Sadasivashtakam By Sage Patanjali Translated by P. R. Ramachander
[This Stotra is from Halasya Puranam, (i.e. the story of the city of Maduraiin Tamil Nadu) and is a prayer to Sundareswarar (the pretty god) ofMadurai. This is written by Sage Pathanjali. This sage was one of thosefor whom Lord Shiva danced in Chidambaram. Since his feet considered proper for salutation he was called Patanjali. His greatestcontributions are his commentary to Sanskrit Grammar by Panini and hisbook on Yoga called Yoga Sutra.) Suvarna padmini thatantha divya harmya vasine, Suparna vahana priyata soorya koti thejase, Aparnaya viharine phana darendra dharine, Sada namashivaya they sadashivaya shambhave. 1 Forever salutations to the peaceful one, Who blesses us with prosperity and who is ever peaceful, Who resides in the holy building near the tank of golden lotus*, Who is as brilliant as billions of suns, Who is liked by he who rides on a bird, Who lives with Parvati, And who wears the snake on his head. [*The temple pond in the city of Madurai is called the pond of the golden lotus.] Sathunga bhanga jahnuja sudhamsu ganda moulaye, Pathanga pankaja suhruth krupeeta yoni chakshushe, Bhujanga raja kundalaya, punya shali, bhandhave, Sada namashivaya they sadashivaya shambhave. 2 Forever salutations to the peaceful one, Who blesses us with prosperity and who is ever peaceful, Who has on his head the river which fell from the sky [Ganges], And the piece of moon shedding nectar, Who has moon, friend of lotus and fire as eyes, Who wears snakes as ear studs, And who is the friend of all who do good deeds. Chathur mukhanana aravinda veda geetha bhoothaye, Chathurbhujanuja sareera shobha mana murthaye, Chathurvidartha dana sounda thandava swaroopine, Sada namashivaya they sadashivaya shambhave. 3 Forever salutations to the peaceful one, Who blesses us with prosperity and who is ever peaceful, Who is praised by the four Vedas sung by four faces of Brahma, Who shines because of his merger with the sister of the four armed, Who blesses us with just duty, assets, love and salvation, And who has a form of the vigorous male dancer. Saran nisakara prakasa manda hasa manjula, Dhara pravala bhasa mana vakthra mandala sriye, Karasphurath kapalamuktha Vishnu raktha payine, Sada namashivaya they sadashivaya shambhave. 4 Forever salutations to the peaceful one, Who blesses us with prosperity and who is ever peaceful, Who is very pretty like the autumn moon with a smile, Who shines with the luster to his face added by his red lips, Who holds a skull in his one free hand, And who has got the sister of Lord Vishnu. Sahasra pundareeka poojanaika soonya darshanath, Sahasra nethra kalpitharchanachyuthaya bhakthitha, Sahasra bhanu mandala prakasa chakra dhayine, Sada namashivaya they sadashivaya shambhave. 5 Forever salutations to the peaceful one, Who blesses us with prosperity and who is ever peaceful, Who gave the holy wheel with the brilliance of thousand solar systems, To Him who took his own eye to offer to Him, When he found that one flower was less out of thousand lotuses . [When Lord Vishnu was trying to do pooja with Shiva Sahasranama, one flower was missing. He plucked his eye and offered it.] Rasaradhaya ramya pathra bruthradanga panaye, Rasa darendra chapa sinjani krutha nilasine, Swasaradhi kruthabja yoni nunna veda vajine, Sada namashivaya they sadashivaya shambhave. 6 Forever salutations to the peaceful one, Who blesses us with prosperity and who is ever peaceful, Who travels in the pretty chariot of earth, Who uses Lord Vishnu as powerful arrow, Who has a bow made of the Mountain Meru, For which the great snake has been tied as string, Whose chariot is driven by Brahma, With the four holy Vedas as horses. Adhiprakalbha veerabhadra simha nada garjitha, Sruthi prabheetha daksha yaga bhaginaga sadmanaam, Gathi pradhaya garjithakhila prapancha sakshine, Sada namashivaya they sadashivaya shambhave. 7 Forever salutations to the peaceful one, Who blesses us with prosperity and who is ever peaceful, Who gave protection to those who attended the Yaga of Daksha, Whenthey started trembling before efficient Veerabhadra [who was sent byLord Shiva to destroy the fire sacrifice of Daksha] with his lion likeroar, And who was the witness to the billions of the universe who heard the roar Mrukandu soonu rakshana vadhootha danda panaye, Suganda mandalasphurath prabha jithamruthamsave, Akhanda bhoga sampadartha loka bhavithathmane, Sada namashivaya they sadashivaya shambhave. 8 Forever salutations to the peaceful one, Who blesses us with prosperity and who is ever peaceful, Who took the punishing stick to save the son of Mrukandu from dying, Whose pretty neck further shines because of the crescent moon, And who blesses all those who pray for pleasure, wealth and salvation. Madhuripu vidhi shakra mukhya devaii, Api niyamarchitha pada pankajaya, Kanaka giri sarasanaya thubhyam, Rajatha sabha pathaye, namasivaya. 