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Guru Gita – Song of Guru, Verse: 89.

I bow to the Truth-bearing guru, who is the bliss of Brahman; who bestows the highest joy; who is infinite, free of the bonds of the 36 tattvas; who is One, the embodiment of Wisdom, Pure, and Eternal; and who exemplifies the great Vedantic proclamations, such as ‘That Thou art;’ the witness beyond all duality.

With bowed head, joined palms before my heart, a Reverent Salutation to Guru – “the Ocean of Mercy”

With initiates gathered in celebrating Guru Purnima and our beloved Swami Veda’s Mahasamadhi commemorations at SRSG here and around the world, we pause to acknowledge Guru’s blessing. Guru has made a very loving world and has invited his children from across the globe to embrace this Guru-family, as his gift of love.

The Song of Guru, Guru Gita, the nectar-filled words on the Guru, Master, Saviour, whose revelation fulfils the goal of life in liberation.

The mystery of Guru is the sacred boon of initiation.
The joy of Guru is mind’s beauty in samadhi.
The love of Guru is knowledge revealing Truth.
The language of Guru is mantra and yantra.
The gift of Guru is the pure pearl-bindu.
The pilgrimage of Guru is nada pulsing the 61-shrines within.
The transmission of Guru – light that dispels the darkness.
The Guru is Self and the self is Guru.

Remember the lotus feet of Guru, entering the boat that is also Guru to cross the ocean of worldly life.
Serve Guru in all thought, speech, and actions.
Surrender to Guru and put an end to rebirth.
Meditate and listen to the mantra given by Guru.
Meditate and embrace the imperishable form of Guru.

A Sanyasin is:
A child of Mother-Father Guru, serving Guru in thought, word, deed.
A child whose identity is nameless and formless Guru.
A reclining child asleep whose dreams are Guru’s sweet words.
A playful child whose possessions are Guru’s toys of mercy.
A hungry child whose cries for the milk of immortality in Guru’s breasts.
A tottering child whose pillar of stability is Guru.
A crawling child attracted to the truth-revealing light of Guru.
A muttering child repeating the same name of Guru again and again.
A crying child extending arms to infinity to receive Guru’s solace.

May our meditations acknowledge this eternal and ever-present bond of unity for the yearning hearts of humanity. May love, as an expression of Guru’s Grace be a reminder to keep that “smiling-mind” throughout life, “smera, smera, stimita.”

with joy and blessings,

Tasmai Shri Gurave Namah,

srb

Editor’s Note:

On this special and sacred time of Guru Purnima (13ᵗʰ July) and Swami Veda Bharati’s Mahasamadhi (14ᵗʰ July), the celebrations seem all the more special as the two occasions have fallen together and this is our first large gathering since covid. We are celebrating the Guru Purnima with a 9-days long akhanda patha of the Guru Gita along with daily pujas and 3 hours long yajna with the Akhandamanadalakaram mantra at both SRSG and Sadhana Mandir.

We will have a special commemoration on the 14ᵗʰ July in loving remembrance of our beloved Swami Veda Bharati. This will include special pujas, a yajna, followed by a shraddhanjali ceremony and a special bhandara for sadhus and all. More than 31 Sadhus and 11 Brahmachari Veda-Pathis from Rishikesh, along with 300 other people will be joining the shraddhanjali ceremonies.

svaha – svaha – svaha:
a fire burns within,
a sacred yajna honoring the light of knowledge,
the guru within, above, below, on all sides,
the very source of peace happiness and bliss – danda-pranam.

a fire burns to the back as dharma, the righteous way of truth, svaha;
a fire burns to the front, the fruits of all actions, svaha;
a fire burns above, the illuminating guru enlightening, ever-present, svaha;
a fire burns within, flame of desire, urge of moksha…the offering made….
In that final svaha, ghee and spiced-herbs, thoughts and prayers, samskaras and ignorance – all is offered to the Guru, svaha.

That Guru of liberating wisdom in silence response:
your sacrifice of surrender, burning the knots of bondage, letting-go of attachments, now, Come to Me.

Delight in discipline, strength in respect, liberation in ishwar-pranidhana,
now, Come to Me.

Reason cannot see, attachments cannot hold, samskaras will not bind,
now, Come to Me.

