Friday, May 29, 2009

Guruguhaaya - Ragam sama - Thalam - adi



Theppam at Thiruththani


This is the fourth vibhakthi krithi of Dikshithar on Lord Subrahmanya, the presiding deity of the
temple at ThiruttaNi.

Pallavi:=

Guruguhaaya bhakthaanugrahaaya kumaaraaya namo namasthe:=I prostrate again and again Lord Guruguha who readily fulfils the prayers of His devotees and who is famous for His youthful form.

Anupallavi:=

Guruguhaaya bhakthaanugrahaaya gunaatheethaaya ruparahithaaya:= Guruguha the great preceptor who is the benefactor of the devotees has transcended the three gunas,viz. sathva, rajas,and thamas as He is the Paramaathma. He is formless. He is pure consciousness.

Hari hara virinchi rupaaya,Sachidaananda swaroopaaya shivaaya:=He manifests in the forms of Hari, Hara and Brahma. His nature is sat, chit, Aananda. He is ever auspicious.

Charanam:=

Sakala agama manthra saaragnaaya:= He knows the purport of all aagamaas and manthraas.

Sat sampradaaya sarvagnaaya:= He is well versed in the path of righteousness.

Sakala nishkala prakaasakaaya:= He is manifest in the world as many, sentient and insentient and He is the pure consciousness on which the world is superimposed.

Saamarasya sampradaayakaaya:= The union of shakthi tathva with sadaashiva tathva leads to the blissful experince of the samara saadaakya sampradaya which is possible only when the kundalini shakthi reaches sahasraara chakra. Guruguha is the bestower of such experience to the saadhaka.

Madhyama kaala:=

Vikalebhara kaivalya daanaya:= Guruguha is the giver of videha mukthi for the sadakaas or aspirants who have become jeevanmukthaas. As a srividya upasaka Dikshithar experienced this.

Vikalpaheenaya vignaanaaya:= When one realizes the pure consciousness stage all the confusions regarding the world and ego vanish whereas Guruguha's very nature is that.

Shukha vaamadeva vanditha padaaya:=Sage Shukha is known as sukhabrahmam. There is a story extolling the nature of shukha. Once, when he was passing a river wherein young girls were bathing, even though the girls noticed him they never felt shy about his presence. Afterwards when Vyasa Bhagavan was passing by the same river the girls felt shy and searched for their clothes. When enquired by Vyasa the girls said sage shukha perceived the world as brahman and for him every thing was brahman. The unsullied notion of shukha was felt by the girls and they did not feel as though they were in the presence of a male member. Vamadeva,according to skanda purana was directly instructed by Guruguha on the secret of pranava manthra as the Lord was pleased with his sadhana in his search for brahman.

Shukha vamadeva mukthi pradaaya:= Guruguha bestowed mukthi on Shukha and Vamadeva. 


The audio version of the above krithi as rendered by smt.Nithyasri is available in arvindsdad.blogspot.com under dikshithar krithis.


Thursday, May 14, 2009

shri GuruNaa paalithosmi-raga-paadi-rupakam


This is the third vibhakthi krithi composed by dikshithar on Lord Subrahmanya at Thiruttani.
The krithi abounds in various philosophical terms depicting glimpses of Dikshithar's athmanubhava.
Pallavi:=
Shri guruNaa paalithosmi Sacchidaananda naathena:= The word shri has the same meaning as shiva.i.e auspicious.This auspiciousness does not depend on any external factors.It is self- effulgent
and thereby perfect and completely blissful. I am protected by such auspicious Guru who is sacchidaananda naatha. Here Dikshithar refers to Lord Guruguha who has taught Pranava manthra to Lord Shiva and who is the living principle of existence knowledge and bliss.
Anupallavi:=
Aagamaadi sannuthena:= Aagamas are the ritual aspects of the vedas.The one who is praised by the aagamas.
akhila viswa vandithena:= The one propitiated by all the sentient and insentient creatures and animate and inanimate objects.
Thiagaraja vibhaathena:= The one whose resplendence was caused by Thiagaraja.
Thaapa thrayaatheethena:= The one who is beyond thaapa thraya i.e. mental pains caused by
adhyaathmika viz.bodily and mental pains, adibhuthika viz. caused by external factors like men,
beast, reptiles, animate and inanimate objects and adhi dhaivika viz. planetary influence evil spirits etc.
Charanam:=
Vedaanthartha vedyena:= The very aim of vedantha is realisation of brahman.Here the very brahman is Guruguha who symbolises the oneness of the knowledge and the knower.
Vikalpa roga vaidyena:= The confusion in the mind of sadhaka is considered a disease and Guruguha is the doctor who cures the disease.
Naadaamritha supaadhyena:=whose sacred feet are washed by the nector of nada.Mahaanubhaavas like dikshithar compose music by way of melodious krithis on the glories of gods and these songs sung with great devotion provides the nadaamirtha.
Navanaathenaadhyena:=In the beginning through nine energy resources,the world was created.
what are they?
They are sound,air,fire,water, and the composition of all these.They are the cycles of whole creation.In the cycle of creation the steps of the creation are called nava nathaas.The chain of
various elements of the cosmos make up the whole of the universe in the following manner.
The sky is made from sound;the wind is made from sky;the fire is made fromwind;the water is made from fire;and the earth is made from water.
Sadaakhya kala kareNa:=The one who forms the Saadaakhya kala.Dikshithar explains the samaya worship which is a pure internal worship without any external rituals.They believe in realizing four kinds of identities
1) Identifying the six chakraas beginning with Muladhara and the six koNas or angles of Srichakra beginning with trikona.
2)Quadrilateral in which Bindu is located in the Srichakra with the middle of the thousand petalled lotus.
3) Identity between bindu and Shiva.
4) Totality of the Srichakra identifying with fifteen letters of Panchadasaakshari Mantra or
Sri mahatripurasundari standing for her fifteen kalaas.
It is said,that by meditating on these identities the aspirant's mind gets absorbed in Saadaakhya kala.
Sadaashivaavatharena:= The incarnation of ever auspicious parameshwara.
Nadantha vihaareNa:= Nada means sound and antha means essence or inside. Our minds become absorbed in sound and we listen to music of our choice.There are external and internal sounds called in sanskrit as Ahat and Anahat,struck and unstruck sounds.Yogis maintain that the seat of the self is the heart chakra or Anahatha chakra.This is the place from which unstruck sounds originate.During meditation the inner sounds can be heard and this is considered by many as due to the rising of kundalini shakthi.Therefore nadaantha vihaarena is the rising of Anahatha as this is caused by Parameswara who actually plays in bliss in sahasraara after crossing the six chakras from muladhara viz.swadishtana,manipura,anahatha,visuddi,ajna.
Navachakraadhaarena:= Srichakram consists of nine triangles.Five downward triangles known as shakthi chakras and four upward triangles known as shiva chakras.
As per Samayaachaara the centre triangle is drawn upward. These nine chakras indicate the
fundamental basis for the world or universe known as Brahmaanda and the body known as Pindaanda.They are known as the basic elements which comprise of bone marrow ,shukla or semen prana and jiva as shivaamsa and skin,blood, flesh,brain and bone termed as shakthi amsa
It is also said that the Pancha bhuthaas viz.earth,fire,water,air and ether are known as shakthi amsa and maya,shuddha vidya,maheswara and sadashiva are shivaamsa.The substratum for all the above is the pure consciousness and this is attributed to Lord Guruguha.
Paadaambhujena pareNa:=The supreme one with feet like lotus.
Bhedaadi vidaareNa:= The One who removes discrimination.The fact that nothing has ever been created at any time and nothing comes to an end either.The absolute Brahman is manifest in all beings, sentient and insentient. This is the unborn, ever existing supreme peace. Even in every
atom there are worlds within worlds.The moment one renounces the notions of I and the world
he experiences the bliss of infinite consciousness and liberated from births and deaths.
Adi guruguha vareNa:=The guha who is the first Guru the most distinguished one.
Kadi mathaanusaareNa:=The One who followed Kadi matha.The explanation for this is already
given in the krithi "shri naathaadi".
The audio version of this song as rendered by smt.vijayalakshmi is available with
arvindsdad.blogspot.com under Dikshithar krithis.


