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Athato Bhakti-Jijnasa (Shandilya Bhakti Sutra 1) in Tamil · தமிழ்

🕉️ hindu·📿 3× ஜபம்·🕐 Before study or recitation of the Shandilya Bhakti Sutra, or at the start of devotional practice in the early morning·📜 Shandilya Bhakti Sutra, Sutra 1

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Shandilya Bhakti Sutra, Sutra 1 · Attributed to Sage Shandilya · Ancient (classical period of the Bhakti tradition)

The Shandilya Bhakti Sutra opens, in deliberate echo of the Brahma Sutra, with the words 'Atha ataḥ' — 'Now, therefore' — but directs the enquiry toward devotion rather than Brahman. The commentators explain that, having recognized devotion as the supreme means to the highest good, the qualified seeker now undertakes the systematic investigation into its nature. The following sutras define bhakti as supreme attachment to the Lord, distinguish it from mere knowledge and ritual, and establish it as the direct path to liberation, making this aphorism the gateway to Shandilya's whole teaching on love of God.

✦ சாத்திரங்களில் கூறியபடி

The Bhakti tradition holds that Shandilya, a great seer of the lineage, set down this enquiry so that devotion would be honoured as a complete path in its own right; and the saints affirm that one who earnestly takes up this enquiry into love of God is, by that very turning of the heart, set firmly on the road to the supreme goal.

0மொத்த ஜபம்

மந்திரம்

எந்த வரியையும் அல்லது ▶ பொத்தானைத் தொட்டு கேளுங்கள்

அதாதோ பக்திஜிஜ்ஞாஸா ॥ ௧ ॥ ஸா பராநுரக்திரீஶ்வரே ॥ ௨ ॥

athāto bhakti-jijñāsā (1) sā parānuraktir īśvare (2)

பொருள்:Now, therefore, (begins) the enquiry into devotion (bhakti). (1) That (devotion) is supreme loving attachment to the Lord. (2)

சொல்-சொல்லாகப் பொருள்

உச்சரிப்பைக் கேட்க எந்தச் சொல்லையும் தட்டவும்

அத🔊athaNow (an auspicious word marking the beginning of the teaching, after the seeker is ready)

அதஃ🔊ataḥTherefore, hence (because devotion is the means to the highest good)

பக்தி🔊bhaktiDevotion, loving devotion to God

ஜிஜ்ஞாஸா🔊jijñāsāThe desire to know, the deliberate enquiry

பக்திஜிஜ்ஞாஸா🔊bhakti-jijñāsāThe enquiry into devotion — the disciplined desire to know the nature of bhakti (the subject of the whole work)

அதாதஃ🔊athātaḥNow therefore (atha + ataḥ in sandhi) — the benedictory opening that parallels the Brahma Sutra

ஜிஜ்ஞாஸ்🔊jijñāsThe desiderative of the root 'jñā' (to know) — to wish to know; the basis of the word jijñāsā

பக்தேஃ ஜிஜ்ஞாஸா🔊bhakteḥ jijñāsāThe enquiry of/into devotion — bhakti is the subject now to be investigated

ஸா🔊sāThat (devotion) — referring back to bhakti, which is feminine in Sanskrit

பரா அநுரக்திஃ🔊parā anuraktiḥSupreme attachment, the highest loving devotion

ஈஶ்வரே🔊īśvareIn/towards the Lord (God)

ஸா பராநுரக்திரீஶ்வரே🔊sā parānuraktir īśvareDevotion is supreme loving attachment to God — sutra 2, Shandilya's definition of bhakti

Athato Bhakti-Jijnasa (Shandilya Bhakti Sutra 1) பாராயணப் பலன்கள்

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Opens the Shandilya Bhakti Sutra, a foundational treatise on the path of devotion.

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The auspicious word 'atha' (now) is itself regarded as a blessing marking the seeker's readiness.

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Establishes bhakti as a worthy subject of deliberate enquiry, on a par with the enquiry into Brahman.

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Chanted as a sacred beginning before study of the Shandilya Bhakti Sutra.

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Awakens the spirit of enquiry into the true nature of devotion.

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Sets the heart toward devotion as the direct means to the highest good.

Athato Bhakti-Jijnasa (Shandilya Bhakti Sutra 1) பாராயண முறை

ஜப எண்ணிக்கை3முறை

சிறந்த நேரம்Before study or recitation of the Shandilya Bhakti Sutra, or at the start of devotional practice in the early morning

திசைEast or North

Recite this opening sutra slowly and with reverence as the doorway into the enquiry of devotion. Pause on the word 'atha' (now), feeling that this very moment is the right time to take up the study of bhakti. Then continue with the sutras that define and develop the nature of devotion. It is traditionally chanted as the invocation that begins study of the entire Shandilya Bhakti Sutra.

அடிக்கடி கேட்கப்படும் கேள்விகள்

இந்தப் பக்கத்தில் முழு Athato Bhakti-Jijnasa (Shandilya Bhakti Sutra 1) தமிழ் எழுத்தில் உள்ளது — அதே மூல சுலோகங்கள், எழுத்துக்கு-எழுத்து ஒலிபெயர்க்கப்பட்டு, நீங்கள் எளிதாகப் படித்து ஓத முடியும். எந்த வரியையும் (அல்லது ▶ பொத்தானை) தொட்டு அதன் ஓதலைக் கேளுங்கள்.

ஆம் — எழுத்து மட்டுமே மாறுகிறது; சொற்களும் பொருளும் மூலமே. இந்தப் பக்கத்தின் வரிக்கு-வரி பொருள், பலன்கள், பாராயண முறை அப்படியே பொருந்தும்.

It means 'Now, therefore, (begins) the enquiry into devotion.' It is the first sutra of the Shandilya Bhakti Sutra, declaring that the seeker now undertakes the deliberate investigation into the nature of bhakti.

The Shandilya Bhakti Sutra is a classical work of aphorisms on devotion attributed to the sage Shandilya. Alongside the Narada Bhakti Sutra it is one of the two principal sutra-texts of the Bhakti tradition, defining bhakti and establishing it as a direct path to the supreme goal.

The opening deliberately parallels the Brahma Sutra. Where the Brahma Sutra begins 'Athato brahma jijnasa' (now the enquiry into Brahman), the Shandilya Bhakti Sutra begins 'Athato bhakti-jijnasa' (now the enquiry into devotion) — placing the enquiry into bhakti alongside the enquiry into Brahman.

The text defines bhakti as supreme attachment or loving devotion (para-anurakti) to God (Ishvara). It argues that this devotion, and not knowledge or action alone, is the direct means to liberation and the highest good.

இவையும் படியுங்கள்

Athato Bhaktim Vyakhyasyamah (Narada Bhakti Sutra 1)अथातो भक्तिं व्याख्यास्यामः Sa Tu Asmin Parama-Prema-Rupa (Narada Bhakti Sutra 2)सा त्वस्मिन् परमप्रेमरूपा Yat Labdhva Puman Siddho Bhavati (Narada Bhakti Sutra 4)यल्लब्ध्वा पुमान् सिद्धो भवति Athato Brahma Jijnasa (Brahma Sutra 1.1.1)अथातो ब्रह्मजिज्ञासा Bhaja Govindamभज गोविन्दम्Sa Vai Pumsam Paro Dharmo (The Supreme Dharma)स वै पुंसां परो धर्मो Man-mana Bhava Mad-bhakto (Bhagavad Gita 9.34)मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो

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