Helen Frederick

Guru Gita
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Maker

Helen Frederick (American, b. 1945), (RISD BFA 1967, Illustration; RISD MFA 1969, Painting and Printmaking)

Title

Guru Gita

Year

1978-1979

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Dimensions

Approx: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 inches) (each)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the artist

Object Number

2022.34.1

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3. O Lord! By which path can an embodied being become one with the Absolute? Have compassion on me O Lord! I kneel at thy lotus feet. Parviti to Shiva.
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106. O Parvati! The Guru affords protection from curses pronounced by sages serpents, and gods, and also from the fear of time and death.
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The Guru Gita is the wish-fulfillling cow to those who repeat it with desire the wish-fulfilling tree to the imaginative type and the wish-fulfilling jewel to contemplatives, It is conducive to...
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37. Salutations to the Guru whose existence makes this world real. He is the sun whose light illuminates it. His love makes sons loveable.
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I bow to the author of the five eternal cosmic processes - creation sustenance, dissolution, control and award of grace. 94
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73. Salutations to the Guru who by power of self-knowledge, has burnt up all the karmas accumulated through countless lives.
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[soild cricle]. 51.... The wise continually offer handfuls of flowers with butterflies humming around them....
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144. It accomplishes impossible tasks delivers one from the fear of harm from the nine planets, puts an end to bad dreams, and makes good dreams come true.
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111. I bow to the Guru who encompasses the entire universe.... From Brahma to a clump of grass.
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Just as water merges in the ocean milk in milk, butter in butter, the space inside a broken pot in the space outside, likewise, the individual soul merges into the Universal Being. 162.
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61.... pure as gold refined in fire and tested thoroughly in the flames of reason, always protects one from death
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114. Just as an image of quartz shines in a mirror similarly that which is consciousness and bliss, the true self, shines in the buddhi.
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33. Hectave jagatāmeva sainsārārnava setave; Prabhave sarva vidyānāin, sainbhave gurave namah.
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Salutations to the revered One who uplifts souls mounted on the tree of the world sinking into the ocean of hell. 31
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60. It is the principal pillar holding the stage of all the worlds. It showers the nectar of compassion. It pierces to the secret of this universal assembly composed of various elements. It creates..
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Sri devejuva: 2. Om namo devadevesa paratpara jagadhuro sadasiva mahadeva gurudiksam pradehi me.
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1. Kailāsa śikhare ramye bhakti sandhana nayakam; Pranamya pārvati bhaktyā śankaram paryaprechata.
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48. Ayam mayāñjalubaddho dayā sāgara srddhaye; yad anugrahato jantuś, citra samasāra muktibhak.
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155.... Inside the hollow of a banyan or thorn-apple tree or under a mango tree.
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The first syllable 'Gu' means darkness: the second 'Ru' light. The Guru is doubtlessly Brahma who dispels all darkness. 23.
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72. Salutations to the Guru who is firmly astride the power of knowledge who is adorned with the necklace of Truth and who grants worldly fulfillment as well as salvation.
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96. Śivaśāsanatah śivaśāsanatah śivaśāsanatah śivaśāsanatah!
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152. Atha Kāmyajape sthānam kathayāmi varanane; sāgare va saritlĪre, athavāhariharālaye.
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-Salutations to East Meredith- KABIR: I LAUGH WHEN I HEAR THAT FISH IN THE WATER IS THIRSTY. YOU DO NOT SEE THAT THE REAL IS IN YOUR HOME AND YOU WONDER FROM FOREST TO FOREST LISTLESSLY! HERE IS...

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Helen Frederick (American, b. 1945)
Guru Gita, 1978-1979
Watercolor and opaque watercolor
Approx: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 inches) (each)
Gift of the artist 2022.34.1

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