Qualifications before chanting the Sri Rudram Chamakam, the
Namakam, the many names of the LORD.

"God is ONE and appears in hundreds and 100s of forms", said
Sri. Rajagopalachari. Ponder constantly about the 100s of names,
the Namakam.

"Present in the words I utter, which I utter from my heart, is
Agni, the fire, in every form, the fire of the rock, Parvathi;
Vayu, the wind, the capacity to move about, solving Zeno's
paradox; Surya, the Sun, insight, the direct perception of Truth
with a capital T; Chandra, the Moon, presence of mind, the alert
attention capable of Vichara, inquiry into the meaning of Truth,
Artha; the directions of the compass, the Zenith and Nadir,
mathematical coordinate systems for description of space-time,
Ambaram, aether as it is known; the Pavamana Devatas who control
the waters are present in my Vital life, fluids that are present
in the body-idea, as in blood, saliva, digestive fluids, urine
and so on, and in the world-idea as the oceans, the
clouds, the rain, rivers and so on; Prithivi, the Earth,
producing what is stable to stand on, the base of reason, from
which the laws of physics can be stated, and from which come the
Reason-Principles".

"I who propose to chant the praise of Rudra, AM floating in
Amrutha, the nectar of immortality, and that Amrutham is
immanent within myself and omnipresent without; verily verily I
say unto thee, the Supreme, the Paramathma ... Parabrahma,
LORD of hosts, dominus exercituum, Lord Rudra Himself".

"Indra, the indweller, the leader of the Devas and Devatas, is
present within in the immanence of the LORD, Shiva, and is
present in my strength, bala, and as might, the presence of the
almighty, controlling the omnipresence without".

"The indestructible root of Personality, Jeevathma, the Kami, is
present within me, in my heart, producing intense love and
hatred in other beings, who cannot perceive".

"Eashaana, the root of Ishvara, the root of all I-ness, is
present in my anger, my capacity to get angry, and destroys the
ignorance of the LORD, paramathma, parabrahma, maheshvara,
parameshvara, LORD Rudra Himself".

"Aushadis that flower and produce fruits, and Vanaspatis are
present, producing the hair-like structures, the hair on the
body, trees, plants, fruit to eat".

The God of The Thunderbolt, the LORD of the rain, the parjanya,
is present in the Sahasrara Chakra, the "top of the head",
wielding scalar cylotronic storms, the Pentagram, the LORD of
the Galaxy, SGR A*, the Central Sun of the Milky way".

Agna Vishnu, the spark of Vaishnavara, scatters ominpresence
without cause, and digests the horrors of Vaikuntatha Naraka.

"Mind, with a capital M, void of mind, with a small m, free of
the World-Idea, the World-Mind that imagines the "ten
directions"; Indra, Agni, Yama, Nirruti, Vayu, Kubera, Eashaana,
Vishnu and Brahma, "the stream that is parted into four heads",
"Brahma's mighty form", wielding the sword that turns every
which way to keep the way of the Tree of Life, are all present
in my ears and my capacity to hear the cry of those that call
upon the LORD".

ONE such is not a renunciant, he has given up giving up.

Dominus is Monad.

The sun, the light, the bifurcating tree of Aditya that makes
visible that which is GOOD, by which one returns; the moon, the
clouds, the night, that which is mystic, a mystery, by which ONE
departs, is unknown to those who have not intense love for the
LORD, and weep a bucket of tears for Him.

I who propose to chant the praise of Sri Rudra, AM floating in
Amrutham, the Nectar of Immortality, I AM THAT I AM, and have
spread the vast placelessness about, the bare naked awareness,
producing That which IS conscious of WHAT is about; and then
withdraw such into Athma, which is fourfold.

May that Athma come back to my pranas or Vital forces.

May those pranas which have mentally visited the abodes of the
supreme come back and station itself in my body once again ...

May the Agna Vishnu, the fire of Vaishnavara flare up with bright flames,
and increase from strength to strength ...

And may the Gods who are the protectors of Amrutham , all stand
alert within me, destroying the foolish ... RACA upon them.

As I chant Sri Rudram.

Also see:

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