Guest guest Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 Dear Friends, Namaste. I was reading the Hastamalakam sometime back and it was wonderful. So, as a part of mananam, I am translating the Sloka alongwith Sri Sankara's Bhasya on the topic. If the learned members find any mistake, either logical or translation mistakes, not only I may be pardoned, but also, I may be corrected. I shall do the translation in parts. Let me begin with the Introduction. With regards, Anupam ----------------------------- Hastamalakeeyam (With Acharya Shankara’s Commentary) I bow down the Eternal Knowledge, Bliss, the birthless, changless Paramatma, knowing which everything else is known. I salute Purushottama, without knowing whom duality prevails, and knowing whom duality vanishes completely, just as the knowledge of the rope eradicates the false apprehension of snake on the rope. I salute the great Teacher, who eradicates the ignorance, just as the sun eradicates darkness; because of whose teachings, the Self is revealed to us. In this world, all creatures want to be happy. ‘Let me be happy; let me not have any sorrow.’ Therefore, they runafter happiness and run away from sorrow. Sorrow that suppose to befall shall not be done away with; and that the happiness derived from the objects of the senses are non-eternal and hence that happiness is also nothing but sorrow. Knowing thus, a man of higher merits, tries to dissociate himself from this world of cause-and-effect; and practises detachment. He tries to escape the samsara. Samsara exists because of the ignorance of the Self; It vanishes at the dawn of the knowledge of the self. The Acharya (Hastamalaka is referred here as Acharya, by Acharya Shankara himself), therefore, teaches the knowledge of the Self. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 advaitin , anupam srivatsav <anupam.srivatsav wrote: > > > Namaste. I was reading the Hastamalakam sometime back and it was > wonderful. So, as a part of mananam, I am translating the Sloka > alongwith Sri Sankara's Bhasya on the topic. Namaste, Sri Sastri-ji also has the translation on his website at: http://www.geocities.com/snsastri/index.html?20074 Regards, Sunder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Hi Anupam, Is this the exact translation of Shankara bhasyam? Regards, Seshadri. On 9/22/09, anupam srivatsav <anupam.srivatsav wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Namaste. I was reading the Hastamalakam sometime back and it was > wonderful. So, as a part of mananam, I am translating the Sloka > alongwith Sri Sankara's Bhasya on the topic. If the learned members > find any mistake, either logical or translation mistakes, not only I > may be pardoned, but also, I may be corrected. > I shall do the translation in parts. Let me begin with the Introduction. > > With regards, > Anupam > ----------------------------- > Hastamalakeeyam > (With Acharya Shankara’s Commentary) > > I bow down the Eternal Knowledge, Bliss, the birthless, changless > Paramatma, knowing which everything else is known. > > I salute Purushottama, without knowing whom duality prevails, and > knowing whom duality vanishes completely, just as the knowledge of the > rope eradicates the false apprehension of snake on the rope. > > I salute the great Teacher, who eradicates the ignorance, just as the > sun eradicates darkness; because of whose teachings, the Self is > revealed to us. > > In this world, all creatures want to be happy. ‘Let me be happy; let > me not have any sorrow.’ Therefore, they runafter happiness and run > away from sorrow. Sorrow that suppose to befall shall not be done > away with; and that the happiness derived from the objects of the > senses are non-eternal and hence that happiness is also nothing but > sorrow. Knowing thus, a man of higher merits, tries to dissociate > himself from this world of cause-and-effect; and practises detachment. > > He tries to escape the samsara. Samsara exists because of the > ignorance of the Self; It vanishes at the dawn of the knowledge of > the self. The Acharya (Hastamalaka is referred here as Acharya, by > Acharya Shankara himself), therefore, teaches the knowledge of the > Self. > > > --- > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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