Sri Ganeshaa Jaya Ganeshaa Jaya Guru Devaa Sai Maheshaa
Paarvati Nandana Hey Parameshaa
Raamaa Krishnaa Hari Govinda Vitthalaa
Subrahmanyam Subrahmanyam Shanmukha Naathaa Subrahmanyam
Subrahmanyam Subrahmanyam Sai Naathaa Subrahmanyam
Subrahmanyam Subrahmanyam Shanmukha Naathaa Subrahmanyam
Subrahmanyam Subrahmanyam Sai Naathaa Subrahmanyam
Meaning:
O Ever-Victorious Lord Sri Sai Ganesha, Thou art The Supreme Divine Master of The Entire Cosmos. Thou art The Beloved Divine Child of Lord Shiva – Who is The Supreme Divine Lord of The Entire Cosmos and of Mother Parvati – Who is The Most Magnificient, Supreme Divine Mother of The Entire Cosmos. Thou art Lord Sri Rama and Lord Sri Krishna. Thou art Lord Sri Vishnu, The Sustainer of all and art The Beloved Divine Consort of Mother Lakshmi – Who is The Goddess of Wealth and Prosperity. Thou art Lord Sri Govinda – The Protector of cows, the earth and of our senses. Thou art Lord Sri Vitthala of Pandharpur. Thou art The Six-Headed Lord Subrahamanya/Kartikeya. Thou art our Most Beloved Divine Lord Sri Sai. (Kartikeya derives this Sanskrit name from Krittika, the Constellation of Six Stars known to the West as the Pleiades. HE first Appeared as Six Baby Boys and the Krittikas were HIS Foster Mothers. When Mother Parvati came to get HER Divine Son SHE gathered all The Six Babies into one big hug and so HE became One Boy with Six Heads i.e. Shanmukha in Sanskrit. They symbolise HIS Multi-Faceted Personality, as The War Lord Born to Lord Shiva and Mother Parvati – to destroy the ferocious demon Surapadman, as The Divine Mendicant, The Divine Healer, The Unconditional Divine Lover and The Spiritual Master. HE is The Embodiment of The Primeval Sound ‘Om’. HE is called Murugan in Tamil, meaning ‘The Most Beautiful ONE’. HIS Divine Vehicle is The Mayuram or The Divine Peacock and HIS Weapon is the Vel or Spear embossed with a cock. Artists usually portray an endearing image of Big Brother Lord Sri Ganesha with HIS Trunk flung protectively around a Small, Curly-Headed Lord Kartikeya. Praying to Lord Kartikeya for a child’s welfare is considered very auspicious, especially verses from Adi Shankara’s Subrahmanya Bhujangam.)
