Guru Paduka Panchakam and Guru Gita - English Translation

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The English Translation of Shree Guru Paduka-Panchakam and Guru Gita

has been attempted below. Guru Gita has been mentioned in Skanda

Purana as a Divya Granth in which each shloka is not just a

collection of Sanskrit alphabets but they are mantras with divine

effect! Revered Gurudev Dr. Narayan Dutt Shrimaliji (known in ascetic

form as Paramhans Swami Nikhileshwaranandji) has always highlighted

the importance of Guru Gita in every Sadhak and Shishya's life as

it

is the easiest way to link one's atma with that of the benevolent

Gurudev's heart. He has even more stressed that Guru Gita must be

heard from the Guru dev himself, who in his divine voice has recorded

this magnificent blessing on audio-cassettes and audio- CDs which are

available at http://www.siddhashram.org/

 

The Translation below is an attempt to stress the uniqueness and

importance of Guru Gita and Guru Sadhana for any achievement in the

field of Spirituality. May we all be blessed by our Pujya Gurudev

Paramhans Swami Nikhileshwaranandji, the Guru- Trimurti and Vandaniya

Mata ji. Jai Gurudev!

 

Shree Guru Paduka-Panchakam

 

Om salutations to the Gurus, to the Gurus' sandals,

salutations to the supreme ones, to the supreme sandals.

To the sandals of the lords of Siddhas and the Teachers,

salutations, salutations to the sandals of the shree Gurus.

To the great splendor of the hidden purpose of the Shreem

syllable joined to the mysterious Hreem syllable and Aim syllable,

granting the secret essence of the Om syllable,

salutations, salutations to shree Guru's two sandals.

Having the complete majesty of all the sacrifices,

of the priests, and of the offerings into Hautragni and Hotragni,

that which is Brahman, imparting that awakened knowledge,

salutations, salutations to shree Guru's two sandals.

To the Garuda for the multitude of serpents of desires and so on,

bestowing the treasures of detachment and discrimination,

bestowing awakened knowledge, giving quick liberation,

salutations, salutations to shree Guru's two sandals.

To the two boats on the shores of the ocean of

unending samsara, giving steadfast devotion,

to the two underwater fires completely drying up a sea of stupidity,

salutations, salutations to shree Guru's two sandals.

Om peace, peace, peace.

 

Shree Guru Gita

 

Om, this is the shree Guru Gita stotra-mantra having

the eternal Lord Shiva as the seer.

With different modes are the metres,

The supreme Self of shree Guru is the deity.

Ham is the seed,

Sah the shakti,

Krom the pillar.

In order to attain the prasad of shree Guru

is the repeating purpose.

Now meditation,

By Ham and Sah, by a lotus surrounded by petals,

by the divine cause of the world,

the universe arose by living in innumerable bodies,

for its own pleasure by the will of the Self.

On that light which is but the foot of Shambhu, a foot

holding the flame of a lamp,

on the visible imperishable form, the Guru's foot,

one should meditate firmly and perpetually.

For me, to attain the four kinds of life goals

is the repeating purpose.

 

On the summit of Mount Kailasa resplendent,

to the master of union with devotion

having pranamed, Parvati, with devotion,

questioned Shankara...

 

Shree Goddess said,

 

Om, salutations, O God, O Lord of gods,

Beyond the beyond, O Guru of the universe!

O eternal Shiva, O great God,

the Guru initiation give to me!

By which path O Swami,

should an embodied one full of Brahman become?

Do your grace unto me O Swami,

I am bowing to your feet.

 

Ishvara said,

 

My form O Goddess you are,

for your love am I speaking,

Helpful to the world is the question,

not by anyone even done before.

Difficult to attain in the three worlds,

listen to what I am saying,

There is no other Guru apart from Brahman,

this is true, this is true, O beautiful one.

The Vedas, Shastras, Puranas,

historical accounts and others,

And the science of mantra, yantra, and so on,

smrutis, the uccatana and other incantations,

Shaiva, Shakta treatises and so on,

and others variously,

In this world cause the downfall,

of those beings with deluded minds.

Yajnas, vows, tapa, charity,

japa, pilgrimage, and so on,

The Guru principle not knowing,

fools they are those wandering people.

The Guru is the enlightened Self, no other,

this is true, this is true, no doubt.

In order to attain that, effort however

should surely be done by wise ones.

The hidden knowledge, the world's maya,

and in the body born of ignorance,

Arising by whose light,

by the word Guru it is called.

Having purified the Self of all sins,

through seva at shree Guru's feet,

An embodied one can become Brahman by this.

In order to give you grace I am speaking to you.

The lotus of the Guru's feet having remembered,

water on the head one should support,

Of bathing in all the places of pilgrimage,

he obtains this fruit, a person.

Drying up the muddy quagmire of sins,

kindling the fire of knowledge,

The water of the Guru's feet properly

is a crossing over the ocean of samsara.

Destroying the root of ignorance,

ending karmas and birth,

In order to attain detachment and knowledge,

the water of the Guru's feet one should drink.

The water of the Guru's feet having drunk,

there is the Guru's left over food.

