Saraswati Stuti

Saraswati Stuti

Saraswati is considered godess of Knowledge, Intelligence, Oration and Art.
She is daughter of Brahma and a virgin.
Students (Vidyarthi - People desirous of aquiring knowledge) worship her to help them in their quest.

Ya kundendutusharhardhawala ya shubhravastra vruta
ya veena varadandamanditkara ya shwetpadmasana |
Ya brahmachyutshankara prabhutibhi daive sada vandita
sa ma patu saraswati bhagawati nishesh jadya paha ||

Translation:
The godess who is as fair as the flower of kund (?), like moon and like a necklace of dew and wears bright white clothes.
Who holds a *veena, and is seated on a white lotus.
To whom gods like Brahma, Vishnu and Shankar always bow,
and who dispells all darkness from the mind without a trace,
such godess Saraswati, please protect me.

*Veena - a 8-stringed ancient Indian music instrument.

The beginning - of beliefs and contemplation

A verse in Bhagwad Gita:

The verse in sanskrit:

Nahi Kalyan Krutkaschid durgati tat gacchati |

Translation:
The one, who walks the path of good, always finds salvation.

My Contemplation:
The actual words translate to something like " The one, who walks the path of good, is never harmed/ does not go to hell."

Since the last part is ambiguous, chose to play it safe, by translation it to "always finds salvation".

At times do wonder, do people who always do good are enver harmed?
Or does this verse just mean that the one who does good, may suffer in this world and even die, but after death, he goes to heaven?

Not sure.

But then, doing good for the safe of going to heaven, is just like doing bad for sake of pleasure.
So does it matter?

To me it does.

I try to live by folloing lines:

Do what makes you feel calm and content and happy, right here, right now.
Pursue happiness that is permenant instead of what is a fleeting pleasure.

How successful I have been, is a matter of debate,
but how happy I have been, is something only I can tell.

So regardless of will I suffer or not,
Will I go to heaven or not,
I try to do what I think is right.

I say I try, because I am not always successful.
Perhaps that is why, I am not always happy :-).

But still the above verse of Geeta intrigues me.
I want to find out what is its true meaning and what is the truth.

But until I do, I will just believe, that the one's who walk the path pointed to by their inner voice, the ones who do not harm others (and themselves), are always happy and in well-being.