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Contents

Contents iii

Preface vii

Romanized Sanskrit Pronunciation Guide Notes on Romanized Transliteration of Sanskrit . . . . . . . . . . Vowel Pronunciation Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Consonant Pronunciation Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aernotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Invocatory Prayers Auṃ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gaṇeśa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Subrahmaṇya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Śivānanda Gāyatrī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rāmakrṣṇa Gāyatrī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kriyā-nātha Gāyatrī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jñānānanda Gāyatrī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Śāntānanda Gāyatrī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mantra for Śrī Ānandamayī Mā . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Devī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gaṇeśa Gajānanaṃ mahākāyaṃ: Stotram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gaṇeśa mūla mantram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gajānanaṃ mahākāyaṃ: Nāmāvaliḥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Subrahmaṇya Subrahmaṇyaṃ para brahmam: Stotram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Subrahmaṇyaṃ para-brahmam: Nāmāvaliḥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśākṣarī mantra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Verse from Kṛṣṇāṣtakam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dvādaśākṣarī mantra: repeated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Śrī Kṛṣṇa paramānandam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Devī Śrī Lalitā Triśatī: Stotram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nyāsaḥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dhyānam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pañcapūjā . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stotram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sau-bhāgya-pañca-daśākṣarī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kādi-vidyā/pañca-daśākṣarī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hādi-vidyā . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Śrī Lalitā Triśatī: Nāmāvaliḥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sahasrākṣara Vidyā . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Śiva Mahā Mṛtyuñjaya mantra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



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Śiva mantra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gāyatrī Gāyatrī mantra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Guru Śivānanda aṣṭoara śata nāmāvaliḥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Meaning of aṣtoara śata namāvaliḥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Concluding Prayers Brahmārpaṇam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Prāṇāya svāhā . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sarva maṅgala māṅgalye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antar jyotiḥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kṛṣṇāya vāsudevāya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dakṣiṇāmūrti samārambhām . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dakṣiṇāmūrti samārambhām: for Swamiji’s devotees . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sarveṣāṃ svastir bhavatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dyauḥ śāntiḥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tvameva mātā . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kāyena vācā . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



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Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Universal Prayer as modified by Swamiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Preface

Hari OM.Almost years ago, Swamiji asked me to make available the text of the Trisati

in Romanized Sanskrit according to the convention adopted by scholars. is was toensure that Shiva Family members who were unacquainted with Indic languages orscripts could still pronounce the mantras correctly.

I tried then to develop a special “golf-ball” with Olivei typewriter companyto render the diacritical marks for Romanized Sanskrit, but the effort seemed bothgargantuan and prohibitively expensive. e passage of time has now made it pos-sible to fulfil at last my commitment to Swamiji. e availability of laser printers,the establishment of the Unicode standard to encompass all human languages andscripts, and the development of compatible typeseing schemes, has now made the

task pleasurably feasible.In the spirit of “beer late than never” and with the purpose of serving theyounger and yet-to-come generations of Shiva Family, the Trisati and other prayershave been typeset in Romanized Sanskrit with proper diacritical marks, and madeavailable at the Dropbox website as a publicly viewable hyperlinked PDF document.e ebook may be downloaded from:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/89045420/Prayers.pdf

or from the Satsang With Swamiji (SWS) website at:http://satsangwithswamiji.com/learn/Prayers.pdf

Kindly note that as with all orally transmied ancient texts, there are bound tobe accepted variations of the prayers given here. I have tried to adhere to the versionrecited by Swamiji, while maintaining accuracy of meaning, etymology, and spelling.

It is now my blessed privilege to place this book mentally at Swamiji’s feet andconvey to him my deepest gratitude for suggesting it in the first place.

I also wish to acknowledge the following Shiva Family members: Dr R Raja-gopalan, Singapore, for tirelessly egging me on for several decades to commenceand complete this project; Mr and Mrs V K Sreedharan, Singapore, for sharing withme their book of transcribed mantras and puja instructions; Mr Chandra Subrah-manyan, Kuala Lumpur, for requesting a Sanskrit transliteration about a decade ago;

Ms Mallika Jegasothy and Mrs Sharmila Radha Krishnan Prasad, Perth, for impellingme to transliterate the Sahasrakshara Vidya early in the twenty-first century; Mr

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viii PREFACE

Ashok Menon, Kuala Lumpur, for suggesting that audio material should supplementthis book; my son Nandakumar and wife Jayanthi, for their patient help with tran-scription and proofreading; and two Sanskrit scholars, the late Mr N G Nair, and mylate father, Mr M K Ramachandran, both of Kuala Lumpur, for making me aware

of the misprints in several extant versions of books on Trisati published by variouspublishers. To them all, my humble gratitude.

It is a pleasure also to acknowledge my able and enthusiastic collaborator, DrDavinia Balasubramaniam of Perth. She has contributed in more ways than I canhere list, and this document is really the result of our joint efforts.

Please give me feedback on any remaining errors, as well as suggestions for im-proving this document, by sending an email directly to [email protected].

ank you and Hari OM.

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Romanized Sanskrit PronunciationGuide

Notes on Romanized Transliteration of Sanskrit

. Swami Shantanand Saraswati,¹ or Swamiji as he was known to us, taughtthe Sanskrit Prayers in this book as a sādhana or spiritual practice to hisdevotees.

. Although he did not insist on knowledge of Sanskrit phonetics or gram-mar as a pre-requisite for chanting them, Swamiji took pains to ensurethat the prayers were recited correctly. To this end, he personally guided

the recitations at different centres. is book is the result of his wish thatthe prayers should be rendered correctly in Romanized Sanskrit for thebenefit of those who do not read Indic scripts.

. Sanskrit is the ancient liturgical and scholarly language of India. For along period, it was a purely oral tradition. Wrien scripts to representspoken sounds developed much later.

. ere is no single, unique script to represent Sanskrit. e scripts of

each regional language of India can be pressed into service to indicatethe sounds of Sanskrit, although some are beer equipped for this taskthan others.

. Of these regional scripts, Devanāgarī is the one script that is most repre-sentative of wrien Sanskrit.²

. ere are no uppercase leers in Indic scripts, which generally have asingle symbol for a single syllable.

¹is document has active hyperlinks: just click on the coloured text.

²With some additional symbols, and changes in pronunciation, Devanāgarī is also used torepresent Hindi, the most widely spoken language of northern India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantananda_Saraswathi



ROMANIZED SANSKRIT PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

. e English language uses the Latin script for its writing. With fiy-twounique characters, the Latin script has nearly enough symbols to encodeall the sounds of Sanskrit. However, because half of those symbols are

uppercase leers and the remainder lowercase—representing the samesounds—the Latin script by itself cannot be used uniquely or consistentlyto represent Sanskrit.

. Accordingly, there are several schemes for rendering Sanskrit accuratelyusing an augmented Latin script. e result is called Romanized Sanskrit and usually features diacritical marks, or signs placed above or belowleers to indicate differences in pronunciation. Sometimes, two Englishleers are necessary to denote a single Sanskrit character.

. e Romanized Sanskrit transliteration³ in this book follows the conven-tion of the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST). isscheme has enjoyed widespread adoption, both popular and scholarly. Itallows the Sanskrit sounds to be pronounced as perfectly as if the texthad been wrien in Devanāgarī.

. It is worth pointing out that in Sanskrit, unlike English, each leer hasa definite pronunciation that may not be varied except to conform to

specific rules of conjunction, known as sandhi. ese are explained inthe book where relevant.

. Pronunciation tables for Sanskrit vowels and consonants follow, with ex-amples for each sound from both English and Sanskrit. e columns inthese tables are explained below:

Column : shows the Devanāgarī character;

Column : shows the IAST representation;

Column : gives an example of an English word where the approximatesound occurs;

Column : gives and example of a Sanskrit word embodying the samesound; and

Column : shows the symbol for the sound from the International Pho-netic Alphabet (IPA). Please ignore this last column if it doesnot make sense to you.

³When one language is wrien using a script from another language, it is said to be translit-erated.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transliterate

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transliterate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAST



Consonant Pronunciation Table

Vowel Pronunciation Tablefor IAST Romanized Sanskrit Transliteration

Devanāgarī IAST English Sound Sanskrit Sound IPA

अ a a in agree a in aruṇa ə

आ ā a in father ā in mātā ɑ

इ i i in bit i in śiva i

ई ī ee in feet ī in sītā iː

उ u u in put u in umā u

ऊ ū oo in roof ū in pūrṇa uː

ए e a in cage e in gaṇeśa eː ऐ ai i in kite ai in aiśvarya əi or ai

ओ o o in whole o in soma οː

औ au ow in cow au in mauna əu or au

अं ṃ nasal variable ṃ in haṃsa əŋ

अः ḥ unvoiced

aspirate ḥ in duḥkha əh

ऋ ṛ — ṛ in ṛṣi ɻ ̩ ̩ ॠ ṝ — — ɻ ̩ː

ऌ ḷ — — l

ॡ ḹ — — l ̩ː

Consonant Pronunciation Table

for IAST Romanized Sanskrit Transliteration

DevanāgarīSymbol

IAST English Sound Sanskrit Sound IPA

क ् k c in scope k in karma k

ख ् kh k in kite kh in sukha kʰ

ग् g g in game g in gaṅgā g

घ् gh gh in foghorn gh in ghoṣa gʱ ङ ् ṅ ng in king ṅ in gaṅgā ŋ




DevanāgarīSymbol

IAST English Sound Sanskrit Sound IPA

च् c ch in chair c in arcana c

छ ् ch chh in

watchhouse ch in chāyā cʰ

ज् j j in jar j in janma ɟ

झ् jh ge-h in

carriage-house jh in jhaṃkāra ɟʱ

ञ् ñ n in pinch ñ in pañca ɲ

ट ् ṭ t in tennis ṭ in ṣaṣṭi ʈ

ठ ् ṭh t in starch ṭh in pāṭha ʈʰ ड् ḍ d in muddy ḍ in aṇḍa ɖ

ढ ् ḍh dh in

madhouse ḍh in mūḍha ɖʱ

ण ् ṇ — ṇ in rāmāyaṇa ɳ

त् t th in month t in gāyatrī t ̪

थ् th — th in artha t ̪h

द ् d th in those d in daṇta d̪

ध् dh — dh in dharma d̪ʱ न् n n in name n in nava n

प् p p in part p in pūrṇa p

फ ् ph p in pit ph in phalam pʰ

ब् b b in big b in buddhi b

भ् bh bh in abhor bh in bhagavān bʱ

म् m m in metre m in mantra m

य ् y y in you y in yādava j र् r r in roam r in rāmāyaṇa r

ल् l l in light l in lalitā l ̪

व् v v in vase v in sarasvatī ʋ

श् ś s in pasture ś in śāntiḥ ʃ

ष् ṣ sh in shout ṣ in ṣaṇmukha ʂ

स् s s in super s in sat s

ह ् h h in home h in hanumān ɦ



Aernotes

Aernotes⁴

. e visarga character denoted by ḥ represents an abrupt voiceless expul- sion of breath. Strictly speaking, it is different from the voiced consonanth or the ha sound. If you place your hands on your throat, you will feel avibration when pronouncing a voiced sound; this is absent in a voicelesssound. Despite this phonetic nuance, most priests pronounce namaḥ asif it were namaha which it most certainly is not. In ancient times, mantrarecitation incorporated a form of regulated breathing in which the visarga played an important role, along with conjunction or sandhi and metre orchandas . With the mispronunciation of the visarga some of these benefitsof regulated breathing do not now accrue.

. When a visarga is followed by a voiced consonant or vowel, it changesform according to sandhi rules, into an r, o, or other sound. Swamijisometimes used the component form with the original ḥ instead of themodified sound. I have followed him as best I could.

