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Hanuman Chaleesa

Doha

Sri Guru charana saroja raja, Nija mana mukura sudhaar
Varanou Raghuvara vimala yasa, Jo daayak phala chaara
Budhiheen tanu Jaanikay, Sumiro Pavana Kumaara
Bala Budhi Vidyaa dehu mohi, Harahu kalesha vikaara.

Jai Hanuman gyaan guna saagar, Jai kapeesh tihun loka ujaagar
Rama doota atulita bala dhaama, Anjani putra pavana suta naama.
Mahavira vikrama bajarangi, Kumati nivaara sumati ke sangi
Kanchana varana viraaja suvesa, Kaanan kundala kunchita keshaa.

Haatha bajra owra dwajaa virajai, Kaandhe moonja janeu saajai
Shankara suvana kesari nandana, Teja pratapa mahaa jaga bandana.
Vidyavaana guni ati chaatura, Rama kaaja karibeko aatura
Prabhu charitra suni beko rasiyaa, Rama lakhana sitaa mana basiyaa.

Sukshma roopa dhari siyahi dikhaavaa, Vikata roopa dhari lanka jaraavaa
Bheema roopa dhari asura samhaare, Ramachandra ke kaaja samhaare.

Laaya sanjeevan lakhana jiyaaye, Shri raghuvira harashi ura laye
Raghupati keenhi bahuta baraayi, Tuma mamapriya bharatahi sama bhayi
Sahasa vadana tumharo yasa gaaway, Asa kahi shripati kantha lagawai
Sanakaadika brahmaadi munishaa, Narada sharada sahita ahishaa.

Yama kuvera digapaala jaha tay, Kavi ko vid kahi sakai kahaan tay
Tuma upakaar a sugrivahi keenhaa, Rama milaaya rajapada deenhaa.

Tumharo mantra vibheeshan maana, Lankeshwara bhayay saba jaga jaana
Yuga sahasra yojana para bhaanu, Leelyo taahi madhura phala jaanu.

Prabhu mudrika maylee mukha maahee, Jaladhi laanghi gaye acharaja naahi
Durgama kaaaja jagata kay jaytay, Sugama anugra tumharay tay tay
Rama duvaaray tuma rakhavaaray, Hota Na aagyaa binu paisaaray
Saba sukha lahai tumhaari sharana, Tuma rakshaka kaahu ko darana.

Aapan teja samhaaro aapai, Tinho loka haankate kaampai
Bhuta pishaacha nikata nahi aavai, Mahaveer jaba naam sunaavai.
Naasai roga harai saba peera, Japata nirantara hanumata veera
Sankata tay Hanuman churaavai, Mana krama vachana dhyan jo lavay.

Saba para Rama tapasvi raajaa, Tinakay kaaja sakala tuma saaja
Owra manoratha jo koi laavai, Soyee amita jeevan phala paavai.
Chaaro yuga partaapa tumhaara, Hai parsiddha jagata ujiyaaraa
Saadhu santa kay tuma rakhvaare, Asura nikandana Rama dulaare.

Ashta siddhi nau nidhi kay daataa, Asa vara deen janaki maataa
Rama rasaayana tumharay paasaa, Sadaa raho raghupati kay daasa.

Tumhare bhajana Rama ko paavai, Janama janama kay dukha bisaraavai
Anta kaala raghuvara pura jaayi, Jahaa janma hari bhakta kahaayi.

Owra devata chita naa dharayi, Hanumata sayi sarva sukha karayi
Sankata katai mitai saba peera, Jo sumirai hanumata Balbeera.

Jai Jai Jai Hanumaana gosaayi, Kripa karo guru deva ki naayi
Jo sata baara paath kara koyi, Chutahi bandi mahasukha Hoyi.
Jo yaha parhai Hanumaana chaalisa, Hoya siddhi saakhi gowrishaa
Tulsidasa sadaa hari cheraa, Keejai naatha hrydaya mahaa deraa.

