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December 6, 2011 , Geeta Jayanti

In my previous birthday post, I missed paying tribute to the greatest thing for me, Mother Geeta herself. I will simply quote the author of the Gita Dyanam on the beauty of the text. Shloka 7 is a prayer on behalf of all seekers:

पाराशर्यवच:सरोजममलं गीतार्थगंधोतकटं
नानाख्यानककेसरं हरिकथा संबोधनाबोधिताम् ।
लोके सज्जनषट्पदैरहरहः पेपीयमानं मुदा
भूयाद् भारतपंकजं कलिमलप्रध्वंसिन:श्रेयसे ।। ७ ।।
pArASharyachaHsarojamamalaM gItArthagandhotkaTaM
nAnAkhyAnakakesaraM harikathA sambodhanAbodhitam.h |
loke sajjanashhaTpadairaharahaH pepIyamAnaM mudA
bhUyAd.h bhAratapaMkajaM kalimalaH pradhvaMsinashreyase ||

H H Swami Sivanandaji's translation reads as follows:

May this lotus of the Mahabharata, born in the lake of the words of Vyasa, sweet with the fragrance of the meaning of the Gita, with many stories as its stamens, fully opened by the discourses of Hari, the destroyer of the sins of Kali, and drunk joyously by the bees of good men in the world, become day by day the bestower of good to us!

In the spirit of this prayer, those great souls at Divine Life Society have made Swami Sivanandaji's entire Bhagavad Geeta commentary available online at no charge!

Hari Om and Namaskaar until the next post

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