Krishna sada sahayate

वसुदेव-सुतं देवं कंस-चाणूर-मर्दनम् | देवकी-परमानन्दं कृष्णं वन्दे जगद्गुरुम् || vasudeva-sutam devam kaMsa-chANUra-mardanam | devakI-paramAnandam kRiShNam vande jagad-gurum || to the son-of-vasudeva, to the god, to the killer-of-kaMsa and chANUra | to the utter-bliss-of-devakI, to kRiShNa, praise, to the universal-guru || kRiShNa janmAShTamI कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी is coming soon, the eighth night after the full moon of shrAvaNa श्रावण month, that is this 21-22 August 2011 (night of 21st).We will visit some of the most popular shloka-s about kRiShNa. Read/Buy the book "Attitude Shift - Sanskrit maxims for life and leadership" And now the language aspects - वसुदेव-सुतं = vasudeva-sutam = to the son of vasudeva vasudeva वसुदेव was kRiShNa's father, and hence kRiShNa is also called vAsudeva वासुदेव . Note the first 'a' becoming 'aa' or 'A' a long vowel. See the देवं = devam = to the god, divine this words comes from divya, which means brilliant, splendid, luminous. कंस-चाणूर-मर्दनम् = kaMsa-chANUra-mardanam = to the killer of kaMsa and chANUra kaMsa कंस was kRiShNa's mother's brother and for his fate, he believed a prophecy that his sister's eigthth son will be his death. purANa पुराण also tells us that kaMsa कंस and shishupAla शिशुपाल were the third and last incarnation of viShNu's gatekeepers, jaya जय and vijaya विजय . And they were cursed by RiShi-s ऋषि to go down to the mortal world, due to their rudeness to the RiShi-s. The only way for them to come quickly back was for them to...