KATHAM️
chitrā pournami or chaitra purnimā is essentially a picturesque expression of gratitude 🙏 to & reverential celebration of our reliable big-data backup system, which has been uninterruptedly & automatically backing up the seemingly never-ending balance sheet of our accidentally-unconscious thoughts 💭, speeches & actions as well as their ensuing short-term reactions & long-term implications <karmā> over multiple reboots into various hardware systems (our bodies over multiple lifetimes). The only events that the backup system ever ignores are our responsibly-conscious deeds, words & ideas 💡<kriyās>!
The artistically-inclined poets, sculptors & painters expressed, or rather concealed, this scientific concept & technological asset in an aesthetically 🖼 embodied secret 🤫 form <chitra-guptā>, born out of our own creative <brahmā> consciousness <chit>, conjured up by our mind <mānasa-putra>.
This particular aspect of ourSelf is aptly named as chitra-guptā, recognising its geometrically-hidden 🤐 nature & ⏰ time-appropriate revelations of the precious secrets to our own uninhibited & right royal 👑 nature of duty-consciousness <yama-dharma-rājā> for appropriate redemption of penalties/rewards earned by us since time immemorial, just about to mature. Not surprisingly therefore, our kārmic backup system <chitra-guptā> is the presiding officer <adhi-dévatā> for our material declination &, as a corollary, spiritual inclination <kétu>.
Astronomically, this is the descending lunar node marking the massless point of intersection of the solar & lunar orbits, as observed from an earth-fixed reference system. More significantly, it’s yet another conformal mapping from the bounded physical microcosm of our body-mind-intellect (BMI) toolkit’s 🧰 apparently mundane life to the unbounded metaphysical macrocosm of the liberated cosmos, namely a transformation via our material <kāmā-arthā> declination to spiritual <mōkśa-dharmā> inclination.
This is a potential transition from our preoccupation with the 💯-odd elements of the entire periodic table (that we spent so much time learning & using ever since high school chemistry), which shockingly constitute a mere <<0.1% of existence to the leading-order interplay between the ubiquitous dark energy ~73% <mahā-kālī> & dark matter ~23% <mahā-kālā>. BTW, stars ✨ constitute ~4% of the cosmic structure, according to the current understanding of modern physics.
True to its name, our kārmic backup system <chitra-guptā>, works in the background, endowed with a GPU & videographic memory deeply embedded in every inherited gene 🧬 & living cell, dually powered by our rejoicing delight <nandini> as the main power & brilliant beauty <śōbhāvati> as the UPS. In this sense, chitra-guptā is our built-in pre-chartered accountant as well as the progenitor of the devanagari script & of course all its spinoffs, nay writing itself… period. No wonder, the garuda purānā exalts our irrepressible backup system with the phrase “chitra-gupta nama-stubhyam ved-ākśara-dātré!” References to our backup system goes all the way back to the antiquity of the rg védā.
The choice of a purnimā for this wonderfully-auspicious celebration of our kārmic backup system is most apt as every purni-mā 🤰🏻 is a potent day-night combo to effortlessly express, irrespective of our biological gender, our fully-pregnant <purni> motherliness <mā>, (towards our own momentary creation, namely the entire 🤱 universe at that very instant of time) expressed as devotion <bhakti>. But this particular purni-mā is all the more significant as our receptive minds (conformally mapped out to the moon 🌝) fully reflect our exalted ātmā (conformally mapped out to the Sun 🌞 in Aries ♈️ <méśa-rāśi>)!
On the other 11/12 full moon 🌕 days, however, the sun ☀️ isn’t exalted & hence the ātmic expression is subdued by the atomic expressions of our other false (or rather, temporary & less significant lower truthful) identities <aham-kārā>, normally & wrongly attributed to the fall guy, ego, just as an excuse to escape our responsibility. This is a classic example of a situation where the so-called ‘normal’ can be erroneous! Just because many people think, say or do something, it doesn’t automatically become right!
The icing on the cake 🧁 for this picturesque chitrā 🖼 pournami 🌝 happens to be a longish original bhajan, which just occurred to me as most appropriate to enable our minds to freely sing 🎤 & bodies to uninhibitedly dance 💃🏻 to the tunes of ourSelf, the soul, keeping our sharp intellect on its edge!!! The short version was shared with y’all last night.
AUM śrī chitra-guptāya namaha!
AUM śrī yama-dharma-rājāya namaha!
Candra-śékara, candra-sundara, candr-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Soma-śékara, soma-sundara, som-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Tingala-śékara, tingala-sundara, tingal-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Indu-śékara, indu-sundara, indu-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Tārā-dīpa-śékara, tārā-dīpa-sundara, tārā-dīp-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Budha-pita-śékara, budha-pita-sundara, budha-pit-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Atri-suta-śékara, atri-suta-sundara, atri-sut-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Sachihna-śékara, sachihna-sundara, sachihn-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Niśā-kara-śékara, niśā-kara-sundara, niśā-kar-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Śaśi-śékara, śaśi-sundara, śaś-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Rajani-pati-śékara, rajani-pati-sundara, rajani-pat-īśwara pāhi-mām!
