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Shiv Tandav Strotam

Recitation & Sanskrit Lyrics

with English translation

Dedicated to the Success of

JAN LOKPAL Bill Movement



Content of this Audio-Visual presentation

• Purpose of this presentation.

•The Shiv Tandava Strotam, Story of its Creation, it’s

Lyrics, recitation in RAGA and English meaning of

the SHLOKAS.

•Why Jan LOKPAL Bill.

• Stand of Government & Civil Society on various

provisions of LOKPAL and reasons of opposing the

Government ‘s draft.

•Request from the presenter.



It is said that Lord RAMA had worshiped Lord SHIVA at

Rameshwaram ( situated in the Indian state of Tamilnadu) for the

success of his offensive on RAVANA, King of Lanka, to free his (RAMA)

wife SITA, whom he ( RAVANA) had kidnapped and confined in his

Capital city. SHIVA got pleased from this worship and gave Boon of

success to RAMA, against his (Shiva’s) ardent follower RAVANA.

Taking clue from this story,

I felt that why not the entire civil

society should worship Supreme LOKPAL ( Lord Siva’s one

name is LOKPAL also) for the success of LOKPAL Bill

in the

SHRAVAN month of Hindu calendar, which is known as good month to

please Lord SHIVA, as ruling class of our country is robbing our

progress and prosperity by rampant corruption, so it is duty of civil

society to come forward and fight for this cause ( Creation of a strict,

effective and independent institution like LOKPAL against

corruption.) .

The SHIV TANDAV STROTAM is known as best pray to please the Lord

SHIVA and by chanting , listening or reading this STROTA, we will

create a SATVIK atmosphere, which will drive out the detractors of our

society.

So Just listen these mantras and share it with maximum people as it

is said that if this mantra is chanted by a million times, then it

became RUDRA YAGNA and that create a pious atmosphere.



The story of creation of the SHIV TANDAV Strotam

(

शवताडवःतत

) is a Sanskrit song or Mantra or Hymn written on

Lord Shiva which describes Lord Shiva's Power, Beauty

(Physical and Mental) and specially Tandava. Though this

song is considered as an Arya Geeti (the song of Aryans, a part

of Vedic culture), but it is said, the song was written

(dedicated) and sung by Visrava (father of Ravana) and

especially by Ravana (King of Lanka). It is also said that,

Ravana himself wrote and dedicated the song to Lord Shiva.

In Ramayana, we can see Ravana was a great follower of Lord

Shiva and he was thoroughly blessed by Lord Shiva. Ravana

got Lord Shiva's blessings and assurances (बाभय) by very hard

mental and physical prayer (तपःया). The word 'Tandava'

means 'Destruction', which is also a part of 'Taal' [the word

'Taal', which is a very essential part of Indian music, is the

combination of 'Tandava' (which is considered as Lord Shiva's

dance form) and Lashya (which is considered as Goddess

Parvati's dance form). The fourth and fifth quatrains of this

hymn conclude with lists of Shiva's epithets as destroyer, even

the destroyer of death itself.



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ौीगणशाय नम

..

शवताडवःतम

..



जटाटवीगलजलवाहपावतःथल लऽवलय लबता भजङगतङगमालकाम

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डमडमडमडमननादवडमवरय चका चताडव तनत न शव शवम

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Translation: With his neck, consecrated by the flow of water

flowing from the thick forest-like locks of hair, and on the neck,

where the lofty snake is hanging garland, and the Damaru

drum making the sound of Damat Damat Damat Damat, Lord

Shiva did the auspicious dance of Tandava and may He shower

prosperity on us all. (1)



जटाकटाहस ममनलपनझर वललवीचवलवाजमानमधरन

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धगगगवलललाटपटपावक कशचिशख त तण मम

|| २||

Translation: I have a very deep interest in Lord Shiva, whose

head is glorified by the rows of moving waves of the celestial

river Ganga, agitating in the deep well of his hair-locks, and

who has the brilliant fire flaming on the surface of his

forehead, and who has the crescent moon as a jewel on his

head. (2)



धाधिनदनीवलासबधबध ःफगतसततमदमानमानस

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कपाकटाधणीनदधरापद वचगब मन वनदमत वःतन

|| ३

||

Translation: May my mind seek happiness in the Lord Shiva, in

whose mind all the living beings of the glorious universe exist,

who is the sportive companion of Parvati (daughter of the

mountain king), who controls invincible hardships with the

flow of his compassionate look, who is all-persuasive (the

directions are his clothes). (3)



लताभजङगपङगलःफफणामणभा कदबकङकिमवलदवधमख

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मदाधसधःफवगयमद मन वनदमत बभतर भतभतर

|| ४

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Translation: May I seek wonderful pleasure in Lord Shiva, who

is supporter of all life, who with his creeping snake with reddish

brown hood and with the luster of his gem on it spreading out

variegated colors on the beautiful faces of the maidens of

directions, who is covered with a glittering upper garment

made of the skin of a huge intoxicated elephant. (4)



