What is Laghu Rudri?yajjAgratO

[Guest guest]

From :--Krishnarao Lanka

Date :--January 26th 2007

Subject :-- yajjAgrato

 

mAnya SrI dhananjay,

 

sa prEma namaskAr. I am glad that you have rested so much of

confidence

upon me in explaining the

meaning of the SlOka, But in fact, I am

not a pundit in Sanskrit

nor a scholar in English,

either to understand or express out what actually I understand.

However, I will try my best

to satisfy your belief upon my knowledge, which every thing is only

my guru`s grace

 

The SlOka, you have quoted has got

so many different 'pAThAntara BhEdA's and in my opinion, almost a scrambled

version. In our area it is being read

as,

"yaj jAgratO dUramudEti daivam, tadu suptasya tathaiva Eti,

dUrangamam jyOtiShAm jyOtir Ekam, tan mE

manah Siva sankalpam astu ||"

 

Any way, I wonder how you

have chosen to select this mantra? Unless

one has got the meticulous knowledge upon so many subjects, such a doubt will not

so easily arise about the ambiguity of this mantra at all.

Any way, I will present my

opinion only as a gesture of friendship and exchange of my view point.

 

The meaning as I understand

is: –-

The very purport of the mantra

is "tan

mE manah Siva sankalpam astu"

"samyak kalpyatE anEnEti sankalpah"—"sankalpah karma

mAnasamkluptau" by this we can clearly substantiate "kalpanam

"

"kalpatE praBhavati jagannASAyEti kalpah"

"kR^I pU sAmardhyE" = capable of

dissolving/ destructing the worldly concern

 

sankalpam at large is to dissolve

/or destroy the perceptible worldly concern.

"siva sankalpam" means---

" SinOti tanU karOti iti Sivam" – ("SI~ng niSAnE"

= "SI~ng swapnE")

"Sivah SAmyati paramAnanda rUpatwAt nirAkArO BhavatIti

Sivah

Here 'Ananda'means

dissolution (sat- cit- Ananda = to create, sustain and dissolve (sR^iShti,

sthiti, samhAra)

'paramAnanda' means mahA

samhAram (total dissolution)

 

Withdrawing all the

extensions that appear like the infinitely endless universe with all the living

and nonliving objects and 33 crores of deities including 'brahmA, viShNu and

mahESwara', into the original state of

the last visible state and also to the first invisible state which is called as

"Siva".

"prapancOpaSamam SAntam Sivam adwayam"

This is also called "turIya

avastha". .

 

"avasthA traya BhAvaaBhAa

sAkShi chaitanyam". The witnessing

chaitanyam of the existence and non-existence of the three avasthAs Viz.,

jAgrat swapna and suShupti at the same time, is called that turIya

avastha. Is it possible to witness all

the avasthAs at a time? Existence and nonexistence!!

For this, srIvidyA gives the

solution with the help of a mantra sAdhana. How is it?

 

Every mantra will have three "KhaNDA"s

and the nadA of the mantra will also extend forth in the naqme of "turIya KhaNDa".(A+U+M+nAdA). It also contains six a.ngAs. (ShaDa.ngAs).

 

The first Khanda is being observed

in the jAgrat avasthA. the second one in the swapna avastha and with the third

Khanda he is drifting into the suShupti and from there he is attaing the so

called turIya avastha with the help of the nAdA. All this process of meditation is narrated

picturesquely in this mantra as—

 

"yajjAgrato dUram udEti

daivam" = While reciting the first Khanda of the mantra, the swapna avasthA

with its imaginary image of the deity is rising (like the sun) for the second

Khanda.

 

"tadu suptasya tathaivEti

dUrangamam"—From the Swapna avasthA the mantra/the kundalini

while burrowing through

the "indra yOni" (which is lying behind the uvala) with the help of

the first half of the third KhanDA of the mantra to submerge in the suShupti

avasthA, and very soon

when it enters into the

suShupti avasthA, the individual will not have his control over the mantra, but

it will be involuntarily carried upwards through the mUrthanya nADi, towards

the bindu and mahAbindu which is appearing at a far off distence

glowing like a "jyOtiShAm jyOtirEkam"

In this way the same jyOti,

if one sincerely efforts to see, it appears with gross form, and also

it will take him to the real form

of Siva paramAtmA. "Siva j~nAna

pradAyini"

 

With regards to your second question, I

agree with you that the self and the mind are one and the same. The physical body of an individual is in

reality the embodiment of the mind only.

The mind itself taking the

form of the physical body, extrovertly looks at the world and fabricates many

numerous desires and experiences the pains and pleasures in return. But when it turns inwards and becomes

introvert, the whole of the universe will get vanished and it becomes one with

the AtmA.

Only the Siva sankalpam

remains. Then the mind in the name of AtmA remains alone.

"EkamEvA advitIyam brahma".

In this way "manO brahmEtyupAsIta"

 

Yours in the service of the devine

mother,

krishnarao

-- Krishnarao Lanka