Bhaja Govindam : ( 23/11/2012. )

25/02/2019 1. INTRODUCTION : 6. 6.1 Taking the opening stanza as a refrain or chorus to be chanted for emphasis at the end of following verses, tradition has it that the immediately following twelve stanzas were given out by the Acharya himself. They together go under the name Dwadasa Manjarika Stotram. Very contagious must have been the Teacher inspired mood and the exploding poem, that each of his followers, at that time in his company, considered a stanza of his own, and they together stand under the title Caturdasa Manjarika Stotram. After listening to all verses, Sankaracharya blesses all true seekers of all times in the last four stanzas. 6.2 This set of thirty one stanzas, together titled Moha Mudgara, has been very popular in our country. It is but natural that it gets published again and again by various institutions and, slowly, different types of readings get to be equally popular. Some of the alternative readings we have noted here and there in our commenta

08/02/2019 1. INTRODUCTION : 5. Bhaja Govindam is one of the seemingly smaller but, infact, extremely important work of Sri Swami Adi Sankracharya. Here the fundamentals of Vedantam are taught in simple, musical verses so that, even from early childhood, the children of the Rishi-s can grow up amidst the melody of Advaitam. The musical rhythm in these stanzas makes it easy even for children to remember and repeat these pregnant verses. For the intelligent young person, a sincere study of this poem can remove all his delusions ( Moham-s ), and so the poem is also called MOHA MUDGARA ( mudgara = hammer ). *A popular story describes the circumstances in which the great poem broke out from the inspiring heart of the Teacher. It is said that, once in Benares, as Swami ji Sankaracharya was going along with fourteen disciples ( followers ), Sri Adi Sankaracharya overheard an old pandit repeating himself grammar rules, and at this futile effort put forth for a mere intellectual acco