Mouna Vyakhya prakatitha, para,
Brahma thathwam yuvanam,
Varshishtha anthevasad rishiganai,
Ravrutham brahma nishtai,
Acharyendram kara kalihtha chin,
Mudram ananda roopam,
Swathmaramam mudhitha vadanam,
Dakshinamurthim eede.
I praise and salute that Dakshinamrthy,
Who faces the south,
Who explains the true nature of the supreme Brahman,
Through his state of silence,
Who is young in looks,
Who is surrounded by disciples who are old Sages,
Whose minds are fixed on Brahman,
Who is the greatest of teachers,
Who shows the Chinmudhra by his hand,
Who is personification of happiness,
Who is in the state of extreme joy within himself,
And who has a smiling face.
Viswam darpana drusyamana nagari,
Thulyam nijantargatham,
Pasyannathmani mayaya bahirivoth,
Bhutham yatha nidraya,
Ya sakshath kuruthe prabodha samaye,
Swathmanameva dwayam,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree Dakshinamurthaye., 2
Similar to the image of a town as seen in the mirror,
When one sees the image of the world within him,
The world appears as if it is outside.
It is similar to his seeing due to illusion,
During the state of sleep,
That the one real fact appears as many different truths,
And he realizes,when he wakes up and sees the reality,
That he is really the one and only one soul.
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
Beejasyanthari vankuro jagadhidham,
Prang nirvikalpam puna,
Mayakalpitha desa kala kalanaa,
Vaichithrya chithrikrutham,
Mayaveeva vijrumbhayathyapi maha,
Yogeeva yah swechaya,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree dakshinamurthaye., 3
Like the germ inside the seed is its part,
But becomes different after development
The many places and time which are before us,
Are drawn by illusion in the board of life in a peculiar manner,
By a great savant or an expert Siddha,
Who can create them as per their will,
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
Yasyaiva sphuranam sadathmakamasath,
Kalparthagam bhasathe,
Sakshaath thathwamaseethi veda vachasa,
Yobodhyathyasrithhan,
Yath saksht karanath bhavenna punara,
Aavrithir bhavambhonidhow,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree dakshinamurthaye., 4
He who exists as the real light of truth,
And shines in the false world of appearance,
And He who teaches disciples the great saying,
“Thou art that”[2] after realizing its import,
Gets away from this cycle of life and death.
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
Nanachidhra ghato dhara sthitha maha,
Deepa prabha bhaswaram,
Jnanam yasya thu chakshuradhi karana,
Dwara bahi spandathe,
Jaanameethi tham eva baandham anubathi,
Yethath samastham jagat,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree dakshinamurthaye., 5
Like the light emanating from a lamp,
Kept in a pot with many holes,
Goes out in all directions,
In the person in whom the wisdom goes out
Through the openings of ear, eye , mouth and thought,
And when that person realizes that ‘I know myself”,
This whole universe shines after Him alone,
Who shines in the consciousness as the knower.
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
Deham pranam api indryanyapi chalaam,
Budhim cha soonyam vidhu,
Stree balandha jadopamasthvaha mithi,
Brandha brusam vadhina,
Maya sakthi vilasa kalpitha maha,
Vyamoha samharine,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree dakshinamurthaye., 6
Those great philosophers , who think that,
The body, the soul and the fickle intellect,
The concept of emptiness and all other nothingness,
Are nothing but themselves,
Are similar to the women children , blind and the ignorant.
It is only He who can destroy, this veil of ignorance,
And wake us up from this state of deceit.
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
Rahu grastha divakarendu sadrusho,
Maya samachadanath,
Sanamthra karanopa samharanatho,
Yo abhoot sushuptha pumaan,
Pragaswapsaamithi prabodha samaye,
Yaa prathyabignayathe,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree dakshinamurthaye., 7
Similar to the Sun when being masked by the serpent Rahu,
Knows that it was existing, once the eclipse is over
That man whose senses are suppressed
When he is asleep,
Because of the veil of illusion,
Realizes that he was in the state of sleep,
When he wakes up.
