Mantra Pushpam ( The Sacred Cosmic Flower ) - Softcover

Sadagopan, Dr Varadachari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500802913 ISBN 13: 9781500802912

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

There are 32 Anuvakas (Sections) in the Surya Namaskara Prasnam. The number of Panchasats (Individual Mantras) in this Prasnam adds up to 130. The eighth Anuvaka is a prelude to the Mantra Pushpam that is housed in the 22nd Anuvakam.The Anuvakams preceding the eighth deal with the measures of time. The eighth Anuvakam starts off by stating that all of the units of “Time” enter into “Water” which in turn enters into “Agni”, which ultimately merges with the energy of “Surya”. Eight forms of Agnis are then described. In the 22nd anuvaka dealing with mantra pushpam, “water” is recognized as the most fundamental of “elements”. The relationship between “water” and moon, agni(fire), surya(Sun), vaayu(wind) and stars is described and saluted. At the end of this anuvaka, the reciter visualizes the entire world as floating in the immensity of “water”. The mantra pushpam rks are linked with the most sacred aruna ketukam ritual. There are 12 panchasats (individual mantra/rks) in the 22nd anuvakam. This book contains the translation of these mantras.

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Dr VaradAchAri Sadagopan has been blessed with many good fortunes such as being born in a divya desam like Oppiliappan Koil, having loving parents who sacrificed everything to encourage him to earn six degrees from the best of Universities in the World including the Doctor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. V. Sadagopan had an active career at IBM T.J.Watson Research Center,NY with 50 technical publications and six U.S Patents . After his retirement from IBM, He became a consultant to the Dean of Pace University, NY in Cybersecurity, Big Analytics, Cloud Computing and Telemedicine. His particular interests are in Brain Sciences and Human Memory Circuits. Prior to joining IBM, he spent a year at the U.N after which he decided to complete his Doctoral Studies at MIT. He worked at Geneva and New York during his year at the UN. During his career with IBM, he served as the Interface to the leading edge universities in the USA and abroad to maintain Technical Relationships with future research groups of interest to IBM from a long term partnership point of view. He helped organize many technical conferences abroad and had the privilege of helping IBM Companies abroad in Europe, SE Asia and South America. He spent three years on assignment in Germany supporting IBM European Labs and Scientific Centers. He got to travel by the now extinct Concord Supersonic Plane 5 times on IBM Missions. Dr V.Sadagopan humbly states that his accomplishments were made possible by Sri Hayagreeva Mantropadesaam received from a member of the Thirukkudantai Azhagiyasingar family, who in turn was related to Srimad DevanArviLaagam Azhagiyasingar. He had his samaasrayaNam with DevanArviLaagam Azhagiyasingar and BharanyAsam at the sacred feet of Srimad Villivalam Azhagiyasingar. Dr.Sadagopan has released so far 350 plus ebooks under the portal of http://www.sadagopan.org . These ebooks are in English to help the younger generation become aware of the rich heritage of the Eternal Vedic literature and other source literature in Tamil language dealing with the works of AzhwArs and AchAryAs of Sri VaishNavite tradition.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500802913
• ISBN 13: 9781500802912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 34