. e anusvāra, denoted as ṃ, is a nasal aer-sound, belonging to the pre-ceding vowel, whose value depends on the succeeding consonant. It usu-ally takes on the sounds of m, ṅ, ñ, n.

. All vowels with a macron or bar on top are lengthened. us a is a shortsound pronounced with the mouth half-open whereas ā is a long soundpronounced with the mouth fully open. Not knowing this fundamentaldifference contributes to most problems of Sanskrit pronunciation.

. e short i and u sounds both have lengthened forms, namely ī and ū respectively.

. e e and o sounds are both long; there is no short version for these

vowels in Sanskrit.. e vowel ṛ is pronounced somewhere between the sounds ri and ru .

. e consonant ṇ is a lile difficult for those who do not speak any Indianlanguage. Listen to Peter Sellers as he parodies Indian English in the filme Party to get an idea. is consonant is described as being retroflex meaning that the tongue is curled back to touch the roof of the mouth whenpronouncing it. If you start with the tongue in that position and try topronounce n you will get the rough sound of ṇ.

⁴You may skip this section if you wish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anusvara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visarga




. Whenever a consonant has a terminal h as, for example, in bh, the soundisan aspirated b sound; not two individual sounds, one a b and another anh. us, bhagavan is pronounced as bha-ga-vān and not as b-ha-ga-vān.

. A set of audio support files has been prepared for those who wish tohear the pronunciation of the various Sanskrit sounds while they view the corresponding Romanized Sanskrit leers. A zip archive of MP audiofiles is available together with the spoken text as a PDF document at:

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A lossless version of the audio files in the FLAC format is also available.Please email me for details.

. Links will be added—as they become available—to audio files of Swamijireciting the various prayers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3

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Invocatory Prayers

Auṃ

OM OM OM

Notes

. It is customary to repeat OM thrice at the beginning and end of periodsof prayer.

. OM is called the praṇava →ever new or the ekākṣara →monosyllable.

. OM = a + u + m. When intoning OM, take care to ensure that the o sound is long as in

home and not short as in bole.

Gaṇeśa

vakra tuṇḍa mahā kāya sūrya koṭi sama prabhaḥnirvighnaṃ kuru me deva sarva kāryeṣu sarvadā

OM śrīṃ gaṃ gaṇapataye namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ gaṇapataye namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ gaṇapataye namaḥ

Meaning

W M

vakra curved, bent, crookedtuṇḍa trunk



INVOCATORY PRAYERS

W M

mahā large, greatkāya body

sūrya sunkoṭi ten million, ⁷ = sama equalprabhaḥ raysnis + vighnam =nirvighnam

nis→without, free from; vighnam→obstacles

kuru do, makeme to me or for me; or of me, i.e., my

deva radiant being, Lordsarva allkāryeṣu in activitiessarvadā at all times, always

O Lord (Ganesha), with curved trunk, large body, and the radiance of ten millionsuns, (please) make free from obstacles all my activities at all times.

Notes

. ese invocatory prayers are mainly dhyāna ślokas or verses for medita-tion. ey are word-pictures to help visualize the deity in the mind. eword-by-word meaning of these verses is given here in order to facilitatethis.

. Be careful to recite kuru →do and not guru →spiritual preceptor.

Subrahmaṇya

ṣaḍānaṇaṃ kuṅkuma-rakta-varṇaṃmahā-matiṃ divya mayūṛa vāhanamrudrasya-sūnuṃ sura-sainya-nāthaṃguhaṃ sadā ’haṃ śaraṇam prapadye

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ śaravaṇa-bhavāya subrahmaṇyom

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ śaravaṇa-bhavāya subrahmaṇyomOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ śaravaṇa-bhavāya subrahmaṇyom



Subrahmaṇya

Meaning

W M

ṣaṭ + ānanam =ṣaḍānanam

ṣaṭ→six; ānanam→faced

kuṅkuma saffron flower, Crocus sativa rakta redvarṇam colourmahā greatmatim minded, (having) knowledgedivya divine

mayūṛa peacockvāhanam vehiclerudrasya of Rudra, Rudra’ssūnum sonsura gods, opposite of asuras or demonssainya of army, senā→armynātham Lord or leaderguham (that) Guha, Subrahmaṇya, hidden, cave

sadā alwaysaham Iśaraṇam refugeprapadye fall down (at the feet o); pāda→foot; compare

with the Greek ποδος→foot

I always take refuge in Guha of six faces, who is of deep red colour like the saffron flower, who is possessed of great knowledge, who has the divine peacock to ride

on, who is the son of Rudra, and who is the leader of the army of gods.

Notes

. Take care to say nātham→Lord and not nādam→sound.

. Sanskrit sandhi rules specify that when a long ā sound meets another a sound, only the long ā remains, i.e., ā + a = ā. is is called prodelisionor avagraha. To avoid ambiguity in meaning, the symbol, ऽ, is used in

Devanāgarī to denote the dropped a sound. In Romanized Sanskrit thissymbol is represented by an apostrophe ’. us, sadā + aham = sadā ’ham.

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INVOCATORY PRAYERS

Guru

gurur-brahmā gurur-viṣṇur-gurur-devo maheśvaraḥguruḥ-sākṣāt paraṃ brahma tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ

Meaning

W M

guruḥ guru, dispeller of darkness: gu→ darkness; ru→ dispellerbrahmā the god Brahmā as Creatorviṣṇuḥ the god Viṣṇu as Preserver,devaḥ shining one, god

maheśvaraḥ maha→great; īśvaraḥ →ruler; the god Śiva as Destroyersākṣāt sa →with; akṣāt →from the eye; visibleparaṃ supremebrahma God; Ultimate Impersonal Realitytasmai to thatśrī respectedgurave to gurunamaḥ obeisance, prostration, genuflection, bowing down

Prostrations to that revered Guru, who is himself the gods Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Maheśvara, and who is verily the visible Supreme Absolute Itself.

Śivānanda Gāyatrī

OM hrīṃ śivānanda haṃsāya vidmaheparama-haṃsāya dhīmahi

tanno haṃsa pracodayāt

Rāmakrṣṇa Gāyatrī

OM hrīṃ rāmakṛṣṇa haṃsāya vidmahe

parama-haṃsāya dhīmahitanno haṃsa pracodayāt



Mantra for Śrī Ānandamayī Mā

Kriyā-nātha Gāyatrī

OM hrīṃ kriyā-nātha haṃsāya vidmaheparama-haṃsāya dhīmahitanno haṃsa pracodayāt

Jñānānanda Gāyatrī

OM hrīṃ jñānānanda haṃsāya vidmaheparama-haṃsāya dhīmahitanno haṃsa pracodayāt

Śāntānanda Gāyatrī

OM hrīṃ śāntānanda haṃsāya vidmaheparama-haṃsāya dhīmahitanno haṃsa pracodayāt

Mantra for Śrī Ānandamayī Mā

OMānanda-rūpe ānande ānanda-mayyai namo-namaḥ

Meaning

Apart from the name of the Guru with whom we are trying to tune in, themantras are all alike. e meanings of the common words are given below.

W M

OM OMhrīṃ hrīṃhaṃsāya to/upon swan (referred to by saint’s name)vidmahe we knowparama-haṃsāya to/upon that supreme swandhīmahi we meditatetanno = tat + naḥ tat→that; naḥ→ourhaṃsa swan

pracodayāt activate, propel, impel, guide, inspire, illuminate



INVOCATORY PRAYERS

OM hrīṃ. We know the Swan [saint’s name]. We meditate on at Supreme Swan. May at Swan guide us.

Notes. e names of the Gurus and the number of times each gāyatrī was recited

by Swamiji varied with centre. Please follow the convention for yourcentre.

. Liberated saints are oen addressed as paramahaṃsa →supreme swan.e swan is a metaphor for many spiritual aributes such as discrim-ination, purity, etc. Swamiji’s song Let us meditate on the Holy Divine Swans explains many points in this regard.

. e mantra for Śrī Ānandamayī Mā was introduced by Swamiji who hadgreat reverence and affection for her.

Devī

OM sarva-maṅgala-māṅgalye śive sarvārtha sadhikeśaraṇye trayambike gauri nārāyaṇi namo’stute

OM duṃ durgāyai namaḥOM duṃ durgāyai namaḥOM duṃ durgāyai namaḥ

Meaning

W M

OM OMsarva allmaṅgala auspiciousmāṅgalye auspiciousnessśive consort of Śiva, the auspicious onesarvārtha sarva→all; artha→goalssadhike succeeding, fulfilling, accomplishingśaraṇye refugetrayambike consort of the ṭhree-eyed Śivagauri resplendent

nārāyaṇi sister of Nārāyaṇa or Viṣṇu



Devī

W M

namaḥ obeisanceastu be

te You

I seek refuge and bow down to that Goddess who is auspicious, who is the very auspiciousness of all that is auspicious, who grants fulfilment of all goals, who is resplendent, who is the sister of Viṣṇu and the consort of Śiva.

Notes

. is is a famous prayer from Chapter , Verse , of the Devī Mahāt-

myam also known as the Caṇḍipāṭ, or the Durgā Saptaśati →Seven Hun- dred Verses on Durgā.

. Devī is here addressed as if She is directly in front of the devotee.

. e sentence namo ’stute = namaḥ + astu + te → prostations be to ee .





Gaṇeśa

Gajānanaṃ mahākāyaṃ: Stotram

gajānanaṃ mahākāyaṃ vighna-rājaṃ vināyakamviśveśaṃ viśva-cakṣuṃ gaṇeśaya namo namaḥ

śiva-śakti-aikya-rūpaya cin-mātraṃ ca sva-bhodhakamvyaktāvyaktaṃ ca vyāpakaṃ gaṇeśaya namo namaḥ

hiraṇya-garbha-saṃbhūtaṃ hemāmbara-cidambaramśvetāmbara-dharaṃ kāntaṃ gaṇeśaya namo namaḥ

nādaṃ nāda-rūpāya nāda-bindu-kalātmakamnādāntaṃ ca bhodāntaṃ gaṇeśaya namo namaḥ

bhūta-śaktiṃ ca bhūtātmā vakra-tuṇḍa mahātmanaḥbuddhi-śaktiṃ ca buddhi-sākṣiṃ ca gaṇeśaya namo namaḥ []

sūkṣṃa-sthūla-tanuṃ devaṃ sva-prakāśaṃ śivaṃ paramnāma-rūpa-varjitaḥ-kāntaṃ gaṇeśaya namo namaḥ

praṇava prāna-rūpāya prāṇināṃ-prāṇam-eva-caadhiṣṭānaṃ-mano-buddhiṃ ca gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

viśva-taijasa-prājñasya akhanda-bodha-sva-rūpakamakāra-ukāra-makārāya gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

jāgrat-svapna-suṣuptīṣu bhāsate-yad-prakāsateturīyaṃ-naṃa-catuthaṃ-tam gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

caturthi-candra-rūpāya sūrya-koṭi-prakāśinesabda-brahma-dehāya gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ []

jyeṣṭa-putraṃ gaurī-putraṃ sat-putraṃ tri-netrakamsatyaṃ-śivaṃ-sundaraṃ kāntaṃ gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ



