Yamunastak (with meaning in English)

Prologue

Shri Yamushtakam is the first among the sixteen works known as shodashgranth. This particular granth is composed by Shri Vallabh in v.s.1549(1491 A.D.) on the Shraavan Shukla 3 during the prithvi parikrama ShriVallabh was in Gokul and he was undecided about the exact place of Thakurani Ghat. At that time Shri Yamunaji herself appeared and guided Shri Vallabh and pointed out the exact place. Shri Vallabh than and there composed Shri Yamunashtakam,the beautiful stotra,in the praise of Shri Yamunaji. It consists 9 verses,eight of them are written in praise of Yamunaji and in 9th Shri Vallabh describes for daily paath- doers the fruits ofShri Yamunashtakam.

The fourth beloved (turyapriya)of Shri Krishna,Shri Yamunaji is epitome of selfless devotion towards Krishna,and only through her or her Kripa(grace) a jeeva(soul) can experience the param phal i.e. leela-pravesh. She purifies souls and removes all obstacles which are in the way between jeev and prabhu and gives the exalted jeeva a new body fit to experience the leela-phal-"tanu-navtva"! For ordinary bhakta of to-day the recital of Yamunashtakam daily will enhance his love towards Shri Krishna,abolish his paap-bad deeds and above all the bhakta will be able conquer his svabhava-basic instincts.

Shloka 1

Namami Yamunamaham sakal-siddhi-hetum-muda
Murari-pad-pankaj-sfurad-amand-renutkatam I
Tatastha-nav-kanan-prakat-mod-pushpambuna
Sur-asur-supujit smarpitu shriyam bibhratim II1II

I (Shri Vallabh)bow joyfully to Shri Yamunaji,the giver of divine super natural powers for experiencing the bhagvadleela. Shri Yamunaji is loaded with the glistening sands emanating from the lotus feet of Murari ShriKrishna. The water of Shri Yamuna is scented with the perfumes of blossomed flowers from the forests located on the banks of Shri Yamuna,such Shri Yamuna is worshipped by gods and demons equally. II1II

Shloka 2

Kalindagirimastake patadamanda poorojvalaa
Vilasagamanollasat Prakataganda shailonnata I
Saghoshagati danturaa samadhiroodha dolottamma
Mukundarativardhini jayati padmabandhosuta II2II

"Falling forcefully on Mount Kalinda Shri Yamunaji appers to be crystal white and looks beautiful with her luxurious flow through cheek like rocks of mountain. Shri Yamunaji follows a zig-zag path noisily and while she flows up and down she looks as if sitting on a beautiful swing. Shri Yamunaji is superior as she enhances our love towards lotus-feet of Lord Mukund. II2II

Shloka 3

Bhuvam bhuvanapaavaneem adhigatamanekasvanai
Priyabhirivasevitaam Shuka-Mayur-Hansadibhee I
Tarangabhujakankana prakatamuktikavaluka
Nitambatatasundareem namata Krishnaturya-priyaam II3II

Bow down to Shri Yamunaji the fourth beloved of Lord Shri Krishna,who has come down to earth to sanctify it and on earth she is served by parrots,peacocks,swans etc. with melodious noises as if served by loving friends. Shri Yamunaji wears bangles in the form of waves and sand on them looks like pearls. Shri Yamunaji looks beautiful with hips in the form of her two banks. II3II

Shloka 4

Anant-gun-bhushite Shiv-viranchi-devstute
Ghanaghannibhe sada Dhruv-Parasharabhistade
Vishuddha-Mathura-tate sakal-gop-gopivrite
Kripajaladhi-sanshrite mam manah sukham bhavay II4II

Shri Yamunaji is adorned with countless virtues and is worshipped by Shiv,Brahma and other gods. She has a lustre of rain filled clouds and fulfilles the desires of sages like Dhruv and Parasher. Pious city Mathura is situated on her banks and she is surrounded by gop and gopees whose only refuge is kripasagar Shri Krishna.O Shri Yamuna! please bless me with the happiness of mind II4II

Shloka 5

Yaya charan-padmaja Mur-ripoh priyam-bhavuka
Samagamanato-bhavat sakal-siddhida sevtam I
Taya sadrashtamiyat Kamalja-sapatniv yat
Hari-priya-kalindaya mansi me sada sthiytam II5II