To that Guru that is Vasudeva, the indwelling illumination of the heart-cave,
my oblations of self, sacrifice of ego, surrender of ignorance;
You alone are the source of my inner strength, my determination, my all.

svaha,

On this Full-moon of Guru Purnima, aspire, decide, and practice, become the flute through which the winds of Guru’s Breath will sing an eternal song of Love.

Yours in danda-pranam, to the paduka, the feet of Guru.
Om
dasanudasa

This is a translation of Swami Ritavan’s message into French. 

Message de Swami Ritavan Bharati
A l’occasion du Gourou Purnima
Publié : 04 juillet 2020 | Écrit par Swami Ritavan Bharati | Imprimé
Gourou Purnima 2020
Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama, Rishikesh, Inde

svaha – svaha – svaha :
un feu brûle à l’intérieur,
un yajna sacré honorant la lumière de la connaissance,
le gourou à l’intérieur, au-dessus, en dessous, de tous les côtés,
la source même de la paix, du bonheur et de la félicité – danda-pranam.
un feu brûle dans le dos en tant que dharma, la voie juste de la vérité, svaha ;
un feu brûle à l’avant, les fruits de toutes les actions, svaha ;
un feu brûle au-dessus, le gourou illuminant, toujours présent, svaha ;
un feu brûle à l’intérieur, flamme du désir, pulsion de moksha…l’offrande faite….
Dans ce svaha final, ghee et herbes épicées, pensées et prières, samskaras et ignorance – tout est offert au gourou, svaha.
Ce gourou de la sagesse libératrice répond en silence :
ton sacrifice de reddition, brûlant les nœuds de l’esclavage, lâchant les attachements, maintenant, viens à moi.
Le plaisir de la discipline, la force du respect, la libération dans ishwar-pranidhana,
maintenant, Viens à moi.
La raison ne voit pas, les attaches ne tiennent pas, les samskaras ne lient pas,
maintenant, Viens à moi.
A ce gourou qu’est Vasudeva, l’illumination intérieure de la cavité du cœur,
mes oblations du moi, le sacrifice de l’ego, l’abandon de l’ignorance ;
Vous seul êtes la source de ma force intérieure, de ma détermination, de mon tout.
svaha,
En cette pleine lune de Guru Purnima, aspirez, décidez et pratiquez, devenez la flûte à travers laquelle les vents du Souffle de Guru chanteront un éternel chant d’Amour.
Le vôtre en danda-pranam, à la paduka, les pieds de Guru.
Om
dasanudasa

“Sacred goblet where full moon flooding soma forms sahasrara atop your skull. There the guru sprinkles inspired sweet streams of poetic speech, the voice of your soul, as divine sound – mantra. These streams are beyond the touch of death; These are the beautiful waves (sundarya-lahari), the waves of Infinity that touch the shores of your mind. Shreem, unto that Guru-Shri, my prostrations, my homage, my surrender, my ‘not mine’ is offered in love.”

So it is with the layers of the mantras that are granted to us by the lineage, by the Guru-parampara that constantly infuses into our minds the sparkling rays of intuitive wisdom, knowledge, awakening.

Have you cultivated that aspiration? Are your acts inspired by, motivated and guided by this intense longing to reach the personal knowledge of Infinity. Learn to live in the awareness that all spaces of the universe and beyond are immaculately filled with luminous waves of Infinity, ocean-like Infinity sending waves through you day and night reminding you that these bondages are no longer “you”.

This is the teaching passed on by countless generations. This is being passed on to you also; so practice this and prepare yourself and the next and next generation.

Om shreem gurave namah.

Editor’s Note:

This message has also been published in the July 2019 edition of the AHYMSIN Newsletter and by The Meditation Center.

Dear Initiate of the Himalayan Tradition,

Om shreem gurave namah;

At this time, we are reminded of a unique relationship that is so fulfilling and satisfying. At this time, our efforts now cease with the fruits of contentment from a sadhana well-performed and surrendered. Celebrating Guru Purnima is a joy beyond words, a deep stillness that echoes a wholeness & holiness. A wholeness that provides the answers to our pursuits, our yearnings and reveals a purpose for life. To live and to love with a heart unconditioned by conflict, and a mind, unified beyond division.