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
Balyadishwapi jagaradhadishu thadha,
Sarva sva avasthasthaswapi,
Vyavrutha swanuvarthamanamaha,
Mithyanth sphurantham sada,
Svathmaanam pragatikarothi bajatham,
Yo mudraya bhadraya,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree dakshinamurthaye., 8
Salutations to him who shines and exhibits,
Himself by the beatific Chinmudhra of the hand,
That he exists within the humans as self,
Forever and non changing,
Even during the changing states of childhood, youth and old age
And even during the states of sleep, dream and wakefulness.
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
The truth as represented by the concept of Brahman, exists always.
Viswam pasyathi karya karana thaya,
Swa swami sambandatha,
Sishyacharya thaya thadaiva pithru,
Puthradhyathmana bedatha,
Swapne Jagrathi va ya esha purusho,
Maya Paribramitha,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree dakshinamurthaye., 9
The world sees as cause and effect,
The differences between us and our lord,
The distinction between teacher and the taught,
The distinction between father and son,
And so the man is confused by illusion,
And believes in these differences,
During the times of dream and wakefulness.
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
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Bhoorambaamsya anilo ambhara,
Maharnadho himamasu puman,
Ithyabhathi characharathmakamidham,
Yasyaiva murthyashtakam,
Nanyath kinchana vidhyathe vimrusathaam,
Yasmath parasmath vibho,
Thasmai sri guru murthaye nama idham,
Sree dakshinamurthaye., 10
To the sake of which supreme Brahman,
The universe is shining as self,
Which is Movable and immovable, with its aspects?
Of water, fire, air, space,
The sun, moon and the individual soul,
And also to those who examine the truth behind,
The meaning of this universe and find,
That it Consists of nothing but,
The God who is every where.
Salutation to the God facing the south,
Who is the greatest teacher.
Sarvathmathvamithi sphutikruthamitham,
Yasmadamushamin sthave,
Thenasya sravanath thadartha mananath,
Dyanascha Sankeerthanath,
Sarvathmathva maha vibhuthi sahitham,
Syadheeswarasthvam svatha,
Siddhyeth thath punarashtadha parinatham,
Chaisvaryamvayhatham., 11
The concept of the Athma,
Which is explained in this poem of praise,
Hearing which, understanding which,
Meditating which and singing which,
One would attain the state of the godliness,
And the great state of self realization,
And also you would get the eight powers of occult,
Without any problems in between.
Appendix
The following three stanzas as well as the first stanza are chanted after the main stotra:-
Chitram Vata tharor mole vruddha,
Sishya, Guror Yuva,
Gurostu mounam vykhyanam,
Sishyasthu china samsaya
It is strange to see,
The very old disciples,
And the very young teacher,
Who sit under a banyan tree,
With the teacher always observing silence,
And the students getting all the doubts cleared.
Om nama pranavarthaya,
Suddha jnanaika moorthaye nama,
Nirmalaya prasanthaya,
Sri Dakshinamurthaye nama.
Salutations to that Dakshinamurthy,
Who is the meaning of the pranava, “OM”,
Who is the personification of unalloyed wisdom,
Who is crystal clear in his thought,
And who is the epitome of peace.
Gurave sara lokaanam,
Bishaje bhava roginaam,
Nidhaye sarva vidhyanam,
Sri Dakshinamurthaye nama.
Salutations to that Dakshinamurthy,
Who is the teacher of the entire world,
Who is the doctor to those,
Afflicted by the disease of birth and death,
And who is the treasure hose of all knowledge.
The sons of Brahma, who had mastered the Vedas and Upanishands at a very young age , the four Kumaras Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanatkumara, came to have Darsana of Lord Siva and prostrated before him. They entreated Lord Shiva to teach them the way to remove the veil of Maya or illusion.
Lord Siva, hearing this appeal made by the sages, assumed the form of Dakshinamurti . He attuned them to the brain wave frequency of Turiya and transferred the requisite knowledge to them by telepathy in total silence.
