śrī sadguruṃcī āratī

A Marathi arati that praises not the Sadguru but the act of walking round him. Blessed, blessed is this circumambulation, it begins, and the gods were in such haste to watch it that they brought their chariots down. What follows is a reckoning in the plain terms of pilgrimage: at every step heaps of merit past counting, and every tirtha including Kashi has happened to us here. Then the sound of it, mridang and cymbals and the devotees singing out of feeling, dancing in the bliss of brahman at the singing of the name. A crore of the gravest sins go with one full prostration, and when a man rolls on the ground, release rolls at his feet. One verse concedes that neither Agama nor Nigama knows what guru-worship is worth, and that only those who live at his feet know it by experience. Signed Shrirangatmaja Vitthala.