लहरों से डर कर नौका पार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती।
नन्हीं चींटी जब दाना लेकर चलती है,
चढ़ती दीवारों पर, सौ बार फिसलती है।
मन का विश्वास रगों में साहस भरता है,
चढ़कर गिरना, गिरकर चढ़ना न अखरता है।
आख़िर उसकी मेहनत बेकार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती।
डुबकियां सिंधु में गोताखोर लगाता है,
जा जा कर खाली हाथ लौटकर आता है।
मिलते नहीं सहज ही मोती गहरे पानी में,
बढ़ता दुगना उत्साह इसी हैरानी में।
मुट्ठी उसकी खाली हर बार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती।
असफलता एक चुनौती है, स्वीकार करो,
क्या कमी रह गई, देखो और सुधार करो।
जब तक न सफल हो, नींद चैन को त्यागो तुम,
संघर्ष का मैदान छोड़ मत भागो तुम।
कुछ किये बिना ही जय जय कार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती।
-हरिवंशराय बच्चन
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
लहरों से डर कर नौका पार नहीं होती Inspiring Poem by Harivansha Rai Bachchan
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Say Goodbye Without Grief: Talk by Osho
Tung-men Wu did not grieve when his son died. It is difficult not to grieve when somebody you loved so much has died. It is possible only if you have known something of the essential. It is possible only if you have tasted something of the deathless, if you have transcended the accidental. He did not grieve, he was not sad. He was not weeping or crying; he was not broken. He remained just the same as he was before.
The wife was disturbed. She said: No one in the world loved his son as much as you did, why do you not grieve now that he is dead. Ordinarily, this is our logic, that if you love a person too much you will grieve too much when he is gone. The logic is fallacious; the logic has a deep flaw in it. In fact, if you have loved a person really, when he is gone he is gone; you will not grieve much. If you have not loved the person deeply, then you will grieve very much.
Your father dies, or your mother dies. If you have loved him totally while he was alive, you will be able to say goodbye to him without any grief because you loved him. That experience of love was total and fulfilling; nothing is left undone; nothing is hanging over your head. Whatsoever was possible has happened; now you can accept it. What more was possible Even if he had been alive, what more would have been possible. The experience is complete.
Whenever an experience is complete, you are ready to say goodbye easily. But if you have not loved your father as you always wanted to, you have not been respectful towards him as you always wanted to, you will feel guilty. Now the father is gone; now there is no way to fulfill your desire now there is no way to show your respect, your love. Now there is no way, you will feel yourself hanging in the middle, in limbo. You will not be at ease; you cannot say goodbye. You will cry and weep and you will be broken, and you will say that you are broken because your father is dead, but the real thing is something else.
Once an experience is complete, you can get out of it very easily you can just slip out of it as the snake slips out of his old skin. If you love a woman and you have been constantly quarrelling with her, and it never became a deep satisfaction, and she dies... now she will haunt you, her ghost will haunt you for your whole life. While you love a person, if you love him totally there is going to be no misery. Of course, one feels a little sad but it is not grief; one misses a little but one is capable of remaining centered, one is not distracted.
It is the unlived experiences that go on piling up and they become heavy burdens. The problem is that now there is no way. You cannot complete them because the person has disappeared. Whenever an experience is complete, it is a ripe fruit it drops of its own accord. It leaves no scar behind, there is no wound. A Sudden Clash of Thunder.
Man, some people are just RUDE!! (ACY by Sonal Kalra)
HT City, Delhi
27 Nov. 2011
Ask a rude question, and you are bound to get a rude reply. Then, don't cry and say `why this Kolaveri Di?'
I sometimes bump into this woman on my way back from work. Whenever she sees me, she asks me one, and only one question. "You look tired, are you unwell?" For a long time I kept telling myself `aww, how sweet. She is so concerned for me.' And even though I didn't really feel tired or unwell, I would politely reply, `yeah, it's been an awfully tiring day at work'.
But, to be honest, I don't quite enjoy being told everyday that I don't seem okay, and it is now bugging the hell out of me.
