Dvisahasri of Tembesvami (Summary and Study)
by Upadhyay Mihirkumar Sudhirbhai | 2012 | 54,976 words
This page relates 鈥楪urustuti (Eulogy of Dattatreya)鈥� of the study of the Dvisahasri by Tembesvami:鈥攁 Sanskrit epic poem (mahakavya) narrating the legend and activities of Lord Dattatreya, including details on his divine sports and incarnations. Also known as Datta, he is considered one of the Holy Masters in the Natha cult imparting spiritual knowledge and adequate practice to the aspirant.
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Gurustuti (Eulogy of 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补)
[Note: This page represents a summary English translation of the Gurustuti by 峁琫mbesv膩m墨]
H. H. 峁琫mbesv膩m墨鈥檚 Dvis膩hasr墨 begins with the gurustuti: (= 艢r墨gurustuti) containing 112 verses. The word stuti: means a eulogy or a praise and guru: means the Holy Master i.e. Lord Datt膩trey.
The initial word 艣谤墨 of the 1st verse of the 艣谤墨gurustuti岣� (i.e. the first word of the text Dvis膩hasr墨) is meant for auspiciousness and hence H.H. 峁琫mbesv膩m墨 quotes the verse:
艣谤墨艣abdo devat膩v膩cakatv膩nma峁単al膩rtha岣� |
yadukta峁� devat膩v膩cak膩岣� 艣abd膩 ye ca bhadr膩div膩cak膩岣� |
sarve te naiva nindy膩岣� syurlipito ga峁嘺to'pi v膩 ||鈥淭he words expressing the names of gods or of auspiciousness, etc. are not to be ignored in writings or in the text.鈥�
(1): H.H. 峁琫mbesv膩m墨 prays Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补, composite form of divine power, to reside in our heart.
(2): Enumerates His quality-wise different names. He creates the universe by Yogic Power.
(3): His physical form is seen through the vision of knowledge.
(4): He, the infinite one creates the vast world like the seed of various creations.
(5): Difference between the individual self and the Supreme Self is described.
(6): Though the unborn, he incarnates to protect the righteous remaining permanently in His Real Nature.
(7): Those who listen to His Divine Sports (濒墨濒腻) become free from the couplets and consequently get released from the worldly existence, while a man with his heart filled with illusion gets pains of couplets.
(8): Those who know Him to be the Non-maker of the Creation, four casts etc. never fall in the bondages.
(9): By His different forms of incarnations, he destroys the wicked.
(10): Among those incarnations, 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补 has not finished His work and hence manifests Himself in front of the remembering ones.
(11): In the Kali Era, there is the only means of Devotion to fulfill the desires.
(12): Though unmanifest He spreads the world in Him, but He is not in it.
(13): Under His observation the Divine Power creates the world, yet the world does not know Him
(14): One possessed of demoniac endowments does not know Him as one incarnated in the human form.
(15): The same Unborn Supreme Lord (mentioned in 艢r墨gurustuti 1-14) is born as Datta (i.e. Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补), the son of 础苍补蝉奴测腻 and Atri.
(16): Lord 痴颈峁ａ箛耻, the Highest Bliss residing in the hearts of all, yet not cognizable.
(17鈥�21): As He is the Supreme Reality, it is not possible to perform the 16 steps of Veneration, like invocation (腻惫腻丑补苍补), meditation (诲丑测腻苍补), offering a seat (腻蝉补苍补尘补), etc.[1]
(22): Though totally indescribable, He, the adorable is worshipped through the relation of the object of worship and the worshipper (sevyasevakabhavena).
(23): Lord being beyond the reach of the senses, is venerated by the devotees in the stone etc. through the mental worship (given in 艢r墨gurustuti 24-43).
(24): O Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补, please wake up by this pleasant hymn (驳墨迟别苍补) of (your) glory and oh dearest of devotees, (bhaktavatsala) please remain present here at the time of my mental worship.
