Sri Guru Gita – 25 May 2014 – Episode 154

Jaya Guru Datta!! Happy Birthday Sri Appaji_/\_!!
Anantha koti pranams at the Lotus Feet of Our Annadaana Prabhu, Dattavatara Sadgurudeva _/\_!!
Datta Venkataramana Govinda Govinda !!

Jaya Guru Datta. Episode summary:
Sri Maha Ganapataye Namah
Sri Sarasvatyai Namah
Sri Pada Vallabha Narasimha Sarasvati
Sri Guru Dattatreyaya Namah

Sloka:
Svayam taritu maksamah parannistarayet katham |
Dure tam varjayet prajno dhirameva samasrayet ||
If he doesn’t get salvation for himself, how can he get it for others? It is also said that if he cannot climb up to the pot of curd hanging from the ceiling, how can he climb up to heaven? How will such a person uplift you? A wise man should keep away from such people and approach only a Sadguru who is courageous.
A lot of people don’t understand many spiritual truths. Many of them don’t want to admit that they don’t know, so they provide baseless explanations for those concepts. They don’t know anything. And they pass on these ignorant explanations to their disciples.

Once again, saluting the Guru who is of the form of Knowledge, Existence and Bliss, they are concluding this scripture in 3 slokas.

Sloka:
Saccidananda rupaya vyapine paramatmane |
Namassri gurunathaya prakasananda murtaye ||
Obeisance to the Guru who is All Pervasive, the embodiment of the Absolute, the embodiment of Knowledge and the embodiment of Bliss.

Sloka:
Sacchidananda rupaya krsnaya klesaharine |
Namo vedanta vedyaya gurave buddhi saksine ||
Obeisance to Sadguru, the image of Sachchidananda, who is an embodiment of Lord Vishnu, destroyer of all sorrows and miseries, and who is revealed through Upanishads, a witness to all the actions of the mind and intellect.

Sloka:
Yasya prasadadahameva vishnuh mayyeva sarvam parikalpitam ca |
Ittham vijanami sadatma tattvam tasyanghri padmam pranatosmi nityam ||
Obeisance to the lotus feet of Sachchidananda Sadguru whose grace has enabled me to grasp the principle of Supreme Truth and attain knowledge that I am Vishnu, that I am the all-pervasive soul and that the whole universe is conceived in me.

Sloka:
Iti sri skanda purane uttara khande umamahesvara samvade sri guru gita samapta ||

Jaya Guru Datta