E-mail list etiquette and sri hayagrIvAya stotra

[Guest guest]

Friends,

I want to remind people about the E-mail list etiquettes. Couple of

people have complained to me about personal messages on this list. I

want reiterate a request not to send personal messages (messages

intended for 2-3 people) to the E-mail list. This list now has more than

100 rs and it is annoying to receive messages that are intended

only for a few people on the list. Some of it might be unintentional

since hitting the reply button will send the message to the list when

the real intention might have been to send the reply to the original

sender. So, please please be careful in sending replies to list.

Spontaneous and unstructured communication is one of the benefits of the

E-mail lists. With that freedom comes the responsibility to use it

judiciously and appropriately. Let us keep the list interesting and

useful to all of us.

 

I want to close this E-mail with the short sri hagrIva stotra

composed by sri vAdirAja whose ArAdhane falls on this Friday. This is a

short stotra suitable for daily pArAyaNa by children and adults. I have

done the translations with my limited knowledge of Sanskrit, I request

others correct if there any errors.

 

(Transliteration is in baraha format)

 

shri hayagrIva sthOthra

 

hayagrIva hayagrIva hayagrIvEthi vAdhinaM |

naram mumchamthi pApAni dharidhramiva yOshitha: ||

 

 

Sins run away from person who utters Lord hayagrIva's name

repeatedly just as women run away from a poor person.

 

hayagrIva hayagrIva hayagrIvEthi yOvadhEth |

thasya ni:sarathE vANi janyukanyApravAhavath ||

 

 

A person who says Lord hayagrIva's name repeatedly will have his/her

speech like the flow of the river Ganges.

 

hayagrIva hayagrIva hayagrIvEthi yO Dhvani: |

vishobhathE cha vaikumTa kavAtOdhGAtanaxama: ||

 

 

A person who says the sound of Lord hayagrIva's name repeatedly will

have the doors to vaikumTa opened to that person.

 

shlOka thrayamidham pumNyam hayagrIva padhAmkitham |

vAdhirAja yathi prOktham paTathAm sampadhAm padham ||

 

These three sholkas which are told by saint sri vAdhirAja and which

have Lord hayagrIva's blessings, will give the readers all the

auspicious blessings.

 

sri vAdhirAjAya nama:,

 

BTW, the couple of VMS volunteers are putting together a list of

stotras for daily pArAyaNa. Watch out for an announcement on this

shortly.

 

Regards,

 

Vasu

 

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