guruH sAxAt paraM brahma.

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OM SrIguruH sarva kAraNa BUtA SaktiH.

OM SrIman mahA gaNAdhipatayE namaH.

 

OM guruH brahma

guruH viShNuH

guruH dEvO mahESvaraH

guruH sAxAt paraM brahma

tasmai SrIguravE namaH.

 

guruH (The 'gu' syllable and 'ru' syllable) , in one sense is given by

 

a~jjAna timirAndhasya ~jjAj~jana SalAkayA

caXurunmIlitaM Eva

tasmai SrIguravE namaH.

 

gu - a~jjaNAdhakAraM

ru- ~jjAna jyOti.

 

If we bring in visarga sandhi,we got

 

OM gururbrahma gururviShNuH

gururdEvO mahESvaraH

gurussAxAt paraMbrahma

tasmai SrIguravE namaH.

 

If I 'passed on' this Slokam, I usually take the meaning like this

without giving much thought:

 

teacher is 'like' brahma - the 'creator'.

teacher is like 'viShNu' the 'preserver'.

teacher is like 'MahESvara' - the recycler.

teacher like the parabrahmA - unity of the above said triad - in front

of your eyes.

 

"tasmai SrI guravE namaH" - I am thus giving a passing/timebeing

namaskAraM to SrI prefixed(it is custom to

put prefix of SrI to mAnyata) to teacher.

 

Is this what this SlOkaM conveying?

If this is all, this SlOkaM, then I would not be writing about this

SlokaM here.

 

Let me STOP. Let me take second look at this SlOkaM.

There is NO upma or IDlii here, there is no upamAna, upamEyAs here.

or simple terms, there is no 'like' clause here in the SlOkaM.

 

guru 'IS' brahma.

guru 'IS' ViShNuH.

guru 'IS' mahEsvaraH.

 

guruH sa+akShAt paraMbraHma.

 

"

This saraswati is said to be a stream which journeying upwards and

flowing underneath (UrdhwavAhini and antarvAhini). The stream which

has been pouring down from the face of brahma into the samudra

(ocean) is in the avarOhana (descending) and again when it is

lifting the ajnAni jeeva (samudra) upwards towards his abode in the

brahmalOka, it appears like ascending (Arohana).

"

Please take the context of this para from

SrIparasukhAnanda nAthA's post on sarasvati:

/message/8566

 

"Stream" - here is axam, or 'Axis' (that explains the why call it as

'axis', right?).

 

This the C.G (enter of gravity) or support to hold on to navigate all

the way upto the source.

Who else can be source, if not paraMbrahma?.

The "Axis of ~jjAnaM", which should be tread upon to have 'svasvaRupa

vEdyaM'.

As 'sun zu' said written as 'Tao te ching'

"Journey of a thousand miles, but starts with a single step, and then

also one step at a time".

See, in the axaM/streaM, to reach(to see myself as) paraMbrahma, whose

feet should I be getting hold of?

 

'You become what you eat' - from a campaign on vegetarian eating

promation by PennState (State of Pennsylvania, where I reside) Iskcon

 

students' group.

I say 'You become what you see in your guru'.

I see a street God in him(in guru), No doubt he is that, he is 'much

much more' than that, that's the point.

I will be , at max, a street God. Then why should not I see

'paraMbrahma' in him?

Here I am talking guru is masculine form, as I become inclined like

that.It is not to intimidate or do any other impositions to put on

SishyAs that see their guru in female form. come on, we are talking on

paraMbrahmaM.give it a break on sexes.

 

Thus SrIguruH is paraMbraHma, indeed.

 

paraMbrahma's rUpaM is ~jjAnaM itself.

So there is no other paraMbrahma exists besides whatever ~jjAnaM, you

see, feel, taste in your guru.

Because you have seen it, tasted it, there you go, you can show this

~jjAnaM to your SiShyAs down the stream.

 

axaM is eternal.

You just witnessing that axaM.

Thus you are sa-Axi, sAkshi.

 

guruH sAxAt paraMbrahma.

now it is not any more " tasmai SrI guravE namaH", but now, it is

" tasmai SrIguravE namaH".

 

Now I am not only stopped. I become still, stalled unto find myself in

my SrIguru.

If that's not the goal of life, whatelse will be?

 

OM aiM hrIM SrIM SrIguru paraMbrahmaNE namOnnamaH

 

iti,

prasAda.

SrIgurucaraNArpitamastu.

Please forgive me , for all my mistakes.

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OM SriguruH sarva kAraNa BUtA SaktiH.

OM SrIman mahAgaNAdhipatayE namaH.

 

praNatOsmi.

 

This verse came through me by the Lord's grace.

Though it came by the Lord's grace, I might have rolled down some

mistakes with my own little knowledge, please pardon me for those

mistakes and please be compassionate to rectify me.

 

hRudim nirmalAkAra Sa~gkara nidhiM.

dRuShTiM niravadhika karuNA vRuShTiM.

~jjnAnaM hrImkAra labdhadhIH suvi~jjnAnam.

guruM sAXAt paraMbrahmaM vandEhaM.

 

I bow to guru who is 'sAXAt' paraMbrahma.

In whose heart I see the presence of the Lord God;

In whose dRuShTi, I see endless, ultimate vRuShTi of karuNA;

And whose ~jjnAnam is the great 'suvi~jjnAna' of realizing pratyagAtma

and the paramAtma as being one and the same; with the help/way of

hrImkAra/the prakriti/the goddess Lalitha.

 

Om aim hrIm shrIm shrIguruParaMBrahmaNE nama Om nama iti.

prasAda.

 

, "Prasada Reddy" <prasada.reddy wrote:

>

> OM SrIguruH sarva kAraNa BUtA SaktiH.

> OM SrIman mahA gaNAdhipatayE namaH.

>

> OM guruH brahma

> guruH viShNuH

> guruH dEvO mahESvaraH

> guruH sAxAt paraM brahma

> tasmai SrIguravE namaH.