Please accept this gift of remembering:
of being reminded to forgive, our own faults – limitations and those of others; of aspiring to self-transformation; of receiving the love of the Lineage. This perennial message of our guides and sages of the Tradition is expressed beautifully in this address by Swami Veda given on Guru Purnima in 2011.

May the inner guru find expression in your daily life, in your relationships, and in your duty to reveal your destiny.

With love and blessings of the Lineage,

Swami Ritavan Bharati

Guru Purnima 2016

Guru Purnima Blessing

From Swami Veda Bharati (2011)

Swami Veda reciting:

Brahamanandam parama sukadam, kevalam janamurtam dantwa, yedam gagana sa drisham, tatvamas tikamyam, mekam nityam vmala achalam, sarvadi sakshit bhutam bhava dtitam, triguna rahitam, sat Guru tam, namamea.

Swami Veda commentary:

She/he who is One with the bliss of Brahman who grants us the highest delight, the one absolute alone, the very embodiment of knowledge beyond the conflicts of dualities, pure like the vacuity of the sky and space, one who is the goal to be achieved by the knowledge of the Vedantic mahavakyas, the great sentences, such as That Thou Art, tat tvam asi.

The one alone perennial immaculate, immobile, the witness of all thoughts and intuitions beyond the states of being, free of the effects of the three gunas, sattva, rajas and tamas, to that pure true Guru and his lineage unto that, I prostrate, I surrender.

As I was contemplating this occasion of Guru Purnima, my thoughts went back to what I have shared with you in the past of the first creation: the mind creation. The bodiless mind beings, they whose bodies are minds, the first sages, the first carriers of the knowledge that is infused into these unencumbered minds, these beings whose consciousness is only the consciousness of infinity not divided like ours in spaces, times, causations, conflicts, events, situations. Such beings are the ones from whom all the Guru lineages begin, whose mantric knowledge all the lineages inherit, and in their compassionate generosity that knowledge is infused into us by way of initiation.

As I was contemplating this, the knowledge-beings sent forth some mantras. Four of them I’ll recite and then I’ll read out the approximate, very rough, inaccurate paraphrase of what has been passed on in the form of these passages.

1. Madhoodakam tRShitaaya chetase
Sanaa jaagran me tanvas tmano vashee
bhraajad-rashmih paavakah shuchih
somo gurur bhadra-geer aasheer-daa bhoot.
Om eem amrtaaya tejase shreem viraaD-gurave namah

2. hRdaa su-peeto vaacho agne rasah
svarvaan satya rtasyaamitaujasah
praanasyormir aaviSh-kRNvan mayRtam
rashmeer vi-kiran dhRtir indriyasya
Om a’eem saarasvataaya shreem pRthivyaa gurave namah

3. viShNoh karmaaNi tri-padasyoshmasi
dhaatur dhaatraaNi dheeShu dhareemasi
somasyaapaam shikhaah pra pibaamasi
syasya naamnaam dhaamni ni vishaamasi
Om hreem vaiShNavaaya
shreem aantarikShyaaya gurave namah

4. poorNenduh kalasho yatra soma aa-plutah
yatraaraa rashmeenaam vi-dhRtaa sahasram
tatraa guruh sinchati soonRtaanaam
kaavyaa ushanaa na amRtaa su-jeevaa
Om eem, a’eem, hreem, kleem, streem,shreem gurave namah

These syllables Om eem, a’eem, hreem, kleem, streem, shreem that are repeated in these mantras are known as bija mantras, powers of shakti, the supreme infinite energy, the Divine Mother. I ask you to keep copies of the paraphrases I read out and spend a year reading them over and contemplating to understand the mystery of the Guru.

1. “Honeyed water for a mind athirst
His speech a blessing conferred from eternity
Eternally wakeful He is Master of my body and soul.
My eyes are affixed upon the visible and invisible
Rays emanating from the feet of that moonlike Deity.
Om Eem¹ , unto that immortal Light,
 Shreem, unto the universe-Expanse Guru
My prostrations, my homage, my surrender, my ‘not mine’ is offered in love.”

