The Mahalakshmi Stotra: A Transliteration and Translation

 

    
 

(1)Shree Indra Uvach,

Namostute-astu Mahamaye

shri peethe soorpoojite,

shankh chakra gada haste

MahaLakshmi Namostute

 

    

 

Lord Indra said, "O great force! one who is beseated on the seat of wealth, worshipped by the gods, Salutations to you! One who wields in her

hands Conch, Discus, and the gada, O MahaLakshmi! Salutations to you! (1)

 

 

(2)Namaste Garuda-rudhe

kalasura bhayankari,

sarva paphare devi

MahaLakshmi Namostute

 

 

One who sits on the Garuda, by whom Kolasura fears, and the destroyer of all the sins, O Goddess MahaLakshmi! Salutations to you! (2)

 

 

(3) Sarvagye sarva-varde

sarvadusta bhayankari,

sarva dukh-hare devi

MahaLakshmi Namostute

 

    

One who knows everything, giver (of boons) to all, source of deterrence to all evil, & remover of everybody's sorrows, O Goddess

MahaLakshmi! Salutations to you! (3)

 

(4) Siddhi Budhhi prade devi

bhakti mukti pradayini,

mantramurte sadadevi

MahaLakshmi Namostute

 

 

Giver of Success (Siddhi), intellect (buddhi), enjoyment (bhog), & emancipation (moksha), O Goddess MahaLakshmi! Always Salutations to

you! (4)

 

(5) Aadhyantara-hite devi

aadhya shakti maheshwari,

yogje yog sambhoote

MahaLakshmi Namostute

 

O Goddess, one whose existence is free from the beginning & the end, the eternal force, O Goddess, O Goddess who has taken form out of

YOGA, Goddess MahaLakshmi! Salutations to you! (5)

 

(6) SthulaSukshma Maharoudrou

Mahashakti Mahodare,

Mahapap hare devi

MahaLakshmi Namostute

 

O Goddess, you are the (main) substance (sthuhl), extremely minute (sukshma), and the most defiant & angry formed one ( Maharoudrou), you

are the great force (of the world), and destroyer of the extremely big sins, O Goddess MahaLakshmi! Salutations to you! (6)

 

 

(7) Padmasan-stithe devi

Par-brahm swaroopini,

parmeshi jaganmatar

MahaLakshmi Namostute

 

 

O Goddess who sits on the lotus, one whose form (swaroop) is as vibrant as the eternal God (parabrahma), O greatest Goddess, O Jagdamba, O

MahaLakshmi, Salutations to you! (7)

 

(8) Shwetambardhare devi

nanalankar bhushite,

jagat-stithe jaganmata

MahaLakshmi Namostute

 

 

 

O Goddess you are the one who adorns white clothes, several types of jewels. You are the omnipresent, and the creator of the world. (8)

 

 

(9) MahaLakshmyastak-stotram

Yah pathed bhaktiman nar,

sarvasiddhim-avapnotim

rajyam prapnoti sarvada

 

 

 

The man who reads this stotra regularly, with devotion, he acquires all successes & stately adornments. (9)

 

 

(10) Ek-kale pathen-nityam

mahapapvinashanam,

dwi-kale yah pathen-nityam

dhandhanyasamanvit

 

One who reads this stotra once, daily; his greatest sins get destroyed. One who reads, this stotra twice, daily, gets abundant wealth & material

requirement, as per requirement. (10)

 

 

(11) Tri-kalam yah pathen-nityam

mahashatruvinashan,

MahaLakshmi Bhaven-nityam,

prassanna varda shubham

 

One who reads daily, this stotra thrice, his greatest enemies would be destroyed and Goddess MahaLakshmi, giver of boons, doer of good for

everybody, is always happy on him. (11)

 

(12) Iti Shri MahaLakshmyastak Sampoornam!!!

 

Thus ends the MahaLakshmi Stotra, written by Indra.

My as well as others universal Confusion

It was very surprising for me when I come to know that my confusions regarding my existence is not unique and it has happened to many people. This is the major problem with an individual who had been brought up in a religiously active family and is undergoing an education which is based on scientific knowledge. I have been struggling with myself to find out the reason behind what is exactly the truth about the mysterious past, unrecognized present and unknown future of life. Here life is not restricted to my own life but to the whole living world. I was reading a book "like the flowing river" by Paulo Coelho in which there is a prose where author says that when a survey was conducted in different school to find out regarding what are the general queries which the children want to know about. The result gave the following list of questions:-

1. Where do we go after we die?
   
2. Why are we afraid of foreigners?
   
3. Do Martians and extraterrestrial beings really exist?
   
4. Why do accidents happen to people who believe in god?
   
5. What does god mean?
   
6. Why are we born if we die in the end?
   
7. How many stars are there in the sky?
   
8. Who invented war and happiness?
   
9. Does god also listen to people who don't believe in the same god?
   
10. Why are there poor people and ill people?
    
11. Why did god create mosquitoes and flies?
    
12. Why isn't our guardian angel beside us when we're sad?
    
13. Why do we love some people and hate others?
    
14. Who named the different colours?
    
15. If god is in heaven and my relatives are there too because they died, how come he (god) is alive?
    

These questions are so genuine that we in spite of our adult understanding of universe cannot answer them. And one would be surprised to hear that these are childhood queries. What we lack is the spiritual education but I have not seen any school were spiritual knowledge is imparted that is why the confusion has existed and is giving all of us troubles.