Yesterday, she said, `You are getting dark circles under your eyes. Have you been partying too much or are you sick?' I could have gone and fretted in front of the mirror for an hour, but this time I took my face closer to hers and asked, `are they as dark as yours or even worse?' The last I know, she had booked a doctor's appointment for a check-up.
See, I know you are still wondering what's the big deal in what she said, and, in all probability think my reply was rude. Well, yes it was, but so was her question. We, in India, are taught a skewed and rather limited definition of the term `rude', while we are growing up.
We are told that if a person raises his voice or speaks in a harsh, unpleasant way, it is rude.
So we tend to focus only on the packaging of the words and how they are being delivered, more than what is being said! We don't realise that it is totally unacceptable even when the `packaging' is super sweet but the content smacks of nothing but ill-manners.
A colleague of mine was visiting his hometown recently when a woman relative asked him what he does, for a living.
`I work in a newspaper,' he replied. "Achha? Kitna daal lete ho?" she asked. Wondering whether she mistook him for the newspaper vendor (in his place, I would've wondered if she was fond of making obscene remarks!), he stood quiet. And then she elaborated. `Har mahiney kitna daal lete ho bank mein?' (how much goes in your bank every month?). Ahh, so she was asking him about his salary.
No big deal, you may again say.
Damn rude, I think.
Sadly, we see nothing wrong in crossing the boundary and asking fairly personal questions of people, sometimes even strangers. Well, I think it's unfair to put up with them in the name of politeness. Here are some of the rude questions we Indians specialise in asking, as if it's the compulsory thesis for a Phd in ill-manners. Since I don't wish to be seen as advocating rudeness a la `an eye for an eye', I suggest two possible ways of coping up with the question -the polite answer (TPA), and the I-am-taking-you-on answer (TYOA). Choose yours, at your own risk.
1 What's your salary?: TPA: (sheepish smile) "God's been kind. Bas kaam chal jaata hai. It's just the start of the career, but it will get better in a few years...etc etc" (ugh)
TYOA: I'm happy you asked.
Do you want a loan? I charge really high interest but can afford to lend big amounts at a short notice. I didn't know you were having trouble with finances. How much do you need? (disclaimer: don't try with the tribe of chachis, maamis, mausis etc or your parents would kick you out)
2 When are you having kids?
(or in desi style: `good news' kab de rahe ho?) TPA: Smile. `When the right time comes. These things are in God's hands.' (go, cry in a corner)
TYOA: (Looking them in the eye): We are waiting to see how your kids turn out before we decide. And feeling very anxious at the way it's going so far.
3 To the parents/siblings of a girl who got married recently `She's happy, no? (khush toh hai nah?)
TPA: Yeah, she calls me every evening and for two-and-a-half hours, tells me how happy she is.
TYOA: No, yaar. She tried to poison her mother-in-law yesterday but the neighbour's stupid cat drank the milk. I've asked her to wait before the next attempt.
4 Have you noticed that you're getting fat? How much do you weigh?
TPA: (look down embarrassingly): Yeah, don't ask. I'll start working out from this New Year.
TYOA: Shit, really? It totally skipped me because the mirror at home is broken. 450 kgs isn't much. And the paunch is the latest style trend in the west. You should try it, though it's not easy.
5 Why exactly did you break-up?
TPA: We were just not compatible. It was not meant to be.
TYOA: (very seriously): She wanted to try her luck in Hollywood. And I was always in favour of our own cinema. You've got to be patriotic. No? By the way, the idiot-store called. They are running out of you. You better rush.
6 To a heavily pregnant woman: `Oh God, you look huge. Are you having twins?'
TPA: (sheepish): No, just one, a little healthy, I guess.
TYOA: No. Are you?
Okay, fine. My answers above are rude and perhaps you should not try them at all. But I hope you do get the point. Do not venture so much into peoples' personal lives that you leave them awkward and embarrassed when it is you who is at fault here. If they feel like sharing personal stuff with you, they would do so on their own. Let's try and not be experts in ill manners. This is one Phd we should not mind dropping out of, mid-way. What say?
