[Advaita-l] Fwd: A Vedantic nugget from Shri R. Visvanatha Sastri's writings

[Ravi Kiran]

Nice compilation ...Thanks

2016-09-28 20:41 GMT+05:30 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
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> A post that appeared in the Advaitin List:
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> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/advaitin/conversations/messages/67960
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> profvk
> Today at 5:34 PM
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> Namaste all.
>
>
>
> It so happened today that I bumped into one of my father’s advaitic
> nuggets, among his heaps of writings.  I have given it below.  The theme as
> well as the refrain is ‘dehino me mRRitiH katham?’ – meaning, how can I
> resident in the body, ever die?.  There are eight shlokas, and if you
> string together the first letters of the shlokas you will again get ‘dehino
> me mRRitiH katham?’. The English transliteration and translation are mine.
> Errors in these may be excused.
>
>
> *दे *हो नित्यमशुद्धोऽयं देही चात्यन्तनिर्मलः।
>
> उभयोरन्तरं ज्ञात्वा  देहिनो मे मृतिः कथम्॥ १॥
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> *deho nityamashuddho.ayaM dehIcAtyanta nirmalaH .*
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> *ubhayorantaraM GYAtvA  dehino me mRRitiH katham .. 1 ..*
>
>  This body is ever impure; the resident in the body is extremely
> faultless.  Knowing this difference, how can I, the resident, ever die?
>
> *हि* रण्यज्योतिरेवाहं देहादीन् भासयाम्यपि।
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> मद्ग्रस्यमानदेहाच्च देहिनो मे मृतिः कथम्॥ २॥
>
> *hiraNyajyotirevAhaM dehAdIn bhAsayAmyapi .*
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> *madgrasyamAnadehAcca dehino me mRRitiH katham .. 2 ..*
>
>  I am indeed the Golden Light who makes the body etc. shine.  From this
> body which is devourable in Me , how can I, the resident, ever die?
>
> *नो *देति नास्तमायाति मत्प्रभास्ते सदा मया।
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> नित्यप्रबुद्धचित्तोऽहं देहिनो मे मृतिः कथम्॥॥ ३॥
>
> *nodeti nAstamAyAti matprabhAste sadA mayA .*
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> *nityaprabuddhacitto.ahaM dehino me mRRitiH katham .... 3..*
>
>  My splendrous Light neither rises nor disappears, it ever shines as Me. I
> who is Eternal Consciousness, how can I, the resident, ever die?
>
> *मे* मेति बुद्ध्या भ्रान्तोऽहं निर्ममत्वं स्वभावतः।
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> अखण्डपरिपूर्णस्य देहिनो मे मृतिः कथम्॥ ४॥
>
> *memeti buddhyA bhrAnto.ahaM nirmamatvaM svabhAvataH .*
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> *akhaNDaparipUrNasya dehino me mRRitiH katham .. 4 ..*
>
> Confounded by the thought of I and Mine, but really by nature without any
> mine-ness, for Me who is  unfragmented Fullness, how can I, the resident,
> ever die?
>
> *मृ* त्युर्जन्मवतां नित्यं देहेन सह जायते।
>
> विवेकाद्यो विदेही च  देहिनो मे मृतिः कथम् ॥ ५॥
>
> *mRRityurjanmavatAM nityaM dehena saha jAyate .*
>
> *vivekAdyovidehI ca  dehino me mRRitiH katham  .. 5 ..*
>
> Death certainly accompanies the body that is born. For Me who out of
> discrimination is other than this body, how can I, the resident, ever die?
>
> *ति* ष्ठन् यश्चातिथिरिव निर्ममत्वाभिमानताम्।
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> यो भजेद्दुःखसौख्यं च देहिनो मे मृतिः कथम् ॥ ६॥
>
> *tishhThan yashcAtithiriva nirmamatvAbhimAnatAm .*
>
> *yo bhajedduHkhasaukhyaM ca dehino me mRRitiH katham  .. 6* ..
>
>  Remaining as a guest  without any possessiveness or mine-ness in this body
> and being indifferent to both suffering and happiness, how can I, the
> resident, ever die?
>
>
>
> *क*  नके कुण्डलं  पश्यन् जले वीचीस्तथैव च।
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> देहिन्यपि तथैवेति देहिनो मे मृतिः कथम् ॥ ७॥
>
> *kanake kuNDalaM  pashyan jale vIcIstathaiva ca .*
>
> *dehinyapi tathaiveti dehino me mRRitiH katham  .. 7 ..*
>
> As is the ornament seen in gold, and as is the wave seen in the water so is
> the body seen in the embodied resident; how can I the resident, ever die?
>
> *थं*  भयं देहतो भातं यथा स्थाणौ नृरूपता।
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> जीवत्वं ब्रह्मणि तथा देहिनो मे मृतिः कथम् ॥ ८॥
>
> *thaMbhayaM dehato bhAtaM yathA sthANau nRRirUpatA .*
>
> *jIvatvaM brahmaNi tathA dehino me mRRitiH katham  .. 8 ..*
>
> Just as the appearance of a  a human form in a pillar creates fear so
> should the state of jIva in brahman create fear; how can I the resident,
> ever die?
>
>
> PraNAms to all advaitins
>
> profvk
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