One day when in an conversation with my father on the same topic he said that normal people are living in this world on various presumptions with regards to their respective queries and nobody generally goes beyond that. He said that I should also not go into the subject as it can make me distracted from my academics; he further said if you want to go deep into this then you should have the capability to handle that, asked how? He replied that people like Ramkrisna Paramhans who have got the real knowledge that we in Hinduism call "BRAMHA GYAN", Goutam BUDDHA, MAHAVIR and many others are the persons who got all the answers which they wanted because they had developed those powers to go deep into it and do research on it he added "if you have it then you can go for it". Afterwards I thought that the way in which he explained was to keep me on track. But the confusion is still there and I am not able to find anyone who can solve this.

ATTITUDE MATHEMATICS

THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING CONCEPT WHICH I HAVE DISCOVERED OR MAY BE REDISCOVERED.
THE BASIC COCEPT IS BASED ON THE APPLICATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS.
SUPPOSE WE TAKE A NEGETIVE NUMBER, SAY -5
NOW THE QUESTION IS THAT IF WE WANT TO REDUCE THIS NEGETIVENESS OR WE WANT TO MAKE IT INTO POSITIVE NUMBER THEN WHAT WE HAVE TO DO?
THE ANSWER IS WE WILL HAVE TO ADD A POSITIVE NUMBER TO ABOVE NUMBER
SUPPOSE WE ADD +1 TO ABOVE NUMBER WE WILL GET -4 , AGAIN IF +2,+3,+4 WE WILL GET -3,-2,-1 RESPECTIVELY NOW TO MAKE IT NEUTRAL WE HAVE TO ADD +5 TO -5 TO GET “0”,
NOW AGAIN IF WE WANT TO MAKE IT +5 WE WILL HAVE TO ADD +10 TO -5.
SO TO MAKE A –VE NUMBER INTO ITS EQUIVALENT +VE WE WILL HAVE TO ADD A POSITIVE NUMBER DOUBLE THE +VE NUMBER WE WANT TO GET.
THE INFERENCE FROM ABOVE IN OUR DISCUSSION
In our daily life we face many problems in handling –ve situations or dealing with persons WITH NEGETIVE ATTITUDE
So as per what I have experienced if we face the problem with +veness we can get through the problem. Again if the person with whom we are dealing has a –ve attitude so if we act as positive as he is negative then we can make situation neutrals. Again if we act double the –ve he is, we can make that person as positive as we are and we can deal with the person easily
This is a concept we when I apply is always successful so that’s called attitude mathematics

Today in the evening I went to meet one of my cousin grandfather. We started our conversation on film star Amithab Bacchan but the conversation ended up with my grandfather being nearly wept on the condition of our motherland India.
Actually he runs a business and the day before had a hearing of his sales tax case with the Sales Tax commissioner he was so frustrated with the proceedings that its effect was still on his mood. The case was not hectic on the grounds of any non- compliance of rules on his part but it was a usual normal hearing on which the inspector assesses the case and does the requirements as per the act. But the way in which my grandfather explained me the whole process I was astonished and now in a dilemma that what I and my country heading towards
Firstly he said me that the Officer was engaged in hearing of sum other person A gentleman who happens to be a businessman who supply orders to INDIAN ARMY when the officer asked him about the item in which they trade and other details he said that in realty he only “supply Bills” to the ARMY asked HOW?
He explained in the following way:-
When there is any requirement of any article or any other thing the ARMY dept calls from willing businessmen TENDERS and this is published in Newspapers, when all the tenders are received by the Dept the men from the ARMY calls this GENTLEMEN (supplier ) and tells him to send a tender of the amount lowest of other tenders accordingly then tender is being sent and is automatically selected .
and the order is given suppose for 10000 bed sheets .Now the persons sends him the bill for 10000 bed sheets suppose @ Rs 100 then the bill is for Rs 1000000\- of which Rs 500000 is taken by ARMY Authority and Rs 500000 by the GENTLEMEN. So in this way the business goes on …..
The officer on hearing all this did just said OK give me 10% OF the Bill the men gave the requisites and the hearing was over.
My grandfather said to me on this that “IF THE LOCK on the MAIN GATE of the HOUSE is DEFECTIVE then how YOUR HOUSE is GOING TO BE SAFE.”
He continued saying that when our turn came before seeing the papers he said “DON’T BOTHER I WILL DO THE REQUISITE BUT WHAT AM I GOING TO GET AS A TOKEN FROM YOUR SIDE”. He was given Rs 700/- for the duty in ADDITION to Rs 35000\- SALARY as a GOVT. Employee.
If this is the condition of the learned people sitting at high ranking then what is the difference between them and Beggar .it WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF HE HAD JOINED BEGGAR’S COMMINITY AS HE WOULD HAD EARNED BETTER THAT WAY .
The system is so bad that for a simple submission of INCOME TAX RETURN in the INCOMETAX OFFICE the CLEARK demands GOLDFLAKE (Cigarette PACKET). I interrupted him and said then why don’t they complain to higher OFFICERs “then you will have to give 4 packets and then your complain will be entertained.” HE REPLIED and continued
HOW bad is the situation that In one of the CASES where he WAS ASKED to PAY Rs 500\- when he cried that he cannot pay that much the amount was increased to Rs 1000\-.
Then were goes all that singing of NATIONAL SONGS “VANDEMATRAM”, KAR CHALE HUM FIDA, NATIONAL ANTHEM etcALL this had just restricted INDIA to JUST A DEVELOPING COUNTRY and WILL REMAIN DEVELOPING FOREEVER. With that the conversation ended as I had to leave for home.
I am a guy with positive attitude and I like developing things and cannot digest negative remarks I did not like he being full of negativity ,the way he was disheartened of his own countrymen that is why I thought that what can I do about it first of all was to PUBLISH this on MY blog, next I would publish that also if that succeeds.