[Advaita-l] Matrudevo bhava

[Divya Meedin]

Thanks for sharing the moving incident, sir. Namaskaram.

Regards,
Divya

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 7:46 AM Kuntimaddi Sadananda via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

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> PraNAms to all. I felt like posting this in reverence toall Mothers.
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> I ventured to write a few slokas on my mother in 1995 whenshe left this
> abode. Madam Maragadam used to teach us some Sanskrit at ChinmayaMission
> Washington Regional Center. Internet groups were forming at that time.These
> slokas I wrote keeping up with the simple anushtup chandas. My
> heartfulthanks to Shree Praveen R. Bhat, who corrected some of the
> grammatical mistakesin the original slokas. If you feel some corrections
> are needed please let meknow.
>
> Through these slokas, I am trying to express my deepreverence to my
> mother, Smt. Jayalakshmi. My father was a great Sanskrit andTelugu School
> and a staunch Vishishtadvaitin and has published extensively. Someof his
> works were published by TTD and Andhra Sahitya Academy.
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> I am recollecting an incident that happened when I was tenyears old, which
> left a strong impression in my mind. A young boy of my ageapproached my
> mother and requested for the food for one day a week, as healready got a
> commitment for all other days of the week from differentfamilies. My mother
> readily agreed without knowing that my father alreadyvetoed the request
> since we already had many students studying in the house onhis meager
> teacher’s salary. When confronted by my father, my mother repliedwith
> tearful eyes that she would forgo her food on that day and feed that boyso
> that he can study. In the end, he ended up having two days a week and
> successfullycompleted his studies. My heart gets choked whenever I recall
> that incident.
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> मातृवन्दनम्
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> नमामि मातरं देवीं सदाशोभप्रदायिनीम्
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> सर्वेषां श्रेयोकाङ्क्षींसदा शान्तस्वरूपिणीम्॥
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> जयलक्ष्मीं शेषाचार्यपत्नींख्यातिं तथैव च।|
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> सहधर्मचारिणीं च अर्पितवतींसर्वस्वम्॥
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> मधुरमन्दहासिनीं नित्यमधुरभाषिणीम्।
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> सार्थकनाम्नीं सर्वांश्चजयं लक्ष्मीमिष्टवतीम्॥
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> सप्त सन्तानवत्यैव आदरवथ्यनाथम्श्च|
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> स्वसन्तानवत् सर्वेषांपस्यती समदृष्टिभिः||
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> श्रद्धया नित्यकार्येषुकैङ्कर्यवत् कृतवती।|
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> कर्मभक्तिर्योग्यिवार्पितवतीसर्वधर्मान्॥|
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> पतिपुत्रीपुत्राणांश्रान्तवती सुस्मितम्।
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> सर्वपाकोपहारं च नैपुण्यात्तेषां तृप्तये॥
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> स्वारोग्यं च सुखं त्यक्त्वापूर्तवती सर्वधर्मान्।
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> पतिपुत्राणां सुखायअर्पितवती तज्जीवनम्॥||
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> प्रतिमध्याहनकाले सापठितवतीतिहासम्।
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> गृहे महिलासङ्गे प्रोक्तवतीपुराणानि॥|
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> स्मराम्येकसम्भवं स्पष्टंच किञ्चिद्बालकः।
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> आगतो गृहं सप्ताहि भोजनार्थम्एकवारम्॥|
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> पिता न स्वीकृतवान्गृहे आसन् बहुजनाः।
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> तदविज्ञाय माता तं स्वीकृतवतीवत्सल्यैः॥||
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> विषयं पित्रा पृष्टासा प्रत्युक्तवत्यश्रुपूर्णा।
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> न खादाम्यहं ददामि तमित्येवतत्भोजनम्॥|
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> तदवसाने तस्मिन्नन्तेप्राप्तो गृहे वारद्वयम्?।
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> बोधितवती संस्कारं पुत्रीपुत्रेभ्यश्चस्वकर्मणा॥||
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> आरोग्यरुग्णसमये समान्यविशेषकाले।
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> कृतवती नियमितकर्माणिसकालं सद्भावम्॥
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> आजन्मान्तं परार्थेषुदत्तवती तज्जीवनम्।
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> कृतकृत्यं तज्जन्मानिमुक्तिमाप्ता प्रपत्त्या॥|
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> अनेकजन्मपुण्यैर्मेस्यातामिमौ मातापितरौ।
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> तयोरपि साक्षात् स्मरामिलक्ष्मीविष्ण्वोश्च स्वरूपम्॥
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> सा गतवती वैकुण्ठम्इत्यूचुः बुधवन्तः।
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> नाहं जानामि वैकुण्ठंन जानामि प्रवृत्तिम्॥|
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> गतवती न कुत्रापीतिभावयामि मे हृदये।
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> सदा जीवति सद्गतिं प्रबोधयत्यनुदिने॥
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> इदं जयं मे सौभाग्यंतस्या बोधनफलं च।
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> प्रथमं लिखितं, सदाहंभक्त्यार्पितो मात्रे॥
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> अर्पयामि धन्यवादान्मरगदम् अध्यायिने।
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> लिखितमसाध्यं विना तस्याःगीर्वाणबोधनम्॥
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