Sastha BhujangamI sing about the Lord of Bhoothas, who is the form of light of love, who is the son of Lakshmi, who is a wish giving gem and is the residence of wealth, who always has the full sparkle of the true divine happiness. who is generous, who is with respect and the God who protects devas.
Maha Sasthru Anugraha KavachamOh God, oh god of gods, Oh all knowing one, Oh destroyer of three cities, with the coming of the horrible Kali yuga, great ghosts have enveloped earth.
Nataraja PathuYou are that which is spread from the beings of the earth to the planet in the universe, You are the top to bottom of the four Vedas, You are the moon, you are the Sun, you are the stream, you are the fire, You are the two sets of the seven worlds, You are woman, you are man, you are the soul of several beings, You are everything else, you are also the one.
Mohini Rachitha Krishna StotramThe god is himself the soul and he is the greatest god with the form of wisdom, salutations to Brahman and to the one from whom Brahma who created was born.
Mangala Chandika StotramProtect, protect, oh Goddess Chandika, who is the mother of universe, who defeats dangers and one who makes mars happy in all rasis.
Krishna Padambuja StotramThe lotus like feet of Krishna is pretty and auspicious, the lotus like feet of Krishna grants auspiciousness.
Kolaru ThirupathigamHere is a remarkable prayer addressed to Shiva composed by Sambandar, one of great saivite saints who were called as Nayanmars.
Panchadashi Lesson G0103: Knows HimselfThe body/mind complex is an inert object without life. Ignorant person assumes that somehow life has evolved into an inert object. However, the enlightened person knows that life is involved into inert object.
Panchadashi Lesson G0102: PersonHuman beings have created the eternal cycle of life with pairs of opposites like prosperity and poverty, love and hate, fame etc based on the past actions. His role starts by giving name and attribute to the God's created world and ends in creation of miseries in the world.
Panchadashi Lesson G0101: IfWe are all given an impression that the progress in the science and technology alone can bring about prosperity to the world resulting in joyful living for all. However, experience shows us that the human race is nowhere near creating a perfect world even after 2000 years of dependency on material prosperity. This fact alone should force us to look for the ONLY alternative path.
Bhuvaneswari KavachamThis which is named as Armour burns sinful crime, and Oh Parvathi, please hear, for I tell you this to exhibit my love towards you.
Kalika KavachamOh Great God, please tell me that secret, if it is permitted, by which enemies can be destroyed and souls can be protected, as I want it from your word as you are the incomparable God.
Maha Vidhya KavachamOh goddess I would tell you a Kavacha which leads to all accomplishments, which is the primeval Goddess Maha Vidhya and which leads to fulfillment of all desires.
Maha Lakshmi Kavacham [2]Let my nearby places be protected by Lakshmi, Let my back side be protected by Kamala, Let my front side be protected by Narayani.
Malar Padal StoramIf we get the sacred ash of Goddess Kali, all diseases will fly way and all road blocks will vanish and happiness will come in search of us.
Saraswati KavachamShe who is the mother of the three worlds, with a shining body coated with sandal paste, wearing white silk, wearing the garland of jasmine, wearing a shining head gear, shining in a nose ring, holding a book containing all knowledge, wearing a garland of Rudraksha is the Goddess of speech and I live in her lotus like face.
Siddha Kunjika StotramThis great prayer is chanted before the reading of Chandi path / Sapthasathi (known as Devi Mahathmya) in the northern parts of India. It is more thanthric in nature and has been taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvathi. Devotees believe that just a recitation of Sidha Kunjika stotram is equivalent to recitation of the complete Chandi (Devi Mahatmyam) and also that the reading of Chandi Path (Devi Mahatmya) would not give complete results without reading Sidha Kunjika stotram before it.
Sarva Vyadhi Haram Maheswara KavachamOh king, this armour of Maheswara is rare even to the devas and by doing it to their body, the man will get purified.
Rudra KavachamI salute the Lord of Parvathi, who is peaceful, sits on a lotus pose, who wears the moon on his crown, who has five faces and three eyes, who carries on his right hand soolam, Vajrayudha, axe and sign of protection, who carries on his left snake, rope, bell, blessed drum and the mother Goddess and who wears different type of ornaments and has the colour of crystal.
Mrita Sanjeevana KavachamHoly essence of essences and auspicious secret of secrets, is the armour of Lord Shiva which is like a medicine for death.
Maha Mrithyunjaya KavachamOm, Oh Goddess who is in the middle of the moon, who is garland of Rudra, who is greatly different. If anyone thinks about you, immediately even the dead one become alive.
Kala Bhairava Pancha RathnamI salute Bhairava who wears the crescent, who holds in his lotus like hand, sword, skull, drum and trident, who wears the directions as cloth, and who has coated his body with ash.
Bilwa Ashtothara Satha StotramI offer one leaf of Bilwa to Lord Shiva, Which has three leaves, causes three qualities, has three eyes and is like three weapons.
Gopala KavachamNow I am going to tell that Armour of Gopala, who is the world teacher, remembering which a man would get salvation.
Gopala Akshaya KavachamOh God Brahma, please teach me the perennial armour, which is greatly wonderful to Indra and other devas, wearing which the great heroes would win over the three worlds.
Rama KavachamI think about Rama, who is every second pretty, who has hands reaching up to his thighs, who has lotus like eyes, who is pure all his life, who has a smiling face, who is black, who holds bow and arrow and has a generous form.
Trilokya Mangalam Surya KavachamOh Samba, who is greatly valorous, please here from me the holy armour, which is auspicious to the three worlds and which is greatly wonderful.
Balarama KavachamOh Great sage, please give me, the armour given by the great sage Garga, to the Gopis which provides all round protection.
