Thursday, December 22, 2011

Sundarya Lahari: 1

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Verse No. 1

Śivah Śaktyä yukto yadi bhavati Śaktah: prabhaviturm

na chédévam dévó na khalu kuśalah spanditumapi |

atastvã-màrãdhyãrm hari-hara-virīńcãdibhi-rapi

praņanturm stóthum vä katha-makŗtapuņyah prabhavati ||...1

Literal Meaning

Siva becomes capable of creating the Universe, only when united with Sakti (Thee), but otherwise (when not so joined with Thee), He is incapable of even a stir. How then could one. who has not acquired merit (punya in this and previous births) worship Thee or at least praise Thee, who is adored even by Visnu, Siva Brahmã and others?

Yantra shown above to be made on gold plate. Sit facing East.

Chant this verse 1001 (1000) times daily, for 12 days.

Archana: Chant Lalitãsahasranãma offering red hibiscus or other red flowers.

Offerings: Cooked rice, scrapings of coconut kernel mixed with powdered jaggery and ghee.

Beneficial Results: All prosperity, granting of cherished purposes and solution to intricate problems.

Verse No. 2


      Thanīyāmsam pāmsum thava charaņa-pañkeruha-bhavam

      viriñcih: sañchinvan virachayathi lokā-navikalam |

      vahathyenam śaurih: kathamapi sahasrena śirasām

      harah: samksudyainam bhajathi bhasitoddhūlana-vidhim ||.. 2

Literal Meaning

Collecting minute particles of the dust falling from Thy lotus-feet, Brahmä creates this limitless and mysterious universe without any imperfection, viśnu in the form of adiśesa though with thousand heads, bears it with great effort and śiva reducing the particles into ashes besmears his body with them at the time of dissolution.

      Yantra shown above to be made on gold plate. Sit facing North. Chant this verse 1000 times daily for 45 (55 or 1 2) days.

      Archana: Chant Lalitatriśati offering vermilion.

      Offerings: Sweet milk gruel, coconuts and fruits.

      Beneficial Results: Gaining vast influence over others and fascination of those around.

Verse No. 3

Avidyānā-mantha stimira-mihira-dhvépanagarí

jadānām chaitanya-sthabaka-makarandha sruthijhari |

dharidhrāņām chinthāmaņigunanikā janmajaladhau

nimagnānām damstrā muraripu-varāhasya bhavati ||.. 3

Literal Meaning

The dust of Thy lotus feet is the Island City, wherefrom takes place the luminous sun-rise of spiritual illumination driving away the over-casting darkness of ignorance in the hearts of the devotees, It forms the cluster of flower buds from which gushes forth the nectar of intelligence, enlivening the dull-witted. It is a veritable necklace of wish-yielding gems for the poverty- stricken. And for those immersed in the ocean of worldly affairs, it becomes their up lifter like the Tusk of viśnu, which raised the earth from submergence in pralaya waters when He incarnated as the Cosmic Boar.

Yantra shown above to be made on gold plate. Sit facing North­East. Chant this verse 2000 times (1008) daily, for 45 (54,15) days.

Archana: Chant Lalitätriśati offering white flowers such as jasmine, etc.

Offerings: Cooked rice, cakes of black gram, honey and betels with slices of areca nut.

Beneficial Results: Attainment of versatile knowledge, particularly of Vedas.

Verse No. 4

Thvadanyah: pānibhyā-mabhayavaradó dhaivataganah:

thvamekā naivāsi prakatitavarābhityabhinayā |

bhayáth thrāthurn dhathum phalamapi ca vāńchāsamadhikam

śaranye lókānām thava hi caranāveva nipunau ||.. 4

Literal Meaning

All Deities except Thee, vouchsafe protection to devotees and grant their desires by gestures of their hands.

Thou alone art not given to any such external demonstration of giving boons and shelter. It is so because Thy feet are by themselves powerful to protect those in the grip of fear and grant more than what is desired by devotees.

Yantra shown above to be made on gold plate or silver plate. Sit facing North-East (or East). Chant this verse 3000 (1000) times daily for 36 (40,16) days.

Archana: Chant Lalitāsahasranama offering vermilion.

Offerings: Rice cooked with green-gram pulse, cooked rice mixed with lemon juice, bits of sugarcane and milk

Beneficial results: Cures diseases; grants freedom from tear and poverty; enables possession of vast estates.

Verse No. 5

Haristhvāmārādhya pranath-ajana-saubhāgya-jananīm

purā nārí bhūtvā puraripumapi kşobha-manayat |

smarápi thvām nathvā rathinayana-lehyena vapuşā

munīnāmapyantah: prabhavati hi mohāya mahatām || ...5

Literal Meaning

Adoring Thee who art the bestower of all prosperity on all Thy votaries, Hari (Viśnu) was once able to become a charming female and stir waves of passion in the mind of the most impassioned Śiva, the destroyer of the three cities and the enemy of Kāma. Has not smara (Kāma, the god of love) because of having bowed before Thee, obtained a personality, pleasingly attractive to the eye of his beloved Rathi and become capable of generating passion even in the minds of great sages!

Yantra shown above to be made on copper plate or on fine turmeric powder. Sit facing East (some suggest having Yantra on head). Chant this verse 2000 (1001) times daily for 8 (12) days.

Archana: Chant Durgã astottara and Lalita astottara offering red flowers or vermilion.

Other offerings: Rice cooked with green gram pulse, gruel made of green gram pulse and jaggery, honey and coconuts.

Beneficial result: Power to fascinate men and women, entice people.

