• Table of Contents
  • To That Guru
  • Guru Purnima Message by Swami Rama
  • Guru Purnima 2015 for AHYMSIN Sangha by Swami Ritavan Bharati
  • Swami Veda Lecture Given in April 2015
  • Gayatri Yajna By Jay Prakash Bahuguna
  • Mahasamadhi Satsang by Jagadananda Das
  • The Silent Teacher by Judith Wermuth-Atkinson
  • Eulogy for Swami Veda Bharati by Randall Krause
  • In Memory of Swami Veda Bharati by Nandini
  • Impermanence by Daniel Hertz
  • August Open House for Hym-LA’s New Home
  • International Yoga Day Part 1
  • International Yoga Day Part 2
  • 2015 Events and Beyond
  • Full Moon Meditation Dates
  • Location of our SRSG ashram
• AHYMSIN Newsletter Archive

To That Guru

The Guru Vandana, Guru Prayer

ॐ गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णुर्गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः।
गुरुः साक्षात्परं ब्रह्म तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः॥१॥

gurur brahmā gurur viṣṇur gurur devo maheśvaraḥ,
guruḥ sākṣāt paraṁ brahma tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ.

Guru who is Brahmā [the Creator], Viṣṇu [the Maintainer] and Śiva [the Great Lord through whom all things return to their origin]. To that Guru who is the direct experience of Brahman, salutations.

The Guru Vandana, Guru Prayer, is from the Guru Gītā in the Skanda-Purāṇa. The Guru Vandana, Guru Prayer is in the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Handbook, if you have a copy.

To hear Swami Rama sing the Guru Vandana, please use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UcrJ19VCU

Akhaṇḍa-maṇḍalākāram Mantra

अखण्ड-मण्डलाकारम् व्याप्तम् येन चराचरम्।
तत्पदम् दर्शितम् येन तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमह्॥

akhaṇḍa-maṇḍalākāram vyāptam yena carācaram|
tatpadam darśitam yena tasmai śrī gurave namah||

(Which) pervades the entire unbroken form of the circle (of creation), moving and unmoving.
To that beautiful and benevolent Guru through whom that state was revealed (to me), salutations.

This is an excerpt from a writing about the Akhaṇḍa-maṇḍalākāram mantra by Swami Veda Bharati; the writing, which has a longer explanation, can be found at http://ahymsin.org/main/swami-veda-bharati/akhanda-mandalkram-mantra.html