live chant of chapter one of haṭhayogapradīpikā
Channel: patrick mccartney
Date: 09/01/2022

random sunday night chanting of the 1st chapter of one of yoga's seminal texts, the haṭhayogapradīpikā. i haven't chanted much in a long time but found myself looking at the HYP and started chanting it. i quite often recite texts that i'm reading. i find it helps me to catch the meaning more. there are some really long and tricky compounds throughout. i butchered plenty of it. hope you don't mind.

i start chanting around 3 mins 10 secs.

i'm reading from this document
in devanagari
https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_yoga/hyp.html

this version is transliterated as a .txt file
http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/corpustei/transformations/plaintext/sa_svAtmArAma-haThayogapradIpikA.txt

here's a decent website on the verses 
https://www.raaga.com/program/hatha-yoga-pradipika-recitation-349-pdd

a good resource https://archive.org/details/hathayogapradipika/page/n17/mode/2up

# this is the first 16 verses of chapter 1:

haṭha-yoga-pradīpikā (1) prathamopadeśaḥ

śrī-ādi-nāthāya namo'stu tasmai
yenopadiṣṭā haṭha-yoga-vidyā /
vibhrājate pronnata-rāja-yogam
āroḍhum icchor adhirohiṇīva // hyp_1.1 //

praṇamya śrī-guruṃ nāthaṃ svātmārāmeṇa yoginā /
kevalaṃ rāja-yogāya haṭha-vidyopadiśyate // hyp_1.2 //

bhrāntyā bahumata-dhvānte rāja-yogam ajānatām /
haṭha-pradīpikāṃ dhatte svātmārāmaḥ kṛpākaraḥ // hyp_1.3 //

haṭha-vidyāṃ hi matsyendra-gorakṣādyā vijānate /
svātmārāmo'thavā yogī jānīte tat-prasādataḥ // hyp_1.4 //

śrī-ādinātha-matsyendra-śāvarānanda-bhairavāḥ /
cauraṅgī-mīna-gorakṣa-virūpākṣa-bileśayāḥ // hyp_1.5 //

manthāno bhairavo yogī siddhir buddhaś ca kanthaḍiḥ /
koraṃṭakaḥ surānandaḥ siddhapādaś ca carpaṭiḥ // hyp_1.6 //

kānerī pūjyapādaś ca nitya-nātho nirañjanaḥ /
kapālī bindunāthaś ca kākacaṇḍīśvarāhvayaḥ // hyp_1.7 //

allāmaḥ prabhudevaś ca ghoḍā colī ca ṭiṃṭiṇiḥ /
bhānukī nāradevaś ca khaṇḍaḥ kāpālikas tathā // hyp_1.8 //

ity ādayo mahāsiddhā haṭha-yoga-prabhāvataḥ /
khaṇḍayitvā kāla-daṇḍaṃ brahmāṇḍe vicaranti te // hyp_1.9 //

aśeṣa-tāpa-taptānāṃ samāśraya-maṭho haṭhaḥ /
aśeṣa-yoga-yuktānām ādhāra-kamaṭho haṭhaḥ // hyp_1.10 //

haṭha-vidyā paraṃ gopyā yoginā siddhim icchatā /
bhaved vīryavatī guptā nirvīryā tu prakāśitā // hyp_1.11 //

surājye dhārmike deśe subhikṣe nirupadrave /
dhanuḥ pramāṇa-paryantaṃ śilāgni-jala-varjite /
ekānte maṭhikā-madhye sthātavyaṃ haṭha-yoginā // hyp_1.12 //

alpa-dvāram arandhra-garta-vivaraṃ nātyucca-nīcāyataṃ
samyag-gomaya-sāndra-liptam amalaṃ niḥśesa-jantūjjhitam /
bāhye maṇḍapa-vedi-kūpa-ruciraṃ prākāra-saṃveṣṭitaṃ
proktaṃ yoga-maṭhasya lakṣaṇam idaṃ siddhair haṭhābhyāsibhiḥ // hyp_1.13 //

evaṃ vidhe maṭhe sthitvā sarva-cintā-vivarjitaḥ /
gurūpadiṣṭa-mārgeṇa yogam eva samabhyaset // hyp_1.14 //

atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ /
jana-saṅgaś ca laulyaṃ ca ṣaḍbhir yogo vinaśyati // hyp_1.15 //

utsāhāt sāhasād dhairyāt tattva-jñānāś ca niścayāt /
jana-saṅga-parityāgāt ṣaḍbhir yogaḥ prasiddhyati // hyp_1.16 //

http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/corpustei/sa_svAtmArAma-haThayogapradIpikA.xml

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