Guru Chant Mantra
Brahma-anandam Parama-sukha-dam
Kevalam Jnana-murtim
Dvandva-atitam Gagana Sadrsham
Tattwamasyaadi Lakshyam
Ekam Nityam Vimalam Achalam
Sarva-dhee Saakshi-bhutam
Bhaava-ateetam Tri-gunarahitam
Sadgurum Twain Namaami
Brahmaanandam: The Guru is the embodiment of Brahma-Bliss. Since he is merged in the Ananda, which Brahma is; it is not imported or attained. It is inherent in every heart. The world, the cosmos, every particle, is Ananda itself, but being ever in it, with it, of it and for it, man is unable to be It, on account of the darkness that misleads him and deludes him.
Parama-sukhadam: The Guru grants the highest joy. What exactly constitutes this joy? Is it physical well-being? Mental poise? Intellectual alertness? Sharpness of the sense? No. The Rishis (sages) declare that words return crestfallen after attempting to describe that state. Even the mind with its fast-moving wings of imagination cannot reach that state. The joy has its source and spring in the Atma, the spark of the Cosmic Splendour. The person, who is ever aware of the Atma in him and in all, is therefore the Sadguru.
Kevalam: Beyond all limitations of time and place, the Guru is pure Chaitanya, Is-ness. His consciousness is all pervasive, that is to say; God alone is the Sad-Guru.
Jnana Murtin: What is meant by Jnana? 'AdvaitDarshanam Jnannam': the awareness of the One, without a second, is Jnana, or the Supreme Wisdom, having unbroken experience of the One. Those who are commonly known as Gurus are sign-posts, name-boards. They have not travelled the entire journey and reached the goal. But the Jnana-murti is with you right through, beside you and before you, smoothening the path until the journey ends in Him.
Dvandvaatitam: The Sadguru is unaffected by the inevitable dualities of life - joy and grief, profit and loss, ridicule and respect.
Gagana-sadarsham: Untouched by happenings and incidents but forming the perennial base, like the sky enveloping nature.
Tat-twam-asyaadi Lakshyam: The living exponent and experiencer of the four crucial axioms of Vedic thought - That thou art, (Tat-Twam-asi), This Self is verily Brahman (Ay am Atma Brahma); I am Brahman (Aham Brahmaasmi) and Consciousness is Brahman (Prajnnaanam Brahma).
Ekam: The One, though apparently passing through varied experiences and even no experience while awake, or dreaming, and in deep sleep, the One is unaffected and remains One - the Guru is firmly established in the One.
Nityam: Eternal, untouched by time, the Sadguru is eternally pure, aware and serene.
Vimalam: Faultless, nothing can tarnish its purity. The Guru has no desire or sense of want. He is perfect.
Achalam: The Sadguru, which is another name meant for God, knows no change in his primal perfection, whatever form he may assume. The motion picture film projects 16 pictures a second on the screen in the cinema but they give transitory and counterfeit experiences. Achalam is the unwavering screen.
Sarvadhee: All pervasive, all activating intelligence.
Saakshi-bhootam: That which has become the witness of everything, everywhere, like the sun, which activates but is only the witness of the activity.
Tri-gunarahitam: Not bound by the three modes or qualities that divide living beings into three categories - the serene mode, the active mode and the dull. When bound, you are human. When you are free from entanglements and limiting characteristics, you are divine.
Sadgurum: The worthy Guru Twam: To Him
Namaami: I offer my reverential homage.