SRI RUDRAM

SRI RUDRA PRASHNA

Shri Rudram is aVedic Hymn addressed to Rudra, an aspect of Lord Shiva. It is right in the centre of the
Taithiriya Samhita of Yajurveda in the Fourth Kanda. It is also known as sri Rudraprashna, Satarudriya
and Rudropanishad. The Panchakshara mantra (Om Namah Shivaya) is in the heart of Srirudram. This is
one of the hymns prescribed for daily chanting according to the following couplet:

The wise should chant daily the Unpanishad in his own Vedic shakha, Bhagavadgita, Vishnu
Sahasranama, Srirudram and Purusha Suktam.
Suta Samhita says:

Just as by watering the root of a tree its branches are also nourished, so also by propitiating Rudra by
chanting Srirudram all other deities are pleased. Therefore by chanting Srirudram alone one can get
everything in this world and also liberation from this world.

Rudra is the very first Cause, the physician for this disease of samsara. He ignores the failings of his
devotees and only considers what is good in them. He is the very Sun whom we see daily rising. He takes
countless forms. Whatever we see in this world is his form only. Srirudram offers prostrations to those
who are sitting, lying, sleeping, waking, standing or running and who are members of assembly, heads of
assembly, carpenters, potters, hunters, fishermen, thieves, robbers, those who make chariots, those
who drive the chariots, horses, trees and whatever is moving or non-moving etc. etc since everything is
his His form only. It is believed that wherever this hymn is chanted regularly there will prevail peace and
prosperity always.
















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