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| Gurudev Swami Sivananda Maharaj |
The Auspicious Peace-chanting should be done in the beginning as it is the custom of righteous people and as it brings the desired fruit. Bhagavan Vishnu is the Auspicious One. The Lord who sits on Garuda is Auspicious. The Lord who is Lotus-eyed is Auspicious. The Lord Hari is the Abode of Auspiciousness. (1)
Prostration to the Infinite Vishnu who is Full and ever exalted, who is the cause of the sprout of the whole universe, who is the highest manifestation of Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. (2)
Prostration to the Guru who is the witness of the intellect,
who is to be known through the Vedanta, who is the Source of Absolute
Consciousness-Bliss, who is the Essence of Truth and Bliss. (3)
Guru is Brahma. Guru is Vishnu. Guru is Siva. Guru is the
Supreme Brahman Itself. Prostration to that Guru. (4)
Prostration to that Guru, who, through the collyrium of
Knowledge, opens the eye of him who is blinded by the gloom of ignorance. (5)
Prostration to that Guru, who shows the Truth of the word
‘Thou’, who pervades the whole universe of mobile and immobile creation with
its stationary and moving creatures. (6)
Prostration to that Guru, who shows the truth of the word
‘That’, who pervades the whole universe of mobile and immobile creation in the
form of the Undivided Infinite. (7)
Prostration to that Guru, who shows the Truth of the word
‘Art’ (in the sentence ‘That thou art’), who, in the form of the Mass of
Consciousness, pervades the whole of the three worlds with their mobile and
immobile inhabitants. (8)
Prostration to that Guru, who is beyond Nada, Bindu and Kala,
who is Pure Consciousness, Eternal, Peaceful, beyond space and untainted. (9)
Prostration to that Guru, due to whose Existence the world
exists, due to whose Effulgence the world is illumined, due to whose Bliss all
are happy. (10)
There is no reality beyond Guru. There is no penance beyond
Guru. There is no knowledge beyond Guru. Prostration to that Guru. (11)
The form of Guru is the root of meditation. The feet of Guru
are the root of worship. The teaching of the Guru is the root of all Mantras.
The Grace of Guru is the root of Salvation. (12)
The water with which the feet of the Guru are washed is the
sacred drink. The remains after Guru’s meal are the proper food. Right
meditation is on the Form of Guru. Constant Japa is of Guru’s Name. (13)
For the purpose of acquiring knowledge and dispassion, one
should drink the water with which Guru’s feet are washed, which cuts at the
root of ignorance, which overcomes birth and the bondage of Karma. (14)
Kashi is the abode. Ganga is the water with which Guru’s feet
are washed. Siva himself is the Guru. The Taraka Mantra is undoubtedly the
Supreme Brahman. (15)
The aspirant (disciple) should please the Guru by offering
him seat, bedding, clothing, vehicle, ornaments, etc. (16)
One should offer to the true Guru, one’s body, senses, life,
wealth, friends, relatives, the self, the wife and all. (17)
The Guru alone is the whole world, including Brahma, Vishnu
and Siva. Nothing greater than Guru exists. Therefore Guru is to be worshipped.
(18)
Without any feeling of shame one should fall in full
prostration before the Guru and adore the Guru through action, mind and speech,
at all times. (19)
The baths taken in pilgrimages to the seven oceans bring only
a thousandth part of the effect produced by drinking a drop of the water that
is used for washing Guru’s feet. (20)
When God is angry, Guru is the Saviour. When Guru gets angry
none is the saviour. Hence, obtaining the family-Guru (a suitable Guru), one
should properly take shelter under him. (21)
Daily one should devoutly prostrate oneself in that direction
in which shines the pair of the feet of the Lord of Lakshmi. (22)
ब्रह्मानन्दं परमसुखदं केवलं ज्ञानमूर्तिं
द्वन्द्वातीतं गगनसदृशं तत्त्वमस्यादिलक्ष्यम् ।
एकं नित्यं विमलमचलं सर्वधीसाक्षिभूतं
भावातीतं त्रिगुणरहितं सद्गुरुं तं नमामि ॥
द्वन्द्वातीतं गगनसदृशं तत्त्वमस्यादिलक्ष्यम् ।
एकं नित्यं विमलमचलं सर्वधीसाक्षिभूतं
भावातीतं त्रिगुणरहितं सद्गुरुं तं नमामि ॥
brahmānandaṃ paramasukhadaṃ kevalaṃ jñānamūrtiṃ
dvandvātītaṃ gaganasadṛiśhaṃ tattvamasyādilakṣhyam ।
ekaṃ nityaṃ vimalamachalaṃ sarvadhīsākṣhibhūtaṃ
bhāvātītaṃ triguṇarahitaṃ sadguruṃ taṃ namāmi ॥ || 23 ||
dvandvātītaṃ gaganasadṛiśhaṃ tattvamasyādilakṣhyam ।
ekaṃ nityaṃ vimalamachalaṃ sarvadhīsākṣhibhūtaṃ
bhāvātītaṃ triguṇarahitaṃ sadguruṃ taṃ namāmi ॥ || 23 ||
I constantly prostrate myself before the blessed Guru, who is
the physician for the disease of Samsara, who is the adorable Lord of Yogis,
who is blissful, who is the Source of Happiness, who is always pleased, who is
the Essence of Knowledge, who is identical with the Real Existence. (24)
One should meditate on the Divine Form of the Guru, as seated
in the centre of the lotus of the heart, as installed on the grand throne, who
shines like the lustre of the moon, who is ready to give the desired boon of
the attainment of the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. (25)
I prostrate myself before that Guru, the Brahman, the
Consciousness-Bliss, the eternal Knowledge, the taintless, the formless, the
reflectionless (beyond appearances), the pure, the eternal. (26)
One who addresses the Guru as “thou,” who says “hum” before
