GURU STROTRAM:
APAVITRAH PAVITRO VA SARVA VASTHAN GATOPI VA
YAH SMARET PUNDARI-KAKSHAM SA BAHYA-BHYANTARAH SHUCHIH
Translation:
Whether pure or impure, whether purity or impurity is permeating everywhere, whoever opens himself to the expanded vision of unbounded awareness gains inner and outer purity.
Avahanam
NARAYANAM PADMA-BHAVAM VASHISHTHAM SHAKTIM CHA TAT PUTRA PARASHARAM CHA
VYASAM SHUKAM GAUDA-PADAM MAHANTAM GOVINDA YOGINDRAM ATHASYA SHISHYAM
SHRI SHANKARA CHARYAM ATHASYA PADMA PADAM CHA HASTAMALAKAM CHA SHISHYAM
TAM TROTAKAM VARTIKA KARAM ANYAN ASMAD GURUN SANTATA MANATOSMI
SHRUTI SMRITI PURA-NA-NAM ALAYAM KARUNA-LAYAM
NAMAMI BHAGAVAT PADAM SHANKARAM LOKA SHANKARAM
SHANKARAM SHANKARACHARYAM KESHAVAM BADARAYANAM
SUTRA BHASHYA KRITAU VANDE BHAGAVAKTAU PUNAH PUNAH
YAD-DVARE NIKHILA NILIMPA PARISHAD SIDDHIM VIDHATTE-NISHAM
SHRIMAT SHRI LASITAM JAGADGURU-PADAM NATVATMA TRIPTIN GATAH
LOKA-GYANA PAYODA PATANA DHURAM SHRI SHANKARAM SHARMADAM
BRAHMHANANDA SARASVATIM GURWVARAM DHYAYAMI JYOTIR-MAYAM
AVAHANAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
ASANAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
SNANAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
VASTRAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
CHANDANAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
AKSHATAN SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
PUSHPAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
DHUPAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
DIPAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
ACHAMANIYAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
NAIVEDYAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
ACHAMANIYAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
TAMBULAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
SHRI PHALAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
Translation:
Invocation
To Lord Narayana, to lotus-born Brahma the creator, to Vashishtha to Shakti and his son, Parashar,
To Vyasa, to Shukadeva, to the great Gaudapada, to Govinda, ruler among the yogis, to his disciple,
Shri Shankaracharya, to his disciples Padma-Pada and Hasta-Malaka,
And Trotakacharya and Vartika-Kara, to others, to the tradition of our Masters, I bow down.
To the abode of the wisdom of the Shrutis, Smritis and Puranas, to the abode of kindness, to the personified glory of the lord, to Shankara, emancipator of the world, I bow down.
To Shankaracharya, the redeemer, hailed as Krishna and Badarayana, to the commentator of the Brahma Sutras, I bow down.
To the glory of the lord I bow down again and again, at whose door the whole galaxy of gods pray for perfection day and night.
Adorned with immeasurable glory, preceptor of the whole world, having bowed down to him we gain fulfillment.
Skilled in dispelling the cloud of ignorance of the people, the gentle emancipator, Brahmananda Sarasvati, the supreme teacher, full of brilliance, him I bring to my awareness.
Offering the invocation to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering a seat to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering an ablution to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering cloth to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering sandalpaste to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering full rice to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering a flower to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering incense to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering light to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering water to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering fruit to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering water to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering a betel leaf to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering a coconut to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Arartikyam
KARPURA-GAURAM KARUNA-VATARAM SAMSARA-SARAM BHUJAGENDRAHARAM
SADA VASANTAM HRIDAYA RAVINDE BHAVAM BHAVANI SAHITAM NAMAMI
ARARTIKYAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
ACHAMANIYAM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
Translation:
Offering camphor light
White as camphor, kindness as incarnate, the essence of creation garlanded with Brahman, ever dwelling in the lotus of my heart, the creative impulse of cosmic life, to that, in the form of Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering light&nbps; to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Offering water to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Pushpanjalim
GURUR BRAHMA GURUR VISHNUR GURURDEVO MAHESHVARAH
GURUH SAKSHAT PARAM BRAHMA TASMAI SHRI GURAVE NAMAH
AKHANDA MANDALAKARAM VYAPTAM YENA CHARACHARAM
TAT PADAM DARSHITAM YENA TASMAI SHRI GURAVE NAMAH
SHRI BRAHMANANDAM PARAM SUKHADAM KEVALAM GYANAMURTIM
VISHVA-TITAM GAGANA SADRISHAM TAT-TVAM-ASYADI LAKSHYAM
EKAM NITYAM VIMALAMACHALAM SARVADHI SAKSHI BHUTAM
BHAVA-TITAM TRIGUNA SAHITAM SADGURUM TAM NAMAMI
AGYANA TIMIRANDHASHYA GYANANJANA SHALAKAYA
CHAKSHUR UNMILITAM YENA TASMAI SHRI GURAVE NAMAH
PUSHPANJALIM SAMARPAYAMI SHRI GURU CHARANA KAMALEBHYO NAMAH
Translation:
Offering handful of flowers
Guru in the glory of Brahma, Guru in the glory of Vishnu, Guru in the glory of the great Lord Shiva, Guru in the glory of the personified transcendental fullness of Brahman, to him, to Shri Guru Dev adorned with glory, I bow down.
The unbounded, like the endless canopy of the sky, the omnipresent in all creation, by whom the sign of that has been revealed, to him, to Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
Guru Dev, Shri Brahmananda, bliss of the absolute, transcendental joy, the self-sufficient, the embodiment of pure knowledge which is beyond and above the universe like the sky, the aim of thou art that and other such expressions which unfold eternal truth, the one, the eternal, the pure, the immoveable, the witness of all intellects, whose status transcends thought, the transcendant along with the three gunas, the true perceptor, to Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
The blinding darkness of ignorance has been removed by applying the balm of knowledge. The eye of knowledge has been opened by him and therefore, to him, to Shri Guru Dev, I bow down. Offering a handful of flowers to the lotus feet of Shri Guru Dev, I bow down.
