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Teaching at the Iyengar Yoga Centre, Rishikesh
Teaching at the Iyengar Yoga Centre, Rishikesh
Teaching at home in Brixton, London
Self Practice ~ RIMYI, Pune
Invocation to Sage Patanjali
Yogena cittasya padena vacam malam sarirasya ca vaidyakena yopakarottam pravaram muninam patanjalim pranajaliranato’smi abahu purusakaram sankha cakrasi dharinam sahasra sirasam svetam pranamami patanjalim
I bow before the noblest of sages Patanjali, who gave yoga for serenity and sanctity of mind, grammar for clarity and purity of speech and medicine for pure, perfect health. I prostrate before Patanjali who is crowned with a thousand headed cobra, an incarnation of Adisesa (Ananta) whose upper body has a human form, holding the conch in one arm, disc in the second, a sword of wisdom to vanquish nescience in the third and blessing humanity from the fourth arm, while his lower body is like a coiled snake
Samadhi Pada / The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
A recitation of the first chapter of 'The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali'
Shanti Mantra Series (Om. Yaś chandasām ṛṣabho viśva-rūpaḥ...)
Kṛṣṇa Yajur Veda Taittirīya Āraṇyaka 7.4.1 / Taittirīya Upaniṣad 1.4
Oṁ. Yaś chandasām ṛṣabho viśva-rūpaḥ. Chandobhyo’dhyamṛtāt sambabhūva. Sa mendro medhayā spṛṇotu. Amṛtasya deva dhāraṇo bhūyāsam. Śarīraṁ me vicarṣaṇam. Jihvā me madhumattamā. Karnābhyāṁ bhūri viśruvam. Brahmaṇaḥ kośo’si medhayā pihitaḥ. Śrutaṁ me gopāya.
Oṁ. Śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.
Om. May Om, the Lord, who is foremost in the Vedic hymns, who is of universal forms, and who has emerged from the immortal and from the hymns as their essence, strengthen me with intelligence! O luminous one, may I be the carrier of the immortal [wisdom]. May my body be very active! May my tongue be exceedingly sweet! May I hear abundantly with my ears! You are the sheath of brahman, veiled by the intellect. Guard what I have heard.
Om. Peace, Peace, Peace.
Shanti Mantra Series (Oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ /The Perfect Prayer)
Śukla Yajur Veda Mādhyandina Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 14.8.1.1.
Oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate / Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya / pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate.
Oṁ. Śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.
Om. That is infinite. This is infinite. The infinite arises from the infinite. Taking the infinite from the infinite, the infinite alone remains.
Om. Peace, Peace, Peace.
Shanti Mantra Series // Om. I'm the impeller of the tree... (with cows!)
Kṛṣṇa Yajur Veda Taittirīya Āraṇyaka 7.10.1 / Taittirīya Upaniṣad 1.10
Oṁ. Ahaṁ vṛkṣasya rerivā. Kīrtiḥ pṛṣṭhaṁ girer iva. Ūrdhva-pavitro vājinīva svamṛtam asmi. Draviṇaṁ savarcasam. Sumedhā amṛtokṣitaḥ. Iti triśaṅkor vedānuvacanam.
Oṁ. Śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.
Om. I’m the mover [impeller] of the tree [of the world]. My fame is [high] like a mountain’s peak. I’m pure from above [i.e. at the source]. I’m like the beautiful, immortal essence present within the sun. I’m a shining treasure, the one with beautiful intelligence, soaked with nectar. Such was Triśaṅku’s declaration after enlightenment.
Om. Peace, Peace, Peace.
Shanti Mantra Series / Swasti Vacanam Mantra
Ṛg Veda Saṁhitā 1.89.8,6
Oṁ. Bhadraṁ karṇebhiḥ śṛṇuyāma deva bhadraṁ paśyemākṣabhir yajatrāḥ. Sthirair aṅgais tuṣṭuvāṁsas tanūbhir vyaśema deva-hitaṁ yad āyuḥ. Svasti na indro vṛddha-śravāḥ svasti naḥ pūṣā viśva-vedāḥ. Svasti nas tārkṣyo ariṣṭa-nemiḥ svasti no bṛhaspatir dadhātu.
Oṁ. Śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.
Om. O luminous ones! / May we hear what is auspicious [good and joyful] with our ears! / O the ones who are worthy of worship! / May we see with our eyes what is auspicious [good and joyful]! / May we enjoy the complete duration of life allotted to us by the Lord, praising [the luminous ones] with steady limbs and bodies/ May Indra, the one with abundant glory, grant welfare to us! / May Pūṣan, the knower of all [or the master of all wealth], grant welfare to us! / May Tārkṣya [the celestial bird], the one with the undestroyed wheel, grant welfare to us! May Bṛhaspati grant welfare to us!
Om. Peace, Peace, Peace.
Dedication Song / Tvameva mātā
Tvameva mātā ca pitā tvameva / Tvameva bandhuś ca sakhā tvameva / Tvameva vidyā draviṇam tvameva / Tvameva sarvam mama devadeva.
O god of gods. Thou art alone my mother, father, relative, friend, learning, wealth and everything.
Brixton UK / Rishikesh India