Guru parampara prayers and Mangalacharan prayers

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JAI SRI KRISHNA!!

 

Dear Vaishnavas, are there any standard Sanksrit verse i can chant to

praise the Guru parampara before doing bhajans, japa etc.... I am in

the very preliminary stage of Sadhana, so i do not have affialiations

to any math or specifis Arcaharya lineage, so if any recogmentded

slokas could be universal to all Srivaishnava Branches and kalais that

would be good.

 

Also do the Srivaishanas have a standart Mangalcharana prayer before

doing any puja, bhajan, japa and prayanam..

 

( for example the iskcon devotees chant the following manglacharana

prayer before worship.: vande 'ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-

gurun vaisnavams' ca sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam

tam sa jivam sadvaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam krsna-caitanya-

devam sri-radha-krsna-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams' ca).

 

THank you

[Guest guest]

Dear sir,

 

The following verses are more general verses that pay respects

to the guru parampara which are often used in Sri Vaishnava worship:

 

lakShmiinaatha samaarambhaam

naatha yaamuna madhyamaam

asmad-aacaarya paryantaam

vande guru paramparaam

 

which, I guess, pretty clearly refers to "the lineage starting with

the Lord of Lakshmi (i.e. NaaraayaNa) that comes through Naathamuni

and Yaamuna muni up to our present aachaarya" or something along

those lines.

 

Another is:

 

yo nityam acyuta padaambuja

yugma rukmavyaamo hadastaditaraaNi

tRNaaya mene

asmad guror bhagavato'syadayaika sindho:

raamaanujasya charaNau sharaNam prapadye

 

which translates (according to Mani Varadarajan, taken from the

bhakti list archives)

 

I take refuge at the feet of our guru Bhagavaan

Ramanuja, that ocean of mercy who, infatuated

with the gold-like, lotus feet of the Lord,

considered all else as mere blades of grass.

 

Hope this helps. I too am not yet affiliated to any matham or

aacaarya (apart from by family) and usually recite these before

worship.

 

By the way I noticed from a previous mail that you are from the UK -

may I ask whereabouts? (I was born and raised in the UK) I am

intrigued that you developed an interest in Srivaishnavam being from

Gujarati background - a number of my Hindu friends at university are

gujarati and so I am familiar with a few bits of gujarati culture

too. Feel free to contact me off list if you wish,

 

praNAmams,

 

Ranjan Vasudevan

 

(Sorry btw I was not familiar with what exactly 'mangalacharana'

refers to - is this a term used in ISCKON or gujarati worship? Or is

it used in southern indian style worship too?)

 

ramanuja, "tesh_tel" <tesh_tel> wrote:

>

> JAI SRI KRISHNA!!

>

> Dear Vaishnavas, are there any standard Sanksrit verse i can chant

to

> praise the Guru parampara before doing bhajans, japa etc.... I am

in

> the very preliminary stage of Sadhana, so i do not have

affialiations

> to any math or specifis Arcaharya lineage, so if any recogmentded

> slokas could be universal to all Srivaishnava Branches and kalais

that

> would be good.

>

> Also do the Srivaishanas have a standart Mangalcharana prayer

before

> doing any puja, bhajan, japa and prayanam..

>

> ( for example the iskcon devotees chant the following manglacharana

> prayer before worship.: vande 'ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam

sri-

> gurun vaisnavams' ca sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-

raghunathanvitam

> tam sa jivam sadvaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam krsna-caitanya-

> devam sri-radha-krsna-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams'

ca).

>

> THank you

>