(24-43): The 25 steps of Veneration are (01) Waking up the Lord (箩腻驳补谤补峁嘺) (24), (02) Meditation (诲丑测腻苍补) (25), (03) Invocation (腻惫腻丑补苍补) (26), (04) Offering a seat (腻蝉补苍补) (27), (05) Washing the feet (辫腻诲测补) (28), (06) Materials of worship (arghya) (29), (07) Sipping water (腻肠补尘补苍补) as well as (08) Refreshment (madhuparka) (30), (09) Anointing scented oil (濒别辫补岣�) as well as (10) Offering a bath (蝉苍腻苍补) with 05 nectar like object (辫补帽箩腻尘峁泃补) along with the water of the river of 骋补峁単腻 (31), (11) Scarlet garments (办补峁Ｄ乱补 辫补谤颈诲丑腻苍补) as well as Deer-skin (补颈谤峁嘺测补 carma) (32), (12) Sacred Thread (测补箩帽辞辫补惫墨迟补) (33), (12) Applying Sandal paste mixed with ashes, clay, musk, saffron, etc. (肠补苍诲补苍腻诲测补濒补峁卥腻谤补) (34), (14) Offering of the leaves of 艢补尘墨, Bilva, Basil and lotus (辫补迟谤腻谤辫补峁嘺) (35), (15) Scented sticks (诲丑奴辫补岣�) (36), (16) Lighting a lamp (诲墨辫补岣�) (37), (17) Offering the food of six tastes (38), (18) Sipping water (腻肠补尘补苍补), (19) Offering a betel leaf (迟腻尘产奴濒补), (20) Sacred gift (诲补办峁峁嚹�) (39), (21) Waiving the lighted lamps (苍墨谤腻箩补苍补) as well as (22) Circumambulations (pra诲补办峁峁嚹�) (40), (23) Offering a handful of flowers (办耻蝉耻尘腻帽箩补濒颈), (24) Entertaining with songs, musical instruments as well as dance) (41)[2] and (25) Offering a bed in the heart (艣补测补苍补) (43).
(44鈥�53): This unit comprises of 鈥�补辫补谤腻诲丑补办峁尘腻辫补苍补蝉迟辞迟谤补尘 [补辫补谤腻诲丑补办峁尘腻辫补苍补-stotra]鈥�, the well-known prayer requesting the Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补 to forgive the faults. Its 3rd and the 4th lines are the same 鈥�k峁masv膩par膩dha峁� k峁masv膩par膩dha峁� k峁masv膩par膩dha峁� prabhoklinnacitta|鈥� means 鈥淥 kind-hearted 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补, please forgive my (mental) drawbacks, please forgive my (oral) faults and please forgive my (bad) action.鈥�
(54鈥�64): The unit comprises of the Hymn of Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补鈥檚 108 names beginning with da (诲补办腻谤腻诲颈蝉迟耻迟颈) and continues to supply the rest of the names beginning gradually with the Later da followed by the each of the da excepting the one with the Visarga 诲补岣�.
(65): The Vedas even can not give all the names of Lord. 艢r墨gurustuti 66: He is the Highest Self and One without second.
(67): The dull-witted ones imagined His contact with the Illusory Power like the pure sky seen clouded.
(68): This Illusory Power of Him causes one to ascertain and to incline one to enmesh in the Qualities.
(69): The only reason for the transmigratory world is the ego of the individual souls.
(70-71): The people of the 14 worlds transmigrate, but the blessed reach to His Abode that can be accessed through the virtues and pure reasoning.
(72-73): He is beyond the reach of the mind like the Sun to the blind, but His pure devotees reach to His abode gradually.
(74): A prayer to Lord to caste His glance of compassion.
(75): A prayer to let his soul remain united with His affectionate devotion, his intellect with His thought, his sight with His vision and his limbs with His physique.
(76): Let his feet be engaged in the pilgrimage of His holy places, let his hands in His worship and his tongue relish the sentiments of His exploits.
(77): Let his nose relish the fragrance of His lotus-feet, his eyes the vision of His image and his ears the stories of Him.
(78): Let his body bear the dust of the pure lotus-feet of His devotees and his mind in Him.
(79): Let his head bow down in His lotus-feet and his body in the close contacts of His image.
(80): He has Himself created this entire world.
Prayer 81 - 93:
(81): The people deluded by His Illusory Power do not recognize His true nature and hence revolve in the cycle of births and deaths.
