GURU STOTRAM
1. Akhandamandalaakaaram vyaaptam yena charaacharam
Tatpadam darshitam yena tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
My Salutations to that Guru who revealed to me that truth, which is unfragmented, infinite, timeless divinity, and which pervades the entire universe – movable or unmovable.
2. Ajnaana timirandhasya jyananjana Shalakaya
Chakshuroonmeelitam yena tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
My Salutations to that reverential teacher, who opened my eyes, by applying the divine collyrium of self-knowledge in my eyes, which had got blinded by the cataract of ignorance.
Guru himself is the creator, sustainer and the destroyer. My reverential salutations to that glorious teacher.
4. Sthavaram jangamam vyaptam yatkinchit sacharacharam
Tatpadam darshitam yena tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
My Salutations to that reverential teacher, who revealed to me that which pervades everything in this world, whether animate-inanimate, or movable-immovable.
5. Chinmayam Vyapi yat-sarvam trailokyam sacharacharam.
Tatpadam darshitam yena tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
My salutations to that glorious Guru, who revealed to me that self-effulgent divinity which pervades all the three worlds, with all its movable and immovable objects.
6. Sarvashruti shiroratna virajitapadambujah
Vedantambuja Suryo yah tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
My Salutations to that reverential teacher, who is like a sun for the blossoming up of the lotus like mantras of upanishads; and at whose lotus feet lie the beautiful flowers, symbolizing the best of jewels of vedas.
7. Chaitanya Shashwatah shanto vyomatito niranjanah.
Bindunaad kalatitah tasmai shri Gurave Namah.
My Salutations to that reverential teacher, who is verily the eternal consciousness, which is of the nature of peace. He transcends space (& time), the concept of zero, the primordial sound and all parts.
8. Jnanshaktisamaroodhah tatvaamala vibhooshitah.
Bhuktimukti pradata cha tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
My Salutations to that glorious Guru, who is established in Knowledge and Power, who is adorned with the garland-of -Knowledge and who grants both worldly prosperity and spiritual liberation.
9. Aneka janma sampraptah karma bandha vidahine.
Atma jyan pradanena tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
My Salutations to that reverential teacher who by imparting the Self-Knowledge, has burnt away the very bondage of actions in a whiff, which had even though taken infinite lives to accumulate.
10. Shoshanam bhavsindhoshcha gyapanam saarsampadah.
Guroh padodakam samyak tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
Even by the very sipping of the charanaamruta (the water with which the feet of guru are washed), we get blessed by the eternal wealth of liberating knowledge, and which dries up the endless ocean of seeking & the subsequent sorrows. My Salutations to the lotus-feet of that glorious Guru.
11. Na Guror adhikam tattvam na Guror adhikam tapah.
Tattva gyanat-param nasti tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
There is no higher truth than the Guru, no higher penance than (service to) the Guru, and there is nothing higher than Realisation of the Knowledge of the truth imparted by the Guru. My salutations to such a Guru, who is himself that very timeless truth and who has taken up a form to bless his disciples like us with real knowledge.
12. Mannaathah Shri Jagannathah Mat guru shri jagadguruhu
Mamaatma sarvabhutatma tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
My Lord is the Lord of Universe; My teacher is the teacher of the entire universe; and my Self is the Self of all. My salutations at the lotus-feet of such a Guru, who has revealed such knowledge to me.
Guroh parataram nasti tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.
The Guru is the beginning of the Universe, yet he himself is without a beginning, the Guru is the highest deity, and there is none higher than the Guru. My reverential salutations at the lotus-feet of such a Guru.
14. Tvameva maata cha pitaa tvameva
Tvameva bandhushcha sakha tvameva
Tvameva vidyaa dravinam tvameva
Tvameva sarvam mama-dev-deva.
You alone are my mother, my father, my brother, and my friend. You alone are the knowledge, my real wealth. You are everything for me. You are verily my God alone.
