Navagraha

navagraha dhyānam (tantrokta navagraha svarūpa)

(Navagraha Dhyanam Tantrokta Navagraha Svarupa in English (IAST))

Also known as tantrokta navagraha dhyanam · atha suryasya dhyanam tripurasarvasve

Nine meditations on the planets, and the point of the collection is that each one is quoted from a different book, with the source named in its own heading: the Sun's from the Tripurasarvasva, Mars's from the Agamamrtamanjari, Mercury's and Jupiter's from the Bhairava Tantra, Venus's from the Kubjikasarvasva, Saturn's from the Shubhada Agamamrta. It is an anthology rather than a composition. The images it gathers are not the puranic ones: Mercury rides a swan, two-armed, with a sword and a noose; Jupiter is on an elephant holding a spear and a trident; Venus is two-eyed, which is worth noticing in a god usually described as having lost an eye, and sits on a krauncha bird. Every verse places the planet in the lotus of the heart rather than in the sky, which is what makes these meditations rather than descriptions.

|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
|| navagraha dhyānam ||
1. atha sūryasya dhyānaṃ - (tripurāsarvasve)
pratyakṣadevaṃ viśadaṃ sahasramarīcibhiḥ śobhitabhūmideśam |
saptāśvagaṃ saddhvajahastamādyaṃ devaṃ bhaje'haṃ mihiraṃ hṛdabje || 1||
2. atha candrasya dhyānaṃ - (niḥsṛtamāgame)
śaṅkhaprabhameṇapriyaṃ śaśāṅkamīśānamaulisthitamīḍyavṛttam |
tamīpatiṃ nīrajayugmahastaṃ dhyāye hṛdabje śaśinaṃ graheśam || 2||
3. atha bhaumasya dhyānaṃ - (āgamāmṛtamañjaryām)
prataptagāṅgeyanibhaṃ graheśaṃ siṃhāsanasthaṃ kamalāsihastam |
surāsuraiḥ pūjitapādapadmaṃ bhaumaṃ dayāluṃ hṛdaye smarāmi || 3||
4. atha saumyasya (budha) dhyānaṃ - (bhairavatantre)
somātmajaṃ haṃsagataṃ dvibāhuṃ śaṅkhendurūpaṃ hyasipāśahastam |
dayānidhiṃ bhūṣaṇabhūṣitāṅgaṃ budhaṃ smare mānasapaṅkaje'ham || 4||
5. atha jīvasya (guru) dhyānaṃ - (bhairavatantre)
tejomayaṃ śaktitriśūlahastaṃ surendrajyeṣṭhaiḥ stutapādapadmam |
medhānidhiṃ hastigataṃ dvibāhuṃ guruṃ smare mānasapaṅkaje'ham || 5||
6. atha śukrasya dhyānaṃ - (kubjikāsarvasve)
santaptakāñcananibhaṃ dvibhujaṃ dayāluṃ
pītāmbaraṃ dhṛtasaroruhadvandvaśūlam |
krauñcāsanaṃ hyasurasevitapādapadmaṃ
śukraṃ smare dvinayanaṃ hṛdi paṅkaje'ham || 6||
7. atha śanerdhyānaṃ - (śubhadamāgamāmṛte)
nīlāñjanābhaṃ mihireṣṭaputraṃ graheśvaraṃ pāśabhujaṅgapāṇim |
surāsurāṇāṃ bhayadaṃ dvibāhuṃ śaniṃ smare mānasapaṅkaje'ham || 7||
8. atha saiṃhikeyasya (rāhu) dhyānaṃ - (vāmakeśvara tantre)
śītāṃśumitrāntakamīḍyarūpaṃ ghoraṃ ca vaiḍuryanibhaṃ vibāhum |
trailokyarakṣāpradaṃmiṣṭadaṃ ca rāhuṃ grahendraṃ hṛdaye smarāmi || 8||
9. atha ketośca dhyānaṃ - (tantrasāgare)
lāṅgulayuktaṃ bhayadaṃ janānāṃ kṛṣṇāmbubhṛtsannibhamekavīram |
kṛṣṇāmbaraṃ śaktitriśūlahastaṃ ketuṃ bhaje mānasapaṅkaje'ham || 9||
|| iti navagrahadhyānaṃ sampūrṇam ||

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