The need to wake up, looking at one's hands

The need to wake up, looking at our hands

·         In the Hindu way of life, this prayer is adopted while sitting on the bed at the time of waking up in the morning :

karagre vasathey Lakshmi;

kara muly saraswati;

karamoole mathdye govinda;

prabhate kara darshanam

·     The meaning is very simple: knowledge, power and wealth depend on the work with your hand. 
   KarAgre = in the front of the hand i.e. fingers; vasate = lives; Lakshmi = the divinity of prosperity (material and spiritual) [from the word lakShya = goal]; 
     Kara-madhye Saraswati = in the middle of the palm; lives the divinity of learning, knowledge;
     Kara-moole Govinda= in the wrist lives the universal guide of righteousness - Krishna. 
    Every morning ones should looked at all these divine personalities so that with them in your hand thus; you will enlightened day ahead.

·         For making us sit for some more time the second part of the prayer is added:

Samudra vasane devi;

parvatha sthana mandale;

vishnu pathni namasthubhyam

paada sparsham kshamaswame.

·       The meaning is very simple: Oh ! Mother earth, where the mountains are part of your body and you are the wife of Lord Mahavishnu. May I perform my pranam to you?

·     While praying these lines, almost 60 seconds duration of leisure is given to the heart to change the state of work from a lower load to a higher level and the heart gets accustomed with this.