सहॐलचनभयशषलखशख सनधलधणी वधसाङपीठभ

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भजङगाजमालया नबजाटजटक ौय चाय जायता चकबधशख

|| ५

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Translation: May Lord Shiva give us prosperity, who has the

moon (relative of the Cakora bird) as his head-jewel, whose

hair is tied by the red snake- garland, whose foot-stool is

grayed by the flow of dust from the flowers from the rows of

heads of all the Gods, Indra/Vishnu and others. (5)



ललाटचववलनञजयःफलङगभा नपीतपञचसायक नमनलपनायकम

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सधामयखलखया वाजमानशख महाकपालसपदशजटालमःत न

|| ६

||

Translation: May we get the wealth of Siddhis from Shiva's

locks of hair, which devoured the God of Love with the sparks of

the fire flaming in His forehead, who is bowed by all the

celestial leaders, who is beautiful with a crescent moon (6)



कालभालपटकाधगगगवल नञजयाहतीकतचडपञचसायक

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धाधिनदनीकचाचपक कपनकशपन लचन तमरम

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|| ७

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Translation: My interest is in Lord Shiva, who has three eyes, who

has offered the powerful God of Love into the fire, flaming

Dhagad Dhagad on the flat surface of his forehead who is the

sole expert artist of drawing decorative lines on the tips of breasts

of Parvati, the daughter of the mountain king. (7)



नवीनमघमडली नदधरःफत

कहनशीथनीतम बधबकध

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नलपनझरधःतनत कसध कलानधानबध ौय जगध

|| ८||

Translation: May Lord Shiva give us prosperity, who bears the

burden of this universe, who is lovely with the moon, who is red

wearing the skin, who has the celestial river Ganga, whose

neck is dark as midnight of new moon night covered by many

layers of clouds. (8)



फलनीलपङकजपञचकालमभा वलबकठकदलीचबकधम

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ःमछद पछद भवछद मखछद गजछदाधकछद तमतकछद भज

|| ९

||

Translation: I pray to Lord Shiva, whose neck is tied with the

luster of the temples hanging on the neck with the glory of the

fully-bloomed blue lotuses which looked like the blackness

(sins) of the universe, who is the killer of Manmatha, who

destroyed Tripuras, who destroyed the bonds of worldly life,

who destroyed the sacrifice, who destroyed the demon

Andhaka, the destroyer of the elephants, and who controlled

the God of death, Yama. (9)



अखवर

अगवर

सवरमङगलाकलाकदबमञज सवाहमाध वजभणामधोतम

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ःमातक पातक भवातक मखातक गजातकाधकातक तमतकातक

भज

||

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Translation: I pray to Lord Shiva, who has bees flying all over

because of the sweet honey from the beautiful bunch of

auspicious Kadamba flowers, who is the killer of Manmatha,

who destroyed Tripuras, who destroyed the bonds of worldly

life, who destroyed the sacrifice, who destroyed the demon

Andhaka, the killer of the elephants, and who controlled the

God of death, Yama. (10)



जयवदवममजङगमस नगरममःफकालभालहयवा

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धमममवनमदङगतङगमङगल वनमवतरत चडताडव शव

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Translation: Lord Shiva, whose dance of Tandava is in tune

with the series of loud sounds of drum making Dhimid Dhimid

sounds, who has the fire on the great forehead, the fire that is

spreading out because of the breath of the snake wandering in

whirling motion in the glorious sky. (11)



ःपषचतपयभरजङगमकॐज

गलय सपपय

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त णावदचष जामहमहिय समवक

सम वतरयमन

कदा

सदाशव भज

||

२

||

Translation: When will I worship Lord Sadasiva (eternally

auspicious) God, with equal vision towards the people and an

emperor, and a blade of grass and lotus-like eye, towards both

friends and enemies, towards the valuable gem and some lump

of dirt, towards a snake and a garland and towards varied

ways of the world (12)



कदा नलपनझरनकञजकट वसन

वमदमरत सदा श ःथमञजल

वहन

| वमलललचन ललामभाललनक शवत ममचन

कदा सखी

भवायहम

||

३

||

Translation: When will I be happy, living in the hollow place

near the celestial river, Ganga, carrying the folded hands on

my head all the time, with my bad thinking washed away,

and uttering the mantra of Lord Shiva and devoted in the

God with glorious forehead with vibrating eyes. (13)



इदम ह नयमवमममम ःतव पठःमवन वशमतसततम

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ह ग सभमाश यात नायथा गत वमहन ह दहना सशङकःय

