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Personal Commentary on The Five Stanzas of The Gurus Sandals

SHRI GURU PADUKA-PANCAKAM

I, an observer and seeker, named Melissa Ann Shubha Smith Abbott, having Contemplated and Chanted this beautiful chant or prayer for 18 years, have decided to publish my experience of this chant for the benefit of others who may happen upon it. The mysteries and inner revelations are constantly revealed so my commentary here is just a snapshot of one point in my relationship with this chant as it constantly grows and changes all the time. My enlivenment and reason for being in this body are due to my Guru and I constantly and daily think about that relationship by chanting this incredible and insightful sanscrit prayer and chant. This chant if nothing else is a true reminder of the truth in all things.

Verse 1

Om namo gurubhyo gurupadukabhyo

Namah parebhyah parapadukabhyah

Acarya-siddhesvara-padukabhyo

Namo namah srigutupadukabhyah

Om - The buzz, the background, the primordial hum. The vibration, the bass tone of the expanding universe. Hello, Good Morning, Good day to the Guru, the greatest teacher and energetic within. Hello to the Sandals, the Feet, the shoes that reside in the top of my head, the place the energy of the teacher comes from. Again and Again, hello, hello, hello to the highest and the best Guru who resides in my head and who I acknowledge as the beginning and the end. The place where the Guru emanates. This the He/She is the Lord of all the great Siddhas, people, places, and things. To all the greats who dive to the depths of devotion, to the very foot of this the supreme Guruness. Again and Again Salutations, good day, hello, I am awake, I see you, I recognize you, the top of the tops, the Supreme teacher, The Guru.

Verse 2

Ainkara-hrinkara-rahasya-yukta-

Srinkara-gudhartha-mahavibhutya,

Omkara-marma-pratipadinibhyam

Namo namah srigurupadukabhyam

It can not be said or remembered enough, again and again Salutations, Hello, hello, hello to the feet, the shoes, the emanation of the Guru's energy, the very sandals, which are endowed with the energy, which hold the energy of the secret vibrational seed syllables aim and hrim and within this most profound and amazing meaning of the seed letter shrim, these seeds all make up the One vibration Om - but the delight of thier individual vibrations are made manifest in this universe in a most profound and subtle way.

Verse 3

Hotragni-hautragni-havisya-hotr-

Homadi-sarvakrti-bhasamanam

Yadbrahma tadbodha-vitarinibhyam

Namo namah srigurupadukabhyam

Again Hello, hello, hello to the Teacher, the Guru which exists and imparts its knowledge, it is self light and appears in many ways such as forms of worship, acts of devotion, surrender to its vibration, and sacrifice of all that keeps any of us from not knowing the truth of truths. This truth is that the Guru/Teacher/Energy is in Everything and Everywhere and is in ALL places in this universe. It (The Guru Energy) isn't just in things like ritual and worship although it is remembered there in the appearance of the ritual, the maker of the ritual, and the ritual itself. The Guru's Reality in in the matrix of all living things, past, present, and future.

Verse 4

Kamadi-sarpavraja-garudabhyam

Viveka-vairagya-nidhi-pradabhyam

Bodhapradabhyam drutamoksadabhyam

Namo namah srigurupadukabhyam

We again greet the Guru/Teacher and say hello, hello, hello, everything is in the greeting. Our desires, delusions, illusions are many, they create a wall of not-knowing and even in this illusion of not-knowing is knowing itself. These sandals, these feet, this place within, this the very essense of the Guru's energy which can protect us vibrationally by giving us the dispassion and discrimination to vibrate energetically to the one and true knowledge. That true knowledge is this: The Guru's pervasive and awakened energy is in all things whether in this world or other worlds. The true knowledge, the knowledge of the Vibrational grace-filled Guru/Teacher Supreme. The Most, most, most, vibrational essence of Love,love,love, god, and living  CAN liberate US immediately in the very freedom that makes up its core. Remembering this is being in a state of All-Worshipping All the Time

Verse 5

Ananta-samsara-samudra-tara-

Naukayitabhyam sthirabhaktidabhyam

Jadyabdhi-samsosana-vadavabhyam

Namo namah srigurupadukabhyam

Hello, Hello, Hello to The Guru, the feet, the base, the beginning and the end, the primordial hum and all the bits and pieces within the great total hum/one of it. This Guru hum/one is the boat we search and search for in the harbor of ourselves. In this boat we can voyage and cross the ocean of worldly illusion and delusion. it takes us on our journey, wherever we go, with the motor of steadfast love and devotion. This love melts, dissolves, blows away, burns, and evaporates the incredibly vast ocean of spiritual wasteland, the desert of spiritual insensitivity. it is the rain that soaks the parched earth. The flowers that bloom after the rain are the Guru's Love, Discrimination, and Dispassion. Remember and always imbibe this Truth/Love/Boat/Place/Feet/Energy.

Om Santih santih santih

Om/Hum primordial Oneness - peace and quiet, settledness, steadfastness in this awareness of the Gurus/Truth/Energy/All-pervasivenss feel the peace at this knowledge, and contemplate the feeling of this peace through out your day today.