9 Salutations to the ever peaceful God, Whose lotus like feet are worshipped By enemies of Madhu and other devas, Who has the golden mountain as his bow, And who is the lord of the silver hall [Rajatha Sabhai in Madurai Temple]. Halasya nadhaya maheshwaraya, Hala halalankrutha kandharaya, Meenekshanaya padaye shivaya, Namo nama Sundara thandavaya. 10 Salutations and salutations to the handsome dancer, Who is the great god and lord of town of Madurai, Who stopped the poison called halahala in his neck, And who is the lord of the devi with eyes like fish. Ishwara Uvacha:- Thwaya krutham idham sthothram ya padeth bhakthi samyutha, Thasya ayur deergam arogyam sampadascha dadamyaham. God told:- He who reads this prayer composed you with devotion, Will be given long life, health and wealth by me. http://www.celextel.org/stotrasshiva/sadasivashtakam.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard J. Williams" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools >> > Patanjali, the author of the Yoga Sutras, said next >> > to nothing about 'religion' - there was no 'Hinduism' >> > at that time (cica 200 BC). From what I've read, >> > there was 'Brahmanism', 'animism', and the atheist >> > sects, Charvaka, etc. But I've seen no evidence that >> > Patanjali was a teacher in a 'religious tradition'. >> > If he was, he would have said so...duh! >> > > Kirk wrote: >> Not so. Patanjali is also known as a proponent of >> Shaivaism. And he has authored a well known sutra to >> this effect. >> > Patanjali lived around 200 B.C., Kirk, long before the > rise of the sects such as 'Shaivaism' in India. Mircea > Eliade says that "the role of God in man's acquisition > of freedom is of no importance." Thus Patanjali and Vyasa > say almost nothing about religion or God as a means of > obtaining yoga. > > Eliade on the role of Ishvara: > > "Unlike Sankhya, Yoga affirms the existence of a God, > Ishvara. This God is, of course, no creator, the cosmos, > life, and man having, as we have already noted, been > "created" by prakrti, for they all proceed from the > primordial substance. > > But, in the case of certain men, Ishvara can hasten the > process of deliverance; he helps them toward a more > speedy arrival at samadhi. This God, to whom Patatnjali > refers, is more especially a god of yogins. He can come > to the help only of a yogin-that is, a man who has > already chosen Yoga. > > In any case, Ishvara's role is comparatively small. He > can, for example, bring samadhi to the yogin who takes > him as the object of his concentration. According to > Patanjali, this divine aid is not the effect of a > "desire" or a "feeling" - for God can have neither > desires nor emotions - but of a "metaphysical sympathy" > between Ishvara and the purusa, a sympathy explained by > their structural correspondence. > > Ishvara is a purusha that has been free since all > eternity, never touched by the klesas. Commenting on > this text, Vyasa adds that the difference between > Ishvara and a "liberated spirit" is as follows: between > the latter and psychomental experience, there was once > a relation (even though illusory); whereas Ishvara has > always been free. > > God does not submit to being summoned by rituals, or > devotion, or faith in his "mercy"; but his essence > instinctively "collaborates," as it were, with the Self > that seeks emancipation through Yoga. > > What is involved, then, is rather a sympathy, > metaphysical in nature, connecting two kindred entities. > One would say that this sympathy shown by Ishvara > toward certain yogins - that is, toward the few men who > seek their deliverance by means of yogic,techniques - > has exhausted his capacity to interest himself in the > lot of mankind. > > This is why neither Patanjali nor Vyasa succeeds in > giving any precise explanation of God's intervention in > nature. > > It is clear that Ishvara has entered Sankhya-Yoga > dialectics, as it were, from outside. For Sankhya > affirms (and Yoga adopts the affirmation) that Substance > (prakriti), because of its "teleological instinct," > collaborates in the deliverance of man. > > Thus the role of God in man's acquisition of freedom is > of no importance; for the cosmic substance itself > undertakes to deliver the many "selves" (purusa) entangled > in the illusory meshes of existence. > > Although it was Patanjali who introduced this new and > (when all is said and done) perfectly useless element of > Ishvara into the dialectics of the Sankhya soteriological > doctrine, he does not give Ishvara the significance that > late commentators will accord to him. What is of first > importance in the Yoga-sutras is technique" (Eliade 73-74). > > Work Cited: > > "Yoga: Immortality and Freedom" > By Mircea Eliade > Princeton University Press, 1970 > http://tinyurl.com/c38klm > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [email protected] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
