Lord Dattatreya

śrī saptaśatī gurucaritra adhyāya 1

(Saptashati Gurucharitra Adhyay 1 in English (IAST))

Vasudevananda Saraswati

Also known as Saptashati Gurucharitra · Saptashati Gurucharitra 1 · Saptashati Gurucharitra in Marathi

Saptashati Gurucharitra Adhyay 1. The Saptashati Gurucharitra of Vasudevananda Saraswati (Tembe Swami), a condensation of the Gurucharitra into seven hundred verses. It carries the same account of Shripad Shrivallabha and Nrisimha Saraswati in a shorter compass, for those who keep a daily parayana rather than a seven-day one.

namaḥ śrīdattagurave hṛdvāsodhautikārave |
svātmajyotiḥprakāśāya sukhāyānarthaśāṃtaye ||1||
bhūtaṃ bhavyaṃ bhavaccāsmājjāṃyate yena jīvati |
līyate yatra tadbrahma śrīdattākhyaṃ tryadhīśvaram ||2||
bhaktigamyasya tasyedaṃ caritaṃ cittaśuddhaye |
saṃkṣepeṇa sphuṃṭa vakti vāsudevānaṃdasarasvatī ||3||
graṃthīṃ vāsudeva nimitta | kartā karavitā datta |
tatpadīṃ ṭhevoni citta | carita aikota saṃta he ||4||
heṃ mānuni je vācitī | kiṃvā bhaktineṃ aikatī |
teci bhavābdhi taratī | uddharati nijakul̤ā ||5||
manāvācā agocara | to svacchaṃdeṃ ho gocara |
kaliyugīṃ yatīśvara | narasiṃhasarasvatī ||6||
tyāceṃ caritra aikūna | nāmadhāraka brāhmaṇa |
gāṇagāpurīṃ darśana | ghyāveṃ mhaṇūna pātalā ||7||
prāṇī ūṣmāneṃ tāpūna | icchitī chāyā jīvana |
taisā tritāpeṃ tāpūna | ye lakṣūna nijajīvanā ||8||
jo ūrdhva khālīṃ bharala | āṃta bāhera sāṃcalā |
nāmadhāraka mhaṇe tyālā | dattā malā bheṭa deī ||9||
tūṃci mūrtimaṃta brahma | trimūrti tūṃ guru parama |
kaliyugīṃ maṃgaladhāma | bhaktakāmapūraka ||10||
viśāla tava satkīrtī | parisoni kelī vinaṃtī |
tava karṇāvarī na ye tī | vāṭe khaṃtī sarvajñā he ||11||
jarī maja tūṃ neṇasī | tarī sarvajña kīṃ hosī |
kiṃvā māteṃ upekṣisī | dayāl̤ūsī sāje heṃ kīṃ ||12||
mī adhaḥpātā jāīna | jarī desī upekṣūna |
sevā icchī kīṃ tava mana | teṇeṃ hosī kīṃ dātā ||13||
sevā śāna ṭhevūna | meghāparī de jīvana |
pūrvī jevī dilheṃ dāna | vibhīṣaṇadhruvādikāṃ ||14||
kiṃ mukha pasaritāṃ | bāl̤apāśīṃ māgeṃ mātā |
jarī bāl̤a mārī lāthā | tayā mātā ṭākūna de kīṃ ||15||
tūṃcī mama mātā pitā | tūṃcī eka kul̤adevatā |
bhinnabhāva yetheṃ nasatāṃ | koṇa dātā maja dujā ||16||
nareśvara sevakavaṃśā | rakṣī na dharitāṃ āśā |
tūṃ asmatpūrvajeśā | sarveśā kīṃ upekṣisī ||17||
mī ityaṃbhūta sarva | kathitāṃ hī naye drava |
jeṇe pāṣāṇā ye drava | tūṃ nirdrava hosī kaisā ||18||
aśī prārthanā karuna | ho mūrchita heṃ jāṇūna |
datta cittīṃ pragaṭūna | āśvāsana deyī svapnī ||19||
iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācārya śrīmadvāsudevānaṃdasarasvativiracite prathamo'dhyāyaḥ

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