Om Guruve Namah !
Om Dattatreyay Namah !
Om Gorakhnathaay Namah !
Om Gurumandalaay Namah !
Guru Purnima is celebrated on Ashadha Sudi Purnima. This festival is just for a Guru (everyone’s Guru) — if a person doesn’t have a Guru, they can understand their deity as a Guru. And even if you don’t have any deity, you can consider lord Shiva, lord Hanuman or any Devi (Kali, Durga, etc) your Guru.
The main work of Guru is to help their disciples progressing; if you don’t have any progress after making someone your Guru, then you should move to another Guru — there is no harm in leaving a Guru when your time and efforts both are ruined.
A good Guru is worth worshiping, and in things like Tantra a Guru is must — ‘coz Guru has gone through the path you want to tread. And Guru is a link between you and your deity (god or goddess).
गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णु गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः ॥
गुरु साक्षात परब्रह्म तस्मै श्री गुरुवे नम:॥
This is a popular stotra, it says — Guru is Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva; Guru is Par-Brahma (cause of everything); and I bow down to that Guru.
Below is from Shrimad Bhagwat telling about a Guru.
तावत परिचरेद भक्तः श्रद्धावान न सूचकः ॥
यावत् ब्रह्म विजानीयानममेव गुरुमाद्रतः ॥
And with below one, everyone is much familiar:
गुरु गोविन्द दोऊ खड़े काके लागू पाय ॥
बलिहारी गुरु आपकी गोविन्द (diety) दियो बताय ॥
Guru Purnima Katha
Once Veda Vyasa disciples thought to worship their Guru, so collectively they came out on a date that was (is) “Ashadha Sudi Purnima” according to Hindu Calender. Since that time every year this festival is celebrated.
Guru ji ki Aarti
1) आरति प्रिय गुरुवर कीजै जनम सफल कर लीजै ॥
2) कंचन थार कपूर की बाटी जगमग ज्योति जलै दिन राती ॥
3) भाव सहित गुरु भक्ति कीजै ज्ञान भक्ति उर भर लीजै ॥
4) काम क्रोध मद लोभ बिसारौ गुर मूरित निज मन में धारौ ॥
5) तन मन धन गुरु अर्पण कीजै श्रद्धा भक्ति सहित सब कीजै ॥
6) भाव के फूल भक्ति की माला श्रद्धा दीपक ज्योति उजाला ॥
7) श्री गुरु चरण कमल चित दीजै, आरती प्रिय गुरुवर की कीजै ॥
8) भक्ति ज्ञान सदा उर आवै जो गुरु चरन सरन में जावै ॥
9) गुरु की कृपा भक्ति भव रोग निवारी ॥
10) चार पदारथ हैं जग माहीं गुरु भक्ति से दुर्लभ नहीं ॥
11) अति अनुरागी वारणै लीजै, आरती प्रिय गुरुवर की कीजै ॥
12) जो जन भक्ति सहित गुरु आरती गावै बिन श्रम सुलभ मुक्ति को पांवै ॥
13) इन्द्र मुनि गुरु चरण गहीजा सर्वोत्तम है गुरु की पूजा ॥
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