAM,

BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)

 

 

Oh, Fool! give up your insatiable desire for earthly possessions; be

sensible and develop serenity and contentment. Be satisfied and

happy with whatever you may earn by the sweat of your brow and

whatever has destiny marked for your lot.

 

 

 

 

Verse 3: ~~~~~~

 

 

NAAREE STHANABHARA NABHEEDESAM

 

 

DHRISHTWA MAA GAA MOHAVESAM

 

 

YETAN MAAMSAVASAADI VIKAARAM

 

 

MANASI VICHINTHAYA VAARAM VAARAM

 

 

Enticed by the physical glamour of a woman, do not lose your senses;

the body is nothing but a conglomeration of flesh, do not forget

this any time.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

 

Verse 4: ~~~~~~

 

 

NALINEEDALAGATHA JALAMATITHARALAM

 

 

TADWAJJEEVITAMATHISHAYA CHAPALAM

 

 

VIDDHI VYADHYABHIMAANAGRASTAM

 

 

LOKAM SHOKAHATAM CHA SAMASTHAM

 

 

The water droplet on the lotus leaf is tremulous and unsteady. So

too is life which is as uncertain. Know the body to be in the claws

of disease, which may swallow it at any moment. Life is ultimately

nothing but worry, misery and grief.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 5: ~~~~~~

 

 

YAAVADVITTOPAARJANA SAKTHAH

 

TAAVANNIJAPARIVAARO RAKTHAH

 

 

PASCHAAJJEEVATI JARJARADEHE

 

 

VAARTHAM KOPI NA PRICHCHATHI GEHE

 

 

As long as you are fit to make an earning, so long will your kith

and kin be solicitous about you, but no sooner your limbs become

infirm and your earnings cease, none will care for you, not even

your own home-folk.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 6: ~~~~~~

 

 

YAAVATPAVANO NIVASATI DEHE

 

 

TAAVATPRICHCHATI KUSHALAM GEHE

 

 

GATAVATI VAAYO DEHAAPAAYE

 

 

BHAARYA BIBHYATI TASMINKAAYE

 

 

As long as there is life in your body, your people may have concern

for you, but once the life-breath ebbs out of your body, even your

own wife will run away from you.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 7: ~~~~~~

 

 

BAALASTAAVAT KREEDAA SAKTHAH

 

 

THARUNASTAAVAT THARUNEESAKTHAH

 

 

VRIDDHASTAAVAT CHINTHAASAKTHAH

 

 

PARASE BRAHMANI KOPI NA SAKTHA

 

 

Childhood skips off on sport and play. Youth flies off in pursuits

of love-making. As one grows older he is drowned in worry about the

security and future of his wife and children. One's whole life gets

spent in some kind of worry or other. And at no stage does man find

time to lift his thoughts to God.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 8: ~~~~~~

 

 

KAA TE KAANTAA KASTE PUTHRAH

 

 

SAMSAROYAMATEEVA VICHITRAH

 

 

KASYA TWAM KAH KUTHA AAYAATAH

 

 

TATWAM CHINTHAYA TADIHA BHARATAH

 

 

Who indeed is your beloved and who indeed is your son? Strange

indeed are these family bonds; who belongs to you and to whom you

belong? Whence did you come, Oh brother! Reflect on the truth of it

all.</JUSTIFY>

 

 

 

Verse 9: ~~~~~~

 

 

SATSANGATWE NISSANGATWAM

 

NISSANGATWE NIRMOHATWAM

 

 

NIRMOHATWE NISCHALATATWAM

 

 

NISCHALATATWE JEEVANMUKTHIH

 

 

The company of the good weans one away from false attachments; when

attachment is lost, delusion ends; when delusion ends, the mind

becomes unwavering and steady. An unwavering and steady mind is

merited for Jeevan Mukti (liberation even in this life).

 

 

 

Verse 10: ~~~~~~~

 

 

VAYASI GATE KAH KAMAVIKARAH

 

 

SHUSHKE NEERE, KAH KAASAARAH

 

 

KSHEENE VITHE KAH PARIVARO

 

 

GYNATE TATWE KAH SAMASARAH

 

 

When youth is gone, where is lust and its play? Where is the lake

when its waters have dried up? Where are the kinsfolk when riches

are gone ? When Truth is realised, where is the snare of Samsara?

