"Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Deva Maheshwara. Guru Sakshath Parambrahma, Tasmai Shri Gurave Namaha. Guru is the creator Brahma, Guru is the preserver Vishnu, Guru is the destroyer Shiva. Guru is directly the supreme spirit — I offer my salutations to this Guru."
— Brahma

January 1, 1970

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Adi Shankara begins his Gurustotram or 'Verses to the Guru' with this Sanskrit Sloka, that has become a widely sung Bhajan, quoted in: Data-based Techniques to Improve State Estimation in Model Predictive Control (2007), p. iv.