Some verses from umaa sahasram (Long)

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umaa sahasram is a work of shrii vasiShTa gaNapati muni (one of

the chief disciples of bhagavaan ramaNa mahaR^iShi). This work

contains 1000 verses. Divided into 40 units with 25 verses

each. Of these 1000 verses the last 300 (300 according to giri

and 200 according to book by M.P. Pandit) verses are attributed

to bhagavaan ramaNa himself. You can read more about this work at

 

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Another work of great repute is Uma sahasram. This was composed

by Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni, who 'named' a brahmana swami called

Venkataramanan as Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. A great exponent of

mantra, tantra, he was so adept in Sanskrit that He could compose

hundreds of verses extempore. One day, He decided to compose 1000

verses and announced to his devotees in various parts of the country

that this poem would be dedicated on a certain Friday in the Shrine of

Sri UMA in the great Temple of Sri Arunachaleswara.

 

At about 8 p.m. on the evening before the dedication day, after

supper, Sri Kavyakanta told Bhagavan that he had composed only 700

verses. Sri Maharshi sat silent and in deep meditation like the silent

Lord Dakshinamurthy. The eager disciples watched in tense admiration

the sweet flow of divine music in Sanskrit verse as it came from the

lips of the great and magnetic personality of Sri Kavyakanta. He stood

there delivering the verses in an unbroken stream while disciples

eagerly gathered the words and wrote them down.

 

The 'Sahasram' was finished in several metres - Madalekha, Pramanika,

Upajati, Aryagiti, etc. Then Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi opened His

eyes and asked, "Nayana, has all I said been taken down?'' From Sri

Ganapati Muni came the ready reply and grateful response: "Bhagavan,

all that Bhagavan inspired in me has been taken down!''

 

It is noteworthy that whereas Sri Kavyakanta revised the first 700

verses of this monumental work some six times; he did not revise any

of the last 300. This being Sri Bhagavan's own utterance, there was no

need to polish them.'These 300 verses are to be considered as Sri

Bhagavan's unique contribution to Sanskrit poetry on the Divine

Mother.

 

The 'Uma Sahasram' is different from other compositions in that it is

pasyanti vak, i.e., revealed by the Divine Mother in Her own words.

 

The Sanskrit bhashya by Kapali Sastri is available. So is the english

translation of certain verses by M.P.Pandit and published by Ganesh

publishers, Madras in 1983.

 

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I got the book by ILL and yesterday my wife told me that I have

to return it today and I cannot renew it any more. Like a man who

on his last day starts thinking about God, I went through the

whole text which has a selection of 100 verses from the 1000.

Instead of photocopying and leaving the book lying around, I

thought I will type some verses for my _personal_ use. So I got

up this morning and typed in what I could in 1 1/2 hours. It may

have mistakes. I thought I will share with you all. This is

typed in straight from the book. I skipped the detailed

explanation and limited myself to brief meanings. In some cases

due to lack of time, I skipped the original sanskrit.

 

 

This is what I have. Enjoy.

 

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Adoration

 

naatyaighaaNi nirarthaM netavyaani dinaani |

ambaayaaH charitaani shrotavyaani anaghaani ||

 

Waste not thy priceless days; listen to the holy deed of

the Mother. 29.2

 

udyogaM kuru jihve saMhartuM duritaani |

putaani adri sutaayaH kiirtyantaaM charitaani ||

 

O tongue, exert yourself to erase the sins; laud the holy

deeds of the Daughter of the Mountain. 29.3

 

shriisaktiH vinivaaryaa chintaa kaa.api na kaaryaa |

nityaM chetasi dhaaryaa diinaanaaM gatiraaryaa ||

 

Avoid attachment to wealth; do not worry; hold always in

mind the Divine Mother, refuge of the utterly weak. 29.4

 

j~naatuM yaa gatituM yaa shrotuM yaa shvasituM yaa |

dR^ishtuM yaa antara shaktiH tishhThaatra sMR^iti eshha ||

 

The inner power that makes it possible to understand,

tospeak, to hear, to breath, or to see, stay in that; that

is remembrance. 29.5

 

yeshhaM syaat.h paritaptaM prayaashchittamaghena |

rudraaNi padasevaa praayashshittamamiishhaam.h ||

 

Of those whose mind is distressed with sin, service of the

feet of rudra’s spouse becomes repentance. 29.7

 

sharvaaNi charaNaa cha piiThaM piivarakaaNaam.h |

vadhya sthaanaM idaM syaat.h ugraaNaam duritaanaam.h ||

 

The very pedestal used for the worship of the feet of

shiva’s spouse becomes the axing stand for all the savage

and aggressive sins. 29.10

 

paada ambhojaM umaayaaH praaj~nas-saMpraNamantaH |

gR^iNanti shriyamasmin.h raajantiiM nijashaktya ||

 

Bowing to the lotus feet of umaa, the wise draw the

prosperity glowing in the lotus by their inherent power.

