Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 239






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When people of modern times physically see a spiritually great person, they get to know many of his characteristics and activities. So, in addition to thinking of him as a jnAni or saint, they also think of him as father, as mother, child, doctor, a go-getter for a job or a marriage alliance, and what not; they pray for all these and get the anugraha. But when one is no more, he is only thought of as a jnAni and only as a benefactor of enlightenment and nothing more. Of course, if he is considered a siddha, he is prayed to for material welfare even after his physical frame is no more. And we think of our Acharya only as a jnAni.

So he must have naturally thought ‘Let me leave some stotras for posterity so that they get their sicknesses removed by recitations of these’. He left behind him a ‘Subrahmanya bhujangam’ for this very purpose. And in this Soundarya lahari too, there are several shlokas mainly for eradication of disease.

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