Lord Shiva Himself came down in the form of Dakshinamurthy and sat under a banyan tree to give enlightenment to the 4 sons of Brahma.
Dakshinamurthy, in the Hinduism is regarded as the first guru -- and the destroyer of ignorance, represented by the demon Apasmarapurusha, (the deluded self) being crushed under the divine foot .
In Turiya state there is the absolute awareness. It is the experience of ultimate reality and truth. You are now a unique individual and you are a vital part of a larger universal life force that transcends everything on earth.
Reality and truth become more clearly defined, allowing you to perceive that which lies above, below, and beyond the human experience. This utterly quiet, peaceful and blissful state is the ultimate aim of all spiritual activity . This highest state is not affected by Maya .
Turiya Consciousness is the ultimate goal of spirituality for here you know what freedom is all about.
A sage is an extraordinary being. A sage does not dream, because he has no polarity. He’s just a witness.
This witness never sleeps. It is eternal awareness or Nirvana.
OM is the four states of consciousness, as per Patanjali Yoga.
OM is the waking state or jagrat. Beta brain wave
OM is the dreaming state or svapna. REM sleep state
OM is the deep sleep state or sushupti. (dream-less deep sleep state , the delta brain wave)
OM is the transcendental state or turiya (beyond all the states) , the fourth has been called nirvana.
Four stages : consciousness plus thinking is waking, consciousness minus thinking is turiya, unconsciousness plus thinking is dreaming, unconsciousness minus thinking is sleep. Finally, the semi-circle symbolizes Maya and separates the dot from the other three curves.
It is the illusion of Maya that prevents us from the realization of this highest state of bliss. The semi-circle is open at the top and does not touch the dot. This means that this highest state is not affected by Maya.
Maya only affects the manifested phenomenon. In Turiya thoughts subside and one becomes increasingly more awake; the mind settles down and consciousness itself becomes primary.
Mediators describe this as pure consciousness or unbounded awareness. One sees the entire world and all things within it as part of oneself, and oneself part of all. The 7000 year old Upanishads equates this experience with enlightenment.
Turiya is the totality of everything, and the headwaters from which all consciousness flow. It is said in the Mandukya Upanishad. “ It is unseen, transcendent, the sole essence of the consciousness of self, the completion of the world.” In Turiya there is total mental clarity, and complete inner peace one recognizes the Self in every shining atom of existence.
The ancient Maharshis understood the staggering scale of the human mind. The MMMM humming of OM king mantra of Hinduism, boosts the production of Nitric oxide in the body. This was known to Indians 7000 years ago and documented.
Dakshinamurthy, is one of the five aspects of Shiva, the others being Nataraja, Shiva Linga, Ardhanaadheeshwara and Tripurantaka. He is the embodiment of spiritual wisdom, the universal teacher of music, yoga and jnana and the destroyer of ignorance.
Dakshinamurthy literally means one who faces the south. In every Saivite temple, Dakshinamurthy statues are installed facing the south in the circumambulatory path of the sanctum.
In a more profound view, Dakshinamurthy is the Guru ( teacher ) to whom a shishya ( disciple ) must express his gratitude. The Dakshinsmurthy Ashtakam was composed by Guru Adi Shankaracharya in 2000 BC.
Above : Adi Shankaracharya --Indian tradition accords a special reverence to the Guru or the teacher.
The Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain, one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva, is dedicated to Dakshinmurthy.
As mentioned in the Mahabharata epic, Ujjayini was the capital of the Avanti Kingdom. Ujjain is one of the four sites that host the Kumbh Mela (also called the Simhastha Mela), a quadrennial mass pilgrimage that attracts millions of Hindu pilgrims from around the country.
It is also home to the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga, one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines to the god Shiva.
An ancient seat of learning, Ujjain is the place where Lord Krishna, along with Balarama and Sudama, received his education from Maharshi Sandipani. Ujjain contains maximum number of temples on the planet.