GAṆEŚA

śuklāmbara-dharaṃ-devaṃ gaṇeśvaram-mahā-bheṣajam

raktābharaṇa-bhūṣitaṃ-taṃ gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

catur-bhujaṃ sānta-vadanaṃ moha-śoka-vināśanamṛddhi-siddhi-sameta śrī gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

naiṣṭika-brahma-cāriṇe nitya-tṛpta-vilāsinebhoga-yoga pari-pūrṇaya gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

mūṣika-vāhana mūlaya modaka-hasta pūrṇāya ca

mukti-pradāya ca mokṣāya gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ []

bhakta-vatsalaṃ bhakti-dāyakaṃ mukti-hetukaṃ prabho-vibhum

śakti-saṃkaraṃ granthi-saṃharaṃ gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

putraṃ-candra-sekharaṃ umā-putraṃ sureśvaramśobhita-praśāntaś-śubhakaraṃ gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

lakāra-hakārāya lambodarāya labhyāya

gaṃ-bījāya gambhīrāya gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

bhava-ṃūlaṃ bhāvādhāraṃ mulādhāraika-tejasammukti-dvāra-kapāṭāya gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

pañca-mukhaṃ pañca-tavaṃ tavātīta mahodaramsṛṣṭī-sthiti-laya-hetukaṃ gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ []

ekadam-anekadaṃ-rūpaṃ eka-dantaṃ maheśvaram

śoka-nāśanam moha-mudgaraṃ gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ

Gaṇeśa mūla mantram

OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ glauṃ gaṃ gaṇapataye

vara-varada sarva-janaṃ me vaśamānaya svāhā

OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ glauṃ gaṃ gaṇapatayevara-varada sarva-janaṃ me vśamānaya svāhā

OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ glauṃ gaṃ gaṇapatayevara-varada sarva-janaṃ me vśamānaya svāhā



Gajānanaṃ mahākāyaṃ: Nāmāvaliḥ


OM śrīṃ gaṃ gajānanāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mahākāyaya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ vighna-rājāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ vināyakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ viśveśāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ viśva-cakṣuṣe namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ śiva-śakti-aikya-rūpaya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ cin-mātre namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ sva-bhodhakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ vyaktāvyaktāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ vyāpakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ hiraṇya-garbha-saṃbhūtāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ hemāmbara-cidambarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ śvetāmbara-dharāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ kāntāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ nādāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ nāda-rūpāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ nāda-bindu-kalātmakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ nādāntāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ bhodāntāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ bhūta-śaktaye namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ bhūtātmane namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ vakra-tuṇḍāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mahātmane namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ buddhi-śaktaye namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ buddhi-sākṣiṇe namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ sūkṣṃa-sthūla-tanave namaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ devāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ sva-prakāśāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ śivāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ parāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ nāma-rūpa-varjitaḥ-kāntāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ praṇavāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ prāna-rūpāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ prāṇināṃ-prāṇāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ mano-buddhy-adhṣṭānāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ viśva-taijasa-prājñāya namaḥ



GAṆEŚA

OM śrīṃ gaṃ akhanda-bodha-sva-rūpakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ akāra-ukāra-makārāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ jāgrat-svapna-suṣupti-prakāśa-bhasate namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ turīyaṃ-naṃa-catuthāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ caturthi-candra-rūpāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ sūrya-koṭi-prakāśine namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ sabda-brahma-dehāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ jyeṣṭa-putrāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ gaurī-putrāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ sat-putrāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ tri-netrakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ śiva-satya-sundara-kāntāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ śuklāmbara-dhara-devāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ gaṇeśvarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mahā-bheṣajāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ raktābharaṇa-bhūṣitāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ catur-bhujāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ sānta-vadanāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ moha-śoka-vināśakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ ṛddhi-siddhi-sametāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ naiṣṭika-brahma-cāriṇe namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ nitya-tṛpta-vilāsine namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ bhoga-yoga pari-pūrṇaya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ mūṣika-vāhanāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mūlaya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ modaka-hastāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ pūrṇāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mukti-pradāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ mokṣāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ bhakta-vatsalāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ bhakti-dāyakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mukti-hetukāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ prabhave namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ vibhave namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ śakti-saṃkarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ granthi-saṃharāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ candra-sekhara-putrāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ umā-putrāya namaḥ




OM śrīṃ gaṃ sureśvarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ śobhitāya śnamaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ praśāntāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ śubhakarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ lakārāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ hakārāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ lambodarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ labhyāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ gaṃ-bījāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ gambhīrāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ bhava-ṃūlāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ bhāvādhārāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mulādhāraika-tejase namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mukti-dvāra-kapāṭāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ pañca-mukhāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ pañca-tavāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ tavātītāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ mahodarāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ sṛṣṭī-sthiti-laya-hetukāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ eka-aneka-rūpāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ eka-dantāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ maheśvarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ śoka-nāśakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ moha-mudgarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ OM namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ gaṃ OM śrīṃ namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ OM śrīṃ hrīṃ namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ glauṃ namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ glauṃ gaṃ namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ glauṃ gaṃ gaṇapataye namaḥOM śrīṃ gaṃ OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ glauṃ gaṃ gaṇapataye vara-varadāyanamaḥ

OM śrīṃ gaṃ OM śrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ glauṃ gaṃ gaṇapataye vara-varada sarva- janaṃ me vaśamānaya svāhā []



GAṆEŚA

Notes

. e prayer beginning with gajānanaṃ mahā-kāyaṃ was directly revealedto Swamiji.

. e words namo namaḥ appear oen in prayer endings. e rules of Sanskrit sandhi or conjunction of two sounds are such that when an ḥ orvisarga sound meets a consonant, it changes to an o or r sound. Alge-braically, namaḥ + namaḥ = namo namaḥ →I bow down (and) I bow down(again).



Subrahmaṇya

Subrahmaṇyaṃ para brahmam: Stotram

subrahmamaṇyaṃ para-brahmamparamākaśaṃ parodbhavamśoma-sekhara-vahni-nayanamguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

mūla-binduṃ maha-bindumṣaḍ-binduṃ bindu-tejasambindu-traya mahā-deham

guha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

akṣaraṃ parmākṣaraṃ cacarācaraṃ ca kṣarākṣaramṣaḍākṣaraṃ śaravaṇabhavamguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

guhyāti-guhyaṃ devaṃdeva-senā-patiṃ guham

valli deva-senā-patiṃ caguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

kārtikeyaṃ gāṅgeyamgauri-putram ca su-kumāramajātaṃ ca sva-jātaṃ cāguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ []

premeśaṃ prema-sāgāram

jñānārnavaṃ jñaneśvaramanādyantaṃ mahādbhutam



SUBRAHMAṆYA


sūra-padmādi saṃhāram

sura-sainya-su-nāyakamdvendrādi-pūjitaṃ kāntamguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

paśa-traya chedanaṃ śobhanampāpa-sokādi nāśanambhakta-hṛt-tāpa-taskaramguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

aruṇam aruṇa-girīśamaruṇagiri saṃ-sevitamaruṇā-karuṇā-nilayamguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

ṣaṇmukhaṃ bahir-mukham caekor-mukham ca su-mukhamūrdhvā-mukham mahā-śūnyamguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ []

tava-pañcādi-rūpāyapreraṇaṃ mayūra-vāhanamkukkuṭa-dvajāya kālāyaguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

śakti-traya-rūpāya śāntāyaugrāya ca bhadrāya ca

medhāya svāmi-nāthayaguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

daṇḍa-pāṇiṃ mahā-yogimdhyāna-jyotiṃ ca hṛḍ-jyotimdhyānantar-jyotim jyotir-jyotimguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

ṣaḍ-koṇaṃ ṣaḍādhāram

adhārānta guhālayammahālayaṃ mahā-pīṭhaṃ ca



Subrahmaṇyaṃ para-brahmam: Nāmāvaliḥ


nāda-bindu-kaleśvaraṃ ca

kalātīta maheśvaraṃyogajaṃ yoga-sambhūtaṃ caguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ []

rūpārūpaṃ ca arūpaṃ casva-rūpaṃ ca sva-sthitamparaṃ aparaṃ parātparaṃguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ

sarva-mantra-mayaṃ devamsarva-yantra sva-rūpakamsarva-vidyā-mayaṃ śivamguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ []

guha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ itiguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ itiguha skandaṃ namo ṇamaḥ iti


OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ subrahmaṇyāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ para-brahmaṇe namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ param-ākāśaya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ parodbhavāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ soma-śekhara-vahni-nayanāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ mūla-bindave namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ maha-bindave namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ṣaḍ-bindave namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ bindu-tejase namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ bindu-traya-mahā-dehāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ akṣarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ paramākṣarāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ carācarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ kṣarākṣarāya namaḥ



SUBRAHMAṆYA

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ṣaḍākṣarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ śaravaṇabhavāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guhyāti-guhyāya namaḥ []OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ devāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ deva-senā-pataye namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guhāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ valli deva-senā-pataye namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ kārtikeyāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ gāṅgeyāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ gauri-putrāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ su-kumārāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ajātāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ sva-jātāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ premeśāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ prema-sāgārāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ jñānārnavāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ jñaneśvarāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ anādyantāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ mahādbhutāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ sūra-padmādi saṃhārāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ sura-sainya-su-nāyakāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ dvendrādi-pūjitāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ kāntāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ paśa-traya chedanāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ śobhanāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ pāpa-sokādi nāśanāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ bhakta-hṛt-tāpa-taskarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ aruṇāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ aruṇa-girīśāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ aruṇagiri saṃ-sevitāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ aruṇā-karuṇā-nilayāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥ




OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ṣaṇmukhāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ bahir-mukhāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ekor-mukhāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ su-mukhāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ūrdhvā-mukhāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ mahā-śūnyāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha-skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ tava-pañcādi-rūpāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ preraṇāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ mayūra-vāhanāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ kukkuṭa-dvajāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ kālāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ śakti-traya-rūpāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ śāntāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ugrāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ bhadrāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ medhāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ svāmi-nāthaya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha skandāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ daṇḍa-pāṇaye namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ mahā-yogine namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ dhyāna-jyotiṣe namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ hṛḍ-jyotiṣe namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ dhyānantar-jyotiṣe namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ jyotir-jyotiṣe namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ṣaḍ-koṇāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ ṣaḍādhārāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ adhārāntāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guhālayāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ mahālayāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ mahā-pīṭhāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ nāda-bindu-kaleśvarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ kalātītāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ maheśvarāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ yogajāya namaḥ



SUBRAHMAṆYA

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ yoga-sambhūtātya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ rūpārūpāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ arūpāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ sva-rūpāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ sva-sthitāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ parāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ aparāya namaḥ []

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ parātparāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ sarva-mantra-maya-devāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ sarva-yantra sva-rūpakāya namaḥ

OM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ sarva-vidyā-mayāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ śivāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha skandāya namaḥOM śrīṃ sauṃ śaṃ guha skandāya namaḥ []

Notes

. is prayer, beginning subrahmaṇyaṃ para-brahmam, was directly re-vealed to Swamiji.



Kṛṣṇa

Dvādaśākṣarī mantra

OM namo bhagavate vāsudevāyaOM namo bhagavate vāsudevāyaOM namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

Verse from Kṛṣṇāṣtakam

vasudeva sutaṃ devaṃ kaṃsa cāṇūra mardanamdevakī paramānandaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ vande jagad-gurum

Dvādaśākṣarī mantra: repeated


Śrī Kṛṣṇa paramānandam

śrī kṛṣṇa paramānandamsubha śrī-dharaṃ sukumāramānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


prem-ātmānam prem-ādharam



KṚṢṆA

prema-mayaṃ su-dehaṃ devamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


devaṃ devakī-nandanaṃ sunandanampremāmbuja-nandanaṃ śubha-nandanamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


saundaryaṃ sundaraṃ sva-kāntamsrī-kāntaṃ su-śobha-vigrahamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


caitanyaṃ cin-mayaṃ śāntamādi-mūlaṃ hari-nārāyaṇamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


madhuraṃ mādhuryaṃ mādhavammadana-mano-hara-madālasa-vigrahamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham

OM namo bhagavate vāsudevāya



Śrī Kṛṣṇa paramānandam

OM namo bhagavate vāsudevāyaOM namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

svetāmbara-para-brahma-sva-rūpamnīlāmbara-dharaṃ śyāmalaṃ komalamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


rādhikā-manoramaṃ mohanaṃ-jagan-mohanamrāsa-līlāmṛta sarovaraṃ-pūraṇamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


mukhāmbujaṃ padāmbhujaṃ śrīkara-karāmbujamkalāmṛtaṃ parāmṛtaṃ klīṃ-kāma-bījāmṛtamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


yogendraṃ bhava-bhogendrampara-bodhendraṃ jaya jagad-gurumānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


acyutaṃ anantaṃ aprameyam



KṚṢṆA

adbhutaṃ sva-sthitaṃ sva-prakāśamānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandamśrī govindaṃ namāmyaham


namo bhagavate ramā-kāntāyanamo bhagavate rādhā vallabhāyaname bhagavate jagan-nāthāyanamo bhagavate vāsudevāya


Notes

. e mantra OM namo bhagavate vāsudevāya is a famous Kṛṣṇa mantracalled the dvādaśākṣarī →twelve-syllabled mantra.