Friday, December 9, 2011
शट योर माउथ-नो मैडम
सूर्यकुमार पांडेय
आज के टाइम के नन्हे-मुन्ने बच्चों का एक पब्लिक स्कूल। मैडम क्लास लेते हुए बोलीं, बच्चो, तुम सब आज मुझे नर्सरी राइम्स सुनाओगे। देन उन्होंने अपनी क्लास के सबसे शरारती बच्चे को खड़ा किया, चलो, कपिल! तुम ट्विंकल-ट्विंकल लिटिल स्टार वाली पोएम सुनाओ। इस पर उस शरारती बच्चे ने झूमते हुए सुनाया : ट्विंकल-ट्विंकल जनलोकपाल/बेदी, भूषण, केजरीवाल/ह्वाट इज करप्श्न, ह्वाट यू आर? अप एबब यूपीए सरकार/बी साइलेंट ऐंड डोंट यू क्राई/ ओवरऑल द पार्लियामेंट इज हाई।
मैडम बोली, वेरी गुड। इसके बाद मैडम ने एक छोटी-सी बच्ची मनीखोजी को डिंगडांग बेल सुनाने को कहा। उस बच्ची ने अत्यंत करुणापूर्ण स्टाइल में सुनाई, डिंगडांग बेल/पूसी इन द जेल/टूजी सेल/गेटिंग बेल/ डिंगडांग बेल/ नाउ ऑल इज वेल।
तभी क्लास के पीछे की बेंच से एक बच्चा खड़े होकर बोला, मैम, मुझे वह बाबा ब्लैक शिप वाली पोएम लर्न है। सुनाऊं! मैडम बोली, सुनाओ। तब उस बच्चे ने बोलना शुरू किया : बाबा श्रीश्री अन्ना कूल/ यस मिस, यस मिस ऑल थ्री गुल/ वन गॉन रालेगान/वन हरिद्वार/ अनोदर बेंगलुरु/ह्वाट इज भ्रष्टाचार?
इस पर क्लास के सारे बच्चे हंसने लग गए। तब मैडम ने एक गर्ल स्टूडेंट को खड़ा किया और डांटते हुए कहा, तुम कल फिर एबसेंट थी। तब उस छोटी-सी बच्ची ने पोएम के फॉर्म में अपने एबसेंट होने का रीजन इस तरह सुनाया : पूसी कैट-पूसी कैट ह्वेयर हैव यू बीन? आइ हैव बीन टू दिल्ली टू लुक ऐट द क्वीन/ पूसी कैट-पूसी कैट ह्वाट सॉ यू देअर/ आई सॉ अ लिटिल माउस सिटिंग ऑन द चेयर।
इसके तुरंत बाद क्लास की एक और चुलबुली बच्ची ने हंप्टी-डंप्टी वाली राइम सुनाई : अग्निवेश-अरविंद सेट ऑन ए वॉल/ अग्निवेश अरविंद हैड ए ग्रेट फॅल/ऑल द कोर कमेटी/ ऑल द अन्ना मैन/ कुड नॉट पुट अग्निवेश अरविंद टुगेदर अगेन। तब टीचर मैडम ने एक और बच्चे को जैक ऐंड जिल वाली नर्सरी राइम सुनाने को बोला। बच्चे ने साभिनय इसका नया वर्जन सुनाया : कलमाडी राजा वेंट इन तिहाड़/ आइज फुल आफ वॉटर/ राजा फेल डाउन ऐंड ब्रोक हिज क्राउन/ ऐंड कलमाडी केम ट्रंबलिंग आफ्टर।
लास्ट में क्लास के महा शरारती बच्चे ने अपनी टीचर मैडम को जॉनी-जॉनी यस पापा का लेटेस्ट वर्जन सुनाया। सुनकर पूरी क्लास तालियां बजाने लग गया ः दिग्गी-दिग्गी/यस मैडम/ स्पीकिंग समथिंग/ यस मैडम/ इज इट आरएसएस/ यस मैडम/ टेलिंग अ लाई/ यस मैडम/शट योर माउथ/ नो मैडम।
http://www.amarujala.com/Vichaar/Aakhiri-Kona/Shut-Your-Mouth-No-madam-6-17-2092.html
Must you be aggressive to be successful?
