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                                            આરતી - Aaratee

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                               Hari : Om  

Om  Grant me refuge under Thy (Lotus) feet;

       Lord grant me refuge under Thy (Lotus) feet.

Save this fallen one  (2)

       by grasping his arm and beholding in your heart .....ૐ Grant.

May the subtle feelings of mind and speech,

      descend in action too, O! Lord  (2)

Let the mind, speech and heart  (2)

      get unified as one with your Grace.                    .....ૐ Grant.

For all whom am I connected with,

     emanate goodwill in my heart, O! Lord  (2)

Even where insults have been hurled  (2)

     let goodwill enhance there too.                            .....ૐ Grant.

To transform the baser instincts,

    to sublimed-form, O! Lord  (2)

With thy grace, may I be able to strive (2)

    To grasp Thy (Lotus) feet.                                   .....ૐ Grant.

Let all the mental thoughts,

     And vital instincts, O! Lord  (2)

All of the doubts of intellect (2)

     get dissolved at Thy lotus feet.                           .....ૐ Grant.

Whatever am I at heart, O! Lord  

      May I appear as I am, O! Lord  (2)

Keep my senses alert (2)

      so candidly truthful be my utterance.                    .....ૐ Grant.

If the heart is harboring something,

     than nothing contrary to that, O! Lord  (2)

Ever happens through me  (2)

     bestow me, with such a sense.                            .....ૐ Grant.

Wherever do I see the noble qualities and compassion,

      let  there my heart experience the tranquil contentment, O! Lord  (2)

Let thy devotion founded on noble qualities and compassion,  (2)

      germinate in this heart of mine.                           .....ૐ Grant.

Let the mind , senses and vital, O! Lord!

     get dissolved in fervour of devotion to Thee. O! Lord  (2)

May thy devotion in this heart (2)

     surge-up, like the splashing waves.                      .....ૐ Grant. 

                                         - Pujya Sri Mota

Pujya Sri Mota has given the significance of the Mantra: “HARI OM or HARI AUM” at several places in his writings. Here too, in this Aarati-Bhajan, he has repeated : "Om /Aum/ ૐ” in each stanza. There is a fine explanation of this. It may be added that the Mandukya Upanished, which deals with these four states, though in a very compressed manner, states that the Mantra Om can be considered as a split up into the three elements, A, U, M. Of these A signifies the Jagrat State, U the Swapna and M the Sushupti, while the Om, taken as a single unity, stands for the “Fourth”.The repeated counsel to meditate on the Om has no reference to setting up “vibrations” in the Subtle body but to raising the consciousness through the three stages into the Fourth. Collective meaning of the terms: “Jagrat (Waking), Swapna (Dreaming), Sushupti (Deep-sleep state), the Fourth (Turiya)” : is that of sheer transcendence, the unmanifested consciousness of the Shanta Atman. It is the Goal and is best left in silence. (Taken from Appendix C, note on the four states of consciousness : “The Yoga of the Bhagavat

Gita” by Sri Krishna Prem)