January 7, 2013
Previously on Geeta Jayanti, I had posted on the eternal debt of gratitude to Mother Geeta that is the basis of Geeta Dhyānaṁ. I love Param Pujya Gurudev's commentary on the Geeta Dhyānaṁ. Pujya Gurudev's commentary is after the introduction to the Bhagavad Geeta in the commentary on Chapters 1 & 2 published by the the Chinmaya Mission. I personally believe it should be a book by itself.
After invoking Mother Geeta, we now pay tribute to the wise Vyāsa Rishi - the Guru whose Jayanti marks Guru Pūrnima every year. Pujya Gurudev starts His tribute to Veda Vyāsā in his commentary on the 1st verse of the Dhyānaṁ.
नमोस्तुते व्यास विशाल बुद्धे
फुल्लारविन्दायतपत्रनेत्र ।
येन त्वया भारत तैल पूर्णः
प्रज्वलितो ज्ञानमय प्रदीपः ।। २ ।।
namostute vyaasa vishaala buddhe
phullaravindaayatapatranetra .
yena tvayaa bhaaratataila puurNaH
prajvaalito GYaanamaya pradiipaH .. 2 ..
Salutations unto thee, O Vyāsa, of mighty intellect, who has eyes like the petals of a full blown lotus-tree, by whom was lit the lamp of Knowledge, filled with the oil of the Mahābhārata.
The mind boggles at the sheer volume of work that Vyāsa accomplished. His work is unique and simultaneously crytpic, insightful and contemplative while always revealing an incomparable understanding of the human psyche. The word 'vast' itself seems inadequate to describe Vyāsa's intellect. Pujya Gurudev now says:
After invoking Mother Geeta, we now pay tribute to the wise Vyāsa Rishi - the Guru whose Jayanti marks Guru Pūrnima every year. Pujya Gurudev starts His tribute to Veda Vyāsā in his commentary on the 1st verse of the Dhyānaṁ.
Vyāsa, the father of the Vedās, who, first collected, edited and published the Veda texts and who thereafter, gave us the dialectics of Vedānta in his Brahma Sūtra, himself a great man of realization, was indeed well fitted for the job. The ancient seer had both the mastery of the theoretical science of religion - Hinduism and also the practical experience of the Supreme (Truth).Now to the 2nd verse:
नमोस्तुते व्यास विशाल बुद्धे
फुल्लारविन्दायतपत्रनेत्र ।
येन त्वया भारत तैल पूर्णः
प्रज्वलितो ज्ञानमय प्रदीपः ।। २ ।।
namostute vyaasa vishaala buddhe
phullaravindaayatapatranetra .
yena tvayaa bhaaratataila puurNaH
prajvaalito GYaanamaya pradiipaH .. 2 ..
Salutations unto thee, O Vyāsa, of mighty intellect, who has eyes like the petals of a full blown lotus-tree, by whom was lit the lamp of Knowledge, filled with the oil of the Mahābhārata.
The mind boggles at the sheer volume of work that Vyāsa accomplished. His work is unique and simultaneously crytpic, insightful and contemplative while always revealing an incomparable understanding of the human psyche. The word 'vast' itself seems inadequate to describe Vyāsa's intellect. Pujya Gurudev now says:
Not only was his (Vyāsa's)intellect mighty but he was completely tolerant and held in his infinite love-embrace the entire universe of living beings. Vyāsa's philosophy is not sectarian; it is not a philosophy for the Hindūs alone. It is universal in its application and addressed to man.Hari Om and Namaskaar until the next post
In the Gītā, the theme is Knowledge in itself in the light of which alone can all other kinds of knowledge be known.
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