Guru Gita - 19

Gurucharanam Saranam

Yat-paadarenurvai Nityam Kopi Samsaara-vaaridhau

Setu-bandhaayate Naatha-desikam Tamupaasmahe

We ever worship that Master of all Masters, the dust from whose feet deposited daily in the sea of our worldly existence becomes a bridge that helps us to cross (that ocean).

Our life is like an ocean with its terrible depth and frightful expanse which is impossible for a human to swim across. The treachery and hatred, the heart burning alienation, crumbling hopes and values, the endless enslavement to the charms of senses, the dark plagues of our mind, the shameless stooping and lashes of our conscience and the self deluding journey of our soul possessed by egoistic afflictions and thirsts – this is the world in which we have imprisoned ourselves. It is a suffocating world, on whose dissipating fares no wise person would tether his faith. It is a treacherous world where one is led from darkness to darkness, if not wise and vigilant. Can fire arise from a dark dead piece of cold charcoal? Never, so long some bright ball of fire scourges it. The dust of Guru’s feet is like balls of spiritual radiance that gives life, light and nourishment to the soul. It burns the impurities of the soul and acting like a bridge, helps it sail across the frightful ocean of life. What else but endless prostrations alone could one offer to Guru, the savior of soul to eternal light and freedom!