Pavana tanaya sankata harana, Mangala moorti roopa,
Rama lakhana sita sahita, Hrydaya basahu sura bhoop.

Siyaa pati Ramachandra ki jai,
Uma Pati Mahadeo ki jai
Pawana suutah Hanumana ki jai

Doha

Sri Guru charana saroja raja, Nija mana mukura sudhaar
Varanou Raghuvara vimala yasa, Jo daayak phala chaara
Budhiheen tanu Jaanikay, Sumiro Pavana Kumaara
Bala Budhi Vidyaa dehu mohi, Harahu kalesha vikaara.

Jai Hanuman gyaan guna saagar, Jai kapeesh tihun loka ujaagar
Rama doota atulita bala dhaama, Anjani putra pavana suta naama.
Mahavira vikrama bajarangi, Kumati nivaara sumati ke sangi
Kanchana varana viraaja suvesa, Kaanan kundala kunchita keshaa.
Haatha bajra owra dwajaa virajai, Kaandhe moonja janeu saajai

Shankara suvana kesari nandana, Teja pratapa mahaa jaga bandana.
Vidyavaana guni ati chaatura, Rama kaaja karibeko aatura
Prabhu charitra suni beko rasiyaa, Rama lakhana sitaa mana basiyaa.


Sukshma roopa dhari siyahi dikhaavaa, Vikata roopa dhari lanka jaraavaa
Bheema roopa dhari asura samhaare, Ramachandra ke kaaja samhaare.
Laaya sanjeevan lakhana jiyaaye, Shri raghuvira harashi ura laye
Raghupati keenhi bahuta baraayi, Tuma mamapriya bharatahi sama bhayi


Sahasa vadana tumharo yasa gaaway, Asa kahi shripati kantha lagawai
Sanakaadika brahmaadi munishaa, Narada sharada sahita ahishaa.
Yama kuvera digapaala jaha tay, Kavi ko vid kahi sakai kahaan tay
Tuma upakaar a sugrivahi keenhaa, Rama milaaya rajapada deenhaa.


Tumharo mantra vibheeshan maana, Lankeshwara bhayay saba jaga jaana
Yuga sahasra yojana para bhaanu, Leelyo taahi madhura phala jaanu.
Prabhu mudrika maylee mukha maahee, Jaladhi laanghi gaye acharaja naahi
Durgama kaaaja jagata kay jaytay, Sugama anugra tumharay tay tay


Rama duvaaray tuma rakhavaaray, Hota Na aagyaa binu paisaaray
Saba sukha lahai tumhaari sharana, Tuma rakshaka kaahu ko darana.
Aapan teja samhaaro aapai, Tinho loka haankate kaampai
Bhuta pishaacha nikata nahi aavai, Mahaveer jaba naam sunaavai.
Naasai roga harai saba peera, Japata nirantara hanumata veera


Sankata tay Hanuman churaavai, Mana krama vachana dhyan jo lavay.
Saba para Rama tapasvi raajaa, Tinakay kaaja sakala tuma saaja
Owra manoratha jo koi laavai, Soyee amita jeevan phala paavai.
Chaaro yuga partaapa tumhaara, Hai parsiddha jagata ujiyaaraa
Saadhu santa kay tuma rakhvaare, Asura nikandana Rama dulaare.


Ashta siddhi nau nidhi kay daataa, Asa vara deen janaki maataa
Rama rasaayana tumharay paasaa, Sadaa raho raghupati kay daasa.


Tumhare bhajana Rama ko paavai, Janama janama kay dukha bisaraavai
Anta kaala raghuvara pura jaayi, Jahaa janma hari bhakta kahaayi.
Owra devata chita naa dharayi, Hanumata sayi sarva sukha karayi
Sankata katai mitai saba peera, Jo sumirai hanumata Balbeera.