 

 

 

Verse 11: ~~~~~~~

 

 

MAA KURU DHANAJANAYOUVANAGARVAM

 

 

HARATI NIMESHAATKAALAH SARWAM

 

 

MAAYAAMAYAMIDAMAKHILAM HITHWA

 

 

BRAHMAPADAM TWAM PRAVISHA VIDITWA

 

 

The pleasures and riches of worldly life are deceptive appearances.

Understanding that they are all but a passing-show, be detached and

dispassionate, cultivate renunciation and seek Brahman.

 

 

 

Verse 12: ~~~~~~~

 

 

DINAYAAMINYOU SAAYAM PRAATAH

 

 

SHISHIRAVASANTOW PUNARAAYAATAH

 

 

KAALAH KREEDATI GACHCHATYAAYUH

 

 

TADAPI NA MUNCHATHYAASAAVAAYUH

 

 

Day and night, dawn and dusk, winter and spring, all these are

flitting across the stage of the world. While time thus is

frolicking and befooling us, our life span is also running out; yet

we do not, even a little, give up the clinging to our desires, nor

do we let the desires loosen their grip on us.

 

 

 

Verse 13: ~~~~~~~

 

 

KAA TE KAANTAA DHANAGATACHINTAA

 

 

VAATULA KIM TAVA NAASTI NIYANTAA

 

 

TRIJAGATI SAJJANASANGATIREKAA

 

 

BHAVATI BHAVAARNAVATARANE NOUKAA

 

 

Crazy man ! Why do you worry so much about your wife and property?

Why don't you seek out the Truth? Know that in these three worlds it

is only the association with the good and holy that can help you in

crossing safely the ocean of life.

 

 

 

Verse 14: ~~~~~~~

 

 

JATILO MUNDI LUNCHITAKESHAH

 

 

KAASHAAYAAMBARA BAHUKRITAVESHAH

 

 

PASYANNAPI CHA NA PASYATI MOODHO

 

 

HIUDARANIMITAM BAHUKRITAVESHAH

 

 

The ascetic with matted locks, the man with the shaven head or one

with hair pulled out, or the man parading in the ochre robes -- they

all have eyes but yet do not see. All these are but deceptions for

cheating the world, for filling their bellies. (Renunciation does

not lie in external appearance, but in inward thought, attitude and

feeling).

 

 

 

Verse 15: ~~~~~~~

 

 

ANGAM GALITAM PALITAM MUNDAM

 

 

DASANAVIHEENAM JAATAM TUNDAM

 

 

VRIDHDHO YAATI GRIHEETWA DANDAM

 

 

TADAPI NA MUNCHATYAASHAAPINDAM

 

 

The body has become decrepit, the hair on the head has turned

completely gray; the mouth has become totally toothless; the back is

bent down and the old man cannot take even a step witout the aid of

his stick; yet he does not loosen even a bit, his hold on the bundle

of desires.

 

 

 

Verse 16: ~~~~~~~

 

 

AGRE VAHNIH PRISHTE BHAANUH

 

 

RAATHROW CHUBUKASAMARPITAJAANUH

 

 

KARATALABHIKASHAS TARUTALAVAASAH

 

 

TADAPI NA MUNCHATYAASHAAPAASAH

 

 

Homeless he is; his back is bent down with age. His body has lost

its heat and he has to warm himself before a fire or in the sun.

Tree is his only shelter; he lives by begging and by the crumbs

thrown into his palms by others; in the night he sleeps by holding

his chin on his knee (because the back is bent and he cannot stretch

himself and lie down). Yet, he does not let and allow the grip of

desires on him loosen even a bit.

 

 

 

Verse 17: ~~~~~~~

 

KURUTE GANGAASAAGARAGAMANAM

 

 

VRATAPARIPAALANAMATHAVAA DAANAM

 

 

JNANAVIHEENAH SARVAMATENA

 

 

MUKTIM NA BHAJATI JANMASATENA

 

 

One may have bathed in the holy Ganges or even in the Ganga Sagar;

he may have performed many charities and observed many vows; yet

unless one has glimpsed the Truth (God), he will not gain release

even after a hundred lives.