Of the Guru's form there is always meditation,

the Guru's mantra one should always repeat.

The land of Kashi is his dwelling,

Jahnavi is the water of his feet.

The Guru is Vishveshvara incarnate,

crossing over Brahman, certainly.

But the water of the Guru's feet which is

Gaya, that is the Akshaya banyan tree.

And the king of places of pilgrimage, Prayag.

to the Guru's form, salutations, salutations.

The Guru's form one should remember continually.

The Guru's name one should always repeat.

The Guru's command one should go forth and do.

Different from the Guru one should not be.

Abiding in the Guru's mouth is Brahman,

it is obtained from his prasad.

The Guru's meditation one should always do,

like the woman of noble family on her husband.

One's stage in life and one's caste and,

one's reputation, increasing one's well being,

This all is abandoned.

Different from the Guru one should not be.

For one who thinks of nothing else but me,

easy to attain is the supreme position.

Therefore by means of all effort,

propitiation of the Guru do.

In the three worlds is one who speaks plainly,

other gods, demons, and snake-demons.

Residing in the Guru's mouth is knowledge,

but through devotion to the Guru is it obtained.

But the Gu syllable is darkness and,

the Ru syllable is said to be fire.

The swallower of ignorance, Brahman,

the Guru indeed is, no doubt.

The Gu syllable is the first letter,

illuminating the gunas, maya, and others.

The Ru syllable, second, is Brahman,

the destruction of maya's rotation.

Thus the position of the Guru is the best,

even for gods difficult to attain.

By Haha and Huhu groups indeed,

and by gandharvas it is worshipped.

Surely for them and for all,

there is no principle higher than the Guru.

A seat, bed, clothing,

ornaments, a vehicle and other things,

by a seeker should be given,

making the Guru satisfied.

Propitiation of the Guru one should do,

one's own life one should offer.

With action, mind, and speech,

continually one should propitiate the Guru,

The long-stick salutation having done,

shamelessly in the Guru's presence.

The body, the senses, the pranas,

to the true Gurus one should offer.

The Self, wife, and all other things,

to the true Gurus one should offer.

Germs, worms, ash, feces,

foul-smelling excretions, urine,

Phlegm, blood, skin, flesh,

one should not swindle these, O beautiful one.

The tree of samsara having climbed,

they were falling into the ocean of hell,

And by whom only they were pulled out of it all,

to that shree Guru salutations.

The Guru is Brahma, the Guru is Vishnu,

the Guru is God, the Great Lord,

The Guru only is the supreme Brahman,

to that shree Guru salutations.

To the only reason for the world,

to the bridge over the ocean of samsara,

To the ruler of all learning,

to Shambhu, to the Guru, salutations.

For those blinded by the darkness of ignorance,

a collyrium stick of knowledge

By which the eyes are opened,

to that shree Guru salutations.

You are the father and you are my mother,

you are the kinsman and you are the deity,

For the awakened knowledge of samsara,

to that shree Guru salutations.

By whose truth the world is true,

by whose light it shines,

By whose bliss they are blissful,

to that shree Guru salutations.

By whose steadfastness this is true,

who shines through the form of the Light,

Dear are sons and others by whose love,

to that shree Guru salutations.

By whom this surely is perceived,

not whom the mind perceives,

Waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and others,

to that shree Guru salutations.

Whose knowledge of this whole universe,

is not seen split into differences,

To the form that is the one true form,

to that shree Guru salutations.

He who has no belief, he has belief,

he who has belief, he does not know.

To the existence depending on no other existence,

to that shree Guru salutations.

He who has the form of the cause,

who by the form of the effect appears,

To the form of the cause and the effect,

to that shree Guru salutations.

A diversified form this all is,

but not with anything is there diversity,

Cause and effect it is only,

to that shree Guru salutations.

Whose pair of lotus feet,

the remover of the pair of miseries,

A rescuer always from calamities,

to shree Guru I bow.

If Shiva is angry the Guru is a savior,

if the Guru is angry Shiva surely is not one,

Therefore by means of all effort,

To shree Guru's shelter one should go.

45. I worship the pair of feet of the Guru,

within range of speech, mind, and intellect,

Into white and red lusters split,

of the nature of Shiva and Shakti supreme.

46. The Gu syllable is beyond the gunas and,

the Ru syllable is without form,

And one's own natural form beyond the gunas,

He who can give it is remembered as the Guru.

 

 

47. Without three eyes the witness of all,

without four arms the Almighty,

Without four faces Brahma,

shree Guru is said to be, O dear one.

48. This salutation of folded hands by me is made,

for the ocean of compassion to increase,

By whose favor a living being,

from the wonders of samsara is liberated.

49. Shree Guru's supreme form,

to the discriminating eye is nectar,

Those of dull fortune do not see,

just like the blind at sunrise.

50. To the pair of feet of shree Natha,

in which direction they shine,

To that direction salutions should be done,

with devotion every day, O dear one.

51. To that direction always this handful, O noble one,

is offered humming with bees and by the wise,

To where he is awake, the Lord, the emperor Guru,

the witness of the eternal drama of the

destruction and the rise of the whole universe.