Vinita Dawra Nangia,
Sunday TOI, 04 December 2011
At a time when self-marketing has assumed annoying proportions, modesty blazes an attractive trail!
Youth, business acumen and very importantly, humility and a feet-on-the-ground attitude helped Cyrus Mistry make it to the coveted appointment as successor to Ratan Tata! Amongst the many things said about the man right after the announcement, what sent eyebrows rocketing were paeans to his low-key, modest profile! "Soft-spoken, candid and down-to-earth" is what he was described as.
In an era of dog-eats-dog, where we see the loudest voices compete for attention and the soft ones drown unsung, unseen, Cyrus's appointment comes as something of a pleasant shock! How could a man who shunned arclights and the party circuit, preferring to work nose-to-ground, win over several more visible contenders? Does this portend a changing trend then? Can the quieter, but still capable man/woman be more hopeful of getting noticed now?
When everyone is busy selling themselves aggressively, the voice that reaches out loudest from amongst the crowd is the softest one! As the self-aggrandizing cacophony creates chaos, you strain to hear the soft and steady voice of reason and capability.
Not everyone can scream or shout. There are those who cannot and others who see no reason to do so when they can be equally effective otherwise. Not long back, with the advent of the dotcom era, there seemed no hope for the quieter, even though capable ones. Until you made yourself heard, you didn't stand a chance of succeeding. However lately one hears success stories of even those who maintain a low profile, so long as they are exceptional at work.
The country's highest profile job is held by a man whose instinct is to maintain a low profile -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Rahul Gandhi, despite the limelight his family status catapults him to, likes to keep as much as he can to himself. So does Priyanka Gandhi. Infosys legends Narayana Murthy, Chairman Emeritus and S.D.Shibulal, the present CEO, are known for their love of sticking to the shadows.
Some time ago when a selection committee for Jamaican Rhodes Scholar made their final choice of candidate, to the surprise of others, they declared that it was the winner's "modesty" that won over the judges!
When Amitabh Bachchan asked a school teacher on KBC why he spoke so softly in class that students complained they couldn't hear him, pat came the reply, "That's a strategy, sir! They focus sharper when they strain to hear me!"
When all are pushing to get to something, your eye is perforce drawn to the one person who stands aloof, unconcerned. So, whether natural manner or strategy, maybe at a time when self-marketing has assumed annoying proportions, modesty blazes an attractive trail!
However HR experts warn that one should not look at this as a shifting trend really. They talk of many companies that are still on the lookout for candidates with some amount of aggression, especially the smaller operations which conclude that aggressive personalities may also be the ones who help them move ahead faster. Says Pritul Sanghavi, senior VP, Anakin Management Consultants, "Some companies require people who are street smart and aggressive. Just like in the movie, Social Network, they actually check how much pressure candidates can take! It really depends on the job requirement and the interviewer."
And so Tata's choice was right for them, but may not be so for another. Says consultant and entrepreneur Pritha Dutt, "A mature and steady company like Tata that never sees the reason to shout (remember their line 'We also make steel'?) made the right choice with a low profile, capable man like Cyrus Mistry. But it really depends on the culture of the organisation. The big difference today is that companies are more careful in matching candidate profiles with their own culture."
Jyotirmoy Bose ,CEO White Spaces Consulting, says that flash-in-the-pan companies today may still be looking for rashness but for sustainable and enduring players, certainly business tycoons, humility is a desired quality. He quotes Level 5 leadership -- fierce result combined with humility, leaders who are humble but driven to do their best for the company. He adds, "You can't win the game alone; you need friends and that's what succeeds!"
And so today companies look for assertive rather than aggressive personalities, more collaborative people who resolve conflicts, not create them! To be politically correct, they also look for individuals who show a softer side to their personalities, as in caring for and protecting the weak and of course for integrity of character.