चतनम

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४

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Translation: Whoever reads, remembers and says this best

stotra as it is said here, gets purified for ever, and obtains

devotion in the great Guru Shiva. For this devotion, there is

no other way. Just the mere thought of Lord Shiva indeed

removes the delusion. (14)



पजावसानसमय दशवगीत य शभपजनप पठत दष

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तःय ःथा थगजितङगया लआमी सदव समख ददात शभ

|| ५

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Translation: In the evening, after sunset, at the end of Puja,

whoever utters this stotra dedicated to the worship of Shiva,

Lord Shiva blessed him with very stable Lakshmi (prosperity)

with all the richness of chariots, elephants and horses (15)



इत ौीावण

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कतम शव

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ताडव

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ःतम

सपणरम



Why LOKPAL Bill:

Corruption is a reality and we have to accept it. Few

Bureaucrats world over since ages in any

administration, be it feudal or democratic , are

corrupt. For Preventing the spread of this problem and

turning it in to a menace, We need a strong, speedy,

transparent and effective mechanism of trial and

punishment against corruption . In USA also, ENRON

like Scandals happens, but in-spite of clout of

Mr. Kenneth Lay ( Chairman of ENRON), over BUSH

administration (he was largest donor to the Bush

Election campaign), he ( Kenneth Lay) and his

associates. were prosecuted and sentenced to as much

as 45 yrs jail and Millions of $ were recovered from

their estates as fines, within a year of beginning of

trial. Where as trial against RAJU (SATYAM) is still

pending and Mr. SWAMI has to wait for more then a

year to file a case against RAJA.



Corruption effects our society from all spheres. Let look atit’s effects on society.

• On our Economy : The ill gotten money heads to safe

havens in international currencies like US$. That means webuy US $, thus transfer our wealth to the US or othercountries. India used to be called Golden Bird, but Britishhad looted us systematically and transferred our wealth toEUROPE. After independence, it was expected that this loot

will stop and we will be able to use our resources for ourdevelopment, but unfortunately, corrupt Bureaucrats,

hand in glove with politicians replaced the British and

our wealth is still heading to West and ,making them

richer.

•On our Society: Socially our values are deterioratingbecause ill gotten money is lavishly spend in socialoccasion like marriage and luxuries, thus promptingsociety at a large for corruption and hitting our greatmoral values.



•On Our Development:

because of this corruption,benefits of social spends doesn’t reach in right handsand goes to few hands thus leaving society at largeundeveloped thus creating unreal distribution of

wealth and hitting our growth.•On National Security:

Due to corruption, illegal activities such as extortion , illegal mining, illegaltransfer of money (HAVALA) etc. spreads and this

money goes in the hands of anti social elements thusharm our national security also. Look at the internalsecurity scenario of our country. It is worseningbecause of rampant spread of corruption .

•On Environment:

Corruption leads to excessive anduncontrolled exploitation of natural resources, whichleads to destruction of ecology. Gandhi had said“Mother nature have enough for men’s requirements

but it can’t fulfill the greed of even a one greedy”.



Reason of Opposing the Government Draft

Without Police powersLOKPAL will be surelyineffective. Even if the report

of Lokpal is accepted, whowill file the charge sheet inthe court? Who will initiateprosecution? Who willappoint the prosecutionlawyer? The entire bill issilent on that

Lokpal would have policepowers. The wing of CBI

which deals withcorruption cases, will beunder the LOKPAL. It willbe able to register FIR,proceed with criminalinvestigations andlaunch prosecution

Lokpal has not beengiven police powers.Therefore Lokpal cannotregister an FIR. It willrefer the case to thedesignated authority.

Police Powers to LOKPAL

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Will designated authoritieslike speakers of Loksabha/

Rajyasabha/ PM/ ChiefSecretary allow any case ofruling party MPs orgovernment officials? It willgive ruling party powers tobe selective in referring thecases. Even it could close the

window of investigationthrough CBI.

Lokpal will have powers to

initiate investigationssuo moto in any case andalso to directly entertaincomplaints from thepublic. It will not needreference or permissionfrom anyone to initiate

investigation into anycase

LOKPAL proposed bygovernment will be just

an advisor body, whichwill act only on therecommendations ofdesignated authoritiesfor forwarding the casesto LOKPAL The generalpublics will make

complaints to thedesignated authorities

Initiation of Cases

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Reason of Opposing the

Government Draftsivil Society Proposalovernment Proposal

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If government succeeds,BOFORCE could not beinvestigate in future. We areseeing the case of Justice

Dinakaran. Common manannually pays bribe, in tuneof 21,068 crore (US$4.7billion) for 11 basic serviceslike education. Judiciary,healthcare, police etc. Only

Truckers pay 48,680 crore,appx. (US$5 billion in bribes)in 2010, and this amount isshared between the localpoliticians, local officials inthe form of bribe for thelucrative postings by public

servants and we can see thatour present system is notadequate to save commonman. Un-till unless this issuetaken seriously, commonpeople will not feel the

difference

Civil society LOKPAL willLokpal will have

jurisdiction overpoliticians, officials and

judges. CVC and the

entire vigilancemachinery ofgovernment will bemerged into Lokpal.There will beLOKAYUKTAs in states for

lower ranking officials.

