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Guru Stotram

akha??a ma??al?k?ram vy?ptam yena car?caram
tat padam dar?itam yena tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru who has shown me that Supreme being, who in the form of unbroken glory pervades the universe of the moving and non-moving beings.

ajñ?na timir?ndhasya jñ?nañjana ?al?kay?
cak?ur unmilita? yena tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru who, when my sight was blinded by the darkness of ignorance, restored it to the light of knowledge and truth.

sth?varam jaºgamam vy?ptam yat kiñcit sacar?caram
tat pada? dar?ita? yena tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru, who has revealed to me that Highest State which pervades all that is fixed or moving, all that exists whether animate or inanimate.

cinmaya? vy?pita? sarvam trailokya? sacar?caram
tat pada? dar?ita? yena tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru who has shown me that Supreme consciousness that pervades the three worlds and all that moves and stays therein.

sarva ?ruti ?iroratna vir?jita pad?mbuja
ved?nt?mbuja s?ryo yo tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru whose lotus feet are bedecked with the crest-jewels of all revelations, and who is the sun who makes the bloom of ved?nta blossom.

caitanya? ???vata ??nto vyom?t?to niranjana?
bindu n?da kal?t?to tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru who is intelligence itself, the Eternal, and the serene, untouched by pollution and above the subtle aspects of sound.

jñ?na ??kti sam?r??ha tattva m?l? vibh??ita
bhukti mukti prad?t? ca tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru who is established in Knowledge and Power, who is adorned with the garland of wisdom and who grants both worldly prosperity and liberation.

aneka janma sampr?pta karma bandha vid?hine
?tma jñana prad?nena tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru who by giving the sacred knowledge, burns up the bonds of the accumulated karma of many births.

?o?ana? bhava sindho?ca jñapanam s?ra sampada?
guro? p?do’dakam samyak tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Salutations to that glorious guru, the water sanctified by whose feet dries up the ocean of sa?s?ra and makes one to realize the Supreme Wealth.

na guror adhika? tattva? na guror adhika? tapa?
tattva jñ?n?t para? n?sti tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

There is no truth higher than the guru and no penance higher than service to him and there is nothing higher than knowledge of the Truth, Salutations to that glorious guru.

mann?tha? ?r? jagann?tha mad guru jagad guru?
mad?tma sarva bh?t?tma tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

My lord is Lord of the Universe, my guru is the world teacher, and my Self is the same Self that is in all beings, Salutations to that glorious guru.

gurur?dir an?dis ca guru? parama daivatam
guro? paratara? n?sti tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

The guru is the beginning of the world, yet he himself is without beginning; the guru is the highest deity; there is none higher than the guru, Salutations to that glorious guru.

gurur brahma gurur vi??u gurur devo mahe?vara?
guru? s?k??t parabrahma tasmai ?r? gurave nama?

Guru is the essence of Brahm?, guru is the essence Vi??u, guru is the essence of the great sovereign god – Çiva; The guru, in my presence, in actual bodily form, is the transcendental spirit. Salutations to that glorious guru.

dhyana mula? gururmurti puja mula? gurorpadam
mantra mula? gurorvakyam mok?amulam gurok?pa

The root of meditation is the guru’s form, the root of worship is the guru’s feet, the root of mantra is the guru’s speech, the root of liberation is the guru’s mercy and grace.