29.17

 

kaalasyaapi vijetuH sharvaaNyaaH charaNasya |

eshaahaM kavilokaxaamaapalo.asi bhujishhya ||

 

Servitor of the feet of mother sharvaaNi which are

victorious even over death, I am the monarch of the world

of poets. 29.19

 

rakte darshaya raagaM rudraaNi pada padme |

chetaH pushhyati shobhaaM saarassaaravadogre ||

 

O Mind! Show reddening love for the red lotus feet of

rudra’s spouse. Strength glows in the presence of the

strong. 29.20

 

saMshodhya aagama jaalaM saaraMshaM pravadaamaH |

skandaaMbaa pada bhatiH bhuktyai chaatha vimuktyai ||

 

This, we say, is the essence from the plumbing of all

agaama-s; devotion to the feet of Mother of skanda results

in both enjoyment and release. 29.21

 

Auspicious

 

gaja charMadharaH kapaalabhR^it.h gr^ihanaatho

gR^ihiNii tu kaalikaa |

rudhiraavila muNda maalinii kathitau tau vada

paNditaiH shivau ||

 

Clad in the elephant skin, he wears a skull; such is the

lord of the house; dark, she wears a garland of bloody

sundered heads. Still the wise ones speak of them both as

auspicious! 22.12

 

Bhakti

 

sahasra sa~nkhyaani januushhi vaa mama

priyaaNi bhaktistava chedbhave bhave |

tava smR^itiM chedgalayenna sammadaM karoti

moxaa.api mameshhavallabhe ||

 

If therewould be devotion for thee in each birth, a

thousand births would be dear to me; even liberation does

not delight me if that would break my remembrance of thee.

46.18 (this number may be wrong).

 

 

 

Bliss wave

 

kaapi modalaharii tava viichirnirgata

dashashataarasudhaabdheH |

puurayatyakilamamba shariraM neha

vedmi parame jaDabhaagam.h ||

 

Mother supreme! Issuing from the nectar ocean of the

thousand-petalled lotus, some waves of thine, stream of

delight fills my entire body. No more do I know any part

that is unconscious in me. 15.13

 

Body

 

kuru tvaM idaM ekaM nijaalayaM shateshhu |

savitri viharaasmin yatheshhTamayi dehe ||

 

O Mother, make this my body one of thy hundred abodes.

Sport in this body as thou likest. 16.24

 

Form

 

This assumption of form, benediction to the devotees,

divinely marvellous in play, is full of sparkling meaning.

3.14.

 

Would the mantra, though repeated a crore of times, be

fruitful without some object of regard? If we hold to thy

form as the object, alas, the mantra drops off. 14.18

 

The root of thoughts, of speech, of experiences, the source

of life force, that form of thee is the object. 14.19

 

Gifts

 

When heard, Thous makest man humble; when remembered,

sinless; held in the heart, thou makest him free from the

notion of self and other. 16.7

 

Guru

 

Most secret in form, beautiful spouse of shiva cannot be

known even by the wise, without initiation from guru. 2.3

 

Infinite and the finite

 

naado.asi vagasi vibhaasi chidasyakhaNDaa |

khaNDiibhatyapi chidasyakhilendra kaantyai ||

 

Beloved of the supreme Lord!

Thou art the primordial sound;

Thou art speech; Thou art light;

Thou art unfragmented consciousness;

Thou art also the consciousness of fragments itself.

7.2

 

Smile

 

May Uma, the mother of the whole world, bless us who are

afflicted with darkness and suffering, with the moonlight

of HER smile, moist with the nectar of compassion. 1.1

 

The smile reigns of single-bodied shiva and paarvatii at

the stretching of the hand on the other side by skanda

after suckling the breast on one side. 21.1

 

Purity

 

Controlling food one gets purified; purified one does not

fault; in him who is without fault thou playest in the

lotus. 16.74 ??

 

Kundalini

 

She the mother of the world, by name kuNDalinii, dwells in

body and body, asleep, in laity, awake in yogin. 14.7

 

In whom the kuNDalini is active the fire flames up from the

muulaadhaara, the moon drips from the head; I guess she has

waken up from the harp-bed. 14.8

 

Art thou the drippings? Art thou in the flamings, Art thou

in what knows both of thess. 14.9

 

Both agni and soma prevade my body with the flames and

moon-rays; may my person be their oblation. 14.10

 

Thou art agni; Thou art soma; Thou flamest below, Thou

flowest above; Thou art nectar, the fruit of both, Thou

mother art the Chit that enjoys it. 14.11

 

 

 

 

 

Assorted

 

Turned outwards thou seest the variegated universe. Inward-

turned, there is nothing besides the in front. 16.11

 

Beloved of Lord, thou art pleased with the surrender of

mind. 33.3

 

Lauded, thou bestowest the desired; remembered, thou

removest sin; held thou increasest opulent power,

pervading, thous effectest release. 16.13

 

In the mid-region thou art the deity of bliss;

In the Sun, thou art the deity of light;

In the embodied, thou art the deity of enjoyment; ##

 

The Lord is only a witness; Thou Mother, hast undertaken

verily to create, sustain or destroy everything. 6.22

 

svaagatM sakala loka nutaayai

svaagataM bhuvanaraaja mahishhyai |

svaagataM mayi bhR^ishaM sadayayai

svaagataM dashashataaramitaayai ||

 

Welcome to the adored of all worlds;

Welcome to the queen of the Lord of the universe;

Welcome to HER who is exceedingly compaasionate to me;

Welcome to HER who has attained the thousand-petalled.