Shri Gangaji who has emerged from the lotus feet of God could become beloved of Krishna and fulfilled every wish of her followers only after her merger with Shri Yamunaji. Shri Yamunaji can be compared with lotus born Shri Laxmiji only, who is also Shri Krishna's beloved. Shri Yamunaji who destroys all the ills of Shri Krishna's devotees may live in my (Shri Vallabh's)heart forever. II5II

Shloka 6

Namostu Yamune sada tav charitrmatyadbhutam
Na jatu yama-yatana bhavati te payah-panatah I
Yamopi bhagini-sutan kathamu hanti dushtanapi
Priyo bhavati sevanat tav harer-yatha gopikah II6II

O Shri Yamuna! Your character is wonderful!! A person who partakes your water has no fear of pain inflicted by Yama-the god of death-as how could he hurt his sister’s sons(devotees)however wicked they may be because they become beloved of Shri Krishna like Gopikas by serving you! O Shri Yamuna! Let us pay obeisance to you incessantly.II6II

Shloka 7

Mamastu tav sannidhau tanu-navatvam-etavata
Na durlabhtama ratih Mur-ripau Mukund-priye I
Atostu tav lalana surdhuni param sangamat
Tavaiv bhuvi kirtita na tu kadapi pushti-sthitaih II7II

O beloved of Mukund Shri Yamuna! By your nearness let my body become new(worthy) so to gain the love of Shri Krishna-the enemy of demon Mura- is not difficult. So let us shower you with love(by prayers) as Ganga became famous only after merging with you and was not worshipped by Pushti-Jivas before that.II7II

Shloka 8

Stutim tav karoti kah Kamalaja-sapatni priye
Harer-yadanu sevaya bhavati saukhya-mamokshatah I
Iyam tav kathadhika sakalgopika-sangam-
smar-shram-jalanubhi sakal-gatrajaih sangamah II8II

oh! Shri Yamunaji! the co-wife of Laxmiji! The beloved of Krishna!! no one is competent enough to praise you. By worshipping Laxmi with Shri Hari one gets the bliss of salvation only while you give much more- as your water is mixed with sweat generated by the bodies of Shri Krishna and Gopikas while having exotic sports and by worshipping you the devotee gets the bliss of this too.II8II

Shloka 9

Tavashtakamidam muda pathati soor-sute sada
Samast-durita-kshyo bhavati vai Mukunde ratih I
Taya sakal-siddhayo Mur-ripushcha santushyati
Svabhav-vijayo bhavet vadati Vallabh Shri-Hareh II9II

O Shri Yamuna! Daughter of Sun!! A person who always recites these eight stanzas with joy gets freedom from all of his sins and he surely gets affection of Lord Shri Krishna by which he attains all the super natural powers. Shri Krishna-the enemy of demon Mura-becomes satisfied and devotee conquers his nature so says Shri Vallabh.II9II

Source: Dedicated to Shreenathji

Family, Health, Friends and Spirit are like Glass - Fragile

Just go this forwarded and thought of sharing.
- Value has a value only if its value is valued.
- Work is like rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.
- Family, Health, Friends and Spirit are made of glass cannot be joined once beaked.
- Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends, and have proper rest.

New Tax at Mumbai Airport from 1 April

Please keep an extra 600 Rs with you when you travel from 1st April at Mumbai
Airport. Please forward to all your relatives & friends so that they dont face any

problems at the airport.... 

Passengers to pay for Mumbai airport modernisation 

Mumbai airport on Friday became the fourth airport in the country to be allowed to
levy a development fee from passengers to bridge the shortfall in funds for
modernising the facility.

The government approved collection of Rs 100 from outbound domestic passengers and
Rs 600 from international passengers from April 1. The fee would be in force for
four years, but be reviewed after six months.

The Mumbai airport modernisation project cost is pegged at Rs 9,802 crore and the
Mumbai International Airport Ltd has been allowed to raise up to Rs 1,543 crore
through the development fee. However, if the project cost escalates beyond Rs 9,802
crore, MIAL would have to tap other fund sources. 

New airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore have been charging a development and DIAL,
which manages the New Delhi airport, too was allowed to charge the development fee,
although the move has come in for criticism from global airlines' body IATA. 

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel had on Thursday said such fees could be
imposed even at airports being modernised by the state-owned Airports Authority of
India. The massive aviation infrastructure required in India "cannot be made on such
a scale without the contribution from passengers and other stakeholders," he had said. - PTI

Source: Now, Mumbai airport to charge devt fee: Business Standard

Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General Motors!!!!

