“Whomsoever you like in your mind, accept him as your Guru and forsaking deceit, serve him with the singleness of mind
When Guru Dev rejoices, you will receive boons.
When the Guru is pleased, he will grant you a boon, otherwise O wise an sagacious Dutt! you will not be able to achieve redemption.”112.
The one who first gave the advice ('mantra'), believing him to be Gurudev
He, who in the first place gave this mantra, feeling about that Lord in his mind and accepting Him as the Guru, Dutt proceeded for getting instructions in Yoga
Parents continued to forbid, but (he) did not listen to a single word of them.
Though the parents dissuaded him, he did not accept the saying of anyone he assumed the garb of a Yogi and went towards a dense forest.113.
He went to the dense forests and did many kinds of penance.
In the forest, he performed austerities in many ways and concentrating his mind, he recited various kinds of mantras
When he suffered for a year and did severe penance,
When he, enduring tribulations for many years, performed great austerities, then the Lord, the treasure of wisdom, gave him the boon of ‘wisdom’.114.
When he was given the boon of wisdom, he (obtained) unaccountable wisdom.
When this boon was bestowed upon him, then infinite wisdom penetrated within him and that great Dutt, reached the abode of that supreme Purusha (Lord)
Then all of a sudden the intelligence expanded in all directions.
This wisdom suddenly extended on various sides and he propagated Dharma, which destroyed the sins.115.
He who never perishes, made that famine the first Guru.
In this way, he adopted the eternal unmanifested Brahman as His first Guru, who pervades in all directions He who has spread the four major divisions of creation viz.,
Who has expanded Andaj, Jerj, Setj and Udbhij etc.
Andaja (oviparous) Jeraj (viviparous), Svetaja (generated by heat and moisture) and Utbhija (germinating), the sage Dutt accepted that Lord as his first Guru.116.
End of the description about the adoption of the Unmanifested Brahman as the first Guru.
(Now begins the description of the second Guru) ROOAAL STANZA
The supremely pure minded and treasured sage of yoga (Datta Dev).
The sage Dutt, supremely immaculate and the ocean of Yoga, then meditated in his mind on the second Guru sand made the mind his guru
When the mind obeys, only then is Nath identified.
When the mind becomes stable, that supreme Lord is recognized and the heart’s desires are fulfilled.117.
End of the chapter entitled “Description of the second Guru.”
(Now begins the description of Dashaam) BHUJANG PRAYAAT STANZA
When Dutt assumed two Gurus,
When Dutt adopted two Guru and he always served them single-mindedly
On (his) head is a bundle of braids, (they are really) the waves of the Ganges.
The waves of the Ganges and the matted locks were auspiciously seated on his head and the god of love could never touch his body.118.
There is a very bright glow on the body
There were white ashes smeared on his body and he was alluring the mind of very honoured persons
The waves of the great Ganga are the waves of the Jatas.
The sage appeared very great with the waves of the Ganges and matted locks he was the treasure of generous wisdom and learning.119.
He wore ochre-coloured clothes and also the loin-cloth
He had forsaken all the expectations and recited only one mantra
The great Moni has achieved great silence.
He was a great silence-observer and practiced of all the practices of that actions of Yoga.120.
He is an ocean of mercy and the doer of all good deeds.
He was greatly glorious as the ocean of mercy, the doer of good actions and the smasher of the pride of all
All the means of great yoga have been proven.
He was the practiser of all the practices of great Yoga and was a purusha of silence observation and the discoverer of the great powers.121.
He gets up at dawn and goes for bath and sleeps.
He used to go for a bath in the mornings and evenings and practiced Yoga
(He has) (obtained) the Trikal Darshi and the Great Param-tattva.
He could observe the past, present and future and was divinely-incarnate saint of pure intellect amongst all the Sannyasis.122.
If thirst and hunger come and torment,