. e first verse aer that mantra, beginning vasudeva sutaṃ devaṃ comesfrom the Kṛṣṇāṣtakam→eight-verses on Krishna.

. e verses beginning with śrī kṛṣṇa paramānandam where each verseends with ānandaṃ taṃ saccidānandaṃ śrī govindaṃ namāmyaham weredirectly revealed to Swamiji. Each verse is interspersed with the dvā- daśākṣarī mantra.



Devī

Śrī Lalitā Triśatī: Stotram

Nyāsaḥ

asya śrī-lalitā-triśatī stotra mahā-mantrasyabhagavān hayagrīva ṛṣiḥanuṣṭup-chandaḥ,śrī-lalitā-mahā-tripura-sundarī devatāaiṃ bījaṃsauḥ śaktiḥklīṃ kīlakaṃśrī-lalitā-mahā-tripura-sundarī prasāda siddhyarthe jape viniyogaḥaiṃ aṅguṣṭhābhyāṃ namaḥklīṃ tarjanībhyāṃ namaḥsauḥ madhyamābhyāṃ namaḥaiṃ anāmikābhyāṃ namaḥklīṃ kaniṣṭhikābhyāṃ namaḥsauḥ kara-tala-kara-pṛṣṭhābhyāṃ namaḥaiṃ hṛdayāya namaḥ

klīm śirase svāhāsauḥ śikhāyai vaṣaṭaiṃ kavacāya huṃklīṃ netra-trayāya vauṣaṭsauḥ astrāya phaṭOM bhūr-bhuvas-suvar-om-iti dig-bandhaḥ

Dhyānam

ati-madhura-cāpa-hastāṃ-aparimitā moda-bāṇa-saubhāgyāmaruṇām-atiśaya-karuṇām-abhinava-kula-sundarīṃ vande



DEVĪ

Pañcapūjā

laṃ pṛthivyātmikāyai gandhaṃ samarpayāmihaṃ ākāśātmikāyai puṣpaiḥ pūjayāmi

yaṃ vāyvātmikāyai dhūpam-āghrāpayāmiraṃ agnyātmikāyai dīpaṃ darśayāmivaṃ amṛtātmikāyai amṛtaṃ mahā-naivedyaṃ nivedayāmisaṃ sarvātmikāyai sarvopacāra-pūjāṃ samrpayāmi

Stotram

kakāra-rūpā kalyāṇi kalyāṇa-guṇa-śālinīkalyāṇa-śaila-nilayā kamanīyā kalāvatī

kamalākṣī kalmaṣaghnī karuṇāmṛta-sāgarākadamba-kānanā-vāsā kadamba-kusuma-priyākandarpa-vidyā kandarpa-janakā-pāṅga-vīkṣanākarpūra-vīṭī-saurabhya-kallolita-kakuptaṭākali-doṣa-harā kañja-locanā kamra-vigrahākarmādi-sākṣiṇī kārayitrī karma-phala-pradā []

ekāra-rūpā ca ekākṣary-ekānekākṣarā-kṛtiḥetad-tadity-anirdesyā ca ekānanda-cidākṛtiḥeva-mity-āgāmā-bodhyā ca eka-bhakti-madarcitāekāgra-cia-nirdhyātā ca eṣaṇā-rahitādṛtāelā-sugandhi-cikurā ca enaḥ-kūṭa-vināśinīeka-bhoghā ca eka-rasā ca ekaiśvarya-pradāyinīekāta-patra-sāmrājya-pradā ca ekānta-pūjitāedhamāna-prabhā ca ejad-anejaj-jagad-īśvarīeka-vīrādi-saṃsevyā ca eka-prābhava-śālinī []

īkāra-rūpā ca īśitrī ca īpsitārtha-pradāyinīīdṛg-ity-avinirdeśyā ca īśvaratva-vidhāyinīīśānādi-brahmamayī ca īśitvādy-aṣta-siddhidāīkṣitrī īkṣaṇa-sṛṣṭāṇḍa-koṭir īśvara-vallabhāīditā ca īśvar-ārdhāṅga-sarīrā īśādhi-devatāīśvara-preraṇa-karī ca īśa-tāṇḍava-sākṣiṇīīśvarotsanga-nilayā ca ītībādā-vināśinīīhā-virahitā ca iśa-saktir īṣat-smitānanā []

lakāra-rūpā lalitā lakṣmī-vāṇī-niṣevitālākinī lalanā-rūpā lasad-dāḍima-pāṭalā



Śrī Lalitā Triśatī: Stotram

lalantikā lasatphālā lalāṭa-nayan-ārcitālakṣaṇojjvala-divyāṅgī lakṣa-koty-aṇḍa-nāyikālakṣyārthā lakṣaṇāgamyā labdha-kāmā latātanuḥ

lalāma-rāja-dalikā lambimuktā latāñcitālambodara-prasūr-labhyā lajjāḍhyā laya-varjitā []

hrīṃ-kāra-rūpā hrīṃ-kāra-nilayā hrīṃ-pada-priyāhriṃ-kāra-bījā hrīṃ-kāra-mantrā hrīṃ-kāra-ḷaksaṇāhriṃ-kāra-japa-suprītā hrīṃ-matī hrīṃ-vibhūṣaṇāhrīṃ-śīlā hrīṃ-padārādhyā hrīṃ-garbhā hrīṃ-padābhidāhrīṃ-kāra-vācyā hrīṃ-kārā-pūjyā hrīṃ-kāra-pīṭhikāhrīṃ-kāra-vedyā hrīṃ-kāra-cintyā hrīṃ hrīṃ-śaririṇī []

hakāra-rūpā haladhṛt-pūjitā hariṇekṣaṇāhara-priyā harārādhyā hari-brahmendra-vanditāhayāruḍhā-sevitāṅghriḥ haya-medha-samarcitāharyakṣa-vāhanā haṃsa-vāhanā hata-dānavāhatyādi-pāpa-śamanī haridaśvādi-sevitāhasti-kumbhouṅga-kucā hasti-kṛi-priyāṅganāharidrā-kuṃkumā-digdhā haryaśvady-amarārcitāhari-keśa-sakhī hādi-vidyā hālā-madālasā []

sakāra-rūpā sarvajñā sarveśī sarva-maṅgalāsarva-kartrīr sarva-bhartrīr sarva-hantrīr sanātanāsarvānavadyā sarvāṅga-sundarī sarva-sākṣiṇīsarvātmikā sarva-saukhya-dātrī sarva-vimohinīsarvādhārā sarva-gatā sarvāva-guṇa-varjitāsarvārunā sarva-mātā sarva-bhuṣaṇa-bhūṣitā []

kakārārthā kāla-hantrī kāmeśī kāmitārtha-dākāma-sañjīvinī kalyā kaṭhina-sthana-maṇḍalākara-bhoruḥ kalā-nātha-mukhī kaca-jitāmbudākatākṣasyandi-karunā kapāli-prāṇa-nāyikākāruṇya-vigrahā kāntā kānti-dhūta-japāvaliḥkalā-lāpā kambhu-kaṇṭhī kara-nirjita-pallavākalpa-vallī-sama-bhujā kastūrī-tilakāñcitā []

hakārārthā haṃsagatir hāṭakābhraṇojjvalā

hāra-hārī-kucā-bhogā hākinī halya-varjitāharit-pati-samārādhyā haṭhātkāra-hatāsurā



DEVĪ

harṣa-pradā havir-bhoktrī hārda-santama-sāpahāhallīsa-lāsya-santuṣṭā haṃsa-mantrārtha-rūpiṇīhānopādāna-nirmuktā harṣiṇī hari-sodarī

hāhā-hūhū-mukha-stutyā hāni-vṛddhi-vivarjitāhayyaṅgavīna-hṛdayā hari-gopāruṇāṃśukā []

lakārākhyā latā-pūjyā laya-sthit-yudbhaveśvarīlāsya-darśana-santuṣṭā lābhālābha-vivarjitālaṅghyetarājñā lāvaṇya-śālinī laghu-siddhi-dālākṣārasa-savarṇābhā lakṣmaṇāgraja-pūjitālabhyetarā labdha-bhakti-sulabhā lāṅgalāyudhālagna-cāmara-hasta-śrī-sāradā-pari-vījitā

lajjāpada-samāradhyā lampaṭā lakuleśvarīlabdha-mānā labdha-rasā labdha-sampat-samunnatiḥ []

hrīṃ-kāriṇī hrīṃ-kārādir hrīṃ-madhyā hrīṃ-śikhā-maṇiḥhrīṃkāra-kuṇḍāgni-śikhā hrīṃkāra-śaśi-candrikāhrīṃkāra-bhāskara-rucir hrīṃkārāmbhoda-cañcalāhrīṃkāra-kandāṅkurikā hrīṃkāraika-parāyaṇāhrīṃkāra-dīrghikā-haṃsī hrīṃkārodyāna-kekinīhrīṃkārāraṇya-hariṇī hrīṃkārāvāla-vallarī

hrīṃkāra-pañjara-śukī hrīṃkārāṅgaṇa-dīpikāhrīṃkāra-kandarā-siṃhī hrīṃkārāmbhoja-bhṛṅgikāhrīṃkāra-sumano-mādhvī hrīṃkāra-taru-mañjarī []

sakārākhyā samarasā sakalāgama-saṃstutāsarva-vedānta-tātparya-bhumiḥ sad-asad-āśrayāsakalā saccidānandā sādhyā sad-gati-dāyinīsankādi-muni-dhyeyā sadāśiva-kuṭumbinī

sakalādhiṣṭana-rūpā satyarūpā samākṛtiḥsarva-prapañca-nirmātrī samānādhika-varjitāsarvouṅgā saṃgahīnā saguṇā sakaleṣṭadā []

kakāriṇī kāvya-lolā kāmeśvara-manoharākāmeśvara-prāṇa-nāḍī kāmeśotsaṃga-vāsinīkāmeśvar-āliṅgitāṅgī kāmeśvara-sukha-pradākāmeśvara-praṇayinī kāmeśvara-vilāsinīkāmeśvara-tapaḥsiddhiḥ kāmeśvara-manaḥ-priyā

kāmeśvara-prāṇa-nāthā kāmeśvara-vimohinīkāmeśvara-brahma-vidyā kāmeśvara-gṛheśvarī