Pritha Dutt adds that even during campus recruitments, companies now are looking more for depth and for facilitating individuals who certainly make their own points, but also listen to others. She advises that one should help carry forth the discussion by building on points others make as well, rather than coming across as the sole owner of all ideas! All companies, says Pritha, will be looking for originality and creativity, but very importantly, they will also be looking for people who get along with each other and fit in with the spirit of the organization!
And so the lesson is to cultivate skills and focus on work, all the time ensuring one remains grounded. And to develop a personality that is confident, yet not overpowering; assertive, but not aggressive; pleasing and yet not ingratiating!
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/O-zone/entry/must-you-be-aggressive-to-be-successfulWednesday, November 16, 2011
When The Shoe Does Fit OSHO, TOI SPEAKING TREE
Life is fulfilling,but you are not in contact with life.Old contact is lost,new has not been made.You are in a transmission,hence you are so dull,hence life looks so mediocre,sad,boring even futile.
Says Jean-Paul Sartre: Man is a useless passion futile,impotent passion,unnecessarily making much fuss about life,and there is nothing in it... meaningless is life.The more you become enclosed in yourself,the more life becomes meaningless.Then you are miserable.Then misery has some other pay-offs.
When you are happy you are ordinary,because to be happy is just to be natural.To be miserable is to become extraordinary.Nothing is special in being happy trees are happy;so are birds,animals and children.What is special its the usual thing in existence.Existence is made of the stuff called happiness.Just look! Cant you see these trees,so happy Birds are singing.Happiness is a very ordinary thing.
To be blissful is to be absolutely ordinary.The self,the ego,does not allow that.Thats why people talk so much about their miseries;they become special by doing so.People go on talking about their illness,their headache,their stomach,their this and that.All people are in some way or other hypochondriacs.And if somebody does not believe in your misery,you feel hurt.If somebody sympathises with you and believes in your misery even your exaggerated version of it you feel very happy.This is something stupid,but has to be understood.
A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man.A happy man really cannot have ego,because a person becomes happy only when there is no ego.The more egoless you are,the more happy;the more happy,the more egoless.You dissolve into happiness.You cannot exist together with happiness;you exist only when there is misery.In happiness there is dissolution.
Have you ever seen any happy moment;watched it In happiness,you are not.When you are in love,you are not.If love has ever made its abode in your heart,even for a few moments,you are not.When you see the beautiful sun rising,a silent lake,or a flower,suddenly,you are not.When there is beauty,when there is love,you are not.
Hearing someone,if you feel there is truth,you simply disappear in that moment.You are not,truth is.Whenever there is something of the beyond,you are not;you have to make space for it.You are only when there is misery,when there is a lie,when there is something wrong.You are only when the shoe does not fit.When the shoe fits perfectly,you are not.Then you forget the feet,you forget the shoe.When there is no headache there is no head.If you want to feel your head,you will need a headache;that is the only way.
To be is to be miserable.To be happy is not to be.
When a person learns to read,difficulties arise;now the self is rising.In villages,people are happy.They are closer to trees and nature than in London or New York.Trees have disappeared;there are only asphalt roads,concrete buildings,all man-made.
The farther away you go from nature,the farther you are from happiness.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Mumukhu Musings
Each morning when I
open my eyes I say to
myself: I, not events, have
the power to make me
happy or unhappy today. I
can choose which it shall
be. Yesterday is dead,
tomorrow hasn't arrived
yet. I have just one day,
today, and I'm going to
be happy in it."
-GROUCHO MARX
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
5 simple steps: Happiness guaranteed Sonal Kalra
This world has two kinds of people. Those who keep waiting for the right time to be happy and those who do not postpone joy!
Chalo ji, tension over. I thought with life being so unpredictable, who knows till when will I get an opportunity to give you gyaan about calm-sutra. Let us, in one stroke, figure out the magic formula for happiness. I can see that some of you have already put the cynics' cap on, and are rolling your eyes on this 243567th attempt by a self-help writer to tell you how to be happy. I wish I could humour your cynicism further by saying things like, 'no one, but I, can teach you how to be happy', but all that is bullshit and you know it.
