Guest guest Posted January 10, 2000 Report Share Posted January 10, 2000 SHRII GURUSTOTRAM 1 akhaNDamaNDalaakaaraM vyaaptaM yena charaacharam tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH 2 aGYaanatimiraandhasya GYaanaaJNjanashalaakayaa chakshurunmiilitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH 3 gururbrahmaa gururvishhNuH gururdevo maheshvaraH gurureva paraM brahma tasmai shriigurave namaH 4 sthaavaraM jaN^gamaM vyaaptaM yatkiJNchitsacharaacharam tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH 5 chinmayaM vyaapi yatsarvaM trailokyaM sacharaacharam tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH 6 sarvashrutishiroratnaviraajitapadaambujaH vedaantaambujasuuryo yaH tasmai shriigurave namaH 7 chaitanyashshaashvatashshaantaH vyomaatiito niraJNjanaH bindunaadakalaatiitaH tasmai shriigurave namaH 8 GyaanashaktisamaaruuDhaH tattvamaalaavibhuushhitaH bhuktimuktipradaataa cha tasmai shriigurave namaH 9 anekajanmasampraaptakarmabandhavidaahine aatmaGYaanapradaanena tasmai shriigurave namaH 10 shoshhaNaM bhavasindhoshcha GYaapanaM saarasampadaH guroH paadodakaM samyakh tasmai shriigurave namaH 11 na guroradhikaM tattvaM na guroradhikaM tapaH tattvaGYaanaath paraM naasti tasmai shriigurave namaH 12 mannaathaH shriijagannaathaH madguruH shriijagadguruH madaatmaa sarvabhuutaatmaa tasmai shriigurave namaH 13 gururaadiranaadishcha guruH paramadaivatam guroH parataraM naasti tasmai shriigurave namaH 14 tvameva maataa cha pitaa tvameva tvameva bandhushcha sakhaa tvameva tvameva vidyaa draviNaM tvameva tvameva sarvaM mama devadeva SHRII GURUSTOTRAM (Translation) Salutations are to that guru who showed me the one who is to be known, whose form is the entire universe and by who pervades over the movables (animals) and immovables. Salutations to that guru who opened the eyes of the blind and cleared the darkness (cover) of ignorance with the wisdom of knowledge. Salutations to that guru, who is the Creator, Protector, and Destroyer and who indeed is the limitless Brahman. Salutations to that teacher who showed me the one to be known, who permeates whatever that is movable and immovable, sentient and insentient. Salutations to that teacher who showed me (by teaching) the Lord of all the three worlds comprising the sentient and insentient. Salutations to that guru who is the sun to the lotus of Vedaanta and whose lotus feet are made radiant by the jewel of all Shrutis (Upanishhads). (The guru who is well established in the vision of the Shruti and is the one by whom the Shruti blossoms forth.) Salutations to that guru whose Awareness is changeless (beyond time), who is peace, beyond space, pure (free from raaga and dveshha) and who is beyond the manifest and unmanifest (Naada, Bindu, etc.) Salutations to that guru who is rooted in knowledge that is power, adorned with the garland of Truth and who bestows the joy of liberation. Salutations to that guru who by bestowing the knowledge of the Self burns up the bondage created by accumulated actions of innumerable births. Salutations to that guru; the perennial flow of wisdom from the one rooted in the vision of the Shruti dries up totally the ocean of transmigration (saMsaara) and reveals (teaches) the essence of all wealth (the fullness, freedom from want). There is nothing superior to knowledge of truth; no truth higher than the truth, and there is no purifying austerity better than the truth; Salutations to that guru. Prostrations to that guru who is my Lord and is the Lord of the Universe, my teacher who is the teacher of the Universe, who is the Self in me, and the Self in all beings. Salutations to that guru who is the beginning and the beginningless, who is the highest Deity and to whom there is none superior. Oh God of all Gods! You alone are my mother, father, kinsman, friend, the knowledge, and wealth. You are to me everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2000 Report Share Posted January 10, 2000 namaste, ----Original Message Follows---- Venkatesh <venky advaitin advaitin Re: Gita Satsang: Shrii Gurustotram Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:13:23 +0000 While we are on Gurustotram, i do remember that part of the Bhagavat Gita also stresses the importance of service to the Guru. **** tadviddhi praNipaatena pariprashnena sevayaa . upadekshyanti te j~naana.n j~naaninastattvadarshinaH .. Gita 4:34 Know that, through humble submission, through inquiry, through service of the sages who have realised the Truth, they will teach you that knowledge. Another aspect that i read on one of the articles on the web site was that if God or any of the Devas get dissatisfied or "angry", one can seek solace and forgiveness from the Guru as well, but in the case of the Guru, only that Guru can grant forgiveness. ***cf. shive rushhTe gurustraataa gurau rushhTe na kashchana . Guru Gita shloka #88 When Shiva is angry Guru can save you. If the Guru is angry nobody can save you! Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has also published Voice of the Guru (Guru Tradition), and Hindu Dharma, both Pujya Swamiji's lectures. The latter one should be in every household! Regards, >>>>>> At 12:18 PM 1/10/00 -0500, Ram Chandran wrote <<<<<<< |>"Ram Chandran" <chandran |> |>Hari Om Venkatesh: [big Snip] <<<<<<< End of original message >>>>>>> The views expressed in the above email are of a personal nature and do not, in any way, reflect the views of any organisation or group of persons. "Constantly think of what you are, what you want to be, and what you should do to bridge the gap. Even this thinking will be beneficial to you. " His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Swamiji http://www.kamakoti.org Official web site of The Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham ____ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2000 Report Share Posted January 10, 2000 Hari Om Venkatesh: Namaskar, Thanks Venkatesh for the informative message on the Genius of Shankara by Paramacharya Chandrawekaraendra Saraswati of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam. Please share other messages of Periyava by highlighting them through the Email (as you beautifully did in the above message). This will greatly help the list members to understand Advaita with broader perspective. It is Hindu Tradition to greet friends and relatives with 'Namaskar' (to temple deities, elders, saints and sages). Paramacharya points out that this tradition is a constant reminder to the Hindus to be humble without ahankara. It is our good fortune to do namaskara to saints, the great ones, and we should never miss an opportunity to bow to our elders. Those who have watched the Mahabharata Episode shown in TV would have noticed that such greetings were offered to both friends and foes! A small portion of the four part article on the importance of Namaskara Mahamityam is enclosed below. Those interested should visit the Website of Kanchi Kamakoti whcih contains an ocean of information on Shankara's Advaitam. Ram Chandran Namaskara Mahamityam (by His Holiness Paramacharya Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi MahaSwamiji) ============================================== " I have dwelt at length on the greatness and importance of Namaskara (Namaskara Mahamityam). You may wonder why I chose this topic to talk on. One respectable person was referring to the sadness to the steady decline among people in general in the qualities of humility and reverence, in vinaya bhava. I started thinking about it and possible antidote for it. I thought of placing before you the outcome of that contemplation. It seems that ever since loud voices have started being made about equality, freedom, self-respect and so on, decline in the wealth called vinaya started, leading us to ways of indiscipline and violence. Talking about "rights" and "rights", we are led into "fights". Viewed in the economic and social context, it is not as if that these new perceptions are without a justification. I accept that without any objection. But everything must operate within limits. If the new approaches are actualised in practice within properly defined limits, things will be in their places, the present d Spiritual advancement had been the main goal of life in this country. Stricken by the disease of "ahankara", material advancement has come to be considered all that matters. I have talked about the only remedy that I know of. I considered it proper to place before you the remedy and the reasons why I think it is a remedy. That is why I elaborated on the subject. It seemed to me that, more than anybody else saying it, my saying it will have a deeper impact. When I say so, does it mean that I am trapped in my "ahankara"? No, that is not my meaning. It is because of people pursuing "seats of power" mindlessly that loud slogans are raised in the name of equality, freedom, self respect and the like, and this din has led to wars. In such a context, I thought that a person like me, whom fate (providence) has catapulted into a "seat above which there is no seat and to which there is no equal" and "who does not find fulfillment in the situation that he does not have to bow before anyone" letting it be known to You have the namaskara bhagya, which I did not and cannot get. I pray to Narayana, saying "Namo Namah", that all of you may make full use of the namaskara bhagya, and receive the highest blessings in life. And I do namaskara to HIM. OM TAT SAT" Paramacharya's Concluding Paragraphs of the Web Page with the title: " Namo Namah" http://www.kamakoti.org/other/miscl/namoh4.html >Venkatesh <venky > >Namastey ! > >A tribute to Sri Adi Sankara : > .................. >(see http://www.kamakoti.org/souv/1-1.html , The Genius of Bhagavatpada >{Sri Adi Sankara}), by His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra >Saraswathi MahaSwamiji: > >best regards > > >Venkatesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2000 Report Share Posted January 10, 2000 I think the following verse also belongs to Guru Sthotram Brahmanandam Parama Sukhadam Kevalam Jnanamurthim Dwandwaatiitam Gagana Sadhrusham TatvamAsyati Lakhsyam Ekam Nityam Vimala Achalam Sarvadi Sakshibhutam Jnanaatiitam Thrigunarahitam SadGurum Tam Namami. The Bliss of Brahman is the supreme happiness, of the aspect of wisdom Beyond duality , like the infinte sky , with the aspect of That you are. One , constant ,pure and unmoving , the witness of all , Beyond knowledge , beyond the three modes of nature, That Guru I prostrate to. anand A FREE web-based e-mail service brought to you by the PC World Technology Network. Get your FREE account today at http://www.myworldmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2000 Report Share Posted January 10, 2000 Namastey ! A tribute to Sri Adi Sankara : Part of the well known Bhaja Govindam is: "Punarapi Jananam, punarapi maranam Punarapi Janani, jatarey shayanam. Iha samsarey, bahu dustarey, kripaya pahey, pahi Murarey" Meaning: Repeated birth, repeated death, and repeated lying in the mother's womb- this transmigratory process is extensive and difficult to cross; Save me, Oh Destroyer of Mura, through your grace! Another quote, that seems to be a beautiful, poetic contradiction to the above is: Saastram saareera meemaamsaa Devastu paramesvarah ! Aacaaryaah Sankaraachaaryaah Santu janmani janmani "if, in every future birth the sheet anchor of my faith and understanding is the Saarera Meemaamsa, is my study, if the God I worship is Paramesvara Himself, if the Guru who will be my refuge is Sri Sankaracharya, it does not matter how many janmas I am to take. May these three be granted to me in life after life." (see http://www.kamakoti.org/souv/1-1.html , The Genius of Bhagavatpada {Sri Adi Sankara}), by His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi MahaSwamiji: best regards Venkatesh >>>>>> At 08:17 AM 1/10/00 -0500, Ram Chandran wrote <<<<<<< |>"Ram Chandran" <chandran |> |>SHRII GURUSTOTRAM |> |>1 akhaNDamaNDalaakaaraM vyaaptaM yena charaacharam |> tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>2 aGYaanatimiraandhasya GYaanaaJNjanashalaakayaa |> chakshurunmiilitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>3 gururbrahmaa gururvishhNuH gururdevo maheshvaraH |> gurureva paraM brahma tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>4 sthaavaraM jaN^gamaM vyaaptaM yatkiJNchitsacharaacharam |> tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>5 chinmayaM vyaapi yatsarvaM trailokyaM sacharaacharam |> tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>6 sarvashrutishiroratnaviraajitapadaambujaH |> vedaantaambujasuuryo yaH tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>7 chaitanyashshaashvatashshaantaH vyomaatiito niraJNjanaH |> bindunaadakalaatiitaH tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>8 GyaanashaktisamaaruuDhaH tattvamaalaavibhuushhitaH |> bhuktimuktipradaataa cha tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>9 anekajanmasampraaptakarmabandhavidaahine |> aatmaGYaanapradaanena tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>10 shoshhaNaM bhavasindhoshcha GYaapanaM saarasampadaH |> guroH paadodakaM samyakh tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>11 na guroradhikaM tattvaM na guroradhikaM tapaH |> tattvaGYaanaath paraM naasti tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>12 mannaathaH shriijagannaathaH madguruH shriijagadguruH |> madaatmaa sarvabhuutaatmaa tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>13 gururaadiranaadishcha guruH paramadaivatam |> guroH parataraM naasti tasmai shriigurave namaH |> |>14 tvameva maataa cha pitaa tvameva |> tvameva bandhushcha sakhaa tvameva |> tvameva vidyaa draviNaM tvameva |> tvameva sarvaM mama devadevaSHRII GURUSTOTRAM (Translation) |> |>Salutations are to that guru who showed me the one who is to be known, whose form is the entire universe and by who pervades over the movables (animals) and immovables. |> |>Salutations to that guru who opened the eyes of the blind and cleared the darkness (cover) of ignorance with the wisdom of knowledge. |>Salutations to that guru, who is the Creator, Protector, and Destroyer and who indeed is the limitless Brahman. |> |>Salutations to that teacher who showed me the one to be known, who permeates whatever that is movable and immovable, sentient and insentient. |> |>Salutations to that teacher who showed me (by teaching) the Lord of all the three worlds comprising the sentient and insentient. |> |>Salutations to that guru who is the sun to the lotus of Vedaanta and whose lotus feet are made radiant by the jewel of all Shrutis (Upanishhads). (The guru who is well established in the vision of the Shruti and is the one by whom the Shruti blossoms forth.) |> |>Salutations to that guru whose Awareness is changeless (beyond time), who is peace, beyond space, pure (free from raaga and dveshha) and who is beyond the manifest and unmanifest (Naada, Bindu, etc.) |> |>Salutations to that guru who is rooted in knowledge that is power, adorned with the garland of Truth and who bestows the joy of liberation. |> |>Salutations to that guru who by bestowing the knowledge of the Self burns up the bondage created by accumulated actions of innumerable births. |> |>Salutations to that guru; the perennial flow of wisdom from the one rooted in the vision of the Shruti dries up totally the ocean of transmigration (saMsaara) and reveals (teaches) the essence of all wealth (the fullness, freedom from want). |> |>There is nothing superior to knowledge of truth; no truth higher than the truth, and there is no purifying austerity better than the truth; Salutations to that guru. |> |>Prostrations to that guru who is my Lord and is the Lord of the Universe, my teacher who is the teacher of the Universe, who is the Self in me, and the Self in all beings. |> |>Salutations to that guru who is the beginning and the beginningless, who is the highest Deity and to whom there is none superior. |> |>Oh God of all Gods! You alone are my mother, father, kinsman, friend, the knowledge, and wealth. You are to me everything. |> |>--------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- |> |>Get great offers on top-notch products that match your interests! |>Sign up for eLerts at: |><a href=" http://clickme./ad/elerts1 ">Click Here</a> |> |>------ |> |>Discussion of the True Meaning of Sankara's Advaita Vedanta Philosophy focusing on non-duality between mind and matter. Searchable List Archives are available at: http://www.eScribe.com/culture/advaitin/ Contact Email Address: advaitins |> |> <<<<<<< End of original message >>>>>>> The views expressed in the above email are of a personal nature and do not, in any way, reflect the views of any organisation or group of persons. "Constantly think of what you are, what you want to be, and what you should do to bridge the gap. Even this thinking will be beneficial to you. 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Guest guest Posted January 10, 2000 Report Share Posted January 10, 2000 Namastey again... Thank you Ram. A major part of the web site includes His Holiness' preaching and articles. Some of His preaching are translated in his inimitable style and are quite moving and very touching. Namo Namahah (the text that you had quoted from) was published by the Delhi Vishnu Sahasranamam Satsangam, and, it has also been translated into English, and is a brilliant translation. Many devotees agree that it sounds exactly the way He used to speak. While we are on Gurustotram, i do remember that part of the Bhagavat Gita also stresses the importance of service to the Guru. There is a two part book, titled Sankara's Bhashya on Bhagavat Gita, which is very very engrossing. I have been searching in vain for the second part. Another aspect that i read on one of the articles on the web site was that if God or any of the Devas get dissatisfied or "angry", one can seek solace and forgiveness from the Guru as well, but in the case of the Guru, only that Guru can grant forgiveness. In the recent past, during whatever little service i have been doing for our Gurus, my life has changed in a major way. Disadvantages and setbacks in life miraculously turn into advantages. I know for sure that not everything was a coincidence. At times, i feel blessed to be able to do some service, albeit insignificant, for our Gurus. My only regret is that i had not started on it earlier or sooner. This list is very educational. Congratulations to everyone who has participated, founded and administered this list. I only hope that i am able to contribute something. Best regards Venkatesh >>>>>> At 12:18 PM 1/10/00 -0500, Ram Chandran wrote <<<<<<< |>"Ram Chandran" <chandran |> |>Hari Om Venkatesh: [big Snip] <<<<<<< End of original message >>>>>>> The views expressed in the above email are of a personal nature and do not, in any way, reflect the views of any organisation or group of persons. "Constantly think of what you are, what you want to be, and what you should do to bridge the gap. Even this thinking will be beneficial to you. " His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Swamiji http://www.kamakoti.org Official web site of The Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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