Government LOKPALexcludes PM (cases

which deals withforeign affairs,security anddefense), Judiciaryand lower ranks ofBureaucracy from

the LOKPAL

Inclusion of PM, judiciary and lower ranking bureaucrats

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The reason of rampantcorruption is fearless ofcorrupts due to negligible

punishment andretaining the ill gottenwealth. So Govt. bill willnot make any impact.Only recovery of ill gottenwealth and strict

punishment keep peopleaway from corruption.

Loss caused to thegovernment due to

corruption will berecovered from allaccused. Enhancedpunishment - Thepunishment would beminimum 5 years and

maximum of lifeimprisonment.

Nothing has been providedin law to recover ill gottenwealth. A corrupt person can

come out of jail and enjoythat money.Under thepresent law, there is Smallpunishment for corruption- Punishment for corruptionis minimum 6 months and

maximum 7 years .

Punishment & recovery of ill gotten money

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So the bill appears to bemeant to browbeat,threaten and discouragethose fighting against

corruption. Large numbersof people raising their voiceagainst political corruptionare being murdered, so insuch scenario, how can weexpect people will comeforward against

corruption?

Deterrence has beenprovided againstfrivolous complaints inthe form of financial

penalties against thecomplainant, Lokpal will have powers toprovide protectionagainst physical andprofessionalvictimization of

whistleblowers

There is a strongpunishment for frivolouscomplaints. Lokpal will

have the power to sendthe complainant to jailthrough summary trialbut if the complaint werefound to be true, theLokpal will not have thepower to send the corrupt

politicians to jail!

Frivolous complaints and Security to Whistle Blowers

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Request from the presenter

(Nutan Chaturvedi)

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As I have already mentioned earlier, idea of this video istaken from the SHIV PUJA by Lord RAMA at Rameshwaram, sowe all should pray Lord SHIVA to gain his (SHIVA) blessingbecause the fight of Civil Society for effective LOKPAL Bill is ourfight, as it is against Corruption which is effecting our life,

our progress and our future.Continued..



This fight will not be an easy one, but ultimately, the civilsociety will win, because we are fighting for a noble cause,bringing comfort to the millions of lives, enable them(common man of this country) to get their rightful duesfrom the government, for which they ( common man,including us) only pay in the form of taxes.

We should not be dishearten with the government stand

as Have you ever heard that a thief had allowed

prosecution against his/her theft?

We should readyourselves for the 2014 election because then the politicalclass has to come back to the same civil society. We need togo to the masses and make them understand theimportance of not only LOKPAL Bill but other reforms also

so that when the political class comes to the public for the

re-elections, people should ask them for a written

commitments on these rightful demands, so that if they fail

in delivering those demands, people can go to the court for

proceeding for betrayal on written commitments.

Continued…



We need to ready for a prolonged fight as 2-3 yrs is nothingin the life of a nation, because nations lives thousands of

years and this nation is even agile. We have example ofCHANAKYA with us from our own history. How come ahumble teacher had overthrown a powerful empire, when he

felt that the empire is not performing its nationalist dutiesand is a threat to the security of nation against theexternal dangers to the country, at the times, when militarypowers used to be needed for change of regimes. Today weare having comfort of democracy by the grace of our

nationalist leaders, and political class has to comeback tomasses after every five years.

We can do many thing. The another idea could be till 16th ofthis month, people are thronging the SHIVA Temples across

the country. Why can’t we organize the recitation of SHIVMAHIMNA STROTAM in our local temple at a time and datefixed, which could be conveyed to the devotees through aposter and at the fix date, we can distribute the literatureprinted in local language describing the need of LOKPAL

Continued..



- Bill drafted by civil society and reason of our confrontationwith government draft. There is no harm in doing this. Thesepublic gatherings were always used and created forconveying the DHRMA, and by creating the awareness aboutLOKPAL Bill is nothing but doing our RASTRA DHARMA ornational duty . Kindly post this video to as many groups and

individual as possible as spreading this message is also every

one’s RASTRA DHARA.

Toady we stand at a crucial time, which could be comparedwith the early 19th century ,in the history of this nation. Ournation is in danger ( I have already discussed the threatsbriefly), so we, educated class, even most of us belongs to theL & D domain, it is our national duty to come out and spreadthis message to the masses and bring them to this platform ofreform and I am sure, most of us will not hesitate for a minuetin responding to this call of fight. Jay Hind



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