Saturday, May 9, 2009

Manasa guruguha roopam-rupaka thaalam-aananda bhairavi

This is the second vibhakthi krithi on Lord Muruga composed by dikshithar at tiruthani.
Pallavi:
Maanasa guruguha roopam Bhaja re re := Oh mind, meditate on the form of guruguha and
Maayaa maya hrid thaapam thyaja re re := Cast off the sorrows created by delusion.
The raaga aananda bhairavi is aptly applied to this composition by dikshithar as it always leaves the listener with divine peace eliminating all the agitations from one's mind.
What is the delusion ?
What is seen here as human beings including you me, they,etc. are only apparitions.In reality they do not exist.Nothing has been created.Only the supreme paramaathma exists.The rest are illusions
of forms and names.Leave this.
If this ignorance or sorrow of delusion is not overcome it gives rise to interminable sufferings not only in this birth but also in the countless lifetimes to come.
Anu Pallavi:
Maanava janmani sampraapthe sathi paramaathmani nirathisaya sukham vraja re re :=
Having achieved human birth seek to obtain unsurpassed bliss in Paramaathma and avoid the mundane pleasures.
There is only one way to remove the ignorance i.e the conviction to renounce the cravings for sense pleasures.By doing this mind is cleansed of its agitations.Now it is fit to turn towards Paramaathma. For what purpose?
In order to obtain nirathisaya sukham which is unsurpassed bliss and which is not available
otherwise elsewhere.
Charanam:
Sathva guNopaathi sahitha sadaashivam:= Lord Shiva depicting the everlasting happiness
by His very name Sadaashiva accompanied by sattva guna or saatvic qualities.
Sva avidya sametha jeevodbhavam tathvam thaamasa yutha viswa vaibhavam:=All living things are born out of Him owing to their ignorance.The universe with its thaamasic qualities is again the manifestation of His greatness.
Thought and mind are one and the same.If thoughts are completely removed what is left out is none other than pure consciousness.The thoughts are nothing but the perception of the external world consisting of nama and roopa.In short experience is another name for the mind.
The world is entirely pervaded by pure consciousness including every atom there in.
Supposing we perceive a gold ornament and if we are immediately conscious of the gold in it and realise that the gold and the ornament are one and the same the object and subject become one.
The same rule applies to the perceived world.We realise the presence of pure consciousness
all around and we cease to be affected by love and hate likes and dislikes etc. and an ever lasting
peace dwells in our hearts.
Tharakeswaram Aananda bhairavam:=The one who annihilated Tharakaasura and the Bhairava
the annihilator brimming with eternal bliss.Here dikshithar merges Guruguha and Sadaashiva as one confirming the above philosophy.
Madhyama kaalam:
Nathwa sri guru charanam krthvaa naamasmaranam jithwa mohaavaranam mathwa thvadeka
saranam:=Prostrate at the feet of guru.repeat the bhagavan nama in the mind win over the cravings of the mind and surrender to Him as the only refuge.
This song's audio version available under dikshithar krithis in the blog"arvindsdad.blogspot.com
as rendered beautifully by smt.Bombay Jayashree.