What is a Guru Stuti?
A prayer or Stotram which praises a teacher or Guru as a God and salutes their virtues. “Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Guru Devo Maheshwara,” is an example.

What is a Guru Paduka Stotram?
A devotional chant which describes the Guru’s sandals as a boat which takes disciples across the ocean of worldly existence to the shores of spiritual wisdom.

What is Akhanda Mandalakaram?
A Guru Stotram which says, “I salute the preceptor who is Himself the Divine Trinity—Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara—and who is the supreme Godhead.”

What is a Guru Stotram?
A Stotram which says, “The Guru is the beginning of the Universe, yet he himself is without a beginning, the Guru is the highest deity, and there is none higher than the Guru.”

Understanding the meaning of Guru Stotram—Akhanda Mandalakaram—Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu

Salutations are to that guru, who showed me the abode, the one who is to be known, whose form is the entire universe and by whom all the movable and immovables are pervaded.
Salutations are to that guru who opened the eye of one blind due to darkness (cover) of ignorance with a needle coated with ointment of knowledge.
Salutations to that Guru, who is the Creator, Sustainer, and Destroyer, who is the limitless one.
Salutations are to that guru who showed me the one to be known, who permeates whatever is movable, immovable, sentient or insentient.
Salutations to the teacher who showed me (by teaching) the One to be known, who is but Awareness, and who is the pervade of all three worlds comprising the sentient and insentient.
Salutations are to that guru who is the Sun to the lotus of Vedanta and whose lotus feet are made radiant by the jewel of all Srutis (Upanishads).
Salutations are to that guru who is rooted in the knowledge that is power, adorned with the garland of Truth, and who is the bestower of the joy of liberation.
Salutations are to that guru who by bestowing the knowledge of the self-burns up the bondage created by accumulated actions of innumerable births.
Salutations are to that Guru; the perennial flow of wisdom from the one rooted in the vision of the Sruti, dries up totally to the ocean of transmigration (samsara) and reveals the essence of all wealth.
There is nothing superior to the knowledge of Truth, nothing higher than the Truth and there is no purifying austerity better than the Truth: salutations to that Guru.
Prostrations to that Guru who is the Lord of the Universe, my teacher, who is the Self in me, and the Self in all beings.
Salutations are to that guru who is the beginning and the beginningless, who is the highest Deity and to whom there is none superior.
O God of all Gods, you alone are my mother, father, kinsman, friend, the knowledge and wealth. You are everything to me.

Dear Ones, this is a prayer to our Guru. It is for you to decide, who your Guru is. You can select any Stotram.

Aim Hrim Klim