Worship Śrī Guru With the Utmost Care
Vando mui sävadhäna mate – you should offer prayers and worship to him, vandanä, with the utmost care, sävadhäna mate. There are three types of vandanä: käyika, väcika and mänasika – through your body, words, and mind. With our body, we fall flat on the ground and offer our daëòavat praëämas to Gurudeva – käyavandanä. Also, through your body, with whatever you have (it may be money, material opulence), giving everything, you should render service. If you have some followers, then with all of them, your subordinates, you should also serve guru. Followers means you have a family: you have a wife, a son, a daughter, servants, and friends. So, through all your family members and friends you should serve guru. That is käyika, physical service. Thus, through käyika, väcika, and mänasika, your body, mind and speech, you should offer prayers, obeisances and worship to the lotus feet of guru. One should serve with all one’s capacity, which is why it says vando mui sävadhäna mate – one should do vandanä with the utmost care.
30 Śrī Guru-caraṇa-padma