the Guru, who speaks indecently in the presence of the Guru, becomes a
Brahma-Rakshasa (a formidable demon) in a waterless forest tract. (27)
One should know the Supreme Brahman, the eternal, the
formless, the quality-less, by affirming his being Brahman Itself, as a light
is in relation to another light. (28)
I adore the Satchidananda, which is beyond the reach of
thought, the Master of the Universe, eternal, full, formless, quality-less,
indwelling as the Self of all. (29)
Guru is Siva. Guru is God. Guru is the relative (friend) of
human beings. Guru is the Atman. Guru is the Jiva. There is nothing other than
Guru. (30)
The Guru who has no knowledge, who is a liar and a hypocrite
should be shunned. He does not know how to bring peace to himself. How can he
give peace to others? (31)
They are not Gurus who are infidels, who are given to sin,
atheists, of differentiating temperaments, who take pleasure in women, who are
of bad conduct, ungrateful and roguish. (32)
I take refuge in the Lord, the Guru, who shows the inner
secret by brushing aside all phenomenality, by removing all doubts, and by
integrating the consciousness. (33)
There are many Gurus who extract the life out of their
disciples; but rare is that Guru who removes the pain in the heart of the
disciples. (34)
His Guruship really shines who is very able, discriminative,
full of spiritual wisdom, pure, and mentally bright. (35)
Gurus are pure, peaceful, good-natured, speaking very little,
devoid of passion and anger, of righteous conduct, and self-controlled. (36)
He who does not care for the Guru who gives him initiation
into the mono-syllable (OM), goes to the wombs of dogs in hundreds of births,
and is born among pariahs. (37)
Death is inevitable to him who abandons the Guru. Poverty
catches hold of him who abandons the Guru-Mantra. He goes to the Raurava hell
who abandons the Mantra given by the Guru. (38)
The seven crores of great Mantras are all for the
bewilderment of the mind. There is only one great Mantra, the two-lettered word
“Gu-ru.” (39)
“Gu” is darkness. “Ru”
is its remover. Because one removes darkness, he is called a “Guru.” (40)
One should, full of devotion, go to a Brahman-knowing Guru,
with offerings to the Guru, desiring to acquire the knowledge of the Vedanta,
with faith in the sentences declaring the Final Emancipation. (41)
First is the hearing in front of the Guru. After that is the
reflection upon (what is this word). Then profound meditation becomes the cause
of Full Knowledge. (42)
Even as born-blind man has no knowledge of forms, so one
cannot get the Knowledge of the Reality even in crores of creation-cycles,
except through initiation by the Guru. (43)
When the Grace of the Guru descends, then faith in hearing
the stories of God, in meditation, etc. dawns. The disciple should be tranquil,
self-controlled, extremely dispassionate, full of great faith, devoted to the
Guru, and established in austerity. (44)
The disciple, approaching the Brahmanishtha Guru,
circumambulating round him, prostrating himself before him, saluting him with
folded hands, with much humility, should ask, “O Lord, O Guru, tell me the
secret of the Supreme Truth in its fullness.” (45)
He shall reap the fruit of Jnana, who, with supreme devotion,
worships the Guru, who is the Parameshvara, the imparter of divine knowledge,
utterly unknowable by those of dull understanding, correctly knowable through
the words of the Guru, seated in the hearts of all, peaceful, all-pervading,
omniscient. (46 & 47)
He who has supreme devotion to God, and to the Guru as much
as to God,—to that blessed soul these truths reveal themselves. (48)
People cross the ocean of Samsara by sitting in the strong
boat of the sentence of the Guru, blown by the wind of the power of practice
and past Samskaras, and steered by the pilot, Guru. (49)
Difficult it is to renounce sense-objects, difficult is the
vision of the Truth, difficult is the attainment of Self-realisation, without
the Grace of the Guru. (50)
Prostration to the Guru, Siva, the essence of Satchidananda,
worldless, peaceful, supportless and effulgent. (51)
Thou art Vishnu. Thou art Brahma. Thou art the god Mahesvara.
Thou alone art the form of Sakti. Thou art the attributeless Eternal. (52)
Prostration to Thee, the being of Peace, the great hidden
Secret, unthinkable, immeasurable, beginningless and endless. (53)
Prostration to thee, the Existence, the cause of the
universe. Prostration to the One Consciousness, the support of all the worlds.
Prostration to the Truth of Non-Duality, the bestower of Salvation. Prostration
to the Brahman, the all-pervading and eternal. (54)
Prostration to Dakshinamurti, who appears in the threefold
form of God, Guru and the Self, who pervades everything with his form like the
sky. (55)
Prostration to Dakshinamurti, the origin of all kinds of
knowledge, the physician to those suffering from the illness of Samsara, the
Guru of all the worlds. (56)
This (Guru Gita) is the destroyer of all sins, the bestower
of Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. One obtains through this whatever object of
desire he desires. This is certain. (57)
Who, pure in heart, full of knowledge, incessantly recite
this Guru Gita—by even seeing them and touching them, one is liberated from
rebirth. (58)
Om Santih Santih Santih!
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