O my Gurudev, Ocean of Compassion, please cast your grace on me.
I am unworthy, dependent, and without shelter. Now please grant me refuge.
I have no one else in this world to help me but you.
O my Gurudev, Ocean of Compassion, please cast your grace on me.
I am unworthy, dependent, and without shelter. Now please grant me refuge.
ai mere gurudeva karuna sindhu karuna kijiye (2x)
hu adhama adhina asharana, aba sharana me lijiye, ai...Sri Guru Vandana is sung at beginning of Vinaya Chalisa
Ban-da-u gu-ru pa-da kan-ja, kri-pa sind-hu na-ra-ru-pa hare
Ma-ha-mo-ha ta-ma pun-ja, ja-su ba-cha-na ra-vi ka-ra ni-ka-ra
Ban-da gu-ru pa-da pa-du-ma pa-ra-ga, au-ru-chi su-va-sa sa-ra-sa anu-ra-ga
Ami-a mu-ri-ma-ya chu-ra-na cha-ru, sa-ma-na sa-ka-la bha-va ru-ja pa-ri-va-ru
I bow to the lotus feet of my guru, who is an ocean of mercy and is Sri Hari in human form
Whose words are sunbeams for dispersing the mass of darkness of gross ignorance
I greet the pollen-like dust of the lotus feet of my guru, refulgent, fragrant, and flavored with love
It is a lovely powder of the life giving herb which allays the host of attendant ills of mundane existence.