Sau-bhāgya-pañca-daśākṣarī

kāmeśvar-āhlāda-karī kāmeśvara-maheśvarī

kāmeśvarī kāma-koṭi-nilayā kāṅkṣitārtha-dā []

lakāriṇī labdha-rūpā labdhadhīr labdha-vāñchitālabdha-pāpa-mano-dūrā labdhāhaṃkāra-durgamālabdha-śaktir labdha-dehā labdhaiśvarya-samunnatiḥ

labdha-vṛddhir labdha-līlā labdha-yauvana-śālinī

labdhātiśaya-sarvāṅga-saundaryā labdha-vibhramā

labdha-rāgā labdha-patir labdha-nānāgama-sthitiḥlabdha-bhogā labdha-sukhā labdha-harṣābhi-pūritā []

hrīṃ-kāra-mūrtir hrīṃ-kāra-saudha-śṛṅga-kapotikā

hrīṃ-kāra-dugdhābdhi-sudhā hrīṃ-kāra-kamalendirā

hrīṃ-kāra-maṇi-dīpārcir hrīṃ-kāra-taru-śārikāhrīṃ-kāra-peṭaka-maṇir hrīṃkār-ādarśa-bimbitā

hrīṃ-kāra-kośāsilatā hrīṃkār-āsthāna-nartakī

hrīṃ-kāra-śuktikā-muktā-maṇir hrīṃ-kāra-bodhitā

hrīṃ-kāra-maya-sauvarṇa-stambha-vidruma-putrikā

hrīṃ-kāra-vedopaniṣad hrīṃkārādhvara-dakṣiṇāhrīṃ-kāra-nadanārāma-nava-kalpaka-vallarī

hrīṃ-kāra-himavad-gaṅgā hrīṃkārārṇava-kaustubhāhrīṃ-kāra-mantra-sārvasvā hrīṃ-kāra-para-saukhya-dā []

Sau-bhāgya-pañca-daśākṣarī

āuṃ aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ

aiṃ ka e ī la hrīṃklīṃ ha sa ka ha la hrīṃsauḥ sa ka la hrīṃ

Kādi-vidyā/pañca-daśākṣarī

ka e ī la hrīṃ

ha sa ka ha la hrīṃsa ka la hrīṃ



DEVĪ

Hādi-vidyā

ha sa ka la hrīṃha sa ka ha la hrīṃsa ka la hrīṃ

Notes

. e word triśatī →three hundred and, in this prayer, we have the threehundred names by which the Divine Mother is described, adored, andworshipped. e numbering used is by name rather than verse.

. Swamiji explained that this is a unique prayer in which the fieen-leered

pañcadaśākṣarī mantra is hidden like an acrostic. Every twenty names of Devī start with one leer of the pañcadaśākṣarī. e fieen groups of twenty names give rise to the three hundred names.

. Swamiji also explained that this mantra was revealed by God, in the formof Hayagrīva, to the Maharṣi Agastya at the laer’s request. It has thepower to fulfil all desires and is hence called sarva-pūrti-karaṃ-stavam.

. e words have been hyphenated to make reading easier, but on occa-

sion, the hyphenation may be construed to be either grammatically orsemantically incorrect. Please excuse this.

. At some centres, Swamiji taught the prayer without the leer ca espe-cially in the second set of twenty names. In other centres ca was included,but with a subtle difference. e algebra of Sanskrit sandhi means, forexample, that ca + ekarasā = caikarasā . Swamiji always recited it accord-ing to the le hand side rather than the right, as is customarily done.I have adopted Swamiji’s component-wise recitation for transliteratingthe mantras here. For the curious, the word ca is the conjunction and inSanskrit and appears mainly for metrical reasons.

Śrī Lalitā Triśatī: Nāmāvaliḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kakāra-rūpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalyāṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalyāṇa-guṇa-śālinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalyāṇa-śaila-nilayāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kamanīyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalāvatyai namaḥ




OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kamalākṣyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalmaṣaghnyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ karuṇāmṛta-sāgarāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kadamba-kānanā-vāsāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kadamba-kusuma-priyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kandarpa-vidyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kandarpa-janakā-pāṅga-vīkṣanāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ karpūra-vīṭī-saurabhya-kallolita-kakuptaṭāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kali-doṣa-harāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kañja-locanāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kamra-vigrahāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ karmādi-sākṣiṇyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kārayitryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ karma-phala-pradāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ekāra-rūpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ekākṣaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ekānekākṣarā-kṛtyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ etad-tadity-anirdesyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ekānanda-cidākṛtyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ eva-mity-āgāmā-bodhyāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ eka-bhakti-madarcitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ekāgra-cia-nirdhyātāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ eṣaṇā-rahitādṛtāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ elā-sugandhi-cikurāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ enaḥ-kūṭa-vināśinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ eka-bhoghāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ eka-rasāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ekaiśvarya-pradāyinyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ekāta-patra-sāmrājya-pradāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ekānta-pūjitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ edhamāna-prabhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ejad-anejaj-jagad-īśvaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ eka-vīrādi-saṃsevyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ eka-prābhava-śālinyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īkāra-rūpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśitryai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īpsitārtha-pradāyinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īdṛg-ity-avinirdeśyāyai namaḥ



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OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśvaratva-vidhāyinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśānādi-brahmamayyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśitvādy-aṣta-siddhidāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īkṣitryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īkṣaṇa-sṛṣṭāṇḍa-koṭyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśvara-vallabhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īditāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśvar-ārdhāṅga-sarīrāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśādhi-devatāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśvara-preraṇa-karyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśa-tāṇḍava-sākṣiṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īśvarotsanga-nilayāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ ītībādā-vināśinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īhā-virahitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ iśa-saktyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ īṣat-smitānanāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakāra-rūpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lalitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakṣmī-vāṇī-niṣevitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lākinyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lalanā-rūpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lasad-dāḍima-pāṭalāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lalantikā-lasatphālāyainamaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lalāṭa-nayan-ārcitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakṣaṇojjvala-divyāṅgyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakṣa-koty-aṇḍa-nāyikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakṣyārthāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakṣaṇāgamyāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-kāmāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ latātanave namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lalāma-rāja-dalikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lambimuktā-latāñcitāyainamaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lambodara-prasuve namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lajjāḍhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ laya-varjitāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-rūpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-nilayāyai namaḥ




OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-pada-priyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hriṃ-kāra-bījāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-mantrāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-ḷaksaṇāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hriṃ-kāra-japa-suprītāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-matyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-vibhūṣaṇāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-śīlyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-padārādhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-garbhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-padābhidāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-vācyāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kārā-pūjyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-pīṭhikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-vedyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-cintyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-śaririṇyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hakāra-rūpāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haladhṛt-pūjitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hariṇekṣaṇāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hara-priyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ harārādhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hari-brahmendra-vanditāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hayāruḍhā-sevitāṅghryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haya-medha-samarcitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haryakṣa-vāhanāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haṃsa-vāhanāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hata-dānavāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hatyādi-pāpa-śamanyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haridaśvādi-sevitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hasti-kumbhouṅga-kucāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hasti-kṛi-priyāṅganāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haridrā-kuṃkumā-digdhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haryaśvady-amarārcitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hari-keśa-sakhyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hādi-vidyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hālā-madālasāyai namaḥ []



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OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sakāra-rūpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarvajñāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarveśyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-maṅgalāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-kartryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-bhartryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-hantryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sanātanyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarvānavadyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarvāṅga-sundaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-sākṣiṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarvātmikāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-saukhya-dātryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-vimohinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarvādhārāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-gatāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarvāva-guṇa-varjitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarvārunāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-mātre namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-bhuṣaṇa-bhūṣitāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kakārārthāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāla-hantryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmitārtha-dāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāma-sañjīvinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kaṭhina-sthana-maṇḍalāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kara-bhorave namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalā-nātha-mukhyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kaca-jitāmbudāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ katākṣasyandi-karunāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kapāli-prāṇa-nāyikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāruṇya-vigrahāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāntāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kānti-dhūta-japāvalyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalā-lāpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kambhu-kaṇṭhyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kara-nirjita-pallavāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kalpa-vallī-sama-bhujāyai namaḥ




OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kastūrī-tilakāñcitāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hakārārthāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haṃsagatyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hāṭakābhraṇojjvalāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hāra-hārī-kucā-bhogāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hākinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ halya-varjitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ harit-pati-samārādhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haṭhātkāra-hatāsurāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ harṣa-pradāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ havir-bhoktryai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hārda-santama-sāpahāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hallīsa-lāsya-santuṣṭāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ haṃsa-mantrārtha-rūpiṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hānopādāna-nirmuktāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ harṣiṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hari-sodaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hāhā-hūhū-mukha-stutyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hāni-vṛddhi-vivarjitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hayyaṅgavīna-hṛdayāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hari-gopāruṇāṃśukāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakārākhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ latā-pūjyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ laya-sthit-yudbhaveśvaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lāsya-darśana-santuṣṭāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lābhālābha-vivarjitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ laṅghyetarājñāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lāvaṇya-śālinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ laghu-siddhi-dāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lākṣārasa-savarṇābhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakṣmaṇāgraja-pūjitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labhyetarāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-bhakti-sulabhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lāṅgalāyudhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lagna-cāmara-hasta-śrī-sāradā-pari-vījitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lajjāpada-samāradhyāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lampaṭāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakuleśvaryai namaḥ



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OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-mānāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-rasāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-sampat-samunnatyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāriṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kārādyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-madhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-śikhā-maṇaye namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-kuṇḍāgni-śikhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-śaśi-candrikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-bhāskara-rucaye namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkārāmbhoda-cañcalāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-kandāṅkurikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāraika-parāyaṇāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-dīrghikā-haṃsyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkārodyāna-kekinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkārāraṇya-hariṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkārāvāla-vallaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-pañjara-śukyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkārāṅgaṇa-dīpikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-kandarā-siṃhyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkārāmbhoja-bhṛṅgikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-sumano-mādhvyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkāra-taru-mañjaryai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sakārākhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ samarasāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sakalāgama-saṃstutāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-vedānta-tātparya-bhumyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sad-asad-āśrayāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sakalāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ saccidānandāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sādhyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sad-gati-dāyinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sankādi-muni-dhyeyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sadāśiva-kuṭumbinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sakalādhiṣṭana-rūpāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ satyarūpāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ samākṛtyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarva-prapañca-nirmātryai namaḥ




OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ samānādhika-varjitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sarvouṅgāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ saṃgahīnāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ saguṇāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ sakaleṣṭadāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kakāriṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāvya-lolāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-manoharāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-prāṇa-nāḍyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśotsaṃga-vāsinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvar-āliṅgitāṅgyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-sukha-pradāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-praṇayinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-vilāsinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-tapaḥsiddhyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-manaḥ-priyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-prāṇa-nāthāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-vimohinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-brahma-vidyāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-gṛheśvaryai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvar-āhlāda-karyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvara-maheśvaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāmeśvaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāma-koṭi-nilayāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ kāṅkṣitārtha-dāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ lakāriṇyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-rūpāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdhadhiye namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-vāñchitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-pāpa-mano-dūrāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdhāhaṃkāra-durgamāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-śaktya namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-dehāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdhaiśvarya-samunnatya namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-vṛddhaye namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-līlāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-yauvana-śālinyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdhātiśaya-sarvāṅga-saundaryāyai namaḥ



DEVĪ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-vibhramāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-rāgāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-patyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-nānāgama-sthityai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-bhogāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-sukhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ labdha-harṣābhi-pūritāyai namaḥ []

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-mūrtaye namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-saudha-śṛṅga-kapotikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-dugdhābdhi-sudhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-kamalendirāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-maṇi-dīpārciṣe namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-taru-śārikāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-peṭaka-maṇaye namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkār-ādarśa-bimbitāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-kośāsilatāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkār-āsthāna-nartakyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-śuktikā-muktā-maṇaye namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-bodhitāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-maya-sauvarṇa-stambha-vidruma-putrikāyainamaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-vedopaniṣade namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkārādhvara-dakṣiṇāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-nadanārāma-nava-kalpaka-vallaryai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-himavad-gaṅgāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃkārārṇava-kaustubhāyai namaḥOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-mantra-sārvasvāyai namaḥ

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ hrīṃ-kāra-para-saukhya-dāyai namaḥ []

Notes

. Note that most, but not all, names end with yai. Please use the correctcase endings always.

. Swamiji explained the meanings for these names of Devī at different cen-tres at different times. Accordingly, the translations are not given here,

but where possible, links will be given to audio files with the explanationsin his own voice.




