Sivaanandalahari - 13

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Sivaanandalahari - 13

आसारे संसारे निजभजन-दूरे

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AsAre saMsAre nijabhajana-dUre jaDadhiyA

bhramantaM mAmandhaM parama-kRupayA pAtu-muchitam |

madanya: ko dIna-stava kRupaNa-rakShAti-nipuNa-

stvadanya: ko vA me trijagati SaraNya: paSupate || 13 ||

 

It is worth protecting me with compassion as I am running around like a

blind man with dull wit leading a life that is useless and unfavourable for

meditation. Who is poorer than me? Oh Pasupathi! Who else, in the three

worlds, will protect me other than you who is the ultimate in protection of

the poor?

 

*Commentary*

 

Aum

 

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SivaprasaadEna vinaa na buddhi: sivaprasaadhEna vinaa na yukthi:|

SivaprasaadEna vinaa na siddhi: sivaprasaadhEna vinaa na mukthi:||

 

Hey! PasupathE! exclaims AchaaryaaL. Who is a ‘pasu’? ‘Pasyantheethi

pasava:’ Those jeevas who take the objects sensed by the karmEndriyaas as

real and suffer their lives in this samsaara are called ‘pasu’. They are

bound by three paasams (literally chains) called kaamam, karmam and maayai

and thus live a life of agnaanis.

 

What is maayai? It is the inability to know the subtle secret of getting

janma saabalyam given in the Vedantha saasthra. Annamacharya laments on the

obstacles created by the maaya in the following keerthana.

 

Ekkadi mAnusha janmam bethina phalame unnadhi nikkamu ninnE nammithi nee

chithambikanU

(What is the use of getting a manusha janmam? It is now left to you)

 

maravanu ahArambulu maravanu samsArasukhamu maravanu indriya bhogamu mAdhava

nee mAya

By your Maya do I forget eating, happiness of life, sense-pleasures...

 

marachedha sugyAnambunu marachedha thatva rahasyamu marachedha guruvunu

daivamu mAdhava nee mAya

But by our Maya I do forget acquiring gnana, I forget all the thathva

rahasya, I forget my Guru and the God

 

viduvanu pApamu punyamu viduvanu nA durgunamulu viduvanu mikkiliyAsalu

vishnuda nee mAya

And by your Maya I do not give up doing paapa and puNya karmas, I do not

give up my dhurguNa as also my greed

 

vidichedha shatkaaryambulu vidichedha vAiragyambunu vidichedha Acharambunu

vishnuda nee maya

By your Maya, I do not practice the shatkarmas (which are dauti, basti,

neti, nauli, kapalabati and trataka), I do not practice vairaagyam, I do not

practice aachaaram..

 

thagilEdha bahulampatamula thagilEdha bahubhandhambula thagulanu mOkshapu

mArgamu thalapuna yenthainA

By your Maya, I go by the way of the mind and get entanged in relationships

but the thought of Moksha never crosses my mind..

 

agapadi shree Venkateswara anrtharyAmi vai nagi nagi nanu nee velithi nAkA

yI mAya

I surrender to you who is the antharyaami of all, why this Maaya for me,

shouldn't you save me...

 

(pl do listen to the beautiful rendering of this by Priya Sisters

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhzCIynNvjU

 

 

What is kaama? It is the base desire in such objects as women, wealth etc.

 

And what is karma? It is the punya and papa done in many previous lives.

 

Thus being bound by these three paasam, having abhimaanam to the inert body

that is made of five subtle elements from space to earth and calling it as

‘I’ and calling the objects as mine, knowing what is seen only as real and

ignoring the unseen Vedic knowledge that liberates from these paasams, thus

drowning endlessly in the ocean of samsaara, that praani is known as ‘pasu’.

Therefore Parameswara who apportions the karmaphalas to these pasus, is

known as Pasupathi.

 

Hey! PasupathE! There is no end for me from the eternal spin that I am

dragged into with kaamam, krOdham, lObham, mOham, madham and maathsaryam.

There is no release for me from the binding of wife, children, wealth, home

etc. (காயதà¯à®¤à¯‡ பச௠பாசதà¯à®¤à¯‡ சிலரà¯

காமà¯à®±à¯à®±à¯‡à®•à¯à®¤à®²à¯ எனà¯à®•à¯Šà®²à¯‹à®¤à®¾à®©à¯!) My

constant

efforts O! PasupathE! To relieve myself from these clutches only take me

from the frying pan to the fire! I have not found time to think of your

lotus feet because I have remained an ‘avivehi’. Hey! Parameswara! Hey!

prabhO! You alone is the saranaagatha vathsalan and I am you saraanaagathan.

There is none equal to you in being dheena-rakshakan in all the three

worlds. Please therefore come to me and teach me the aathma-gnaanam to

drench myself in sivaanandalahari.

 

SivOham, SivOham.