Nothing I ever say in this column is something you don't already know. But you still read it, right? Please allow me to share the steps I recently followed to drag myself out of a phase where I was feeling a bit low and out of sync. Believe me, these five steps work, no matter what the nature or cause of your unhappiness is. Because this formula, my dearies, focuses on the solution, not the problem. Instant satisfaction guaranteed. Please send Rs. 1000 by cash/cheque/Bank DD (It had anyway started to sound like an ad to cure impotency, so added that for effect :).
1 Check your surroundings
Close your eyes (not now, Einstein, after you finish reading the column) and think about the people you normally spend your day in the company of…colleagues, boss, classmates, facebook friends. Ask yourself if you are spending your days being around people who are mostly happy. If the answer to that is no, please stand up. Bend your right leg backwards and raise it till your foot reaches the right level. Kick yourself in the a**. Heart patients and pregnant women, please abstain. Those who are planning to write to me saying it's impossible to kick yourself over 'there', please remember that you will have to first admit that you actually tried it.
Anyway, the point is this. Happiness is an infectious trait. You have to be around positive people to catch the right infection. If you are wasting away your time in the company of
constant whiners and people who have nothing good to say about anyone or anything, you will, sooner or later, start to sound like them. Avoid. If you have to be physically around them out of compulsion, learn to switch off mentally at the very moment someone starts to say something negative. Start thinking about Rakhi Sawant saying she wants to marry Baba Ramdev, but remember to nod at frequent intervals, with an utterly serious expression, to not give it away.
2 Take the Joy-Test
Every Friday evening, take a piece of paper and on one side, make a list of problems you are going through. (Note: if your list mentions the word boyfriend/girlfriend more than twice, stand again and repeat the exercise you did in step 1, you loser!). On the other side, make a list of things that gave you joy in the past week. Simple pleasures like sharing a cup of coffee with an old friend from school and remembering the crush you both had on the biology teacher. Or indulging in that extra helping of French fries you had when no one else was looking. Or waking up to see that beautiful bird perched on your balcony at sunrise. For every two joys on your list, give yourself one mark. If the total number of joy-marks are more than the number of problems on your list, you have passed the joy test for the week. Treat yourself to something you really enjoy, on Saturday. Make it a rule to do this for six months and you'll start adding more joys to make every Saturday of your life memorable.
3 Kill the 'when' word
The biggest rule in the happiness formula is simple - abhi nahi toh kabhi nahi. If you ever talk about being happy in a sentence, which has the word 'when' at the end, you're not getting it right. 'I'll be happy 'when' - I will - get good marks, get admission, get a job, be rich, lose weight, get married, have babies, buy my dream car, get retired, blah, blah and blah.' The moment you use the word 'when', you put a condition on your happiness. Since your mind is not your slave, it retaliates by ensuring that when you achieve any of these, the condition shifts to the next benchmark. Kill the when. Right now.
4 Try out something crazy, and new
If the first thought that came to your mind was 'drugs', I'm alarmed at what kind of weirdos read my column. It is a scientifically proven fact that doing something you've never done before releases happy hormones in your body. I checked it in my own state-of-the-art laboratory. And no, you don't have to now suddenly think of bungee jumping or deep sea diving. Ek toh movies ne hamein bigaad diya hai. We don't look at simpler things. How about spending an entire day-out, just with yourself. Go, watch a movie alone, then head off to the market and gift yourself something really nice, get into a restaurant and enjoy a lavish meal with a nice drink. For a lot of us, even that has never been tried before. We are too busy putting riders on our own enjoyment. Give yourself a break.
