Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Satguru Charitra Samgraha

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Jaya Guru Datta

 

In the olden days books like " Ramayana " used to be taught to boys and girls in

their childhood. Thus the entire epic was memorised and even without

understanding the meaning of the Books this divine vibrations used to pass

through the heart of the children. Gradually this practice disappeared. His

Holiness Sri Swamiji advises that this age old practice be restored and thus

" Satguru Charitra Samgraha " was written by Sri Krishnamurthy.

By the Divine Grace of His Holiness Sri Swamiji I will attempt over the next few

weeks to present these 108 slokas in Sanskrit with English translations.

 

Tapasvi jnananirato, bhardvajo mahamunih

Dharma prasaranathaya, tene gotraparamparam

 

Tatra gandlurvakhya vamse, yayajuka budhakare

Narasimha iti sriman, ajayata taponidhih

 

Yuva sa vidhura sthitrtha, nyatannudvigna manasah

Kaveryarkan guptaganam, triveni sangamam yayow

 

Ghoraranyamaye tatra, parvatantara bhutale

Kasciddharaita gotriyo, lingannakhyo vasad grhi

 

Sogala grama yogindra, powtroysm tatsanama bhak

Angarali vikrayartham, angikrta vanasrayah

 

Udarasilo viprosow, narasimhamupagatam

Atihyenarca yamasa, bhojanairbhasanaih priyaih

 

ASa tasya ti dheyasya, Lingannagrha medhinah

Santanaikatamanamna, jayalakshmi sshubhodaya

 

Lakshmi riva manojnangi, vaniva mrdubhasini

Umeva lalitadyota, lopamudrerva suvrata

 

Datta Yogindra sancara, silesmin sangama sthale

Tapastaptum samayata, narcanti yogino bahun.

 

Sage Bharadwaja who was deeply attached to spiritual knowledge, enlarged his

progeny for the continued propagation of virtuous living.

His ancestral family was full of scholars and diligent practitioners of the

Vedic rites. And into that family was now born Naradsimha Sastry, a sincere

observer of Vedic principles and regular performer of penance.

While still young, Narasimha Sastry lost his wife, and this made him to go on a

pilgrimage. He visited eventually the holy places of confluence of the 3 pious

rivers, the Kaveri, the Akavathi and the Gupta Gamini

In that place , among hills and thick jungle, there lived Linganna, a

householder belonging to the lineage of Haritasa Gotra.

Linganna was the grandson of a Yogi, who bore the same name, and lived in a

place called Sogala. He was doing the business of selling charcoal and for that

purpose he lived in the forest.

He was a magnanimous Brahmin and extended hospitality to Narasimha Sastry, the

pilgrim who visited the holy Sangam.

Linganna had a hospitable nature and Jayalakshmi was one of his daughters. She

was very pious.

She was blessed with beauty like Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, the

soft-spokeness of Saraswati, the goddess of learning and a magnificent

complexion like Gauri, Lord Shiva’s consort. She was indeed like a second

Lopamudra Devi, wife of sage Agastya.

The holy place was known to be frequented by the unseen Sage Dattatreya and for

this reason, people who seek a quiet place come there to do penance. Jayalakshmi

used to serve such visitors with diligence.

 

to be continued........

Sri Guru Datta

 

at His Divine Lotus Feet,

Krishna Dowlatsingh

 

 

 

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