Jai Jai Jai Hanumaana gosaayi, Kripa karo guru deva ki naayi
Jo sata baara paath kara koyi, Chutahi bandi mahasukha Hoyi.
Jo yaha parhai Hanumaana chaalisa, Hoya siddhi saakhi gowrishaa
Tulsidasa sadaa hari cheraa, Keejai naatha hrydaya mahaa deraa.

Pavana tanaya sankata harana, Mangala moorti roopa,
Rama lakhana sita sahita, Hrydaya basahu sura bhoop.

Siyaa pati Ramachandra ki jai,
Uma Pati Mahadeo ki jai
Pawana suutah Hanumana ki jai

I am your brother, I am your sister

from Nirmala Devi's Daily Inspiration e-mails...

We Are All Linked to Each Other

Millions of people follow sports. If you love to watch soccer
or baseball, you probably root for one team and identify with
them. You may watch the games with despair and elation.
Perhaps you give a little kick or swing to help the ball along.
If you do not take sides, the fun is missing. In wars we also
pick sides, usually the side that is being threatened. Peace
movements are born of this feeling. We get angry, we shout,
but rarely do we rise above all this to look at a conflict the
way a mother would who is watching her two children fighting.
She seeks only their reconciliation.

'In order to fight each other, the chicks born from the same
mother hen put colors on their faces!' This is a well-known
Vietnamese saying. Putting colors on our own face is to make
ourselves a stranger to our own brothers and sisters. We can
only shoot others when they are strangers. Real efforts for
reconciliation arise when we see with the eyes of compassion,
and that ability comes when we see clearly the nature of
inter-being and interpenetration of all beings.

In our lives, we may be lucky enough to know someone whose
love extends to animals and plants. We may also know people
who, although they themselves live in a safe situation, realize that
famine, disease, and oppression are destroying millions of people
on Earth and look for ways to help those who suffer. They cannot
forget the downtrodden, even amidst the pressures of their own lives.
At least to some extent, these people have realized the interdependent
nature of life. They know that the survival of the underdeveloped
countries cannot be separated from the survival of the materially
wealthy, technically advanced countries. Poverty and oppression
bring war. In our times, every war involves all countries. The fate
of each country is linked to the fate of all others.

When will the chicks of the same mother hen remove the colors
from their faces and recognize each other as brothers and sisters?
The only way to end the danger is for each of us to do so, and to
say to others, "I am your brother!' "I am your sister." "We are all
humankind, and our life is one."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

From Joan Suval's talk at Ananda Ashram this past Saturday about "destiny" during the afternoon session in the Main House living room.

She explained that a seeker asked Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj about doing the only thing she really wanted to do, which was to "help" a particular person.

And Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said, "Do that person a favor and stay away from them."

Food for going beyond the ego...

Reminds me of John Friend from the Anusara Yoga Therapeutics week in Tucson, Arizona.  He quoted Gurumayi Chidvilasananda who said,

"Leave my people alone."

When asked about whom we should "therapize" with yoga.  He explained that we should let people come to us for help, rather than going around trying to "fix" people.  Such a grand illusion this fixing anything.  From the yoga standpoint, everything is already perfect.  Let the perfection arise.  mmmm, yum.

How?

by getting out of the way.

Everyday, I practice getting out of my spirit's way...

Om Namah Shivaya Svaha

Cooling foods for Fire types

like Yogafly...
from my sistah of the blood and soul kindred spirit - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

COOLING FRUITS / GRAINS / SEEDS & BEANS / ANIMAL PRODUCTS / MISCELLANEOUS

• Apple

• Apricot

• Fig

• Lemon

• Orange

• Peach

• Persimmon

• Strawberry

• Tomato

• Millet

• Pearl barley

• White rice

• Mung bean

• Soy bean

• Tofu

• Winter melon seeds

• Chicken egg

• Clam

• Crab

NEUTRAL FRUITS / GRAINS / SEEDS & BEANS / ANIMAL PRODUCTS / MISCELLANEOUS

• Chinese date

• Loquat

• Mango

• Olive

• Papaya

• Buckwheat

• Brown rice

• Corn meal

• Rice bran

• Rye

 