Never underestimate your Clients’ Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem!

This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its
Customer-Care Executive.


Please read on.....

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

This is the second time I have written to you, and I don’t blame you for not
answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in
our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night, but the kind of ice
cream varies so, every night, after we’ve eaten, the whole family votes on which
kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it.

It’s also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to
the store have created a problem.....

You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start back from the store my
car won’t start.

If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine.

I want you to know I’m serious about this question, no matter how silly it sounds

“What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream,
and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?”

The Pontiac President was understandably sceptical about the letter, but sent an
Engineer to check it out anyway.

The latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man

in a fine neighbourhood.

He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the

car and drove to the ice cream store.

It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the

car, it wouldn’t start.

The Engineer returned for three more nights.

The first night, they got chocolate. The car started.

The second night, he got strawberry. The car started.

The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start.

Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man’s car was
allergic to vanilla ice cream.

He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the
problem.

And toward this end he began to take notes: He jotted down all sorts of data: time
of day, type of gas uses, time to drive back and forth etc.

In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other
flavour.

Why? The answer was in the layout of the store.

Vanilla, being the most popular flavour, was in a separate case at the front of the
store for quick pickup.

All the other flavours were kept in the back of the store at a different counter
where it took considerably longer to check out the flavour.

Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car wouldn’t start when it took less
time.

Eureka - Time was now the problem - not the vanilla ice cream!!!!

The engineer quickly came up with the answer: “vapour lock”..

It was happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavours
allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start.

When the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapour lock to
dissipate.

Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be simple
only when we find the solution, with cool thinking.

Don’t just say it is “IMPOSSIBLE” without putting a sincere effort....

Creative Photography

Hi..Its been really busy week. Classes, Monthend, gaga, and couple of other projects...just too much on the plate. Well I have few posts to share...but don't have enough time to write them. Anyways, to keep things moving, here are some great Creative Photography that I have came across.

Click on the image for full view, enjoy:

 

   

 

THINK Smart

Well Logicsite Technologies’s motto is Think Different.Think Big. Â But here is a good examples of Think Smart. I guess we need to add this to the tag line.

Case 1

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out
that the pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity (ink won’t flow down to the
writing surface).

To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They
developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater,
in Practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range
from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did the Russians do…??

They used a Pencil !!!

Case 2

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the
case f the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan’s biggest
cosmetics Companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had
bought
a Soap box that was empty.

Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line,
which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery
department. For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line
empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste,the
engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with
high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes
that passed
through the line to make sure they were not empty.

No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a
whoopee amount to do so. But when a rank-and-file employee in a small
company
was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of
X-rays,etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a
strong
industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched
the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the
empty boxes out of the line.

Moral

Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution
that solves the problems.

An ant can be killed in two ways……
#1) By lifting and pressing it by your hand….
#2) By Bombarding it with a missile.

Some Good Ones....

1. A FOOLish man tells a woman to STOP talking, but a WISE man tells
her that she looks extremely BEAUTIFUL when her LIPS are CLOSED.

2. One GOOD way to REDUCE Alcohol consumption :
Before Marriage - Drink whenever you are SAD
After Marriage - Drink whenever you are HAPPY

3. Three FASTEST means of Communication :
1. Tele-Phone
2. Tele-Vision
3. Tell to Woman
Need still FASTER - Tell her NOT to tell ANY ONE.

4. Love your friends not their sisters. Love your sisters not their
friends.

5. What is a BEST and WORST news you can hear at the SAME time ?
It is when your Girl Friend says YOU are the BEST KISSER among all your
Friends.

6. When your LIFE is in DARKNESS, PRAY GOD and ask him to free you
from Darkness. Even after you pray, if U R still in Darkness - Please
PAY the ELECTRICITY BILL.

7. Why Government do NOT allow a Man to MARRY 2 Women. Because per
Constitution, you can NOT PUNISH TWICE for the same Mistake.

8. “A Ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is
built for” - Albert Einstein

Art with Heart

Creativity at its best.  People can just paint things on any surface.

Yesterday I was amazed with MS paint and today this Dirty Car Art.

Check out : http://www.dirtycarart.com/gallery/index.htm and see what people can do with their dirty cars.