The Nirvana Shatakam is towards this – you don’t want to be either this or that. The Sanskrit lyrics with English meanings are also given below.
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Nirvana Shatakam sung by Isha Brahmacharis is part of Vairagya, an album of chants available as a free mobile App and as mp3 downloads.
Sadhguru looks at the significance of the chant and explores what is being conveyed through it. The birth of sons with varied limitations, linked to maternal “psychosocial” environment at the time of conception, is perhaps the first recorded case of maternal programming or epigenetic impact.Nirvana Shatakam, composed by Adi Shankaracharya over a thousand years ago, is one of the most well known among Sanskrit chants. Whether environmental factors have a role to play in intrauterine development is an important debate in the medical circle today. The next time, Ambalika sends a confident palace maid in her place, and a perfectly healthy son, Vidura, is the result of this contact. The other daughter-in-law, Ambalika, turns pale upon seeing Ved Vyasa, and a son with pallid complexion (? albinism), Pandu, is the result. As history states, Ambika closes her eyes at the sight of the bearded Ved Vyasa, and a blind son, Dhritarashtra, is born. Faced with the possible extinction of her lineage, Queen Satyavati requests her son, Ved Vyasa, to cohabit with her widowed daughters-in-law, Ambika, and Ambalika, to sire progeny. “Surrogate fatherhood” a socially accepted phenomenon in the past is described in the Mahabharata. Gynecological differentials include delivery of uterine casts and submucous fibroids. The news of a “still birth” could have been a face-saving device, designed to ward off uncomfortable comments. This might have precipitated symptoms and signs of pseudocyesis, as happened in a later monarch, Queen Mary of Scotland. There would have been social pressure on Gandhari to produce an heir to carry on the Kuru lineage. It must be noted that at about the same time, Gandhari's sister-in-law, Kunti, had conceived and delivered her first son Yudhishthira. It is plausible, however, that Gandhari's “pregnancy” was a case of pseudocyesis.
The record for the longest pregnancy is 375 days.
Prolonged gestation is documented in modern medical records, and can be due to a variety of causes. The epic describes Gandhari as having a prolonged gestation, after which she gave birth to a lump of immovable flesh. The Mahabharata lists a 100 Kauravas, and one daughter, who were born to Gandhari and Dhristrashtra. Yet another endocrine iatrogenic cause of fatal coitus is the use of phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors such as sildenafil. A plausible endocrine diagnosis is a pheochromocytoma, with pheo crisis, precipitated by coitus. The sexual practice of cunnilinction (blowing air into the vagina) is a predisposing factor for fatal coitus in women. Various differentials can be suggested to explain this clinical situation: Subarachnoid hemorrhage, a ruptured cerebral aneurysm or a ruptured aortic aneurysm come to mind immediately. Such situations are described in the modern medical literature. One day, however, his hypophyseo-gonadal axis got the better of him, and he invited his second wife, Madri, to his conjugal bed. Pandu remained mentally upset, as he could not procreate. Pandu had shot at a mating pair of deer, who were actually a sage and his wife. Pandu, the king of Hastinapura, was cursed by a sage to die if he indulged in coitus.