Maya is invisible and beyond sense-perception. No human can see beyond the quantum screen .
Albert Einstein said "We have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter."
He has just quoted from 7000 year old Vedanta ( which he was proficient in ) which clearly stated Maya, the illusion often mistaken for reality.
What is the difference between a quantum physicist and an ancient Indian maharishi seer of 9500 BC ?
The seer placed himself inside and saw outwards, for he had the perception afforded by a king sized pineal gland and 12 strand DNA to do so.
The quantum scientist with a shrivelled pineal gland and 2 strand DNA ( 97% junk ) with pre-conceived notions pounded in by a moron Isaac Newton stood outside and peeked inside all the while scratching his head.
The mystics took existence for granted, and knew how to get from here to there. They got to see beyond the apparition of MAYA. The distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy.
The modern Big Bang cosmologists want to get the Universe out of nothing. It's like asking us to believe that nothing made everything out of nothing.
They could not understand singularity which the Vedic seer did. The Bindu of the 10500 year old Sri Yantra represents singularity.
When you see beyond the quantum screen of Maya , all become crystal clear.
Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism believes that God has given us 5 senses of narrow bandwidth, so that we do NOT have an information overload breakdown. The quantum world cannot be observed by our 5 senses, and they do NOT follow the cause and effect laws of classical physics.
The Bible says that the big bang happened in 4004 BC, while Vedanta and the modern quantum theory agrees that it is around 15 billion years. It is amazing that the timeless Vedic tradition remains relevant and easily expressible in terms of contemporary scientific concepts.
Modern science accepted consciousness only after it got shell shocked by the results of the quantum double slit experiment..
The mystic and the physicist has now arrived at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world.
It was written down in the Vedas said 7000 years ago that mind is over matter.
Quantum Physics like Vedas tell us that particles and waves are the same thing. Your conscious intention determines whether you see a particle or a wave.In the quantum domain everything is interrelated. Photons and electrons have a ability to shift their form in an instant. Measured one way they behave as particles. Measured another way they act as waves.
The theory of relativity, and the space-time character of the universe, were perceived by the old Indian Rishis in their advanced stage of spiritual consciousness 9000 years ago.
In their state of higher consciousness they realized that the ultimate constituents of the universe - energy and mass, particle and wave, - were but different aspects of the same basic process, but the same Oneness which pervaded the entire universe.
The intuition of Indian mystics led them to understand the multidimensional reality and of space-time continuum which is the basis of the modern theory of relativity.
The Vedas state that without manifestation of time, the unmanifest material energy cannot become active and take form.
“Elementary time is measured to its covering of a particular elementary space. That time which covers the unmanifest aggregate of the elementary particle is called the great time ( Mahakala )” :- Bhagawatam 3.11.14
While modern mathematics, science and technology centre around linear dimensional reality , but the Vedic systems avail multidimensional spiraling reality.
Our human brain is in reality none other than a biological space-time energy transducer. As such, it creates not only space, but also time.
The timeless principles of Vedanta is expressed in the technical language of Quantum Mechanics and the philosophy of science, even today with little or no attenuation of meaning.
Vedas are NOT about Indra running around like a jack ass looking for lost cows and then doing a sacrifice so that he can get the strength to screw the asuras...
OM is not calling your goat as ridiculed by the white historian –Yet all religions lifted OM and mirrored it as AMEN, SHALOM, 786, OMKAR— or whatever.
The greatest son of Kerala ( my home state in India ) is Adi Sankaracharya who was born in 2000 BC at Kaladi. He was a 12 strand DNA seer with raised Kundalini , the world’s greatest and original philosopher, intellectual , scholar and poet. He mastered the Vedas written in 5000 BC, at the tender age of five.
The white Christian invader pushed this great man back in history by an astounding 2800 years, so that his philosophy could be stolen and attributed to the West as a measure of blatant racism—to prove that Indians are worthless .