 

 

 

Verse 18: ~~~~~~~

 

 

SURAMANDIRA TARUMOOLA NIVAASAH

 

 

SAIYAA BHOOTALAMAJINAM VAASAH

 

 

SARVAPARIGRAHA BHOGATYAAGAH

 

 

KASYA SUKHAM NA KAROTI VIRAAGAH

 

 

Who can disturb the peace and happiness of a man if he has the true

spirit of renunciation and has controlled his desires, even if he be

the poorest, sleeping only in the temple halls and choultries or

under trees or on the bare ground and just with a deer skin to

cover.

 

 

 

Verse 19: ~~~~~~~

 

 

YOGARATO VAA BHOGARATO VAA

 

 

SANGARATO VAA SANGAVIHEENAH

 

 

YASYA BRAHMANI RAMATE CHITHAM

 

 

NANDATI NANDATI NANDATYEVA

 

 

Whether one is immersed in yoga or is revelling in bhoga (i.e,

outward enjoyment), whether he is enjoying himself in social company

or has retired into solitude, true happiness certainly cannot be

his; but who alone is revelling inwardly in Brahman, (wherever he

be), he alone will be truly happy and will verily enjoy.

 

 

 

Verse 20: ~~~~~~~

 

 

BHAGAVADGEETA KINCHIDADHEETAA

 

 

GANGAAJALALAVAKANIKAA PEETAA

 

 

SAKRIDAPI YENA MURARISAMARCHAA

 

 

KRIYATE TASYA YAMENA NA CHARCHA

 

 

Even a little study and understanding of the Bhagawad Gita, or

sipping of even a tiny drop of the waters of the holy Ganges or even

a little worship of Murari -- these will surely save one from

confrontation with death!

 

 

 

Verse 21: ~~~~~~~

 

 

PUNARAPI JANANAM PUNARAPI MARANAM

 

 

PUNARAPI JANANEE JATARE SAYANAM

 

 

IHA SAMSAARE BAHUDUSTAARE

 

 

KRIPAYAA(A)PAARE PAAHI MURARE

 

 

Undergoing the pangs of birth again and again, passing through the

throes of death again and again, lying in the mother's womb over and

over again, this process of samsara is hard to cross over. Save me

from it, Oh merciful Lord !

 

 

 

Verse 22: ~~~~~~~

 

 

RATHYAACHARPATA VIRACHITAKANTHAH

 

 

PUNYAAPUNYA VIVARJITAPANTHAH

 

 

YOGEE YOGANIYOJITACHITHO

 

 

RAMATE BAALONMATTAVADEVA

 

 

Clad in stray rags, treading the path beyond good and evil, caring

for neither earning merit by taking to good deeds nor stooping to do

any evil, and lost in meditation the yogi revels in the Supreme

always, lost to all outward norms and decorum -- his behaviour may

look prankish like that of a child or may be even queer like that of

a lunatic.

 

 

 

Verse 23: ~~~~~~~

 

 

KASTWAM KOHAM KUTA AAYAATAH

 

 

KAA ME JANANEE KO ME TAATAH

 

 

ITI PARIBHAVAYA SARVAMASAARAM

 

 

VISWAM TYAKTWAA SWAPNAVICHAARAM

 

 

Who are you ? Who am I ? From Where did I come? Who is my mother,

who is my father? -- enquire thus and you will then realise that the

entire world of experience, all the worries and problems are but a

dream, a mere hallucination, born of imagination and delusion. With

such a realisation, you will be freed from the delusions of the

world.

 

 

 

Verse 24: ~~~~~~~

 

 

TWAYI MAYI CHAANYATRAIKO VISHNUH

 

 

VYARTHAM KUPYASI MAYYASAHISHNUH

 

 

BHAVA SAMACHITTAH SARVATRA TWAM

 

 

VANCHHASYASHIRAADYADI VISHNUTWA

 

 

In you, in me and everywhere, there is but the one Vishnu.

Mistakenly viewing me with a sense of difference, you are ill-

disposed towards me. Try to see in all beings only the Vishnu who is

your own self. Give up your false and egoistic sense of separateness

from other beings. Cultivate a sense of kinship, unity and oneness

with all.

