Opening Mantra

Om
Vande Gurunam charanaravinde
Sandarishita svatmasukavabodhe
Nishreyase jangalikayamane
Samsara halahala mohashantyai

Abahu Purushakaram
Shankhacakrsi dharinam
Sahasra sirasam svetam
Pranamami patanjalim
Om

Om
I pray to the lotus feet of the supreme guru
Who teaches knowledge, awakening the great happiness of the
Self revealed
Who acts like the hungle physician
Able to remove the delusion from the poison of conditioned existence

To Patanjali, an incarnation of Adisesa, white in colour with a
thousand radiant heads (in his form as the divine serpent,
Ananta), human in form below the shoulders, holding the
sword of dicrimination, a wheel of fire representing infinite
time, and the conch representing divine sound to him,
I prostrate.
Om