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Question 1

Sadãsiva-samãrambhãm Sankaracarya-madhyamam
AsmadSri Guru-paryantam Vande Guru-paramparãm

Answer 1

I bow down with reverence to the Holy Tradition beginning with the Eternal Principle (Sadãsiva), with Śri ādi Śhankarāchārya in the middle, who revived the knowledge and the same knowledge is now available to us through our beloved Guru who represents and enlivens the energies of all the Masters of the Holy Tradition.

Question 2

apavitrah pavitro vā sarvāvasthāngato’piva vā
yah smaret pundarikaksam sa bāhyābhyantarah sucih

Answer 2

Whether pure or impure, whether in all places permeated, whoever opens himself to the expanded vision of unbounded awareness, gains inner and outer purity.

Question 3

avahanam
narayanam padmabhavam vasistam
saktinca tatputra parasaranca
vyasam sukam gaudapadam mahantam
govindayogindramathasya sisyam

sri sankaracaryamsthasya padmapadanca
hastamalakanca sisyam
tam trotakam vartikakaramanyam
asmad gurum santatamanatosmi

Answer 3

To Lord Nārāyanam, to lotus-born (Padmabhava) Brahma, to vasista to Sakti and his son, Parasara to Vyasa, to the great Gaudapada, to Govinda, ruler among Yogis, to his disciple, Sri Śhankarāchārya, to his disciples, Padmapada, and Hastamalaka, to him Trotakacarya and Vartikakara, to others, to the tradition of our Masters, I bow down.

Question 4

sruti-smrti-purananam alayam karunalayam
namami bhagavatpadam sankaram lokasankaram

Answer 4

To the abode of the wisdom of the Sris, Smrtis, and Puranas, to the abode of compassion, to the glory of the Lord, to Sankara, emancipator of the world, I bow down.

Question 5

sankaram sankaracaryam kesavam badarayanam
sutrabhasyakrtau vande bhagavantau punah punah

Answer 5

To Sankaracarya, the redeemer, adored as Krishna and Badarayana, to the commentator of the Brahmasutras, to the glory of the Lord, I bow down again and again.

Question 6

yaddvare nikhilanilimpa-parisad siddhim vidhatte’nisam
srimat srilasitam jagadgurupadam natvatma-trptingatah

Answer 6

At whose door, the whole galaxy of gods pray for perfection day and night, ilumined by self-effulgent radiance, the preceptor of the whole world, having bowed one’s self to Him, fulfillment comes.

Question 7

Lokajnana-payoda-patana-dhuram sri sankaram sarmadam
brahmananda sarasvatim guruvaram dhyayami jyortirmayam

Answer 7

Skilled in dispelling the clouds of ignorance of the people, bestower of happiness, the emancipator, Brahmananda Sarasvati, the supreme teacher, full of brilliance, Him I bring to my awareness.

Question 8

āvāhanam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 8

(INVOCATION) This offering of the invocation to the great Masters of the Holy Tradition brings a lively awareness of eternal wisdom

Question 9

Āsanam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 9

(SEAT) This offering symbolizes the immovable seat of life in Being. In offering this seat, we feel stabilized in the immovability of Being. Offering on this firm basic are actions to fulfill cosmic purpose.

Question 10

Snānam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 10

(ABLUTION) This offering of na ablution symbolizes the refreshing omnipresence of pure consciousness.

Question 11

Vastram samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 11

(CLOTH) This offering of coth symbolizes the garment of all-pervading Being.

Question 12

Candanam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 12

(SANDAL PASTE) This offering os Sandal Paste spreads some pleasant cooling influence in the atmosphere.

Question 13

Akṣatām samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 13

(FULL RICE) This offering of full rice symbolizes the fullness of eternal life.

Question 14

Puṣpam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 14

(FLOWER) This offering of a flower symbolizes the full bloom of life.

Question 15

Dhūpam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 15

(INCENSE) This offering of incense symbolizes the sweet frangrance of purity.