Verse No. 6

Dhanuh: pauşhparm maurvī madhukaramayī pañjcha viśikhāh:

vasanth: sāmantó malayamaru-dhāyódhana-ratha: |

thathāpyékah: sarvarm himagirisuté kāmapi krupām

apāñgāththé labdhvā jagadhidha-manahgó vijayathé .....6

Literal Meaning

Oh Daughter of the snow-clad Himalaya mountain! Kāmadeva, the god of love, has only a bow made of flowers, with its string comprised of a cluster of honeybees, and arrows barely five. The spring season (periodical and undependable) is his assistant and the southern breeze, his war-chariot. Yet, with such frail equipment, bodiless and alone though he be, manmatha conquers the entire universe, having obtained some favour through Thy benign side-glance.

Yantra shown above to be made on gold plate or milk placed in a silver utensil. Sit facing East. Chant this verse 500 times daily for 21(24) days.

Archana Chanting of Lalitātriśati offering jasmine or any white flowers.

Offerings: Bits of sugarcane, milk gruel, betels and slices of areca nut with spices like clove, cardamom, etc.

Beneficial results: Cures impotency, bestows children.

Verse No. 7

Kvanathkāńicī dhāmā karikalabha kumbha-stana-nathā

parikśínā madhyé pariņatha śarachchandhra-vadhanā |

dhanur-bānān pāśam sruņimapi dhadhānā karathalaih:

purasthā dhásthām nah: puramathithu rāhó-puruśikā ||...7

Literal Meaning

May the Divine Mother with Her slender waist girdled with jingling mini-bells, body slightly bent in the middle by the weight of Her breasts resembling the frontal globes of the forehead of a young elephant, Her face blooming like the autumnal full moon and Her four hands holding bow, arrow, noose and goad and who is the pride of Śiva, manifest her presence before us.

Yantra shown above to be made on gold plate or holy ashes

(bhasma) leveled on a copper plate. Sit facing North-East.

Chant this verse 1000 times daily for 45 (1 2) days.

Archana: Chanting of Durgā sahasranāma offering vermilion.

Other offerings: Cooked rice, curd, fruit-juice and sweet milk gruel.

Beneficial results: Fascinating even royal personages and over­coming enemies.

Verse No. 8

Sudhāsindhōr-madhyē suravitapi-vātī-parivrthē

manidhvīpē nīpōpavanavathi chinthāmani grhē |

śivākārē mańjchē paramaśiva-paryańgkanilayām

bhajanthi thvām dhanyāh: katichana chidānanda-Iaharīm || .. 8

Literal Meaning

Fortunate are those few, who worship Thee, the inundation of Bliss-Consciousness, as reclining on a mattress that is Paramaśiva (the Supreme Śiva or Śadáśiva) spread on a couch which too is an aspect of Śiva, inside the mansion constructed of precious cintāmani gems, surrounded by the pleasure garden of nīpa trees, in the island of gems of all kinds, encircled by rows of celestial trees, the island itself being situated in the midst of the ocean of nectar.

Yantra shown above to be made on thick sandal paste mixed with saffron powder, placed in a silver plate. Sit facing North- East. Chant this verse 1008 (1000, 1200) times daily for 16(12) days.

Archana: Chanting of Durgā astottara with red flowers. Gingely oil lamp to be lit before the Yantra.

Offerings: Cooked rice mixed with powdered pepper, jaggery gruel and coconuts.

Beneficial results: Release from all kinds of bondages, imprisonment and debt, fulfillment of all desires.

Verse No. 9

Mahīm mūlādhāraē kamapi mańipūraē huthavaham
sthitham svādhishtānaē hrudhi marutha-mākāśa-mupari |
manōpi bhrōmadhyē sakalamapi bhithvā kulapatham
sahasrārē padhmē saha rahasi pathyā viharasē || ....9

Literal Meaning

Breaking through the Mūlādhāra, Manipūra, Svādhishāna, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, and Ajanā Chakras (plexuses) and having crossed Prthvi (earth), Apāsa (water), Tejasa (fire), Vāyu (air), Ākāsa (ether) and Manasa (mind) - Tatvas of the respective Chakra, Thou ascending through the susumna sporteth with Thy Consort in the solitude of sahasrāra - the thousand-petalled lotus above in the head.

Yantra shown above to be made on gold plate, smeared with paste of musk. Sit facing North-East. Chant this verse 1008 (1000) times, daily for 45 days.

Archana: Chanting of LaIitātriśati offering white flowers.

Offerings: Cooked rice, sweet milk-gruel, coconuts and honey.

Beneficial results: Return of persons long absent, mastery over elements

Verse No. 10

Sudhádhárásáraish-charańayugalánthar-vigalithai:
prapancham sinjchanthee punarapi rasaamnaaya-mahasa: |
avápya svám bhómim bhujaganibha-madhyóshta-valayam
svamáthmánam kruthvá svapishi kulakundae kuhariNi || 10 ||

Literal Meaning:

Drenching the (seventy two thousand) nerves in the body with the flood of nectar gushing from Thy feet, thou (the Kundalini representing Tripurasundari) descendest from the Sahasraara into the hollow of Thy own ground at the Susumana converting Thyself into a serpent with three coils and a half, and steepest in the crevice in the center of the Mulaathaara lotus.

Yantra shown above to be made on gold plate. Sit facing East. Chant this verse 1000 times daily for 6 (9) days.

Arcahana: Chanting of Durga Sahasranaama offering vermilion.

Offerings: Cooked rice, plantains and juicy fruits.

Beneficial results: Purification of body frame. Cures watery diseases. In case of women, develops breasts and enables proper menstruation.



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