GITA JAYANTI : TOMMORROW ( THURSDAY - EKADASI)

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Asmad gurubhyo namah

Srimathe srivan shatagopa sri vedanta desika yatindra maha desikaya namah

Srimathe sri Lakshmi nrisimha divya paduka sevaka srivan shatagopa sri

narayana yatindra mahadesikaya namah

Sri Lakshmi nrisimha parabramhane namah

Sri Krishna Parabhramhane namah

 

 

On this auspicious day I request you all to offer your prayers to Lord Sri

Krishna and read this translation of Gita Mahatmyam to remember the ever

soothing divine words which are a panacea for all of us tormented by the

travails of samsara.

 

Gita shastram idam punyam yah pateth prayatah puman

vishnoh padam avapnoti bhaya shokadi varjitah

 

One who studies Gita shastra with interest attains the supreme abode of

Vishnu where there is no fear or sorrow.

 

Gitadhyayana shilasya pranayama parasya cha

naiva santhi hi papani purva janma kritani cha

 

The sins committed in this life and the previous births are all destroyed

for the one who reads Gita and practises pranayama daily.

 

Mala nirmochanam pumsam jala snanam dine dine

sakrit gitambhasi snanam samsara malanashanam

 

Like how bathing daily removes dirt, immersing ourselves daily in the stream

of Gita washes away all the difficulties of samsara

 

Gita sugita kartavya kim anyaih shastra vistaraih

ya svayam padmanabhasya mukha padma vinisrita

 

Gita has to be mastered well; what is the use of all other details of

shastras

For, Gita is the spoken words of The Primeval divine Lord Padmanabha who

supports even the Creator of this universe - Bramha on his navel.

 

Bharatamrita-sarvasvam vishnorvaktrat vinisritam

Gita gangodakam pitva punarjanma na vidyate

 

From the divine lord Vishnu's speech came forth the essence of Mahabharata.

One who drinks the waters of the holy Gita-ganges, will not be born again

 

sarvopanishado gavo dogdha gopala nandanah

partho vatsah sudheer bhokta dugdham gitamrtam mahat

 

All the essence of the Upanisads was milked by the cowherd boy Gopala;

Arjuna is the calf (pretext); The ones who benefit from this nectarean Gita

are the intelligent ones.

 

ekam shastram devaki putra gitam eko devo devaki putra eva

eko mantrah tasya namani yani karmapyekam tasya devasya seva

 

There is only one scripture - the one sung by Lord Sri Krishna; there is

only one God - the son of Devaki (Krishna); there is only one " mantra " - the

names of that divine lord; there is only one action to be performed -

service of that divine lord .

 

On this day, I thank all my gurus who have taught me and those " kind "

participants of Gita lectures who are again teaching me in a different way,

the ever soothing words of gita - which should never be forgotten. The only

mistake I commit often is to forget those divine words. Let us all study

Gita and enrich our lives.

 

adiyen Krishna Kalale