A dedication to the pitrus

OM

Namaste to the venerable ones
The upholders of the pitru loka
This is a prayer from Shivaramakrishnan
The scion of Naidruva kashyapa gotra
Son of Subramaniam Shivaramakrishnan
And grandson of Shivaramakrishnan Subramaniam.

By the travails and accounts of endless karmas,
Was born myself, in the loka of manava.

Hail the great blessing of the pitrus
Whose blessings are the sole reason
For every son of the dynasty
To be continuing this great lineage

I make my prayers to you in despair
But with the strength of my gurus and the lords blessings
For you are the most esteemed ones,
And you are the most accomplished.

You are the great dAtAs of manava loka
You bless men folk with progeny
And good health and wealth
As well as with confidence

I do have a debt , that I repay.

I thought one day, how best to repay,
There are so many efforts that one can make


Conduct grand yagnas, an shine as a million suns
Do great punya yagnas, and earn the blessings of the devas
Be of great sevice to mankind, and to devas and pitrus
Should I not set an example to be worthy of your blessings

Forgive me for naivety in my young and early adulthood,
For what I had not found was my beloved guru
To the earlier question as to how best I repay
I shall narrate , that finding a guru is indeed the best way.

Men do try , with all their limited powers.
And limited knowledge, and limited friendships
Even if they go on to befriend the devas,
And indra and all the celestials
They shall also make enemies with the asuras,
They can never ever enjoy limitless freedom.

In each and every of our limited pursuits,
The pursuit has to be understood in clarity,
May I invoke lord mahaganapthy
The very icon and devata of clarity alone
Since he is the very remover of all vignAs or obstacles.

Such clarity he lent, by the blessings of the pitrus
To seek the limitless, in this limited loka.
What is the limitless, isnt that what we seek,
isnt that what you seek, oh beloved pitrus
the manes the fathers the great great grandfathers

Oh great karma yogins and follower of the vedas
All your efforts were for worshipping the lords
The great yagnas you performed and the greatness you achieved
We are forever in praise of you

But isnt it true the self is the most beloved
And all that you did was for praising brahman

The fire is brahman, and so is the laddle
The ghee that is poured is also brahman
The one who pours the ghee is non separate from brahman
and brahman alone is the results of the karma

So what is done is for the sake of brahman
And brahman alone does what is to be done
And how it is done is none other than brahman
What else one wants other than the limitless goal

All karmas are useful to attain the readiness
Attain the greatness that takes one to a guru
And it is indeed the fruits of your greatest penances
That I had the greatest fortune of meeting my guru in this life itself

OM Shri DakshinAmurtaye namaH
OM Shri Swami Paramarthananda Saraswatiye NamaH
OM Shri Dayananda Saraswati Swamine Namaha
OM Shri Svatmavidananda Saraswathi Swamineem NamaH
OM Shri Viditatmananda Saraswatiye Namaha
OM Shri Ramakrishnaya Namaha
OM Vigneshvaraya Namaha
OM Shri Lalithatripurasundari namaH
OM Shri GaneshAya namaH
OM Karthikeya Swamine NamaH
OM Bhagavan DevakiNandanAya namaH
OM RudrAya namaH

OM Shri BAlakrishnAya namaH
OM Shri Ayyappa Swamine NamaH

OM Shri Samartha Sadguru SainAthaya Namaha

HarihOM Shri gurubhyo NamaH Harih OM.

Such a guru whom I met in my lifetime,
Isnt it a fruit of your blessings alone
I know you can hear my plea
And you can hear my prayer
And you can respond since you are the blessed ones

Anger is always possible
But so is possible to bless and cool happiness
Swami Narsmha himself had cooled down
After such an ugra form
Into the benefic form of lord laksmi Narasmha

You who are the great devotees of lord nrsmha NArAyana
I plead thy to lend your ears and  your great attention
To this secret that my guru had taught me

Knowing the true value of a guru,
Here is what he taught me,
That I dedicate and pass onto you
In the true spirit of the guru SIshya tradition


OM, is the word, that denotes the three worlds.
It denotes the waking, dreaming and sleeping states.
It denotes the three bodies of a jiva.
It denotes the three bodies of ishvara.

OM is hence a name for the lord
The lord who is all pervasive
The lord whom you worship.

But this is only the direct meaning of OM

There is indeed an implied meaning for the word OM
And this is the meaning that was taught to me
By my exalted gurus ,
Who are brahmavids and shrotriya brahmaNishta

When I say 'I', the I is indeed atma
This atma is formless, shapeless, attributeless, limitless, consciousness that is different from known objects which are matter, and of the nature of limitlessness

Such an atma is the satyam, it is indeed the truth,
It alone exists, and nothing else exists whatsoever other than this atma

This atma is tvam, this atma is aham, this atma is tad

This atma is the basis on which,
The mithya jagad is sustained

All that is here, which is OM, is sustained, or exists with atma as the basis,
But all that is here, does not enjoy the same degree of reality as atma

While atma is truth the blemishless and beginingless truth
This world only seemingly exists, and enjoys its existence, with atma being the maker as well as the material,
That is what is parameshvara, parameshvara is indeed the parambrahman, which is atma.
The great intelligent being, bhagavan is atma,
And soham iti, so am I.

Where is duality, other than just a dream,
From the paramArthika pov, there is only blemishless truth,
Satyam Gnanam Anantham brahma.

What else is possibly there, other than Aham,

What else is their to achieve,
Is this to be achieved or to be known

Soham iti, is to be known
And only to remove ignorance,
Since soham is manifest as me,
as you of beloved pitrus
Tat Tvam Asi.

OM Shri Parvathi Pathaye, Hara Hara MahAdeva.