Aadhi Narayana SthuthiSalutations to the most auspicious one, who is a yogi with auspicious soul, who is God who takes care of people, who is one carrying sree and one described by Vedas.
Bodhayana Darsa TharpanamBodhayana was a great saint who was the son of Sage Kanva. He has written Grihya Suthras which are followed by many Iyer Brahmins. He belonged to the Krishna Yajur Veda. The Amavasya Tharpanam for those who follow Bodhayana Sutra has to be done on Bodhayana Amavasya days.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-9The glory of Hinduism lies in the fact that while it has defined ideals, it has never dared to say that any one of these alone was the one true way. In this it differs from Buddhism, which exalts monasticism above all others as the path that must be taken by all souls to reach perfection. The story given in the Mahâbhârata of the young saint who was made to seek enlightenment, first from a married woman and then from a butcher, is sufficient to show this. 'By doing my duty', said each one of these when asked, 'by doing my duty in my own station, have I attained this knowledge'. There is no career then which might not be the path to God. The question of attainment depends only, in the last resort, on the thirst of the soul.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-8I preach only the Upanishads. If you look, you will find that I have never quoted anything but the Upanishads. And of the Upanishads, it is only that One idea, strength. The quintessence of the Vedas and Vedanta and all lies in that one word.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-7Obey the scriptures until you are strong enough to do without them; then go beyond them. Books are not an end-all. Verification is the only proof of religious truth. Each must verify for himself; and no teacher who says, "I have seen, but you cannot", is to be trusted, only that one who says, "You can see too". All scriptures, all truths are Vedas in all times, in all countries; because these truths are to be seen, and any one may discover them.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-6The greatest name man ever gave to God is Truth. Truth is the fruit of realisation; therefore seek it within the soul. Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares. Be beyond the dualities of nature. The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage. Religion is one, but its application must be various. Let each one, therefore, give his message; but find not the defects in other religions. You must come out from all form if you would see the Light. Drink deep of the nectar of the knowledge of God. The man who realises. "I am He", though clad in rags, is happy. Go forth into the Eternal and come back with eternal energy. The slave goes out to search for truth; he comes back free.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-5Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it. When you think you are a body, are apart from the universe; when you think; you are a soul, you are a spark from the great Eternal Fire; when you think you are the Âtman (Self), you are All. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-4Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. Therefore the only duty of the teacher in both cases is to remove all obstructions from the way. Hands off! as I always say, and everything will be right. That is, our duty is to clear the way. The Lord does the rest.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-3Every one of the great religions in the world excepting our own, is built upon such historical characters; but ours rests upon principles. There is no man or woman who can claim to have created the Vedas. They are the embodiment of eternal principles; sages discovered them; and now and then the names of these sages are mentioned - just their names; we do not even know who or what they were. In many cases we do not know who their fathers were, and almost in every case we do not know when and where they were born. But what cared they, these sages, for their names? They were the preachers of principles, and they themselves, so far as they went, tried to become illustrations of the principles they preached. At the same time, just as our God is an Impersonal and yet a Personal God, so is our religion a most intensely impersonal one - a religion based upon principles - and yet with an infinite scope for the play of persons; for what religion gives you more Incarnations, more prophets and seers, and still waits for infinitely more? The Bhâgavata says that Incarnations are infinite, leaving ample scope for as many as you like to come. Therefore if any one or more of these persons in India's religious history, any one or more of these Incarnations, and any one or more of our prophets proved not to have been historical, it does not injure our religion at all; even then it remains firm as ever, because it is based upon principles, and not upon persons.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-2Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. Not only does it comprise the laws that govern the particles of matter outside us and in our bodies, but also the more subtle nature within, which is, in fact, the motive power governing the external. It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature. It is grand and good to know the laws that govern the stars and planets; it is infinitely grander and better to know the laws that govern the passions, the feelings, the will, of mankind. This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion.
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Vol-1Two birds of beautiful plumage, inseparable companions, sat upon the same tree, one on the top and one below. The beautiful bird below was eating the fruits of the tree, sweet and bitter, one moment a sweet one and another a bitter. The moment he ate a bitter fruit, he was sorry, but after a while he ate another and when it too was bitter, he looked up and saw the other bird who ate neither the sweet nor the bitter, but was calm and majestic, immersed in his own glory. And then the poor lower bird forgot and went on eating the sweet and bitter fruits again, until at last he ate one that was extremely bitter; and then he stopped again and once more looked up at the glorious bird above. Then he came nearer and nearer to the other bird; and when he had come near enough, rays of light shone upon him and enveloped him, and he saw he was transformed into the higher bird. He became calm, majestic, free, and found that there had been but one bird all the time on the tree. The lower bird was but the reflection of the one above. So we are in reality one with the Lord, but the reflection makes us seem many, as when the one sun reflects in a million dew-drops and seems a million tiny suns. The reflection must vanish if we are to identify ourselves with our real nature which is divine.
Gospel of Sri RamakrishnaIt is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump. There was once a man who had acquired the power to tame ghosts. One day, at his summons, a ghost appeared. The ghost said: 'Now tell me what you want me to do. The moment you cannot give me any work I shall break your neck.' The man had many things to accomplish, and he had the ghost do them all, one by one. At last he could find nothing more for the ghost to do. 'Now', said the ghost, 'I am going to break your neck.' 'Wait a minute', said the man. 'I shall return presently.' He ran to his teacher and said: 'Revered sir, I am in great danger. This is my trouble.' And he told his teacher his trouble and asked, 'What shall I do now?' The teacher said: 'Do this. Tell the ghost to straighten this kinky hair.' The ghost devoted itself day and night to straightening the hair. But how could it make a kinky hair straight? The hair remained kinky. Likewise, the ego seems to vanish this moment, but it reappears the next. Unless one renounces the ego, one does not receive the grace of God.