52. To Shree Natha first of the three Gurus, Ganapati,

the three seats, Bhairava,

The group of siddhas, three Batukas, yoked feet,

the sequence of Dooties, the circle,

 

To the Viras ten, sixty-four, nine,

the line of five Viras,

Along with the revered garlanded king of mantras,

I bow to the Guru's circle.

53. By means of extended practice of all the winds,

bringing diseases, difficulties,

Hundreds of pranayamas, countless actions,

painful, difficult to conquer...

 

In whom it arises it is destroyed, the mighty

air, immediately on its own.

To attain this innate natural state constantly

serve one Guru.

 

54. The Master's own body-contemplation alone,

should become infinite Shiva's contemplation,

And the Master's own name-repetition alone,

should become infinite Shiva's repetition.

55. The particles of dust from whose feet,

even a few, for the ocean of samsara,

bind together a bridge. The Lord,

the Master, him we worship.

56. From whom favor having obtained,

the great ignorance one should give up,

And to that shree Indra of Masters,

salutions for the attainment of the desired object.

57. The lotus feet are for all of samsara's

raging fire the destroyers,

In the chasm of Brahman, is a white lotus,

standing in the center, in the circle of the moon.

58. A, Ka, and Tha begin the three lines in the lotus,

within the circle of a thousand petals,

And Ham and Sa are sides on the triangle.

One should remember, in that center, the Guru.

59. remember, in that center, the Guru.

60. The staff that is a pillar,

supporting the stage of all the world,

The compassionate rain-shower of nectar,

The aggregate garland of universal principles,

 

The creation of all auspicious times,

the vision of saccidananda,

May it live in me continually,

shree Guru's divine vision.

61. Just as purified by fire O dear one,

using the shining flame of the intellect,

The king of mantras, this I contemplate,

day and night may it protect us from death.

62. It moves, it doesn't move,

it is far, it is near,

It is inside of this all,

it also is outside of all.

 

 

63. Unborn am I and undecaying am I,

beginningless, deathless, myself,

Immutable, blissful consciousness,

the smallest, greater than great.

64. Of primeval causes beyond, continually

self-luminous, taintless,

Free from passion, the supreme space,

unchangeable, blissful, imperishable.

65. Scriptures, clear seeing, legends,

inference, these four.

He who has these and self-sacrifice knows,

and the Master one should always remember.

66. Contemplation of which being to do,

that is what I am saying, O great-hearted one.

And you are sadhu having been seen by me,

in you it is residing now.

67. A shape of a circle unbroken,

filled by whom with the animate and inanimate,

by whom that position is shown,

to that shree Guru salutations.

68. The lotus-feet illuminated by the

crest-jewels of all the Srutis,

The sun to the lotus of Vedanta he is,

to that shree Guru salutations.

69. By whose mere rememberance

knowledge arises by itself,

He alone who is completely all attainments,

to that shree Guru salutations.

70. Consciousness, eternal, peaceful,

beyond the sky, stainless,

Beyond Kala, Bindu, and Nada,

to that shree Guru salutations.

71. The stationary and the moveable indeed,

and also indeed the animate and inanimate,

Filled with whom is the whole world,

to that shree Guru salutations.

72. Completely arisen in the power of knowledge,

adorned with the garland of universal principles,

Who is the bestower of liberation and enjoyment,

to that shree Guru salutations.

73. Burning all the karmas

obtained from countless births,

With the glory of his own knowledge of the Self,

to that shree Guru salutations.

74. There is no principle greater than the Guru,

no austerity greater than the Guru,

A principle greater than knowledge there is not,

to that shree Guru salutations.

75. My lord is the shree Lord of the World,

my Guru is the Guru of the three worlds,

My Self is the Self of all beings,

to that shree Guru salutations.

76. The root of meditation is the Guru's form,

the root of worship is the Guru's foot,

The root of mantra is the Guru's speech,

the root of liberation is the Guru's grace.

77. The Guru is the beginning and beginningless,

the Guru is the supreme deity,

Higher than the Guru nothing is,

to that shree Guru salutations.

78. From bathing and other things in holy

places extending to the seven oceans, this fruit

>From a thousandth part of a droplet of water

of the Guru's feet is not difficult to obtain.

79. If Hari is angry the Guru is a saviour,

if the Guru is angry no one is,

Therefore with every effort,

to shree Guru's protection one should go.

 

 

The Sadhak or Shishya who writes Guru Gita and thus does his Guru

Pooja,

Such Sadhak or Shishya becomes eligible to attain moksha with the

blessings

Of his benevolent Gurudev! By doing this work his heart becomes full

of Guru Bhakti!

 

Guru brahmaa gururvishnuhu gururdevo

maheswararaha

Guru saakshaat parabrahma tasmai sreeguruve

namaha

Salutations to the preceptor who is verily Brahma,

Vishnu and Maheshwara and who personifies the

Supreme Being

 

Guru is Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Maheswara

Guru is nothing but the Supreme Brahman devoid of attributes.

That is the reason why we bow to the Guru.