Question 16

Dīpam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 16

(LIGHT) This offering of light brings the light of wisdom to dispel all ignorance.

Question 17

Āçamanīyam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 17

(WATER) This offering of water softens the atmosphere.

Question 18

Naivedyam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 18

(FRUIT) This offering od fruit symbolizes the state of fulfillment.

Question 19

Āçamanīyam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 19

(WATER) This offering of water brings the flow of life in fulfillment.

Question 20

Tāmbūlam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 20

(BETEL NUT WITH BETEL LEAF) This offering of a betel leaf brings freshness, purifiyng the adobe os spreech.

Question 21

Śrīphalam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 21

(COCONUT) This offering of the complete fruit presents the fullness of live, unmanifest and manifest. The husk ou outer covering, the kernel or meat of the fruit, and the milk or inner essence presents the entire field of manifest life, gross, subtle and subtlest respectively. The transcendental value of life is symbolized by the self-contained, unmanifest space within.

Question 22

Ārartikyam
Karpūra-gauran karunavataram samsarasaram bhujagendraharam
sadavasantam hrdayaravinde bhavam bhavani-sahitam namami

Answer 22

“White as camphor, compassion incarnate, the essence of creation, garlanded with Serpent-King, ever dwelling in the lotus of my heart, the creative impulse of cosmic life, to That in the form of Gurudev, I bow down.

As I circulate the camphor, I feel the light of life spreading. The light of life is: White as camphor, the essence of creation. In the words - ““I bow down”” I feel myself diving into the depths of the cosmic creative intelligence wich enlivens cosmic life.”

Question 23

Ārartikyam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah
Āçamanīyam samarpayāmi Śrī gurucarana-kamalebhyo namah

Answer 23

Offering camphor light to the lotus of Sri Gurudev, I bow down.
Offering water to the lotus of Sri Gurudev, I Bow down.

In this flow of feeling we offer linght and then water.

Question 24

Puspanjalim
gururbrahma guruvisnuh gurudevo mahesvarah
gurussaksat parambrahma tasmai srigurave namah

Answer 24

Guru is the glory of Lord Brahma, Guru is the Lord Vishnu, Guru is the glory of the great Lord Shiva, Guru is the glory of the personified transcendental fullness of Brahma, to Him, to the glory of Sri Guruved, I bow down.

Question 25

akhandamandalakaram vyaptam yena Çaraçaram
tatpadam darsitam yena tasmai srigurave namah

Answer 25

The Unbounded, like the endless canopy of the sky, by whom the moving and unmoving universe is pervaded, by whom the sign of That has been revealed, to Him, to the glory of Sri Gurudev, I bow down.

Question 26

sri brahmanandam paramasukhadam kevalam jnãnamurtim
viśvatitam gaganasadrśam tattvamasyadi-laksyam
ekam nityam vimalamaçalam sarvadhisaksibhutam
bhāvatītam trigunasahitam sadgurum tam namami

Answer 26

Gurudev, Sri Brahmananda, bliss of the Absolute, transcendental joy, the Self-Sufficient, the embodiment of pure knowledge, beyond the universe like the sky, the aim of “That you are” and other such expression wich unfold eternal truth, the One, the Eternal, the Pure, the Immovable, the very being of that whitch is the witness of all intellects, beyond the sphere of thought, the Transcendental along with the tree gunas, the teacher of Absolute Truth, to Him, to the glory of Sri Gurudev, I bow down.

Question 27

ajñãnatimirandhasya jñãnanjanasalākaya
Çaksurunmilitam yena tasmai Śrī gurave namaḥ

Answer 27

To Him, by whom, the eye blinded by the darkness of ignorance has been opened with the collyrium stick of knowledge, to the glory of Śrī Gurudev, I bow down.

Question 28

puspãñjalim samarpayami Śrī Śrī guruCaraṇa kamalebhyo Namaḥ

Answer 28

Offering a handfull of flowers to the lotus feet of Śrī Śrī Gurudev, I bow down.