• Almond

• Azuki bean

• Black sesame seed

• Filbert

• Kidney bean

• Lotus seed

• Peanut

• Pea

• Sunflower seed

• Fish (ocean)

• Gelatin

• Dairy products

• Oyster

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COOLING VEGGIES:

• Alfalfa sprout

• Asparagus

• Bamboo shoot

• Bok choy

• Broccoli

• Burdock root

• Button mushroom

• Cabbage

• Carrot

• Cauliflower

• Celery

• Corn

• Cucumber

• Daikon radish

• Dandelion green

• Eggplant

• Endive lettuce

• Lotus root

• Potato

• Pumpkin

• Romaine lettuce

• Soy bean sprout

• Spinach

• Summer squash

• Turnip

• Winter squash

• Watercress

• Winter melon

• Zucchini

NEUTRAL VEGGIES:

• Chard

• Lettuce

• Shitake mushroom

• Sweet potato

• Taro root

• Yam

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COOLING HERBS:

• American ginseng

• Cilantro

• Corn silk

• Kudzu (pueraria)

• Mint leaf

• Pueraria roo

• Tea

NEUTRAL HERBS:

• Chinese yam

• Licorice root

• Lycil berry

• Poria mushroom

• Barley malt

• Rice malt

• Black fungus

• Honey

Revel

just closed my eyes and expanded again

fascinating, this practice of yoga

and ceaselessly affirming and not just with words, but with FEELING and feeling it...

as Ramakrishna asked us to do: "One must ceaselessly affirm

I am freedom from every limitation.  I am the principle of timeless awareness."

Interesting to note how many people don't actually ever even get a glimpse of the above truth.  Wondering sometimes why it takes so much practice to "get it."  And watching the fingers even type this as a Witness...observing everything as a Witness.  How glorious.

There's an inner revelry that happens.  And the Nadam is intoxicatingly awakening.  To be  intoxicated and awake at the same time.  This is part of the journey.  Watching as everything shrinks and grows bigger.  Subsides and then bursts.  Opens and closes.  Just watching it all.  And not getting attached.  Laughed at an article on Yogis becoming super wealthy multimillionaires that was sent by yogi David Hill. 

And the conclusion - yes, we can be millionaires, just as long as we don't get attached to the money.

Always remember the man who asked meditation teacher Gehlek Rimpoche,

"What about my Rolls Royce?  Do I need to give that up?"

And Gehlek Rimpoche answering.

"Ask do you drive the Rolls Royce or does it drive you?"

So wonderful to always start from a place of divine contentment and everything just comes. 

Sitting in contentment has been difficult.  But it is happening...

Gratitude

thank Goddess for

1) Navaratri

2) Chanting

3) Devanagari

4) Sanskrit

5) Ananda Ashram

6) the deer

7) cookies from Harvey

8) watching The Secret umpteen times

9) the Columbus Circle Equinox yogis - yum!

10) the Tribeca Equinox yogis - double yum!

11) the sun

12) the moon

13) Ramirez, the cat,  sleeping in a basket in the back dining hall wrapped around a murti of Saraswati

14) spontaneous back-bending Iyengar class with Carolyn Reynolds yesterday

15) Jnaneshwara and his recognition of the dakini

16) Joan Suval's program in the afternoon and cutting through the ego - wow!

17) dreams coming true all over the place

18) my wonderment at dreams coming true all over the place

19) sitting in DUMBO, Brooklyn on my way to SOHO to teach more yoga

20) gratitude for gratitude itself

21) gratitude for my ribcage expanding

22) gratitude for John Friend

23) so much love for the Anusara kula

24) so much gratitude for the World Yoga Center sangha

25) the puma's profile at the Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona

26) my parents

27) and then my cosmic parents...

tvam eva mata ca pita tvam eva...