 

 

 

Verse 25: ~~~~~~~

 

 

SATROU MITRE PUTRE BANDHOU

 

 

MAA KURU YATNAM VIGRAHASANDHOU

 

 

SARVASMINNAPI PASYAATMAANAM

 

 

SARVATROTSRIJA BHEDAAJNYANA

 

 

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin;

do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship

or enemity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded

towards all, treating all alike.

 

 

 

Verse 26: ~~~~~~~

 

KAAMAM KRODHAM LOBHAM MOHAM

 

 

TYAKTWAA TMAANAM PASHYATI SOHAM

 

 

AATMAJNANA VIHEENAA MUDAAH

 

 

TE PASYANTE NARAKANIGOODAAH

 

 

Free yourself from lust, anger, greed and delusion. Contemplate

on 'who you are'. Enquire within yourself, who am I? The fools who

fail to apprehend the Self are caught in hell-fire even here and now

itself and suffer torture.

 

 

 

Verse 27: ~~~~~~~

 

 

GEYAM GEETAANAAMASAHASRAM

 

 

DHYEYAM SHREEPATIROOPAMAJASRAM

 

 

NEYAM SAJJANASANGE CHITTAM

 

 

DEYAM DEENAJANAAYA CHA VITTAM

 

 

Recite the Gita; chant the thousand Names of the lord (Vishnu

Sahasranama), meditate ceaselessly on the Consort and Lord of

Lakshmi; lead the mind towards association with the good. Give away

your wealth in charity to those in need and who are poor.

 

 

 

Verse 28: ~~~~~~~

 

 

SUKHATAH KRIYATE RAAMAABHOGAH

 

 

PASCHADDHANTA SHAREERE ROGAH

 

 

YADYAPI LOKE MARANAM SARANAM

 

 

TADAPI NA MUNJCHATI PAAPAACHARANAM

 

 

As readily as one takes to indulging in carnal pleasures, with the

same readiness, alas, he is taken over by disease too. Even seeing

death as the inevitable and only end of all, man does not refrain

from sinful ways.

 

 

 

Verse 29: ~~~~~~~

 

 

ARTHAMANARTHAM BHAAVAYA NITHYAM

 

 

NAASTI TATAH SUKHALESAH SATHYAM

 

 

PUTHRAADAPI DHANABHAAJAAM BHEETIH

 

 

SARVATRAISHA VIHITA REETIH

 

 

It is wealth only that causes all harm and brings about one's ruin.

Bear this truth in mind always. Know that the pursuit of wealth does

not lead one to happiness at all. The rich fear and are even afraid

of their own sons. This is the outcome of riches anywhere and ever.

 

 

 

Verse 30: ~~~~~~~

 

 

PRAANAAYAAMAM PRATYAAHAARAM

 

 

NITYAANITYA VIVEKAVICHAARAM

 

 

JAAPYASAMETA SAMAADHIVIDHAANAM

 

 

KURVAVADHAANAM MAHADAVADHAANAM

 

 

Regulated breathing and sense control, discrimination between the

Enduring and the fleeting, the Eternal and the transcient, Japa and

meditation, and submerging of the bodily and mental consciousness in

the Consciousness of the Spirit, merging oneself into the total

Inner Silence -- one must practice these with unrelenting fervour.

 

 

 

Verse 31: ~~~~~~~

 

 

GURUCHARANAAMBUJA NIRBHARABHAKTHAH

 

 

SAMSAARAADACHIRAADHAVA MUKTHAH

 

 

SENDRIYA MAANASA NIYAMAADEVAM

 

 

DRAKSHYASI NIJAHRIDAYASTHAM DEVAM

 

 

Surrender yourself to the Lotus Feet of the Guru; with your senses

and mind disciplined, and freed from the shackles of Samsara you

will behold the Lord who is seated in your heart.

 

 

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Govindam Adi-Purusam?

 

"Seek Govinda, Seek God, Bhaja Govindam", in this refrain comprising

of two words, Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada, has summed up in a nutshell

as it were, the entire preaching of Vedanta and religion for the

redemption of mankind. It gives us the key for entering into the

realm of Bliss, the abode of Govinda and for terminating the misery

of life we are in at present.

 

 

 

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