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Guru Stotram
Guru Stotram
ci:-i:1 -i -iii-i i
-i-i i:i-i -i-i-|t-i-iiii
aK]Nzm]Nzlr\ vypt]\ yn] c]rc]rm |
t]tp]d\ d$ix}*t]\ yn] t]sm Igrv n]m || 1 ||
Salutations are to that guru who showed me the abode, the one who is to be known,
whose form is the entire universe and by whom all the movable and immovable are
pervaded.
-ii-ii-i-ii-a-i:i1i
i--ii-i -i-i-|t-i-ii-ii
an]t}im}rnD]sy] nn]x]ly |
c]nmil}t]\ yn] t]sm Igrv n]m || 2 ||
Salutations are to that guru who opened the eye of one blind due to the darkness (cover)
of ignorance with a needle coated with the ointment of knowledge.
r mii r-i ii
iirm-i-|t-i-ii.ii
g$b* g$v}*SN: g$dev m]hev]r |
grev] p]r\ b t]sm Igrv n]m || 3 ||
Salutations to that guru who is the Creator, Sustainer and Destroyer, who is the limitless
one.
i i-i -iii-1ia-iiii-i i
-i-i i:i-i -i-i-|t-i-ii:ii
sTv]r\ j]m]\ vypt]\ y]t}i}t s]c]rc]rm |
t]tp]d\ d$ix}*t]\ yn] t]sm Igrv n]m || 4 ||
Salutations are to that guru who showed me the one to be known, who permeates
whatever is movable, immovable, sentient or insentient.
ii--ii iii-ii -|r1i iii-ii
-i-i i:i-i -i-i-|t-i-ii-ii
ic}nm]y]\ vyp} y]ts]$v]*\ lky]\ s]c]rc]rm |
t]tp]d\ d$ix}*t]\ yn] t]sm Igrv n]m || 5 ||
Salutations to that teacher who showed me (by teaching) the One to be known, who is but
Awareness and who is the pervader of all three worlds comprising the sentient and
insentient.
ii i-ii:i|--iiiii-ii-i
---ir -i-|t-i-iiii
s]$v]*uit}ix}rortn]iv}rij}t]p]dmbj |
vdntmbj]s$y* y t]sm Igrv n]m || 6 ||
Salutations are to that guru who is the Sun to the lotus of Vedanta and whose lotus feet
are made radiant by the jewel of all Srutis (Upanishads).
|-i-:i-:--rr---ri-ia-i
ii- -1---i-|t-i-ii:ii
ct]ny xv]t xnt vymtt in}rn |
ib}ndundltt t]sm Igrv n]m || 7 ||
Salutations are to that guru who is Awareness, changeless (beyond time), who is peace,
beyond space, pure (free from likes and dislikes), and who is beyond the manifest and the
unmanifest (Nada, Bindu, etc.).
-i:ii1-ii-c-i-i-ii-ii-i
-i1-i-i1-i r-i-i-|t-i-iicii
n]x]kt}s]mZ t]v]mlv}BiS}t |
Bkt}mikt}pdt c] t]sm Igrv n]m || 8 ||
Salutations are to that guru who is rooted in knowledge that is power, adorned with the
garland of Truth and who is the bestower of the joy of liberation.
-1i--ii-r-i1-i i-iiii-i
<--i-ir--i-i-|t-i-iiii
anj]nm]s]mppt] $m]*b]nD]v}dih}n |
tm]n]pdnn] t]sm Igrv n]m || 9 ||
Salutations are to that guru who by bestowing the knowledge of the self burns up the
bondage created by accumulated actions of innumerable births.
:rii -iiii-ri-ii-ii
||1 i-i1 -i-|t-i-iicii
xS]N]\ B]v]s}nD p]na\ srs]mp]d: |
gro: pdod s]my] t]sm Igrv n]m || 10 ||
Salutations are to that guru; the perennial flow of wisdom from the one rooted in the
vision of the sruti, dries up totally to ocean of transmigration (samsara) and reveals the
essence of all wealth (the freedom of want).