28) gratitude for my sister

who is the water to my fire

29) supreme gratitude to Padre Pio, who walks with me everyday

and brings tears to my eyes even as I write his name

30) incredible oceans of gratitude to Shirley and Kelly Ebsary for being themselves

31) mountains of gratitude to LOVE itself

32) incredible oceans of thankfulness for Cynthia Espinal's about to be-baby - Tre

33) and Cynthia's and my songs...and the heart...in Brazilian Spanish song

34) oceanic bliss for Kamaniya who merges me into harmonium song late at night even as I drift somewhere between waking, dreaming and meditation

35) and meditation - the practice

36) I don't need to sleep as much any more!

37) Hallelu.ia....

38) gratitude for a glimpse of Turiya yesterda - "Who am I?" upon rising from Yoga Nidra.  spontaneous

39) Immense gratitude to the man who stopped smoking because I asked him to stop --- thank you, thank you, thank you.

om shantih, shantih, shantih

Yoga is

the state where you are missing nothing."

- Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

founder Ananda Ashram, www.anandaashram.org

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.  And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else.  If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person.  But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly. 

If you abuse yourself very badly, you can even tolerate someone who beats you up, humiliates you, and treats you like dirt.  Why?  Because in your belief system you say, "I deserve it.  This person is doing me a favor by being with me.  I'm not worthy of love and respect.  I'm not good enough."

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others , but we cannot love ourselves.  The more self-love  we have, the less we experience self-abuse.  Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.  Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don't accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

Prelude to a New Dream

If you want to live a life of joy and fulfillment, you have to find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.  The agreements that come from fear require us to expend a lot of energy, but the agreements that come from love help us to treasure energy and even gain extra energy.

There are four very powerful agreements that will help us break those agreements that come from fear and deplete our energy.

1) Be impeccable with your WORD

2) Don't take anything personally

3) Don't make assumptions

4) Always do your best

Kristina's note - read the book for more..you can get it at the Ananda Ashram bookstore.  Go to www.anandaashram.org

All thought is samsara...

there is no bondage except thought.

Splendor of Recognition by Swami Shantanananda

Let's say that you imagine something.  The stronger your intention and the longer the time you hold that thought, the more likely are its chances of manifesting in the physical realm.  This is one way we shape our reality through our emotional reactions. 

we are wilde together

i wake up
and watch as the world rolls itself out in
splendor before my eyes
every morning
a new touch of sunlight
on my skin

"yes I am a dreamer for a dreamer is one who finds (her) his way by moonlight and sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

-oscar wilde

we are wilde together

How the Heart Grows Wise...

From "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart
Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path" by Jack Kornfield.

For almost everyone who practices, cycles of awakening and openness
are followed by periods of fear and contraction. Times of profound
peace and newfound love are often overtaken by periods of loss, by
closing up, fear, or the discovery of betrayal, only to be followed
again by equanimity or joy. In mysterious ways the heart reveals
itself to be like a flower that opens and closes. This is our nature.
The only surprising thing is how unexpected this truth can be. It is
as if deep down we all hope that some experience, some great
realization, enough years of dedicated practice, might finally lift
us beyond the touch of life, beyond the mundane struggles of the
world. We cling to some hope that in spiritual life we can rise above
the wounds of our human pain, never to have to suffer them again. We
expect some experience to last. But permanence is not true freedom,
not the sure heart's release.

Allow the infinitude of a person to be felt

From Proust, quoted by Dr. Mark Epstein in his book "Open to Desire:"

"I might caress her, pass my hand slowly over her, but,  just as if I had been handling a stone which encloses the salt of immemorial oceans or the light of the star, I felt that I was touching no more than the sealed envelope of a person who inwardly reached to infinity."

om shantih

It is a joy to be hidden,

but disaster not to be found"

- Winnicott