5 Infect others
If as per step 1, your happiness rests on having happy people in your life, surely you also have to be one such person for those who have you in their lives. Last week I happened to be invited to a party where I did not really know anyone from before, except the host. I was obviously wary of spending much time in the company of people I hadn't met before, and kept looking at my watch every five minutes, till I got introduced to this group of women who were laughing the loudest. They turned out to be so full-of-life and happy that the next time I looked at my watch, it was 4am. Happiness, as I said, is infectious. It would have been fairly easy for those women to have spent time cribbing about jobs, kids, mother-in-laws, weight … but they chose to spend time laughing and cracking jokes. If you spread laughter, God figures out a way to reward you by giving more reasons to laugh often. If you become the reason for someone else failing their joy-test, you are unlikely to pass yours for too long. Simple.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Prayer for Lord Vishnu
Shantakaram Bhujagasayanam - in sanskrit with meaning - sloka on Sri Vishnu
शान्ताकारं भुजगशयनं पद्मनाभं सुरेशं
Shaantaakaaram Bhujagashayanam Padmanaabham Suresham
विश्वाधारं गगनसदृशं मेघवर्ण शुभाङ्गम् ।
लक्ष्मीकान्तं कमलनयनं योगिभिर्ध्यानगम्यम्
वन्दे विष्णुं भवभयहरं सर्वलोकैकनाथम् ॥
Shaanta-Aakaaram Bhujaga-Shayanam Padma-Naabham Sura-Iisham
Vishva-Aadhaaram Gagana-Sadrsham Megha-Varnna Shubha-Anggam|
Lakssmii-Kaantam Kamala-Nayanam Yogibhir-Dhyaana-Gamyam
Vande Vissnnum Bhava-Bhaya-Haram Sarva-Loka-Eka-Naatham ||
Meaning:
1: (Salutations to Sri Vishnu) Who has a Serene Appearance, Who Rests on a Serpent (Adisesha), Who has a Lotus on His Navel and Who is the Lord of the Devas,
2: Who Sustains the Universe, Who is Boundless and Infinite like the Sky, Whose Colour is like the Cloud (Bluish) and Who has a Beautiful and Auspicious Body,
3: Who is the Husband of Devi Lakshmi, Whose Eyes are like Lotus and Who is Attainable to the Yogis by Meditation,
4: Salutations to That Vishnu Who Removes the Fear of Worldly Existence and Who is the Lord of All the Lokas.
Recitation
shaanta-kaaram bhujaga-shayanam
padma-naabham suresham
vishwa-dhaaram gagana-sadrisham
megha-varanam shubhaangam.
lakshmi-kaantam kamala-nayanam
yogi-bhi-dhyaana-agamyam
vande vishnum bhava-bhaya-haram
sarva-lokaika-naatham
Meaning
I adore Lord Vishnu
who is the embodiment of peace,
who lies on the Shesha serpent,
whose navel is the source of the Lotus,
whose complexion is swarthy like the clouds,
whose body shines with heavenly beauty,
who is the beloved of Goddess Lakshmi,
whose eyes are like Lotus,
who is meditated upon by the yogis,
who is the remover of the fear of the world-process.
Description
I sing praise to Lord Vishnu.
He who has the peaceful (shaanta-)
demeanor and visage (-kaaram).
He who sleeps and reposes (-shayanam)
on the serpents (bhujaga-).
He who has a lotus shaped (padma-) navel (-naabham).
He who is the master and lord
of all the gods (suresham).
I pray to the Lord Vishnu.
He who holds (-dhaaram) the
universe (vishwaa-) in his hands.
He whose vision (-sadrasham) exceeds
beyond all the skies (gagana-).
He whose color and visage (-varanam) is
changeable like the clouds (megha-).
And he who is filled with goodness (shubh-)
in every part (-aangam) of his body.
I sing praise to the Lord Vishnu.
He who is the husband (-kaantam)
of the goddess of wealth (-lakshmi).
He whose eyes (-nayanam) are surreal
like a lotus flower (kamala-).
And he who yogis yearn to reach (-agamyam)
through meditation (-dhyaana).
I sing praises (vande-) to the Lord Vishnu (-vishnum).
He who removes (-haram) all our fears (-bhaya)
due to our inborn nature (-bhava).
And he who is the master (-naatham) of the
entire (-sarva) universe and creation (-lokaika).
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