Meditation- I salute Śrī Dakşiņāmürti, the Young Guru, who teaches the knowledge of Brahman through silence, who is surrounded by disciples, who are themselves rsis and scholars in the Vedas. (I worship Śrī Dakşiņāmürti), who is the teacher of teachers, whose hand is held in the sign of knowledge (cin-mudra), whose nature is fullness, who reveals in himself, and who is ever silent.

I bow down to Śrī Dakşiņāmūrti, the teacher of the three worlds, the Lord, the destroyer of the miseries of birth and death, who seated on the ground under the banyan tree, grants knowledge to all the rşis, who have assembled near Him.

Wonderous indeed! Under the tree are the aged disciples around the youthful Guru. He taught them with silence, but the doubts of the disciples were all dispelled.

Salutations to Śri Dakşinamürti, the abode of all learning, the healer of all those who suffer from the disease of samsara, and the teacher of the whole world.

Salutations to Sri Dakşiņāmūrti, who is ever pure and ever calm, the embodiment of pure knowledge and who is but the indicative meaning of Pranava (Om) the Supreme.

Salutations to Sri Dakshinamurthy Who is (as if) Consciousness Solidified, Salugations to the Mahesha (the Great God), Salutations to the One Who dwells at the root (i.e. base) of the Banyan Tree (Vata). Salutations to the embodiment of SatChitAnanda (Existence, Consciousness, Bliss)

There is no difference between the Guru, Self and God. Obeisance to Lord Dakshinamurthy who is the personification of the Supreme Self that permeates through Space.

Stotram - He who experiences at the time of realization his own immutable Self-in which the Self alone plays as the universe of names and forms, like a city seen in a mirror, due to the maya power as though produced outside, as in a dream, to him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurthy, is this prostration.

He who, like a juggler or a great yogi, unrolls this universe just out of His own free will - the universe, which before creation remained unmanifest like the future tree in a seed and has later on projected Himself out to be the world of endless variety, due to the delusory play of time and space, both the products of maya... to Him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurthy, is this prostration.

He whose manifestations- which are themselves nothing but the Reality- appear as the objects of the world: He, who imparts to those who have surrendered to Him, direct enlightenment, through the vedic commandment "That Thou Art", and after the direct experience of which there is no more any return to the "ocean" of worldly existence.... to Him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurty, is this prostration.

He, whose intelligence "flashes" outside through the eyes and other sense-organs, just like the bright light of a great lamp placed in a jar having many holes, and after whose shining, this whole universe of "objects" shines... to Him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurthy, is this prostration.

He who removes all the terrible misconceptions, created by the deluding play of maya- in those, who, intellectually innocent as a woman-child-blind-idiot and consider the reality as their body or their prana or their senses or their ever-changing intellect or as mere void and through error (mis-conceptions)- declare them to be the only reality... to Him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurthy, is this prostration.

On folding up all the functions of the senses, He who enters into a state of deep-sleep and there becomes existence veiled in maya, like the sun or the moon during eclipse, and who, on waking, remembers to have slept... to Him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurthy, is this prostration.

He, who, through the auspicious sign of knowledge (jnana-mudra). reveals to his devotees Him own Self- which persists in all stages of age (childhood, boyhood, youth and old age), in all states (waking. dreaming and deep-sleep) and in all other conditions- and who constantly manifests Himself inwardly as "I"... to Him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurthy, is the prostration.

He, who is the Purusa, whirled in maya, sees, in Himself, the world of cause-effect diversely related as possessor and possession, father and son, and as teacher and taught, both in the state of waking and of dreaming.... to Him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurthy, is this prostration.

He, whose eight-fold forms are the "Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Sun, Moon and Jiva", and who manifests Himself as this universe of the movable and immovable objects- and besides which, the Supreme all-pervading lord, there exists nothing to those who reflect well upon... to Him, the divine teacher, Sri Dakshinamurthy, is this prostration.

The Knowledge "all-this-atman" (Sarva-atmatvam) has been explained in this hymn and so, by hearing it, by reflecting and meditating upon its meaning and by reciting it, one will attain that divine state, endued with the glory of the all-Self-hood, along with the permanent eight-fold holy powers of Godhood.