Sarva Samarpana Gadya Commentary 1

औं जाग्रत् स्वप्न सुषुप्ति अख्य अवसथ त्रय नियामक,
मद  अन्तर्यामि, मुख्य प्राण अन्तर्गत,
विश्व तैजस प्राज्ञ आत्मक, हिम्कारादि षट् साम प्रतिपाध्य,
षट् काल नियमात्मक,
अनिरुद्द प्रध्युम्न संकर्षण वासुदेव वराह नारसिंह षण् मूर्त्यात्मक ..

So starts Rayaru's Sarav Samparna gadya .
On this auspicious day when Venkatanatha took sanyasa and assumed the title Raghavendra Theertha, this commentary begins. With Rayaru's command and Sharade's KaruNe , i begin this humble effort.

This week beginning with Phalguna, shukla paksha dwitiya is very sacred for Rayary Bhaktas . He sanyas pattabhisheka is on Dwitiye while his Vardanti birthday falls on saptami.

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Sarva Samparpana Gadya commentary :Part 1

Generally Sarva Samparpan Gadya is treated as a song for the evening prayers ;probably because he wrote another one, pratha sankalpa gadya meant for morning. This is a wrong understanding

The key to note is that these two are not prayers to be rendered as songs . While the Pratha sankalpa gadya is for us to resolve, make a commitment every morning, Sarva Samparpana gadya is about offering every minute , every effort , every result of our life time to Shri Harii. The underlying point is the great Tatava Vaada policy of Na Ham karta Hari Karta.

So, it is not as much our offering 'our results' to Shri Hari every evening, as much it is a recognition whatever we do any time is Hari icca and Hari acting through us.  If we treat as evening song, what happens to actions and results that happen after  the evening rendering ?

So, this sarva samparpana is to be in our mind all the time. In fact, as we will see, Rayaru mentions that this covers every second of our life.

This gadya bears testimony for Rayaru's compassion- simplifying ShrimadAcharya's complex thoughts and making it easy for us.

This Gadya has just one line -albeit a long one. Rayaru seems to ask us with all his love." Can you spare just a minute every day to contemplate this one line?". True to his mission, he takes care of all our samsara burden and asks in return to spare one minute, just one minute every day.

The very first few words -जाग्रत् स्वप्न सुषुप्ति अख्य अवसथ त्रय नियामक- define who we really are and how our day is spent. We as jiva are truly consciousness,  live the day in waking state, we sleep and dream and finally we spend chunks of time in deep , dream less sleep. These are called Jagrat, Swapna and Sushupti state. We perform actions in all these states - and this leads to the question , who drives us in these states ?

We may assume we have 'control' in waking state , but who is control over 60%  of life time when we are sleeping, with or without dreams from child hood to old age ?  Do we control when we sleep , how much we sleep and when will we wake up ?

Rayru, straightaway makes a point that we need to understand there is some force that is controlling us through.

(To be continued)