Narayana or Vaishnava Panchabrahma

[Guest guest]

I had long discussion with my friend this week and noted down the Narayana

Panchabrahma mantras from him that are used in the worship of Vasudeva as per

the Pancharatra Tantras. I am providing them because others in the list might be

interested especially given their parallel to the Shiva version. Please do not

ask me how to use them in Upasana because I believe you need to have appropriate

instruction in the procedure.

In Intrans:

mUla mantra OM namo bhagavate vAsudevAya

brahmA-1

OM nare-nare-narannAtha nara yasmAn narottama ||

brahmA-2

OM yaj~nAya namo yAnAya namo dharmAya namaH pUNyAya namo vratAya namo niyamAya

namo mArgAnusAriNe namaH ||

brahmA-3

OM kAlebhyo.atha kAlebhyaH kAla-kAlAntarebhyash-cha sarvata sarva-sharvebhyo

namas te rudra-rudrebhyaH ||

brahmA-4

OM tat-saMyogAya vidmahe hR^ishIkeshAya dhImahi | tan no viShNuH prachodayAt ||

brahmA-5

rodhaka sarva-vidyAnAM deva-dAnavAdhitpati mahApuruSha namo.astu te ||

 

The face of brahma-1 is of human nature. The face of brahmA-2 is of varAha. The

face brahmA-3 is terrifying and that of nR^isiMha, it is like that of rudra.

face of brahmA-4 is the one which teaches sAMkhya and yoga. The 5th face is the

puruSha who is beyond all the tattvas.

 

cheer

Rajita

[Guest guest]

The parallel with the pa~ncha brahma mantra-s of shiva are so clear and no one

can miss that. They almost look like they are imitating the shaiva mantra-s.

 

The thrid one is so explicit in identifying nR^isiMha with rudra.

 

Elsewhere nR^isiMha is imagined as destroying the rAkShasa-s with a gada (club -

viShNu's attribute) in one hand and a trishUla( ofcourse a standard shaiva

feature) in the other.

 

The pAshupata-s, I read use the third and fourth i.e. aghora and tatpuruSha

mantras of the shaiva pa~ncha brahma-s for mantra-japa. One would wonder if the

vaiShNava-s use these in a similar way.

 

> In Intrans:

> mUla mantra OM namo bhagavate vAsudevAya

> brahmA-1

> OM nare-nare-narannAtha nara yasmAn narottama ||

> brahmA-2

> OM yaj~nAya namo yAnAya namo dharmAya namaH pUNyAya namo vratAya namo niyamAya

namo mArgAnusAriNe namaH ||

> brahmA-3

> OM kAlebhyo.atha kAlebhyaH kAla-kAlAntarebhyash-cha sarvata sarva-sharvebhyo

namas te rudra-rudrebhyaH ||

> brahmA-4

> OM tat-saMyogAya vidmahe hR^ishIkeshAya dhImahi | tan no viShNuH prachodayAt

||

> brahmA-5

> rodhaka sarva-vidyAnAM deva-dAnavAdhitpati mahApuruSha namo.astu te ||

>

> The face of brahma-1 is of human nature. The face of brahmA-2 is of varAha.

The face brahmA-3 is terrifying and that of nR^isiMha, it is like that of rudra.

face of brahmA-4 is the one which teaches sAMkhya and yoga. The 5th face is the

puruSha who is beyond all the tattvas.