Prātaḥsmaraṇastotram - A Morning Prayer
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: ॥ प्रातःस्मरणस्तोत्रम् ॥ prātaḥsmaraṇastotram A Morning Prayer Summary Dawn is the best time to focus your mind on the deities you worship. These morning prayers are called prātaḥ smaraṇa. In this prayer, the deities invoked are the key deities of Sarvāmnāya practice, the esoteric tantric tradition that integrates all the deities from the Kaula and Samaya orders in a hierarchy of practice. The supreme deity here is a fusion of both Shiva and Shakti, that is identified as the feet of Guru, as red and white drops, replete with all potential external forms even though nothing external has yet emerged in this integration of Shiva and Shakti. This state is described as the mere luminosity of Absolute Shiva nature that is always and eternally free from defilements, even though it constitutes the external principles by assuming difference imposed by time and space. The deities summoned in the heart in this early morning meditation are Tripurā with the color of the aurora dawn, Kālī, the goddess Parā with the shine of the moon, and Kubjika. Accordingly, the deity Kālasaṅkarṣiṇī is visualized resting on Manthānabhairava, the fearsome form of Śhiva that churns all the externalized forms and offers them to Kālī to transform into pure consciousness. The morning prayer culminates with the visualization of the two feet of Guru, abstracted as red and white drops, beyond words and of the form of pure consciousness, manifest in the form of these Śāṃbhava deities. Composed by AcharyaJi Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina Vocals - Vidushi Sivasri Skandaprasad Flute - Vidushi Varijashree Venugopal Sitar - Vidushi Shruti Kamath Veena - Vidushi Pushpa Kashina Keyboards - Pt. Praveen D Rao Tabla - Pt. Gurumurthy Vaidya Mridangam and creative percussions - Vidwan Sai Vamshi Original music score by Pt. Praveen D Rao Recorded at Prabhath Studios, Bangalore by Rangaswamy Mixed and Mastered by Ashwin Prabhath Lyrics प्रातःस्मरणस्तोत्रम् ॥ prātaḥsmaraṇastotram A Morning Prayer प्रातःस्मरामि शिवशक्तिपदारविन्दम्। बाह्यात्मभावभरिताकृतिविश्वरूपम्॥ prātaḥsmarāmi śivaśaktipadāravindam। bāhyātmabhāvabharitākṛtiviśvarūpam॥ In the morning I recollect the lotus [which is] the form of the feet of Shiva and Shakti, filled with external and internal forms and therefore of universal forms. दिक्कालभेदपरिभाविततत्त्वजालम्। नित्यं निरञ्जनमनुत्तररश्मिरूपम्॥ dikkālabhedaparibhāvitatattvajālam। nityaṃ nirañjanamanuttararaśmirūpam॥ Eternal and stainless, these are the rays of the absolute [or the phoneme A] that have assumed the form of all principles (tattvas) by means of differentiation in time and space. प्रातर्नमामि ललितां तरुणारुणाभाम्। कालीं परां शशिरुचिं हृदि कुब्जिकालीम्॥ prātarnamāmi lalitāṃ taruṇāruṇābhām। kālīṃ parāṃ śaśiruciṃ hṛdi kubjikālīm॥ In the morning I bow to Lalita [Tripurasundari] who has the rays of the young sun [in aurora color], to Kali [the Aghora], to the goddess Para who shines like the moon, to Kubjika seated in my heart, मन्थानभैरवसमाश्रितपादपद्माम्। संकर्षिणीं भगवतीं चितिमात्रमूर्तिं॥ manthānabhairavasamāśritapādapadmām। saṃkarṣiṇīṃ bhagavatīṃ citimātramūrtiṃ॥ and to the goddess Kalasamkarshini who has rested her feet on Lord Manthanabhairava and whose form is pure consciousness. प्रातर्भजामि सितरक्तविमिश्रपादम्। वाचामतीतमकथं गुरुतत्त्वमेकम्॥ prātarbhajāmi sitaraktavimiśrapādam। vācāmatītamakathaṃ gurutattvamekam॥ In the morning I pray to the singular Guru principle shown by feet with white, red, and mixed color and yet in the form of A Ka-Tha [or beyond speech and therefore cannot be described], शून्यातिशून्यमविकल्पितमात्मरूपम्। चिन्मात्रमूर्तिपरशम्भुपदं वरेण्यम्॥ śūnyātiśūnyamavikalpitamātmarūpam। cinmātramūrtiparaśambhupadaṃ vareṇyam॥ which is empty beyond what is empty, expunged of all conceptualizations, and of the form of the self itself, the most desirable [state], the state of the supreme Shiva [or Pareshvara] that has the [formless] form of pure consciousness. इति श्री आचार्यस्थानेश्वरप्रणीतं सर्वाम्नायप्रातःस्मरणं सम्पूर्णम्। iti śrī ācāryasthāneśvarapraṇītaṃ sarvāmnāyaprātaḥsmaraṇaṃ sampūrṇam। This is the complete Prātaḥ Smaraṇaṃ for Sarvāmnāya, prescribed by Śrī Ācārya Sthāneśvara Original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSID_vMtZsY This presentation is part of the Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive. Vimarsha Foundation. (2025). The Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15188107
Author: Timalsina, Staneshwar
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6912016499
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