Earth Prayer
Earth Prayer
Bhoo Suktam
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For the slightest cooperation or a good gesture, we express gratitude to even strangers. However, it is a fact that we seldom say 'Thank you' to our very close relatives. Some how, we take them as granted.
The same is true about Sun, The Earth, Environment and the elements of nature e.g. Air, Water, Fire, Trees etc. We never feel obliged to them.
However, in Vedic Culture the sages have created beautiful poetry in the praise of Earth, Sun, Fire, Water etc. for they are the source of life. What a wonderful way of expressing gratitude..!
The sense of Gratitude is a great quality and beyond humbleness, it can bestow us limitless 'one-ness' with the Universe.
The chanting of vedic hymns in Sanskrit has a unique power of healing and replenish the environment. They are formed in mnemonic manner and possess Biospiritual Energy. Even if you do not know the verbal meaning, you can experience inner peace and harmony.
Try it and feel it..!
Bhoomna dairvarina, Anthaikshma mahithva, Upasathe they devi adithe, Agnim annadam annadaya adadhe.
Oh Godess Adithi, you pervade the earth, You are supreme in heaven,You are vast in the environment,I place on your lap, oh Adithi, Fire, the food giver for eating of food.
Aayam gau prashnir akramith, Asanan matharam purah, Pitharam cha prayant svah.
The cow (knowledge?) comes again It reaches the mother earth, And goes back to the father heaven.
Trimshat dhama vi rajathi vaak, Patangya dhiyathe, Prathi vasthoroha dhybhi.
The word (speech*) shines in thirty abodes**, It is in the bird (or soul), And it carries the light forward.
* Speech is represented by fire ** Thirty abodes are all the thirty days
Asya pranaath apaanathi, Anthascharathi rochanaa, Vakhyaan mahisha dhivam.
It* travels upward (prana-inhalation) and downward (apana-exhalation), It travels within the luminous bodies, And in its gross form it illuminates us.
* The Agni or fire within us
Yathwa krudhah parovapa, Manyunaa yad avarthaya, Sukalpam agne., Thathawa puna thva uddheepayamasi.
If I have scattered you insensibly, In wrath or though unfortunate behaviour, Please ignore it, oh fire god, And we would raise you again (within us).
Yathe manyu paropthasya, Prithweemanu dadhwase, Aadithya vishve thath deva, Vasavascha samabharan.
Whatever portion of you has been scattered, Was spread over the earth and, The sun god and other devas, And Vasus have gathered it back.
Mano jyothir jushathaamajyam, Vichinnam yajnam samimam dadhaadhu. Brihaspathisthanuthamimaam,No vishve devaa yiha maadayanthaam.
Oh light of the mind, be pleased by this offering of ghee, May the scattered yajna become one again, May Brahaspathi (Jupiter) may help in this, And let all the devas rejoice because of this.
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