Isvaraarpitam necchaya krtam
chittashodhakam muktisadhakam
By performing actions with the spirit of offering them to the Lord, the mind becomes purified and this leads to Liberation.
Upadesha Saara
Verse 3

Dear Rao Sir,

Please dont say thanks to me.
We all are very greatfull and fortunate that you share your knowledge with us and that knowledge which you have is paaramparic in Jyotish and Shastra and very valuable for us.
Pranams
suniti c

Dear Rao Sir

wow
am eagerly awaiting the continuation
thanks so much, we are very blessed indeed to be able to learn from someone like you.

Pranaams
suniti c

Shri Gurubhyo Namah

Kashi Yatra as prescribed traditionally consists of having bath at various ghats. Many pilgrims undertake the Panchathirtha yatra of Kashi where a dip is taken at five of the major ghats in the Gangaji. The ghats are all visited in a certain order. First a bath is taken at Asi ...

Shri Gurubhyo Namah
She Kashivishvanaathaaya Namah


I wanted to write on the great city of Kashi for anyone interested to read and also so i can enjoy remembering this city of light. The more i tried to read though the more i realized it is a very vast topic. I thought instead i will right a little ...

This is another beautiful one i came across and decided to post, its charming and is easy to understand even in the original as well. In this one i felt that the subhashitakaar must have examined so many things in depth to come to these conclusions and it is in this that i can glimpse that all of ...

I do agree with u that when analysed as a theory, advaita too has very many loopholes. But i believe its purpose is not to explain, but rather to jolt. :)

Kandhanji

just my opinion and a much as i've studied both advaita and dvaita have perfect logic..no loopholes in either.
Ive thought a lot ...

Dear Spidey

wish you a very very happy birthday
:D :D
and thanks, thanks, thanks, for all the work you put into the forum for everyone.... :D :D :D


Janmadinamidam ayi priya sakhe
sham tano tu te sarvada mudam |

prarthayamahe bhava shatayushi
ishwara sada tvam ca rakshatu |

punya karmana ...

Dear Anupamji
nischal was just an example for that upasarga
but since it has sent you into samadhi i am happy for that
sounds like that verse in Isha
It moves and moves not; It is far and its near. It is inside all this and It is outside all this

pranaams
suniti

What shastras REALLY mean by Brahmam being "nirgunam" is that the Brahmam does not have "negative" gunas - that means the Brahmam only has "kalyana-gunas". Therefore Brahmam has Gunas.

I will also post more about why the Brahmam also has FORM.

Sudarhanji
a word of advice that will really be of ...

DEAR NARAYANJI

Seeing the title of this thread and then your name Narayan as the last post is making me wonder!!!!

pranaams
suniti

From Shiva Maanas Puja

आत्मा त्वं गिरिजा मतिः सहचराः प्राणाः शरीरं गृहं
पूजा ते विषयोपभोगरचना निद्रा समाधिस्थितिः
सञ्चारः पदयोः प्रदक्षिणविधिः स्तोत्राणि सर्वा गिरो
यद्यत्कर्म करोमि तत्तदखिलं शम्भो तवाराधनम्

Oh Lord Shiva you are my atma, Girija is my mind, Your guards are my Pranas, My body is ...

Pranaams Ramanan Sir

a very very happy birthday to you
a special thanks for all of your time that you give
and everything else

praathayamahe bhava shata aayushi...

suniti c

Good Day Shivalove9

just saw that you are also 79 born...dont know if this applies but anyway interesting
http://www.lightonvedicastrology.com/ph ... hilit=club

love
suniti c

the famous verse containing the phrase vasudhaiva kutumbakam

ayam bandhurayam neti gananaa laghuchetasaam
udaaracharitaanaam tu vasudhaiva kutumbakam'

"This person is my own and that one is stranger” such a thought occurs only to the narrow-minded people.
To the broad-minded person the whole ...

But "swamykool" is a special word and split only & always shashti tatpurusha...the very Swami of Cool

aham cha tvam cha rajendra lokanaathaa vubhau samau
bahuvrihih aham raajan shashti-tatpurusho-bhavaan

Oh King, both of us are called "Lokanath" however you are called Lokanatha in the shashti tatpurusha sense and i am called Lokanatha in the bahuvrihi sense.

Thee are two kinds of compounds ...

that was a beautiful one Talibji

no discussion on subhashita can be complete without the following:

aakaashaat patitam toyam yathagacchati saagaram
sarvadevanamaskarah keshavam pratigacchati

Just like every drop of water that falls from the sky goes to the ocean
so too every namaskar to any ...

ashanam me vasanam me jaayaa me bandhuvargo me
iti me me kurvaanam kalavriko hanti purushaajam

MY food MY house MY wife MY friends My relations
the man who keeps saying MY MY (me me) sounds like a goat that the wolf called Time kills.

Pranaam Swamykoolji

thanks for the chitta thing actually i had several mistakes in it
first i had put chinta and chita in 2nd case and corrected it later
i cant find this variation online of the subhashita thus making my chitta confused :D will edit the extra "t" in it out now.

about Mahabali ...

Pranaam all
here is a bhajan composed by Goswami Tulsidasji
its part of Vinaya Patrika and on Ganga Devi

Jai-jai bhagirathnandini, muni-chay-chakor-chandini,
nar-naag-bibudh-bandini jai jahnu baalikaa |
bisnu-pad-sarojjaasi, ees-seespar bibhaasi,
tripathgaasi, punyaraasi, paap-chhaalikaa
bimal ...

thanks anuradhaji..one of my favorites
thanks talibji do post more they are very beautiful.

Swamykoolji i was also thinking of Chanakya verses so thank you so much for putting this one down and send many more :D
one small note though is that the words vadha here means destroyed, it was King ...

the following is again from Manu Smriti:

yatra naryastu pujyante ramante tatra devataah
yatraitaastu na pujyante sarvaastatra-aphalaah kriyaah

Where the women are respected the Gods are happy,
but where they are not honoured no sacred ritual can ever give phala.

@Arunbhai please do contribute some subhashitas
@Talibji...waiting for many more from you please include Kabirji dohas




ashvam naiva gajam naiva
vyaghram naiva naiva cha
ajaputram balim daddat
devah durbala-ghatakah 8)

A horse is never sacrificed, an elephant is never sacrificed
a tiger is ...

The next verse is from ManuSmriti and is very beautiful and specific in nature:

satyam bruyaat priyam bruyaat na bruyaat satyam apriyam
priyam cha naanrtam bruyaay esha dharmah sanatanah

Speak what is truth and what is pleasant, dont speak what is true but unpleasant
and don't speak what is ...