Slokas are prayers or invocation
addressed to Hindu gods in specified
poetic metres often forming part
of a larger hymn or prayer
taptasvarna-savarnaghoorna-datirookshaaksham
sataakesara-
protkampa-pranikumbitaambara-maho
jeeyaattavedam vapuh
vyaatta-vyaapta-mahaadareesakhamukham
khadgogravalganmahaa
jihvaanirgama-drishyamaanasumahaa-damshtraayugoddaamaram
( Narayaneeyam 25-3 )
Meaning:
All victory to Your man-lion form
with rolling fearful eyes which
shone like molten gold; overcasting
the skies with your flying mane
and matted locks; huge cave-like
wide open mouth; terribly quivering
tongue resembling a sword, which
while lolling out, displayed Your
two fierce molars on either side
."
The devotee-poet Lilasuka offers salutation
with his mind to the charming son
of Vasudeva
( Lord Krishna ) who as
a small child, has the radiance
like the Atasii
flower with only directions
as His clothes and who is adorned
with gold ornaments, with tresses
unbraided and having red lips and
broad eyes.
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(Sri Krishna Karnamrutham
2.19)
The one word to reach the goal:
In Katopanishad Lord Yama tells
Nachiketa " That which all
the vedas adore, the one which all
the austerities and penance seek,
desiring which people observe celibacy
that one word in brief is Omkara".
sarve vedaa yatpada-maamananti
tapaamsi sarvaani cha yadvadanti
yadichchhanto brahmacharyam charanti
tatte padam
sangrahena braveemyomityetat
(Katopanishad 2.15 )
Jantoonaam narajanma durlabhamatah pumstvam tato viprataa
Tasmaadvaidikadharmamaargaparataa
vidvattvamasmaatparam
Aatmaanaatmavivechanam svanubhavo
brahmaatmanaa samsthiti-
Rmuktirno shatajanmakotisukritaih
punyairvinaa labhyate
(Aadi Sankara,
Vivekachoodamani 2)
Human birth is rare to get:
The meaning of the foregoing verse
is: human birth is hard to get,
harder still to be born as a male
; brahmanhood is still rarer and rarer than this is the inclination
towards the path of vedic
religion; higher than this is scholarship
in scriptures;
descrimination between the
Self and non-Self,, realization,
continuously identifying oneself
with Brahman,
all these follow in this order.
Only a hundred crores of births,
with well-earned merits could get
this kind of liberation.
In
the Bhagavata Mahapurana, sage Vedavyasa
gives a picturesque description
of the experience of Uddhava, Lord
Krishna's devotee and minister on
meeting the gopikas of Nandagokula
. Uddhava is wonderstruck with their
self-effacing devotion to Krishna
and exclaims that he repeatedly
salutes the dust from the feet of
gopikas whose hymning the Lord's
glory sanctifies all the three worlds.
He poignantly yearns to be born
as a plant, creeper, or shrub in
Vrindavan The gopikas have attained
salvation sought by the Vedas by
their unequalled devotion.
Aasaamaho
charanarenujushaamaham syaam
Vrindaavane kimapi gulmalatowshadheenaam
Yaa dustyajam svajanamaaryapatham
cha hitvaa
Bhejurmukundapadaveem shrutibhrvimrigyaam
(Bhagavata 10-47,61)