. e Navāvaraṇa Pūjā is a strictly oral instruction from Swamiji. Hence,that prayer is not included here.



DEVĪ

Sahasrākṣara Vidyā

OM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ aiṃ klīṃ sauḥOM namas-tripura-sundarihṛdaya-devi śiro-devi śikā-devi kavaca-devi netra-devi astra-devi

kāmeśvari bhagamālini nitya-klinne bheruṇḍe vahni-vāsinimahā-vajreśvari śiva-dūti tvarite kula-sundari nitye nīla-patāke vijayesarva-maṅgale jvālā-mālini citre mahā-nitye parameśvara-parameśvari

mitreśa-mayi ṣaṣṭīśa-mayi oḍyāṇa-mayi caryā-nātha-mayilopā-mudra-mayi ānanda-mayi śivānanda-mayi agastya-mayikāla-tāpana-mayi dharm-ācārya-mayi mukta-keśīśvara-mayidīpa-kalā-nātha-mayi viṣṇu-deva-mayi prabhākara-deva-mayitejo-deva-mayi manoja-deva-mayi

aṇimā-siddhe laghimā-siddhe mahimā-siddhe īśitva-siddhevaśitva-siddhe prākāmya-siddhe bhukti-siddhe icchā-siddheprāpti-siddhe sarva-kāma-siddhe

brāhmi māheśvari kaumāri vaiṣṇavi vārāhi māhendri cāmuṇḍe mahā-lakṣmi

sarva-saṅ-kṣobhiṇi sarva-vidrāviṇi sarv-ākarṣiṇisarva-vaśaṅkari sarv-onmādini sarva-mahāṅkuśe sarva-khecarisarva-bīje sarva-yone sarva-trikhaṇḍe prakaṭa-yoginibauddha-darśan-āṅgi trai-lokya-mohana-cakra-svamini

kām-ākarṣiṇi buddhy-ākarṣiṇi ahankār-ākarṣiṇi śabd-ākarṣiṇisparś-ākarṣiṇi rūp-ākarṣiṇi ras-ākarṣiṇi gandh-ākarṣiṇi ci-ākarṣiṇidhairy-ākarṣiṇi smṛty-ākarṣiṇi nām-ākarṣiṇi bīj-ākarṣiṇi ātm-ākarṣiṇiamṛt-ākarṣiṇi śarīr-ākarṣiṇi

gupta-yogini sarv-āśā-pari-pūraka-cakra-svāmini

anaṅga-kusume anaṅga-mekhale anaṅga-madane anaṅga-madanātureanaṅga-rekhe anaṅga-vegini anaṅg-āṅkuśe anaṅga-mālinigupta-tara-yogini vaidīka-darśan-āṅgi sarva-saṅ-kṣobhaṇa-cakra-svāminipūrv-āṃnāyāti-devate sṛṣṭi-rūpe

sarva-saṅ-kṣobhiṇi sarva-vidrāviṇi sarv-ākarṣiṇi sarv-āhlādinisarva-saṃmohinī sarva-stambhini sarva-jṛmbhiṇi sarva-vaśaṅkari

sarva-rañjani sarv-onmādini sarv-ārtha-sādhike sarva-saṃpai-pūraṇisarva-mantra-mayi sarva-dvandva-kṣayaṅkari saṃpradāya-yogini



Sahasrākṣara Vidyā

saura-darśan-āṅgi sarva saubhāgya-dāyaka-cakra-svamini

sarva-siddhi-prade sarva-saṃpat-prade sarva-priyaṅkari

sarva-maṅgala-kāriṇi sarva-kāma-praḍe sarva-duḥkha-vimocanisarva-mṛtyu-praśamani sarva-vighna-nivāriṇi sarv-āṅga-sundarisarva-saubhāgya-dāyini kul-oīrṇa-yoginisarv-ārtha-sādhaka-cakra-svāmini

sarva-jñe sarva-śakte sarv-aiśvarya-prade sarva-jñāna-mayisarva-vyādhi-nivāriṇī sarv-ādhārā-svrūpe sarva-pāpa-haresarv-ānanda-mayi sarva-rakṣā-svarūpiṇi sarv-epsita-phala-pradenigarbha-yogini vaiṣṇava-darśan-āṅgi sarva-rākṣā-kara-cakra-svamini

dakṣiṇ-āṃnāyeśi stithi-rūpe

vaśini kāmeśi modini vimale aruṇe jayini sarv-eśvari kaulinirahasya-yogini śākta-darśan-āṅgi sarva-roga-hara-cakra-svāminipaścim-āṃnāyeśi dhanur-bhāṇa-pāśāṅkuśa-devate

kāmeśi vajreśi bhaga-mālini ati-rahasya-yogini śaiva-darśan-āṅgisarva-siddhi-prada-cakra-svamini uar-āṃnāyeśi saṃ-hāra-rūpe

śuddha-pare bindu-pīṭa-gate mahā-tripura-sundariparāparāti-rahasya-yogini śāṃbhava-darśan-āṅgisarv-ānanda-maya-cakra-svamini

tripure tripureśi tripura-sundari tripura-vāsini tripurā-srīḥtripura-mālini tripurā-siddhe tripur-āṃba mahā-tripura-sundarisarva-cakra-sthe anuar-āṃnāyākyā-sva-rūpemahā-tripura-bhairavi catur-vidha-guṇa-rūpe

kule akule kulākule mahā-kaulinisarv-oare sarva-darśan-āṅginavāsana-sthite nav-ākṣari nava-mithun-ākṛtemaheśa-mādhava-vidātṛ-manmata-skanda-nandi-indra-manu-ścandra-kubera-agastya-krodha-bhaṭṭāraka-vidyātmikekalyāṇa-tava-traya-rūpe śiva-śivātmike pūrṇa-brahma-śaktemahā-tripura-sundaritava śrī-pādukāṃ-pūjayāmi-tarpayāmi namaḥ

śrīṃ hrīṃ aiṃ OMOM aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ



DEVĪ

Notes

. e names of the Divine Mother in this prayer do not end with the longā or the long ī sounds as in the Triśatī, but rather end with e or i respec-

tively instead. is seemed curious to me and the reason, as far as I coulddivine it, was that in this prayer, the Divine Mother is being addressed directly as in a conversation in which She is right in front of the devotee.e Sanskrit mode of direct address has a different case ending from thenominative case, accounting for the noted variation. Perhaps it is worthcultivating this bhāvana of closeness to e Divine when reciting thisprayer.

. In between the names lopā-mudra-mayi and agastya-mayi Swamiji in-

serted the names ānanda-mayi śivānanda-mayi . is is accepted practiceas the followers of this mantra sādhana usually insert the names of thegurus of their respective lineages. Follow whatever Swamiji instructedat your centre.

. sahasra means one thousand and akṣara means immutable or imperishable or vibration or syllable. e word vidyā is the feminine form of mantra and can also mean knowledge. So, this prayer is the knowledge or mantra of one thousand syllables.



Śiva

Mahā Mṛtyuñjaya mantra

OM tryaṃbakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanamurvārukam-iva bandhanān-mṛtyor-mukṣīya mā’mṛtātOM hrīṃ namaḥ-śivāya

Meaning

M M

OM OM

tryaṃbakam the three-eyedyajāmahe we worship through sacrificesugandhim fragrantpuṣṭi well-nourishedvardhanam augmentingurvārukam cucumber, melon, gourdiva likebandhanāt from bondage

mṛtyoḥ from deathmukṣīya liberatemā notamṛtāt from immortality

We worship the three-eyed One (Lord Siva) who is fragrant and who nourishes

all beings; may He liberate me from death, for the sake of Immortality, even as the cucumber is severed from its bondage (of the creeper).



ŚIVA

Notes

. e mahā mṛtyuñjaya mantra →great death-conquering mantra. It occursas part of the Vedic hymn Śrī Rudram.

. Swamiji’s Guru, Śrī Swami Sivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh, popular-ized this mantra and encouraged all to repeat it, to ward off accidental oruntimely death, which are common in our complex, modern world.

. emeaninggivenaboveisexactlythesameasthemeaningofthemantragiven by Śrī Swami Sivananda, which has been made available online.

. Swamiji appended the mantra OM hrīṃ namaḥ-śivāya to the mahā mṛ- tyuñjaya mantra, aer hearing it so recited by Śrī Ānandamayī Mā, andtaught us to recite the augmented mantra. at is the version given here.

http://www.dlshq.org/books/es69.htm#mahamrityunjaya



Śiva mantra

Śiva mantra

OM namo bhagavate sadā-śivāyasakala-tatvātmakāya sarva-mantra-svarūpāyasarva-yantrādhiṣṭhitāya sarva-tantra-svarūpāyasarva-tatva-vidūrāya brahma-rudrāvatāriṇe

nīla-kaṇṭhāya pārvatī-manoharāyasoma-sūryāgni-locanāya bhasmoddhūlita-vigrahāyamahā-maṇi mukuṭa-dhāraṇāya māṇikya-bhūṣaṇāyasṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-kāla-raudrāvatārāya

dakṣādhvara-dhvaṃsakāya-mahā-kāla-bhedanāya

mūladhāraika-nilayāya tatvātītāya gaṅgādharāyasarva-devādi-devāya ṣaḍāśrayāya vedānta-sārāyatrivarga-sādhanāya ananta-koṭi-brahmāṇḍa-nāyakāya

ananta vāsuki takṣaka karkoṭaka mahānāgakulabhūṣaṇāyapraṇava-svarūpāya cidākāśāya ākāśa-dik-svarūpāyagraha-nakṣatra-māline sakalāya kalaṅka-rahitāya

OM namo bhagavate sadā-śivāya

sakala-lokaika-kartre saka-lalokaika-bhartresakala-lokaika-saṃhartre sakala-lokaika-guravesakala-lokaika-sākṣiṇe sakala-nigama-guhyāya

sakala-vedānta-pāragāya sakala-lokaika-vara-pradāyasakala-lokaika-śaṃ-karāya sakala-jagad-bhayaṃ-karāyasakala-duritārti-bhañjanāya śaśāṅka-śekharāyaśāśvata-nijāvāsāya nirākārāya nirābhāsāya

nirāmayāya nir-malāya nir-madāya niś-cintāya nir-ahaṃkārāya

nir-aṅkuśāya niṣ-kalaṅkāya nir-guṇāya niṣ-kāmāyanirūpa-plavāya nir-avadyāya nir-antarāya niṣ-kāraṇāyanir-ātaṅkāya niṣ-prapañcāya nis-saṅgāya nir-dvandvāya

nir-ādhārāya niṣ-krodhāya nir-lopāya niṣ-pāpāyanir-bhayāya nir-vikalpāya nir-bhedāya niṣ-kriyāyanis-tulāya nis-saṃśayāya nir-añjanāya nir-upama-vibhavāyanitya-śuddha-buddha-pari-pūrṇa-sac-cidānanda-a-dvayāyaparama-śānta-svarūpāya tejo-rūpāya tejo-mayāya tejo’dhipataye

OM namo bhagavate sadā-śivāya



ŚIVA

jaya jaya rudra mahā-raudra bhadrāvatāramahā-bhairava kāla-bhairava kalpānta-bhairava kapāla-mālādharakhaṭvāṅga khaḍga-carma-pāśāṅkuśa-ḍamaru-triśūla-cāpa-bāṇa-

cakrādyāyudha-bhīṣaṇākāra-sahasra-mukha-daṃṣṭrā-karāla-vadanavikaṭāṭṭahāsa visphārita brahmāṇḍa-maṇḍala nāgendra-kuṇḍalanāgendra-valaya nāgendra-carma-dharamṛtyuñjaya tryambaka tripurāntakaviśvarūpa virūpākṣa viśveśvara vṛṣabha-vāhanaviśvato-mukha sarvato-māṃ rakṣa rakṣamṛtyuñjaya tryambaka sadāśiva namaste namaste

namaste astu bhagavan viśveśvrāya mahā-devāya tryaṁbakāya

tri-purāntakāya tri-kāgni-kālāya kālāgni-rudrāya nīla-kanṭhāyamṛtyuñjayāya sarveśvarāya sadāśivāya srīman-mahādevāya namaḥ

OM tryaṃbakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanamurvārukam-iva bandhanān-mṛtyor-mukṣīya mā’mṛtātOM hrīṃ namaḥ-śivāya

Notes

. e Śiva Mantra taught by Swamiji is very likely an extract from the Śiva Kavacam which appears in the Skanda Purāṇa and is transliterated here. Iam grateful to the original transliterator upon whose efforts I have built.

