Sri HayagrIva Panjaram / Oushadha Giri MahA MaNtapam in front of Lord HayagrIvar's Sannidhi ---http://www.srikainkarya.org

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SrI:

 

Dear Sri HayagrIva BhakthAs :

 

Let us study SrI HayagrIva Panjaram today .

 

Sri HayagrIva Panjaram is a delightful amalgam of (1)dhyAnam of the SubhAsraya

ThirumEni Of Lord HayagrIvan for IshtArTa siddhi ( gaining desired fruits ) ,

(2) Vandhanam / namaskaraNam to Him and (3)the recitation of His embedded

manthram .

 

Panjaram means a cage as well as the body . The cage here is " nikhila upanishad

maneeshA " panjaram . It is a sacred cage constituted by the essence

of the meanings of

all Upanishads . Inside that open cage resides the Lord , who is like " Suddha Spatika

MaNi bhUbhruth prathipaDam " ( like a blemishless white crytal mountain ) ; from there,

He illumines the three worlds with His nectar-like white radiance (

SudhA sadhrIcheebhi:dhyuthibhi: avadhAtha thribhuvanam) and banishes

the darkness of ajn~Anam . From

that " Veda mantra mayam cage " , Lord HayagrIvan's Hala Hala sabdham is heard

echoing in the limitless vEdAnthams continously ( " ananthai: thrayyanthai: anuvihitha

hEshA hala halam" ) .

 

This Panjaram of HayagrIvan ( HayagrIvasya Panjaram) pays tribute to

" the Mantramayam Sareeram " of Lord HyagrIvan saluted in the tenth

slOkam of Swamy Desikan's SrI HayagrIva SthOthram :

agnou samiddhArchishi sapthatanthO:

aatasTivAn manthramayam SarIram

akhaNDa saarair havishAm pradhAnai:

aapyAyanam vyOma sadhAm vidhathsE

 

(Meaning): Oh Lord HayagrIva ! when YajamAnAs present the sacred

havis in the Agni kuntams with sparkling flames with seven tongues ,

You stand in the form of those manthrams that they recite ( " aatasTivAn

manthramayam SarIram " ) and accept those havises . After that ,

You distribute these sweet havis to all the DevAs and make them

feel contented .

 

The First sentence of SrI HayagrIva Panjaram

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" aTa kalpam pravakshyAmi HaygrIvasya Panjaram "

 

Here the vakthrA ( speaker) announces that he will now

commence describing the Panjaram of Lord HayagrIvan .

 

Kalpa means a day of Brahma or 420 million years of human

beings ; Kalpa also means a sacred percept . The narrator

states that he will commence delivery of the sacred percept of

Sri HyaagrIva Panjaram . Kalpa also stands for the sacred Vedic

angam of Kalpa soothrams .

 

VakshyAmi means I will describe . When the prefix, "Pra" is added to

vakshyAmi to become "pravakshyAmi " , it means moving forward

(commencing) to describe the Panjaram of SrI HaygrIvan ( HayagrIvasya

Panjaram ) .

 

Let us enjoy the dhyAna-janitha aanandham of the VakthrA of

Sri HayagrIva Panjaram in the next posting .

 

Sri HyaagrIva ParabrahmaNE Nama:

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan