It appears that Dr Giridhar Madras of the University of California @ Davis submitted to the site ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/sanskrit.html, on Guru poornima day in 1996, an article entitled Dakshinamurti Stotra. I am leaving out his transliteration and word by word translation and am giving below only his introductory remarks and free English translation.

‘Offered on this holy day of guru puurnima, this poem is
transliterated and translated as a humble dedication to my various

This blog was earlier published in the Medha Journal in December 2008.

Mind the Cows, mind the Horses

One of the dhyaana slokas of Srimad Bhagavad Gita goes like this:

sarvopanishado gAvo dogdhA gopAlanandana: |

pArtho vatsa: sudhIr bhoktA dugdham gItAmrtam mahat ||

All the Upanishads are cows that are milked by Gopalanandana, the divine cowherd, as Partha the calf stands by. The milk thus made available is the great nectarine Gita, for the enjoyment of reader(s) having proper intelligence.