Kśupa-kara-śékara, kśupa-kara-sundara, kśupa-kar-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Kark-ādi-pati-śékara kark-ādi-pati-sundara, kark-ādi-pat-īśwara pāhi-mām!
Vriśabh-ochcha-śékara, vriśabh-ochcha-sundara, vriśabh-ochch-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Kśīra-sāgar-odbhava-śékara, kśīra-sāgar-odbhava-sundara, kśīra-sāgar-odbhav-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Aświni-pati-śékara, aświni-pati-sundara, aświni-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Bharani-nātha-śékara, bharani-nātha-sundara, bharani-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Krittikā-pati-śékara, krittikā-pati-sundara, krittikā-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Rohini-nātha-śékara, rohini-nātha-sundara, rohini-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Mrigaśīrśā-pati-śékara, mrigaśīrśā-pati-sundara, mrigaśīrśā-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Ārdrā-nātha-śékara, ārdrā-nātha-sundara, ārdrā-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Punarvasu-pati-śékara, punarvasu-pati-sundara, punarvasu-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Puśya-nātha-śékara, puśya-nātha-sundara, puśya-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Āśléśā-pati-śékara, āśléśā-pati-sundara, āśléśā-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Maghā-nātha-śékara, maghā-nātha-sundara, maghā-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Pūrva-phālguni-pati-śékara, pūrva-phālguni-pati-sundara, pūrva-phālguni-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Uttara-phālguni-nātha-śékara, uttara-phālguni-nātha-sundara, uttara-phālguni-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Hasta-pati-śékara, hasta-pati-sundara, hasta-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Chitrā-nātha-śékara, chitrā-nātha-sundara, chitrā-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Svāti-pati-śékara, svāti-pati-sundara, svāti-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Viśākhā-nātha-śékara, viśākhā-nātha-sundara, viśākhā-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Anurādhā-pati-śékara, anurādhā-pati-sundara, anurādhā-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Jyéśtā-nātha-śékara, jyéśtā-nātha-sundara, jyéśtā-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Mūlā-pati-śékara, mūlā-pati-sundara, mūlā-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Pūrv-āśādhā-nātha-śékara, pūrv-āśādhā-nātha-sundara, pūrv-āśādhā-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Uttar-āśādhā-pati-śékara, uttar-āśādhā-pati-sundara, uttar-āśādhā-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Śravana-nātha-śékara, śravana-nātha-sundara, śravana-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Dhaniśtā-pati-śékara, dhaniśtā-pati-sundara, dhaniśtā-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Śatabhīśaka-nātha-śékara, śatabhīśaka-nātha-sundara, śatabhīśaka-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Pūrva-bhādrapāda-pati-śékara, pūrva-bhādrapāda-pati-sundara, pūrva-bhādrapāda-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Uttara-bhādrapāda-nātha-śékara, uttara-bhādrapāda-nātha-sundara, uttara-bhādrapāda-nāth-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Révati-pati-śékara, révati-pati-sundara, révati-pat-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Rāhu-vairi-śékara, rāhu-vairi-sundara, rāhu-vair-īśwara pāhi-mām!
Kétu-vairi-śékara, kétu-vairi-sundara, kétu-vair-īśwara rakśa-mām!
Surya-mitra-śékara, surya-mitra-sundara, surya-mitr-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Kuja-mitra-śékara, kuja-mitra-sundara, kuja-mitr-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Rajata-mandala-śékara, rajata-mandala-sundara, rajata-mandala-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Mouktika-śékara, mouktika-sundara, mouktik-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Manoh-kāraka-śékara, manoh-kāraka-sundara, manoh-kārak-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Mātru-kāraka-śékara, mātru-kāraka-sundara, mātru-kārak-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Śukla-pakśa-kāraka-śékara, śukla-pakśa-kāraka-sundara, śukla-pakśa-kārak-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Kršña-pakśa-kāraka-śékara, kršña-pakśa-kāraka-sundara, kršña-pakśa-kārak-éśwara rakśa-mām!
āpa-śékara, āpa-sundara, āp-éśwara pāhi-mām!
vélā-śékara, vélā-sundara, vél-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Guna-harana-śékara, guna-harana-sundara, guna-haran-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Tamō-harana-śékara, tamō-harana-sundara, tamō-haran-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Rajō-harana-śékara, rajō-harana-sundara, rajō-haran-éśwara pāhi-mām!
Sattva-harana-śékara, sattva-harana-sundara, sattva-haran-éśwara rakśa-mām!
Extract from Mantrapuśpam
chandrama va apamayatnam, ayatanavan bhavati yas-chandramasa ayatanam veda, ayatanavan bhavati apo vai chandramasa ayatanam, ayatanavan bhavati
ya evam veda, yopamayatanam veda, ayatanavan bhavati
The ingredient of our mind 🌙 🌚 🌝 is 💦 fluid liquid 💧. Becoming aware of this, we are unequivocally established in ourSelf. Freely-flowing liquid 💧 💦 is the essence of our mind 🌝 🌚 🌙. Recognising this, we get established in ourSelf. We, who know the ultimate source of elemental💧 liquid 💦automatically get established in ourSelf. It doesn’t matter whether the approach is ‘scientific’ or spiritual. The latter know the former as a core subset!