This is the same pathetic mindset which forced them to say that the blue eyed blond white Aryan invaded India and wrote our Vedas and Upanishads.
Shankara’s philosophy is now patented in the names of ancient Greek philosophers and the modern European philosophers. They will never write anywhere that both Plato and Pythagoras were students in India.
They made cock and bull stories, and had it legitimized by the opportunistic and servile Tamilian Indian Brahmins.
Adi Shankaracharua pondered about the source, nature, foundation, scope, validity and limits of human knowledge.
He was the first metaphysicist. Metaphysics means “what comes after physics”. Its object is to determine the real nature of things—to determine the meaning, structure, and principles of whatever is insofar as it is-- with reality as a whole.
It is a call to recognize the existence and overwhelming importance of a set of higher realities that ordinary men could not deduce.
Metaphysics is the science of ultimate reality , as opposed to appearance or the contrast between appearance and reality . 99.9999% of every atom is empty space.
What we perceive as physical dense matter is actually 99.999 % empty space - large electron fields with very little matter in the center. We live in a universe created of "objects" that are actually 99.999% empty space.
THIS EMPTY SPACE , THE INTELLIGENT MORPHOGENETIC FIELD IS BRAHMAN-- THE HINDU GOD , AS PER ADVAITA VEDANTA
The electrons, protons and neutrons are only a small part of the atom. It is the space between them that is, ironically, the “substance.”
Within the electromagnetic force of the atom is the key to everything: creation, transmutation . . -limitless power. This intelligent field decides why a electron should remain in a particular orbit.
Electrons can change position instantly without taking time. They suddenly appear in another orbit of higher or lower energy or distance from the nucleus.
Quantum Physics which suddenly appeared in the 20th century is the result of ancient Vedic Sanskrit texts being translated by the Christian invaders . These texts are 7000 years old.
The universe is in perfect harmony and balance. The cosmos is a unified system. A little disharmony and the entire matter of the universe will go back into the black hole ( Kali ) .
The Dakshinamurthy Stotram expounds the theory or philosophy of Advaita Vedanta written by Adi Shankara.
It must be clear that Lord Shiva did NOT have any avatar.
Daksinaganga or river Narmada is the seat of all evolution on this planet , into which black meteorite stones ( Shiva Lingams ) containing DNA rained from the sky.
The Narmada river was mentioned by Ptolemy in the second century AD as Namade .
According to lore, Lord Shiva, the Destroyer of the Universe, meditated so hard that he started perspiring. Shiva's sweat accumulated and started flowing in the form of a river – the Narmada.
"Narmada Ke Kanker utte Sankar" (a popular saying in the Hindi belt of India), which means that 'pebble stones of Narmada get a personified form of Shiva'.
The sprawling caves of Bhimbetka located in a dyke of the Narmada valley at about 45 km northeast of Bhopal (between Bhopal and Hoshangabad highway) depicts pre–historic rock shelter paintings which are sculpted on the crest of the Vindhyan heights.
The Bhimbetka rock shelters, discovered in 1957 is a natural art gallery and an archaeological treasure considered as one of the oldest human habitation in India where the caves house rock paintings, created by man from as early as about 18,000 years ago in vivid and panoramic detail.
It is a World Heritage site.
Shiva is normally worshipped in the form of Linga except for a few exceptions like the dancing Nataraja , Dakshinamurthy in a classic yogic pose called Veerasana under the Banyan tree .
Rightly after Independence the Indian Govt has chosen Banyan tree as our national tree, for here is a tree that regenerates unlike other trees, and is immortal.
In ancient days , the villages held court, without written records under it, the tree being the sole witness. Under this tree people do NOT tell lies, lest the spirits in the tree get offended. Provoking the spirits within the tree brings misfortune and ill health.
River Narmada is said to be born of 'Shiva's sweat' (underground water finding its way out on to the surface of earth ) when 'India' was an island called Jambudweep, before the birth of the Himalayas from under the seabed in its North after the great continental drift...
Grace and peace !
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL..