Gita Satsangh - Meditation Before Satsangh

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Namaste:

 

Before starting the Satsangh, let us start with the following

meditating prayers, paying our tribute to Vedavyasa on this

Gurupoornima Day. Let us also ask for the blessings from the seen and

unseen and known and unknown Gurus of all the times.

 

Harih Om!

 

Ram Chandran

 

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Gita Dhyanam

 

paarthaaya pratibodhitaaM bhagavataa naaraayaNena svayaM

vyaasena grathitaaM puraaNamuninaa madhye mahaabhaaratam.h .

 

advaitaamR^itavarshhiNiiM bhagavatiimashhTaadashaadhyaayiniiM

amba tvaamanusandadhaami bhagavadgiite bhavedveshhiNiim.h .. 1..

 

namo.astu te vyaasa vishaalabuddhe phullaaravindaayatapatranetra .

yena tvayaa bhaaratatailapuurNaH prajvaalito GYaanamayaH pradiipaH ..

 

Om. O Bhagavad Gita, with which Partha was illumined by Lord Narayana

Himself, and which was composed within the Mahabharata by the ancient

sage, Vyasa.

 

O Divine Mother, the destroyer of rebirth, the showerer of the nectar

of Advaita, and consisting of eighteen discourses—upon Thee, O Gita,

O affectionate Mother, I meditate!

 

Salutations unto thee, O Vyasa, of broad intellect and with eyes

like the petals of a full-blown lotus, by whom the lamp of knowledge,

filled with the oil of the Mahabharata, has been lighted!

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Gurustotram (Tribute to Gurus)

 

akhaNDamaNDalaakaaraM vyaaptaM yena charaacharam

tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

aGYaanatimiraandhasya GYaanaaJNjanashalaakayaa

chakshurunmiilitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

gururbrahmaa gururvishhNuH gururdevo maheshvaraH

gurureva paraM brahma tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

sthaavaraM jaN^gamaM vyaaptaM yatkiJNchitsacharaacharam

tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

chinmayaM vyaapi yatsarvaM trailokyaM sacharaacharam

tatpadaM darshitaM yena tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

sarvashrutishiroratnaviraajitapadaambujaH

vedaantaambujasuuryo yaH tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

chaitanyashshaashvatashshaantaH vyomaatiito niraJNjanaH

bindunaadakalaatiitaH tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

GyaanashaktisamaaruuDhaH tattvamaalaavibhuushhitaH

bhuktimuktipradaataa cha tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

anekajanmasampraaptakarmabandhavidaahine

aatmaGYaanapradaanena tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

shoshhaNaM bhavasindhoshcha GYaapanaM saarasampadaH

guroH paadodakaM samyakh tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

na guroradhikaM tattvaM na guroradhikaM tapaH

tattvaGYaanaath paraM naasti tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

mannaathaH shriijagannaathaH madguruH shriijagadguruH

madaatmaa sarvabhuutaatmaa tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

gururaadiranaadishcha guruH paramadaivatam

guroH parataraM naasti tasmai shriigurave namaH

 

tvameva maataa cha pitaa tvameva

tvameva bandhushcha sakhaa tvameva

tvameva vidyaa draviNaM tvameva

tvameva sarvaM mama devadev

 

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.