2. “Who is the essence, flavour, savour, juice of fire that is speech, the word
Drunk in the heart in abandon, the heavenly truth
– of the Perennial Law filled with immeasurable luminous power;
Wave of prana revealing in me that perennial law,
Radiating rays that are the sustaining power
– of all that is in the lord of heaven
 Om a’eem, unto the incarnate form of Saraswati, the Divine Mother of Wisdom.
Shreem, to the guru of Earth my prostrations
My homage, my surrender, my ‘not mine’ is offered in worshipful love.”

3. “We who sees only with the eyes of senses,
– We the cattle of the Lord of beasts,
– The One Whom we see thus with Whose own eye
He Who Himself dwelling in our own eyes
Sees His self and Whose Self sees our self
Om kleem, unto the very form of the Lord of the beasts
Shreem, unto the guru who is the Master of luminous heaven
My prostrations, my homage, my surrender, is offered in love.”

4. “Who made me a haven of shree-glories
Warded-off death’s glances with heavenly light
Made to flow unto me in all varieties
– the waves from a thousand udders of the cosmic sound-oceans
Om streem, unto the thousand-rayed,
 Shreem, unto the guru, the Lord of brahma-egg universes
My prostrations, my homage, my surrender, my ‘not mine’ is offered in worshipful love.”

“Sacred goblet is the full moon where into soma is flooding,
the one where the arrays of thousand rays are held variously
– forming sahasraara—
There the guru sprinkles the epics of inspired sweet streams
of poetic speech.
These streams are indeed beyond the pale of death;
These are the beautiful beings of very Life.
To that Guru, my prostrations, my homage, my surrender, my ‘not mine’ is offered in love.”

The words may not make immediate sense. Each word has many layers. So it is with the layers of the mantras that are granted to us by the lineage, by the Guru parampara that constantly infuses into our minds the sparkling rays of intuitive wisdom, knowledge, awakening.

It is said in the scriptures that there are three things, three states most difficult to obtain in this universe. Blessed and fortunate are those who having been: 1. born human are filled with, 2. the state of longing, aspiring for freedom, spiritual liberation, moksha; and among them, blessed and fortunate, 3. who have found a luminous guide, a guru, under whom they have chosen to shelter, under whose guidance they may be guided to walk on the path of that liberation that they are longing for.

Have you cultivated that aspiration? Are your acts inspired by, motivated and guided by this intense longing to reach the personal knowledge of infinity. To live in the awareness that all spaces of the universe and beyond are immaculately filled with luminous waves of infinity and that ocean of infinity is sending its waves through you day and night so that these bondages, these limitations, of spaces, times, causations, conditions no longer bind you.

Are you moved by that longing in your life? Only when you are moved by that longing will the hand of the divine Guru, whatever form that hand has taken, our own Gurudev his lineage, any other such lineage, will that hand rest on your head and will pass on the rays of infinity into your very being. And then you would know who you truly are. The one who, dwelling in your own eyes, looks at you; the one who is the in-dweller, that graceful one, gracious one, who will grant the grace of supreme knowledge, and honeyed water of inspired speech. That is “guru”, that will flow through you.

This is the teaching passed on by countless generations. We do not know how many generations. For thousands and thousands of years – the Gurus to disciples, the Gurus to prepared disciples, passing on the experience. This is being passed on to you also, and some of you are blessed who are passing on the knowledge to others.

I’m inviting many of you who feel that something of a more immortal nature should be done with this life to seek deeper and greater knowledge, to pass it on to others and serve the lineage because the more you serve the lineage the more blessings the lineage confers upon you.

Everything has been passed on. Work on it, learn from the next generation of teachers. And I want to tell you that when a teacher goes into silence, his teaching becomes much deeper. You search for that silence, mauna, the path of the contemplative mystic.

In this silence follow the methods of meditation you have learned. Keep repeating the divine name, same name, again-and-again, always.

Hari Om, Om, Om shreem gurave namah.

Editor’s Note:

¹A beeja-mantra of shakti, Energy, potential, that is the Mother divine of the universe dwelling in the Omnipotent. The syllables, shreem, a’eem, hreem, kleem, streem in these mantras are similarly seed-words of different aspects and powers of the Mother Divine. The secrets of these are known to the masters of the mantra science.