This series of Sangha has ended and we started studying the Hymns to Shiva – Utpaladeva’s Shivastotravali.

The Hymns to Shiva are a series of verses that are independent of each other, so you are welcome to join us at any time (replays are available). For details of this FREE weekly online sangha read more here…

Click here to visit next page to view Bhagavad Gita Sangha #49 Chapter 6 verse 21-26

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Downloads and links:

• MP3 Audio file of Aghora mantra (Zip file 113 KB)
• PDF of Introduction from Swamiji’s first Bhagavad Gita book (Zip file 24.3 MB).
• Download the introduction of Bhagavad Gita (Zip file 5.7 MB), so you can follow along with the text even if you haven’t purchased the book yet.
• Link to our bookstore to purchase Abhinavagupta’s Bhagavad Gita online.
• Link to the Ishwar Ashram Trust website our Indian sister organization.
• Link to on-demand page where you can purchase/rent the whole series of Bhagavad Gita
• You are welcome to join us Sunday Puja at 10:30 am Pacific Time. Click here register.
• During Sangha #5 we mentioned…
  • PDF Liṅgoddhāra meaning (Zip file 53 KB)
  • Links to Liṅgoddhāra texts mentioned:
    1) Abhinavagupta’s Bhagavad Gita
    2) Abhinavagupta’s Paramārthasāra
    3) Bhatta Narayana’s Stava Cintamani
  • Link to online course / webinar mentioned during Sangha #5, which contains the excerpt below…
    

• The verse mentioned in Sangha #12 is the last verse we sing in our Sunday Puja. It is also the first verse of Somānanda’s Shivadristi, a very ancient text which was the foundation of the Pratyabhijñā System of Kashmir Shaivism.

  asmad rūpa samāviṣṭaḥ svātmanātmanivāraṇe
  śivaḥ karotu nijayā namaḥ śaktyā tatātmane

  Let Śiva, who is my own nature, bow down to his real nature, Universal Śiva, through his own śakti for the removal of bondage and limitation which is none other than Śiva.

• John’s prayer mentioned in Sangha #20

• chart mentioned in Sangha #21, verse 14-15

• Sangha #23 – letter from Swamiji about the meaning of the aghora mantra
• Sangha #30 – Efficacy of the Aghora mantra, an excerpt from “Kashmir Shaivism – The Secret Supreme” The Birth of the Tantras
• Sangha #30 – Fourteen fold creation in Hinduism
• Sangha #31 – Table with the different Yajñās…

• Sangha #31 – Click here to download a PDF (1 MB) of the first pages of the original Malini Magazine (1970), that was shown during today’s Sangha. This has Swamiji’s explanation of the first verse of the Shivadristi, a text compiled by the ancient Shaiva master Somānanda more than 1,000 years ago.

अस्मद्रूप समाविष्टः स्वात्मनात्म निवारणे ।
शिवः करोतु निजया नमः शक्तया ततात्मने ॥

asmadrūpa samāviṣṭaḥ svātmanātma nivāraṇe |
śivaḥ karotu nijayā namaḥ śaktyā tatātmane ||

If you are interested follow this link, which has access to many of the Malini Magazines, which have been published by the Ishwar Ashram Trust in India.

• Sangha #31 – mentioned Article by Jo Dufranes about rain: “A Gray July Goes out with a Thunderclap: Rain: Unseasonable cool weather ends with an early morning storm that puts on a loud, showy display.”
• Sangha #32 – Click to download Dehasta devata cakra stotra (PDF 5.4 MB)
• Sangha #43 – You can download the PDF of the transcript from the Bhagavad Gita audio recording (1978) that we shared that day.

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