Guru Stotram ( )

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I prostrate myself before that Guru, the Bliss of Brahman, the bestower of Supreme Happiness, who is
Knowledge absolute, transcending the pairs of opposites, expansive like the sky, the goal indicated by the
great sayings like Thou art That, the one eternal, pure, unchanging, the witness of functions of the
intellect, who is above all Bhavas (mental conditions) and the three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas and Tamas).


Salutation to the noble Guru,, who has made it possible to realise the state which pervades the entire
cosmos, everything animate and inanimate.


Salutation to the noble Guru, who has opened the eyes blinded by darkness of ignorance with the
collyrium-stick of knowledge.


Salutation to the noble Guru, who is Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara, the direct Parabrahma, the
Supreme Reality.


Salutation to the noble Guru, who has made it possible to realise Him, by whom all that is - sentient and
insentient, movable and immovable is pervaded.


Salutation to the noble Guru, who has made it possible to realise Him pervades everything, sentient and
insentient, in all three worlds.


Salutation to the noble Guru, whose lotus feet are radient with (the luster of) the crest jewel of all Srutis
and who is the sun that causes the Vendanta Lotus (knowledge) to bloosom.


Salutation to the noble Guru,who is the ever effulgent, eternal, peaceful, beyond space, immaculate, and
beyond the manifest and unmanifest.


Salutation to that noble Guru, who is established in the power of knowledge, adorned with the garland of
various principles and is the bestower of prospority and liberation.


Salutation to the noble Guru, who by bestowing the knowledge of the Self burns up the bondage created
by accumulated actions of innumerable births.


Salutation to the noble Guru, by washing whose feet, the ocean of transmigration, endless sorrows is
completely dried up and the Supreme wealth is revealed.


Salutation to the noble Guru, beyond whom there is no higher truth, there is no higher penance and there
is nothing higher attainable than the true knowledge.


Salutation to the noble Guru, who is my Lord and the Lord of the Universe, my Teacher and the Teacher
of the Universe, who is the Self in me and the Self in all beings.


Salutation to the noble Guru, who is both the beginning and beginningless, who is the Supreme Deity
than whom there is none superior.
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(Oh Guru!) You are my mother and father; you are my brother and companion; you alone are knowledge
and wealth. O Lord, you are everything to me.