Gajanana Stuti | Success Now and Moksha After | Rare Ganesha Stotra with Lyrics

॥ श्री गजानन स्तुतिः ॥ | Shri Gajanana Stuti | The Prayer the Forest Itself Made ஸ்ரீ கஜானன ஸ்துதி | ಶ್ರೀ ಗಜಾನನ ಸ್ತುತಿಃ | శ్రీ గజానన స్తుతిః | শ্রী গজানন স্তুতিঃ | ശ്രീ ഗജാനന സ്തുതിഃ Ganesha himself promises what this stotra gives: sarva-siddhi-da, it grants every accomplishment, and bhukti-mukti-prada, it gives both worldly fulfilment and liberation. Listen once each morning before you begin your work, and once more before sleep. THE STORY BEHIND IT Almost every stotra is spoken by a sage or a Deva. This one is not. The speaker is Dandakaranya — the great forest of the Deccan, the wilderness through which Rama walked in exile. The forest itself praises Gajanana, and when the praise is finished it asks for one thing only. Not rain. Not fruit. Not safety. "Dwell always in my body." Ganesha grants it, and then goes further: he declares the whole of Dandakaranya to be his kshetra, his own sacred ground. The stotra comes from the Mudgala Purana, Khanda 6, Adhyaya 13, and belongs to the ekadasha stotra group — the eleven great hymns of that Purana. THE LEADER OF ALL LEADERS "Nayakanam vishesena nayakaya vinayaka Nayakair varjitayaiva nayakatva pradayine" "To the leader of all leaders — Vinayaka, who himself has no leader above him, and who is the giver of leadership itself." Four times in two lines the word nayaka turns over. Vi-nayaka literally means the one without a nayaka: there is no chief above him. And yet the verse ends nayakatva-pradayine — the one who hands that same leadership to whoever asks for it. He does not guard the top place. He gives it away. MAKE MY NAME MEANINGFUL "Adhuna varado si tvam tada me nama sarthakam Kuru nityam vasa svamin mama dehe gajanana" "If you are truly the giver of boons, then make my name meaningful. Dwell forever, O Lord, in my body." This is the whole prayer in one line. The forest does not ask to be given something. It asks to be inhabited. And in the verse that follows it asks for the only thing it still lacks — bhakti that reveals Brahman: "Bhaktim dehi tvadiyam me sada brahma prakashinim." One more verse startles most devotees. Ganesha is called maha-vighna-dharine, the bearer of the great obstacle, and in the same breath pada-datre tatha hantre — the one who gives position and takes it away. He is not only the remover of obstacles. He is the one who places them. BENEFITS - THE PHALASHRUTI Gajanana's own reply closes the hymn: "Tvaya kritam idam stotram madiyam sarva-siddhidam Bhavishyati maharanya bhukti-mukti-pradam param" "This stotra you have made in my praise will grant every accomplishment, O great forest, and will give the highest of all — both enjoyment and liberation." Both. Most stotras offer one road or the other; this one is given for the life you are living now and for the freedom beyond it. WHEN TO RECITE • Every Chaturthi, the fourth lunar day, and especially Sankashti Chaturthi • During Ganesh Chaturthi, when Gajanana is invoked into the home • Before beginning any new work, journey, business or study • Daily at dawn, facing east DID YOU KNOW • The hymn is in anushtubh metre — eight syllables to a pada, four padas to a verse — which is why it chants so evenly. • Ganesha is called Mayuresha here. Mayurakshetra, Morgaon, is the first of the eight Ashtavinayaka shrines, and the closing verses place it at the very heart of Dandakaranya. • He is also Svananda-vasine, the dweller in Svananda, the abode of self-arising bliss, and Herambha, protector of the weak. COMPLETE VERSES नमस्ते गजवक्त्राय गणेशाय महोदर । ब्रह्मणे ब्रह्मपालाय विघ्नेशाय नमो नमः ॥ हेरम्बाय चतुर्बाहुधराय कञ्जपाणये । पाशाङ्कुशधरायैव परेशाय नमो नमः ॥ अनादये च सर्वेषामादिरूपाय ते नमः । ज्येष्ठानां ज्येष्ठरूपाय ज्येष्ठाय वै नमो नमः ॥ स्वानन्दवासिने तुभ्यं सिद्धिबुद्धिवराय च । सिद्धिबुद्धिप्रदात्रे ते मूषकध्वजिने नमः ॥ मूषकोपरिसंस्थाय गणेशाय परात्मने । नानामायाप्रचालाय मयूरेशाय ते नमः ॥ नायकानां विशेषेण नायकाय विनायक । नायकैर्वर्जितायैव नायकत्वप्रदायिने ॥ विघ्नेशाय महाविघ्नधारिणे सर्वदायिने । पददात्रे तथा हन्त्रे विघ्नेशैस्ते नमो नमः ॥ अमेयशक्तये तुभ्यं सर्वपूज्याय ते नमः । किं स्तौमि त्वां गणाधीश योगाकारस्वरूपिणम् ॥ अधुना वरदोऽसि त्वं तदा मे नाम सार्थकम् । कुरु नित्यं वस स्वामिन् मम देहे गजानन ॥ भक्तिं देहि त्वदीयां मे सदा ब्रह्मप्रकाशिनीम् । तेनाऽहं कृतकृत्यश्च भविष्यामि गजानन ॥. 🙏 Join our WhatsApp Channel for daily devotional content: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb7M... YouTube:    / @satyasidhisadhana   Instagram:   / satyasidhisadhana   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... #Ganesha #Ganapati #GajananaStuti #MudgalaPurana #Vinayaka #SanskritChant #DevotionalMusic #Ashtavinayaka #GaneshChaturthi #SatyaSidhiSadhana