. Again, there are variations and I have tried to follow the prayer to con-form as exactly as possible to how Swamiji recited the prayer.

. Swamiji also added two verses from the Śrī Rudram:

a) namaste astu bhagavan; and

b) tryaṃbakaṃ to which he appended OM hrīṃ namaḥ-śivāya.

ese appear at the end of the prayer as he recited it. e phrase tri- kāgni-kālāya is sometimes also rendered as tri-kālāgni-kālāya.

http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_shiva/shivakavacham.itx



Gāyatrī

Gāyatrī mantra

OMbhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥtat savitur-vareṇyaṃbhargo devasya dhīmahidhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt

Meaning

W MOM OMbhūḥ physical planebhuvaḥ astral planesvaḥ causal planetat at, Transcendentsavituḥ of savitṛ, Īśvara or Creatorvareṇyaṃ fit to be worshipped or adored

bhargaḥ remover of sins and ignorancedevasya of shining, resplendentdhīmahi we meditatedhiyaḥ intellects, understandings, buddhisyaḥ Which, Whonaḥ ourpracodayāt activate, propel, impel, guide, inspire, illuminate

We meditate on that Īśvara’s glory, who has created the universe, who is fit to be

worshipped, who is the embodiment of knowledge and light, who is the remover of all sins and ignorance. May He guide our intellects.



GĀYATRĪ

Notes

. e gāyatrī mantra is the universal prayer for Hindus revealed to MaharṣiViśvāmitra.

. e meaning given above has been adapted from Śrī Swami Sivananda’sbook Japa Yoga. e meaning is also available online.

. Śrī Swami Sivananda has said that there should be five pauses in therecitation of this mantra. ese five stops have been conveniently ar-ranged into five different lines in the way this mantra has been typesetabove. Pause a lile aer each line. Again, there is a science of regulatedbreathing hidden within mantra recitation.

http://www.dlshq.org/download/hindufest.htm#_VPID_6

http://www.sivanandadlshq.org/teachings/japayoga.htm



Guru

Śivānanda aṣṭottara śata nāmāvaliḥ

N MOM śrī oṃkāra rūpāya ṇamaḥ Whose form is OMOM sadgurave namaḥ Who is the True Guru or sadguruOM sākṣāt-śankara-rūpa-dhṛtenamaḥ

Who is the visible form of Lord Śiva

OM śivānandāya namaḥ Who is ŚivānandaOM śivākārāya namaḥ Who is a personification of Lord

Śiva

OM śivāśaya nirūpakāya namaḥ Who reveals the form (or abode) of Lord Śiva

OM hṛṣīkeśa nivāsine namaḥ Who resides in RishikeshOM vaidya-śāstra viśāradāyanamaḥ

Who is a master of medical science

OM samadarśine namaḥ Who has equal visionOM tapasvine namaḥ Who has performed great

austerities []

OM prema-rūpāya namaḥ Whose form is LoveOM mahāmunaye namaḥ Who is a great sage or muniOM divya-jīvana-saṅgha pratiṣṭātrenamaḥ

Who founded the Divine LifeSociety

OM prabodhakāya namaḥ Who awakensOM gītānanda svarūpiṇe namaḥ Who embodies the bliss of the

Bhagavad GītāOM bhakti-gamyāya namaḥ Who is aainable by devotionOM bhayāpahāya namaḥ Who terminates fearOM sarvavide namaḥ Who is all-knowing



GURU

N MOM sarvāgaya namaḥ Who is everywhereOM netre namaḥ Who leads []

OM trayī-mārga-pra-ḍarśakāyanamaḥ Who has expounded and revealedthe three paths: karma, bhaktī, jñāna

OM vairāgya-jñāna-niratāya namaḥ Who is established in dispassionand wisdom

OM sarvaloka-hitotsukhāya namaḥ Who is intent upon the welfare of all planes of creation

OM bhavāmaya-praśamanāyanamaḥ

Who extinguishes affliction of phenomenal existence

OM samādhi-grantha-kalpakāyanamaḥ

Who has wrien a text onsuperconscioussness or samādhi

OM guṇine namaḥ Who has divine qualitiesOM mahātmane namaḥ Who is a great soulOM dharmātmane namaḥ Who is the very soul of

righteousness or dharmaOM sthita-prajñāya namaḥ Whose consciousness is established

in wisdom

OM subodhayāya namaḥ Who is the awakener []OM ānanda-sāgarāya namaḥ Who is the ocean of blissOM sārāya namaḥ Who is the essence or quintessenceOM gaṅgā-tīrāśrama-sthitāyanamaḥ

One whose hermitage is on thebanks of the river Ganga

OM viṣṇūdevānanda-daa-brahma- jñāna-pra-dīpakāyanamaḥ

Who shines with divine wisdom,brahma-jñāna, conferred on him byhis sannyāsa guru, SwamiViṣṇūdevānanda

OM śrī brahma-sūtr-opaniṣadāṅgalya-bḥaṣya-prakalpakāyanamaḥ

Who rendered the Brahma-Sutrasand the Upanishads into the Englishlanguage

OM viśvānanda caraṇa-yugmasevā-jāta subuddhimate namaḥ

Who aained true wisdom throughthe service of the two holy feet of his spiritual guru, SwamiViśwānanda

OM mantra-mūrtaye namaḥ Who is an embodiment of mantras

OM japa-parāya namaḥ Who is immersed in silentrecitation ( japa)



Śivānanda aṣṭoara śata nāmāvaliḥ

N MOM tantajñāya namaḥ Who knows the tantrasOM mānavate namaḥ Who is full of humanity []

OM baline namaḥ Who is strongOM umā-ramaṇa pādayugmasatatārcana lālasāya namaḥ

Who delights in alwaysworshipping the feet of Lord Śiva,the beloved of Uma

OM parasmai jyotiṣe namaḥ Who is the transcendental lightOM parasmai dhāmne namaḥ Who is the supreme abodeOM paramaṇave namaḥ Who is beyond the atomOM parātparāya namaḥ Who beyond the beyondOM śānta-mūrtaye namaḥ Who is an embodiment of peaceOM dayāsāgārāya namaḥ Who is an ocean of compassionOM mumukṣu-hṛdaya-sthitāyanamaḥ

Who resides in the heart of seekersof spiritual liberation

OM ānanda-āmṛta-sṃ-dogdhrenamaḥ

Who has gathered together thenectar of immortality []

OM appaya-kula-dīpakāya namaḥ Who is the lamp illuminating thelineage of the sage Appaya Dīkṣitar

OM sākṣibhūtāya namaḥ Who is the being who witnesses

OM rājayogine namaḥ Who is a rāja-yogīOM satyānanda-svarūpiṇe namaḥ Who is the embodiment of

Truth-BlissOM ajñāna-maya-bheṣajāya namaḥ Who is the panacea for spiritual

ignoranceOM loko-ddhāraṇa-paṇḍitāyanamaḥ

Who is expert in upliing humanity

OM yogānanda-rasā-svādine namaḥ Who ever savours the nectar of yogic bliss

OM sadācāra-saṃujjvalāya namaḥ Who is ever radiant with goodconduct

OM ātmā-rāmāya namaḥ Who ever rejoices in his own Self OM srī-gueave namaḥ Who is the revered Guru []OM saccidānanda-vigrahāya namaḥ Whose form is

Being-Consciousness-Bliss(sat-chit-ananda)

OM jīvan-muktāya namaḥ Who is liberated while physically

embodied



GURU

N MOM cin-mayātmane namaḥ Who is pure consciousnessOM nis-trai-guṇyāya namaḥ Who is devoid of the ree

alities (sava, rajas, tamas)OM yatīśvarāya namaḥ Who is Lord among renunciantsOM advaita-sāra-prakaṭaveda-vedānta tava-gāya namaḥ

Who has delved into the wisdom of the Veda and Vedanta, expoundingthe essence of non-dualism(advaita)

OM cidānanda janāhlāda nṛtyagītapravartakāya namaḥ

Who has promoted dance and songto delight the minds of people

OM navīna-jana-sam-trātre namaḥ Who is the saviour of Modern Man

OM brahma-mārga-pradarśakāyanamaḥ

Who shows the way to aainBrahman

OM prāṇāyāma-parayaṇāy namaḥ Who is ever intent on control of prāṇa (prāṇāyāma) []

OM nitya-vairāgya-saṃ-upāśritāyanamaḥ

Who constantly takes recourse todispassion (vairāgya)

OM jita-māyāya namaḥ Who has conquered Cosmic Illusion(māyā)

OM dhyāna-magnāya namaḥ Who is immersed in meditation(dhyāna)OM kṣetra-jñāya namaḥ Who completely knows the field of

the body in which the soul residesOM jñāna-bhāskarāya namaḥ Who is the Sun of WisdomOM mahā-devādi-devāya namaḥ Who is the God of GodsOM kali-kalmaśa-nāśanāya namaḥ Who destroys the taint of the Iron

Age (kali yuga)OM tuṣāra-śaila-yogine namaḥ Who is the Yogi of the Frosty Peaks

(the Himālayas)OM koṭi-sūrya-sama-prabhāyanamaḥ

Whose radiance equals that of tenmillion suns

OM munivaryāya namaḥ Who is most excellent among sages(muni) []

OM satya-yonaye namaḥ Who is the womb of truthOM parama-puruṣāya namaḥ Who is the Supreme BeingOM pratāpavate namaḥ Who is splendid




N MOM nāma-saṃkīrtan-otkarṣa-praśaṃsine

namaḥ

Who extolled and popularized thesinging of God’s Name

OM mahādhyutaye namaḥ Who is the Great BrillianceOM kailāsa-yātra saṃprāptabahu-samtuṣṭa-cetāse namaḥ

Who has aained great atisfactionof the soul by performingpilgrimage to Mount Kailāsa

OM catus-sādhana saṃpannāyanamaḥ

Who is endowed with the fourmeans to liberation

OM dharma-sthāpana-tat-parāyanamaḥ

Who is intent on (re-)establishingrighteousness (dharma)

OM śiva-mūrtaye namaḥ Who is the form of Lord ŚivaOM śiva-parāya namaḥ Who is ever devoted to Lord Śiva as

the Supreme []OM śiṣṭeṣṭāya namaḥ Who is dear to disciplined peopleOM śivekṣaṇāya namaḥ Who ever looks at Lord ŚivaOM caturanta-medinī-vyāptasuviśāla yśodayāya namaḥ

Whose fame extends to the fourcorners of the world

OM satya-saṃpūrṇa vijñāna

sutavaika sulakṣaṇāya namaḥ

Who is characterized by

truthfulness, all-knowledge andinsight into truthOM sarva-prāṇīṣu-saṃ-jāta-bhrātṛ-bhāvāyanamaḥ

Who has created a feeling of brotherhood amongst all creatures

OM su-varcasāya namaḥ Who radiates vital powerOM praṇavāya namaḥ Who is OM, the Ever-NewOM sarva-tava-jñāya namaḥ Who knows the twenty-four

principles of Creation (tava)

OM su-jñānambuda candramasenamaḥ

Who is the moon to the cloud of wisdom

OM jñāna-gaṅga śrota-snānapūta-pāpāya namaḥ

Who has been cleansed of all sin bybathing in the running wisdomriver Gaṅgā []

OM sukhapradāya namaḥ Who gives supreme happinessOM viśva-nātha-kṛpā-pātrāyanamaḥ

Who is a fit vessel for the Grace of Lord Viśvanātha

OM śiṣya-hṛt-tāpa-taskarāya namaḥ Who steals away the afflictionstormenting the hearts of disciples



GURU

N MOM kalyāṇa-guna-saṃ-pūrṇayanamaḥ

Who is replete with auspiciousqualities

OM sadāśiva parāyaṇāya namaḥ Who ever adores Lord SadāśivaOM kalpanā-rahitāya namaḥ Who is free from all mentalimaginations

OM vīrāya namaḥ Who is a heroOM bhagavad-gāna-lolupāyanamaḥ

Who ever desires to recite God’snames []

OM srī sadguru śivānanda svāmine namaḥ

OM namo bhagavate śivānandāya

Meaning of aṣtottara śata namāvaliḥ

aṣtoara śata namāvaliḥ = aṣṭa + uara + śata + nāma + āvaliḥ

W Maṣṭa eightuara more than

śata one hundrednāma nameāvaliḥ row or series

So, aṣtoara śata namāvaliḥ →an ordered prayer of names. is expressionis oen contracted to the awkward term aṣṭoaram→eight more .

