Tattva

Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) was a multifaceted personality-a great scholar, litterateur, philosopher, patriot, social reformer and above all a visionary.  His 138th birth anniversary was celebrated on the 15th of August, which coincided with India’s Independence Day.  India attained independence on the same day 75 years after his birth in 1872. In a message on the Independent Day, he said: “I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition.” Read the rest of this entry »

(While performing Pradakshina Namaskara)

यानि कानि च पापानि  जन्मान्तर कृतानि च |
तानि तानि विनश्यन्ति  प्रदक्षिण पदे पदे ॥

yani kani ca papani janmantara krtani ca
tani tani vinashyanti pradakshina pade pade

Sanskrit to English Word Meaning:

yani kani ca- whatever; papani- sins; janmantara- all my lives; krtani ca- committed; tani tani- those; vinassyanti- destroy; pradakshina- circumambulation; pade pade- with every step

Translation:

O Bhagawan! Whatever sins I have committed all my lives (including previous lives), please destroy them at every step I take around you.

Brief Explanation:

Pradakshina, meaning circumambulation, consists of walking around in a clockwise ‘circle’ around the deity, as a form of worship in Hindu ceremonies. We see people doing this at our temples where they go around in circles either chanting some shlokas or just walking with pure devotion. In that context, this shloka can be sung where in, one asks the lord for forgiveness from the sins that he/she has committed with every step taken during the Pradakshina.