Leela of Sandhya-ritual of Sayamkaal of Bhagwan Shree Hari.
Leela of Sandhya-ritual of Sayamkaal of Bhagwan Shree Hari.
Suvrat said:-
On that eleventh day, i.e. Ekadashi day of the month of Phalguna, all the people had observed fast. Shri Hari Himself too did so, for the maintenance of the discipline. 1
O King, on that day, festival of worship had commenced from the very first astronomical period called Nagadeva and ended on the period of the day called Aryama. 2
At the fifteenth period of the day, called Bhagya, Shri Hari ordered all the Brahmins to go for the evening rites of performing the twilight prayer. 3
All the Brahmins, although cherished His company more than anything else, they now realized that observance of one’s own ritual duty was dearest to Shri Hari. So they went to the bank of a pond for performing the same. 4
Meanwhile, He Himself got down from His high raised pedestal and entered His encampment, so that the assembled public may have some respite for a while. 5
Thereupon, those sages went to their respective abodes, took rest for a while, drank some water and soon returned to the place of the assembly. 6
Having finished their evening rites those Brahmins too, quickly came back to that place and took their seats as per their due position. 7
Meanwhile, Shri Hari, remover of the difficulties of His humble devotees, took rest for a while, and performed His evening rites. With His upper garment waving, on account of His natural speed, causing His attendants run after Him mounted His pedestal once again. 8
He stood up there, looked at the hoards of his devotees around him, fastened his lower garment, and the waist-band, clapping with His both hands, began reciting aloud the thousand names of Narayan. 9
Then all the men and women, and sages too, uttered the names of Hari and clapped by their hands. 10
At that time, the noise of lakhs of clapping got mixed with the Shri Hari’s recital of the names of Narayan spread over all the three worlds. 11.
Due to the raised and waving petal-like hands of the people, it appeared as though, the earth was bedecked with full-blown ground lotuses shaking with the blowing wind. 12.
Due to the craftiness of His hands, no one was able to notice when Shri Hari’s two palms came together or parted. 13.
There were lamps in thousands, all around. Due to the light of those lamps, and the moon-light, the night appeared like daytime. 14.
At that time, two barbers named Vithaldas and Krishnadas, each holding a lamp of Ghee in their hands, raising them (upwards) stood (behind) Shri Hari. 15.
While, those sages and people bowed before Him, at the end of that recital, He quickly took his seat and saluted (concentrating) on His own self residing within all beings. 16.
Those sages astonished on noticing His quickness in sitting, saluted their Lord and started praising Him. 17.
The Stuti of 108 names by the saints.
O Hari, salute to You, O Govinda! Narayana! Vasudeva! Shri Krishna! Sankarshana! Padmanabha! Nar! Aniruddheshvara! Lokanatha! Mukundadya! O Anandakanda! Accyuta! Sundaranga! Dayanidhi! Madhava! Mangalatman! Vishnu! Rishikesha! Paravaresha! Pradyumna! Padmanabha! I bow down to You. 18-19.
Vishuddhamurti! Madhusudana! Damodara! Shridhara! Sarveshvara! Brahmanya! Devakshara! Punyakama! Prabhu! Vibhu! Natha! I bow down to You. 20.
O Vaikuntha! Sattyottama! Sattva! Bhuman! Hiranyagarbha! Trikakutkalesha! Vishvottamashloka! Vidhi! Maharshi! Pranesha! Vishveshwara! I bow Down to you. 21.
O Vrushakapi! Keshava! Dharma! Shuchishrava! Bhutapati! Paramatman! Punyanga! Yajneshtada! Punyakirti! Sudhi! Purushottama! I bow down to You. 22.
O Adhokshaja! Shrikar! Kanjanetra! Vedaika-vid! Veda-krit! Avyayatman! Avyakta! Sanchitpara! Saukhya! Hetu! Ananda! Vidyadhipati! I bow down to You. 23.
Jneyadideva! Priyabhakta! Pujya! Preyashtha! Prajesha! Amaravarya! Sarvabrahmagunagamya! Sadarchaniya! Pramanahinadhipati! I bow down to You. 24.
O!Swami! Mahesha!, Amaladhama!, Deva!, Jnanaprada!,Agochara!, Sadguna!, Apta!, Sahasramurti! Purusha!, Aptakama!, Prakashaka!, Akashavapu!, I bow down to You. 25.
O Swatantra! Mayadhipa! Sarvashakti! Be always pleased with us and protect us. You alone are the shelter to all. I bow down to You again and again O Lord! 26.
Worship followed by The Stuti.
Then all the devotees with folded hands and eyes fixed on His face, prayed to Him very humbly. 27.
O Shri Hari! You, who are so fond of Your devotees, Your names are such mighty removers of all the sins as well as of heaps of sorrow. May they keep recurring in our mouth (speech), at all times. Be it while yawning, sneezing, stumbling, toppling down, falling sick, fainting, becoming helpless; and even while dying, being on the verge of death. 28.
O Lord, let our mind (attention) not divert from Your holy pair of feet towards worldly things like our body, home and wealth. Please do fulfil this request of ours and shower grace upon us. 29.
Having made this plea, all the devotees sat down in their respective seats, bow down to Him once again with their minds fixed on Him. 30.
After all of them had taken their seats, Shri Hari, wishing to say something, made everybody alert with the sign of His hand. 31.
When all of them sat with their eyes concentrating on His own face, He started saying as follows, in a deep voice like that of a rumbling cloud. 32.
Directions to perform Jagran.
Sage Narayan muni said, O My devotees, all of you, O men and women, listen attentively to my words. This our vow will be fruitful only if we are wakeful all throughout the night. So now, we should keep ourself awake by praising the virtues of Lord Shri Krishna. 33-34
Having said so, He got Muktanand and others got to sing many Sanskrit and Prakrit songs (in praise) of God. 35
Attracting the entire mob of His devotees, He clapped aloud and made others clap too. He also sang along with them. 36
O King, that senior most sage gave pleasure to His devotees. In this manner, while keeping them awake, He finally heard the long cuckooing note of a cock in the last part of the night. 37
There upon, he permitted all the sages and other people to go and perform other daily rites. After being saluted by them all, He Himself, performed His six fold daily rites. 38
Thus ends the fifty fifth chapter entitled, ‘Narration of description of the evening rites,’ in the third prakaran of Satsangi Jivan, the life story of Lord Narayan, also titled as Dharmashastra. (the rules of the code of conduct). 55