A Garland of 108 Praises to H.H. Mahatapasvi Shri Kumarswamiji.
Dr. Rajkumari B. Deshmukh, from Bidar, Karnataka, India
| # | Description | Mantra |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The godly man that came to earth for the upliftment of the world | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 2 | Born in the village of Hunsikatti of Bailhongal | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 3 | Born by Rudramuni Yati’s blessingsBorn by Rudramuni Yati’s blessings | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 4 | In the righteous womb of Chinnamma | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 5 | Born on the auspicious ‘noola hunnime’*1as the Light of India | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 6 | The light of the world lost his mother on his birthday | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 7 | The infant grew on the lap of Gaudashaani Neelamma | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 8 | Lost his father when very young | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 9 | Spent boyhood under the loving care of grandmother Radhamma | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 10 | Worshipped the stone image of bull and got money as prasada | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 11 | Became a soothsayer at a very young age | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 12 | By the grace of Anjaneya got pashyanti vani | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 13 | Because of command over speech got the title ‘young Saraswati’ | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 14 | Got the name ‘incarnation of ‘daasoha’ in the young age | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 15 | Came under the grace of Goddess Mahaalakshmi of Kolhapur | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 16 | By chanting the ‘Devipuraana’ aroused Kundalini in him | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 17 | Along with the studies he progressed in spirituality | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 18 | Became God-intoxicated when he was fifteen | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 19 | Performing penance at Navilteertha he achieved higher results | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 20 | Came to Dharwad and founded the Navalakyana Math | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 21 | By the command of the Inner Voice renounced academics | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 22 | Settled in the meditation hall of Tapovana | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 23 | Taught by self-knowledge he became exponent of Knowledge | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 24 | The great sage that meditated relentlessly for world peace | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 25 | The personification of peace that promoted world peace | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 26 | Declared ‘world is my home, mankind is my family’ | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 27 | Declared ‘truth, peace and faith are the object of my life’ | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 28 | Gave to the world the mantra ‘He Prabho Praseed Aum’ | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 29 | The world teacher that promoted collective prayer (prarthana yoga) | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 30 | The Shivayogi that showed to the Pope the greatness of the Linga | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 31 | The extraordinary Yogi that discovered the secret of all yogas | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 32 | Spread the teachings of Virashaivism everywhere in the world | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 33 | The Holy man that was awarded ‘Paramadharmachakra’ *2 | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 34 | The revolutionary who wrote valuable philosophical treatises | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 35 | Got the title ‘Ashvini’ *3 for curing the diseases | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 36 | The Siddha *4 that gets things done just by his will power | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 37 | The godly man that had the divine aura and golden colour | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 38 | Leader of infinite number of worlds and the emperor of yogis | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 39 | A tender mother that treats devotees with immense kindness | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 40 | Blesses devotees irrespective of their caste, creed and religion | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 41 | Treats the poor and rich equally | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 42 | Loves immensely the selfless love | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 43 | Enters into the minds of his devotees and blesses them | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 44 | Grants our wishes even if we do not ask him | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 45 | Fulfilled wishes of people desirous of knowledge, money, profit | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 46 | Gifting things to people who prayed to him he was called ‘Kaamadhenu’*5 and ‘Kalpavruksha’*6 | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 47 | The doctor who gave eyes to the blind, speech to the dumb | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 48 | Appeared to the devotees as God in the form they wished | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 49 | He would appear whenever one calls him with intense devotion | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 50 | He would be present in a subtle form during the devotees’ worship and bless them | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 51 | The best sachchidaananda Guru that shows the proper way to the loyal devotees | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 52 | The place you are is where twelve Jyotirlingas are established | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 53 | Those are fortunate who follow you faithfully throughout their life | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 54 | The whole dynasty of those who believe you becomes prosperous | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 55 | The house wherein you are worshipped is Kailasa on earth | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 56 | By your grace happiness, peace and prosperity are obtained | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 57 | By your grace foes become friends | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 58 | By your grace sterile women become able to bear children | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 59 | By your grace one’s zodiac system itself changes | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 60 | By your grace one always gets success in examination, legal disputes and competition | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 61 | By your grace one is able to cross the ocean of births and deaths | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 62 | By eating your prasada sorrow is dispelled and desires are fulfilled | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 63 | You are the embodiment of consciousness that dispels sorrow and worries | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 64 | You are the embodiment of consciousness-bliss that produces comforts, happiness, satisfaction and peace | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 65 | You are father, you are mother, you are the dear ones | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 66 | By the rays of your grace the seven chakras are aroused | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 67 | I seek a drop from the ocean of your compassion | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 68 | My honour is yours, my self-respect is yours, save them both | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 69 | I am an innocent child, guide me holding my hand | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 70 | Pardon my mistakes done advertently or inadvertently | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 71 | Root out my selfishness from my ego | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 72 | Grace me with tolerance, peace and forbearance | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 73 | Burn the body-related wrath and the mind-related pain | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 74 | Destroy the six enemies of spiritual life such as lust, wrath, etc | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 75 | By meditating upon you in the morning one can escape from untimely death, bad times and undesirable acts | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 76 | By meditating upon you before sleep one can dispel evil dreams | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 77 | You are the ocean of compassion that lives for ever in the hearts of those who remember you | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 78 | Your kind blessings are the source of my courage and strength | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 79 | Your name is my mantra that guards me against evils | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 80 | By chanting your name all my desires are fulfilled | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 81 | By chanting your name all evil spirits are dispelled | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 82 | By chanting your name all diseases are cured | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 83 | Let my tongue always relish your name | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 84 | Let my ears always hear your fame and greatness | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 85 | Let my eyes see the grandeur of your miracles | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 86 | Let my mind always remember and think of you | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 87 | Let my hands serve you and the people | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 88 | Let my forehead rest on your Lotus Feet | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 89 | Let there be your kind glance on the path I tread | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 90 | Let all my breathings exude your name | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 91 | Let all my rise and fall occur according to your wish | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 92 | Let you be established in the temple of my heart | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 93 | Let your compassion last till I breathe my last | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 94 | Let my faith and loyalty last till I breathe my last | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 95 | Be with me always like my shadow and protect me, o Father | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 96 | Save me by granting me good heart, good act, good company and good path | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 97 | Born as a godly man he showed the path to the mankind | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 98 | Spent his entire life for the welfare of the world | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 99 | By the inspiration of Gandha Baba he built a temple for God | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 100 | Preserved the entire merit of his penance in the temple | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 101 | Having finished his mission he merged in God by the Will of Shiva | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 102 | Illumined the world by becoming the divine lamp of Tapovana on the trayodashi of the deepaavali festival | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 103 | He is the light of divine knowledge, of Shiva-consciousness and the transcendent light of Tapovana | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 104 | Having united with Shri Guru Gandha Baba you are present in the Divine Temple | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 105 | By a visit to the Divine Temple one gets salvation | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 106 | Your name and greatness last till the sun and the moon exist | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 107 | These one hundred and eight praises of you written by your inspiration I offer to you | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| 108 | Daily chanting of these praises will lead to salvation | Shri Guru Kumareshay |
| Sr # | Kannada / Sanskrit word | English Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noola hunime | a full moon day coming in the month of July. |
| 2 | Paramadharmachakra | chakra or wheel is the symbol of continuous movement; here dharmachakra is the symbol of preservation of religious values |
| 3 | Ashvini | ashvini brothers are doctors of the Hindu mythology |
| 4 | Siddha | an accomplished man |
| 5 | Kaamadhenu | a mythological cow that gives all that we desire |
| 6 | Kalpavruksha | a mythological tree that gives all that we desire |