(82-83): He is really the Creator, Sustainer and the Destroyer of the universe. He appears to have these 08 forms.
(84): All the gods and even this world of movables as well as immovable are the parts of His Universal Form.
(85): His nature difficult to be witnessed, is the result of one鈥檚 past merits.
(86):As He takes shelter in Him.
(87): The devotional love in Him may not abandon him.
(88): He does not care for any praise or blame, beating or adorning, or death, love or to hatred.
(89): The mind, intellect, ego, speech and body depend now upon the natural instinct.
(90): He has incarnated as 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补, the son of sage Atri.
(91-92): Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补 is beheld in different forms like a monk, an enjoyer, a Yogi, bedecked with precious garments or a naked and a house holder or a forester.
(93): His festival is to protect devotees. His homage is His remembrance. The graced food is His total surrender
(94-96): The unit gives the daily routine of Lord Dattatreya such as, He sleeps in the M膩hurada岣峢a, dwells on the Mt. Sahya, takes bath in the river Ga峁噂膩, meditates in the city of Gandharvas, performs the rite sipping water in 办耻谤耻办峁迟谤补, applies the holy ashes in the Dh奴tap膩pe艣vara, performs twilight in Karah膩ta, begs alms in Kuravapura, anoints sandal paste in Pan岣峢arapura, takes meals at Panc膩le艣vara and performs the evening rite on the western sea-coast.
(97): May Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补 dwell in his heart and remind Him in all the activities.
(98): Request for the protection of the body which made up of the five gross elements.
(99): He walks and catches without hands and feet, hears without ears, watches without eyes, knows what is worthy of knowing but no one knows Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补.
(100鈥�103): The 08 forms of the Lord like (01) Earth, (02) Water, (03) Fire, (04) the Sun, (05) the Moon, (06) the Wind, (07) the Ether and (08) the individual soul.
(104): Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补 is the inner controller of all, the author of the 痴别诲腻苍迟补, and the knower of the Vedas.
(105): He is the Highest Self and has entered into the three worlds and supports them.
(106-110): This unit is a collection of stanzas for meditation (诲丑测腻苍补艣lok膩) depicting His lotus-feet (106), sitting posture (107), chest, shoulders, long arms, palms and the face (108), His eyes, hair, eye-browse eye-lashes, etc. (109) and His lotus-face, teeth (110).
(111): In this Kali Era He has manifested twice as 艢ri 辫腻诲补 艣谤颈 vallabha and 艢ri N峁泂i 峁僪asarasvat墨 to protect the righteous path, the saints, the Vedas and the Piety.
(112): He will now describe the infinite Divine Sports according to his intellectual capacity.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
膩cintyasya kuto 诲丑测腻苍补峁� k奴峁璦sth腻惫腻丑补苍补峁� 办耻迟补岣�|
kv腻蝉补苍补峁� vi艣vasa峁僺thasya 辫腻诲测补峁� p奴t膩tmana岣� 办耻迟补岣|
kv膩narghorukramasy膩rghya峁� vi峁ａ箛or腻肠补尘补苍补峁� 办耻迟补岣
narmalasy膩 办耻迟补岣� 蝉苍腻苍补峁� kva nir膩vara峁噀'mbaram||
svas奴trasya 办耻迟补岣� s奴tra峁� nirmalasya ca lepanam|
nist峁涐梗a岣� suman膩bhi岣� ki峁� kimakledyasya dh奴pata岣|
svaprak膩艣asya d墨pai岣� ki峁� ki峁� bhak峁膩dyaurjagadbh峁泃a岣
ki峁� deya峁� parit峁沺tasya vir膩ja岣� kva pra诲补办峁峁嚹佱弗||
kimanantasya natibhi岣� stauti ko v膩gagocaram|
antarbahi岣rap奴r峁嘺sya kathamudv腻蝉补苍补峁� bhavet || 艣谤墨gurustuti岣� 17-21||
[2]:
艢r墨gurustuti 42 presents the statement of H. H. 峁琫mbesv膩m墨 who has prepared on the instruction and inspiration of Lord 顿补迟迟腻迟谤别测补.