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.