Notes

. Śrī Swami Sivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh is glorified through one hun-dred and eight names in this prayer.

. Swamiji said that there were several versions of the Śivānanda Aṣṭoara Śata Nāmāvaliḥ composed by different devotees, and that he had chosenfor worship one particular version. e same is given here.

. ese names all carry the meaning OM Prostrations to followed bythe aribute of the guru that is being adored in that particular name.

To facilitate easy lookup of the meaning while reciting these names—in order to develop devotion—the English meaning has been tabulated




alongside the Sanskrit name, but with the phrase OM Prostrations to beingunderstood, and therefore le out.





Concluding Prayers

Brahmārpaṇam

W M

OM OMbrahmārpaṇam Brahma is the act of offeringbrahma-havir Brahma is the oblationbrahmāgnau into the fire of Brahmabrahmaṇāhutam by Brahma is offeredbrahma + eva = brahmaiva brahma→Brahma; eva→alonetena by himgantavyam to be gone to, to be aained, to be reachedbrahma-karma-samādhinā totally absorbed in Brahma while acting

Meaning

Brahma is the act of offering, Brahma is the oblation poured by Brahma into the fire of Brahma. Brahma alone is to be gone to (aained) by him who is totally absorbed in Brahma while acting.

Notes

. is verse comes from the Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter , Verse .

. e word Brahma here refers to God, the Absolute, or Brahman, ratherthan to Brahmā the consort of Sarasvatī . Note the difference in the end-ings for each name.

. is verse is traditionally chanted before taking food. During worship, it

is customary to chant this verse when food is offered at the altar to Godas naivedyam.



CONCLUDING PRAYERS

Prāṇāya svāhā

M M

OM OMprāṇāya svāhā Oblation to prāṇaapānāya svāhā Oblation to apānavyānāya svāhā Oblation to vyānaudānāya svāhā Oblation to udānasamānāya svāhā Oblation to samānabrahmaṇe svāhā Oblation to BrahmanOM tat sat OM tat sat

brahmārpaṇamastu May this be offered to BrahmanOM OM.

OM. Oblations to the life forces: prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, udāna, and samāna. OM tat sat. May all this be offered to the Absolute Brahman. OM.

Notes

. e life force in the body is differentiated by function into five varieties: prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, udāna, samāna. To these five prāṇas as well as theAbsolute, Brahman, the naivedyam is offered.

. e meaning of svāhā may also be Hail to in the context of making asacrificial oblation.

. OM tat sat is a philosophically profound formula repeated in much litany.

Sarva maṅgala māṅgalye

sarva maṅgala māṅgalye śive sarvārtha sādhikeśaraṇye tryaṃbake gauri nārāyani namo śtute

Meaning

I seek refuge and bow down to that Goddess who is auspicious, who is the very

auspiciousness of all that is auspicious, who grants fulfilment of all goals, who is resplendent, who is sister of Viṣṇu and the consort of Śiva.



Antar jyotiḥ

Notes

. is is a famous prayer from Chapter , Verse , of the Devī Mahāt- myam also known as the Caṇḍipāṭ, or the Durgā Saptaśati →Seven Hun-

dred Verses on Durgā.

. Devī is here addressed as if She is directly in front of the devotee.

Antar jyotiḥ

antar-jyotir bahir-jyotiḥ pratyak-jyotiḥ parāt-paraḥātma-jyotiḥ svayam-jyotir jyotir-jyotiḥ śivosmyaham

Meaning

I am Light within, I am light without (outside), I am the light deep within myself beyond the Deep beyond. I am the Light of the Soul, the self-effulgent, the Light of Lights, Śiva am I.

Notes

. is verse is the last in a delightful compilation of nineteen Vedanticverses by Ādi Śankarācarya entitled Brahma-jñānāvalī intended for quietcontemplation at the conclusion of worship.

. e word śiva →auspiciousness.

. e term śivosmyaham = śivaḥ + asmi + aham→Śiva am I needs to bepronounced carefully because it is easily mis-pronounced.

Kṛṣṇāya vāsudevāya

kṛṣṇāya-vāsudevāya devakī-nandnāya cananda-gopa kumārāya govindāya namo namaḥ

Meaning

I bow down to that Kṛṣṇā who is the son of Vasudeva, the joy of Devakī, the (foster-son) of Nanda-Gopa, and Govinda, the finder of cows (souls).



CONCLUDING PRAYERS

Dakṣiṇāmūrti samārambhām

dakṣiṇāmūrti samārambhām śankarācarya madhyamāmasmad-ācārya par-yantāṃ vande guru paraṃparām

Meaning

I bow down to the Guru-lineage, beginning with Dakṣiṇāmūrti, with Śankarā- carya in the middle, and my own Guru at the end.

Dakṣiṇāmūrti samārambhām: for Swamiji’s devotees

dakṣiṇāmūrti samārambhām śankarācarya madhyamāmśāntanand-ācārya par-yantāṃ vande guru paraṃparām

Notes

. Swamiji oen used to substitute his Guru’s name, and say śivānanda- ācārya instead of asmad-ācarya.

. Devotees of Swamiji say śāntānand-ācārya instead of asmad-ācarya.

Sarveṣāṃ svastir bhavatu

M M

OM OMsarveṣām svastir bhavatu May all be wellsarveṣām śāntir bhavatu May all be peacefulsarveṣām pūrṇaṃ bhavatu May all be full

sarveṣām maṅgalaṃ bhavatu May all be auspicioussarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ May all be happysarve santu nirāmayaḥ May all be healthysavre bhadrāṇi paśyantu May all see goodmā kaścid duḥkha bhāg bhavet May none have a share in sorrow

asato mā sadgamaya Lead me from the unreal to the realtamaso mā jyotirgamaya Lead me from darkness to light

mṛtyor mā amṛtaṃgamaya Lead me from mortality to immortality



Pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidam

M M

OM sāntiḥ sāntiḥ sāntiḥ OM Peace! Peace! Peace!

. ese verses are from the Upanishads. ey are universal in outlook andare chanted at the end of all prayers.

. e word sāntiḥ or peace is chanted thrice for the peace of body, mind,and soul.

Dyauḥ śāntiḥ

M M

OM OMdyauḥ śantiḥ May the radiant heavens be peacefulantarikṣaṃ śāntih May the intervening atmosphere be peacefulpṛthivī śāntiḥ May the earth be peacefulāpaḥ śāntiḥ May the waters be peacefuloṣadayaḥ śāntiḥ May the medicinal herbs be peacefulvanaspatayaḥ śāntiḥ May the woods be peacefulviśvedevāḥ śāntiḥ May all the gods or devas be peaceful

brahma sāntiḥ May the Supreme be peacefulsarvaṃ śāntiḥ May all be peacefulsāntir-eva śāntih May peace be peacefulOM sāntiḥ sāntiḥ sāntiḥ OM Peace! Peace! Peace!

Pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidam

pūrṇam-adaḥ pūrṇam-idaṃ pūrṇāt pūrṇam-udacyate

pūrṇasya pūrṇam-ādāya pūrṇam-evāva-śiṣyateOM śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ

M M

pūrṇam-adaḥ that is fullpūrṇam-idaṃ this is fullpūrṇāt from the fullpūrṇam-udacyate is unfolded the full

pūrṇasya of the fullpūrṇam-ādāya taking away the full



CONCLUDING PRAYERS

M M

pūrṇam-evāva-śiṣyate pūrnam→full; eva→alone;avaśiṣyate→remains

OM śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ OM Peace! Peace! Peace!

at is full. is is full. e full is unfolded from the full. When the full is takenaway from the full, the full alone remains. OM Peace! Peace! Peace!

Notes

. is is a famous śānti mantra or peace chant from the Upanishads usually

recited at the beginning and end of periods of Vedic study.

. e word pūrṇa → filled, and is here translated as full . e sense is one of completeness, with nothing missing. us it is sometimes also translatedas perfection.

. Swamiji recited this mantra at the end of prayers and also during the pūrṇāhuti → full oblation at the end of fire sacrifices.

. e mathematically-minded might like to set up a simple linear equationfor what this chant describes and find out the value of the unknown.

Tvameva mātā

tvam-eva mātā ca pitā tvameva tvameva bandhuśca sakhā tvamevatvam-eva vidyā draviṇaṃ tvam-eva tvam-eva sarvaṃ mama deva deva

Meaning

You alone are my mother and my father, my relatives and friends. You alone are my knowledge and wealth. You verily are my everything, my god of gods.

Notes

. Here God is being addressed directly and intimately as You, as befits a

prayer of surrender at the end of worship when we have temporarilyreduced the distance between ourselves and God.



Kāyena vācā

Kāyena vācā

kāyena vācā manas-endriyaiṛ-vā buddhyātmanā-va prakṛtet svabhāvātkaromi yad-yat sakalaṃ parasmai-nārāyaṇāyeti samarpayāmi

Meaning

Whatever is done by the body, speech, mind, senses, or intellect, or by virtue of its own nature, whatsoever I do, all that I transfer and offer to Nārāyaṇa.

Notes

. e prayer above is the traditional version.

. Swamiji sometimes modified this prayer to add the names of variousdeities and of his Guru, in addition to Nārāyaṇa. Devotees have sinceadded Swamiji’s name to the list, and sometimes the term sadguru as well.Devotees at each centre should follow their respective conventions.

Universal Prayer as modified by Swamiji

O Adorable Lord of Mercy and Love!Salutations and prostrations unto ee.ou art Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, Śiva and Viṣṇu,

Jesus and Allah, Buddha and Mahavīra,Ahur Mazda and Jehovah,ou art Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient.ou art Saccidānanda,ou art the Indweller of all beings.

Grant us an understanding heartEqual vision, balanced mind,Faith, devotion and wisdom.Grant us inner spiritual strengthTo resist temptations and to control the mind.Free us from egoism, lust, greed, anger, hatred, and jealousy.Fill our hearts with divine virtues.

Let us behold ee in all these names and forms,

Let us serve ee in all these names and forms.Let us ever remember thee.



CONCLUDING PRAYERS

Let us sing thy glories.Let y Name be ever on our lipsLet us abide in ee for ever and ever.

Notes

. Swamiji’s guru, Śrī Swami Sivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh, gave theUniversal Prayer which Swamiji modified when he recited it. at mod-ified version is given here.

http://www.dlshq.org/teachings/unipray.htm



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