guru

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GURU

 

The relationship between a Guru and a devotee is not a business deal;

It is a relationship based on bhakti* and Shraddha*.

 

Concentration or oneness can be attained only by the grace of the

Sadguru. Perfect control over the senses is the basic means for

attainment of concentration.

 

Satguru is an ocean of peace and mountain of kindness. His form is

love and Shamadamadi Sath Swarupam. Satguru gives strength to do

Sadhana.

 

Guru Kripa is essential for developing love and devotion to God.

 

The knowing of Dharma is awakened through the service of the Guru;

The seeker after knowledge should find God in the Guru.

 

The grace of Guru get you the Grace of God. The Grace of God

dissolves all past Karmas.

 

The Guru is your friend, philosopher and guide. He is Brahma, Vishnu

and Maheswara.

 

The world is like a Rose plant which has both flowers and thorns.

Like wise joys and sorrows are intertwined in worldly life. As man

carefully seperates the flowers from the thorns in the roseplant the

Sadguru leads the devotees. Godwards releasing them from the bondage

of worldly desires and the wickedness who are akin to thorns.

 

A Satguru is like sunshine or the mirror. He showers his grace

equally on all.

 

Just as the mother attends on the spoilt child the Guru ministers to

the needs of a frustrated devotee. For Guru, like God, is kindness

personified.

 

Just as a Guru is sacred to the devotee, a true devotee is equally so

to the Guru. The Saduru goes in search of a true disciple.

 

Ignorance is the root cause of all of our sufferings, miseries, and

sorrows. Seek your Sadguru to remove this ignorance.

 

The Sadguru is always in search of sinners. For they need his help.

 

By holding one's Guru and by serving him in however humble way, the

disciple will experience at least a fraction of the eternal and

unlimited bliss. This leads him on to further progress on the

spiritual path.

 

Sadguru is like gold, sugar cane and sandal wood. Gold : the more you

burn it the purer it become. Sugar cane: the more you sqeeze it, the

greater is the quantity of juice that it yields. Sandal wood: the

more you rub, the greater is the scent that it yields.

 

Guru is the ultimate manifestation of divinity and as such without

him one cannot afford to get deliverance from the cycle of

terrestrial turmoils.

 

Complete surrender to the Sadguru lessens the burden and bondage of

the devotee with worldly things. Sadguru speaks to his disciple

through the language of the heart.

 

Service to Guru is service to God.

 

Guru is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. He is OM. He is

light. He is everything. If God forsakes, one can take shelter in

Guru. If Guru forsakes none can save him.

 

Physical body is inherited from the father. A guru gives a Divine

birth. That is, he transforms the disciple into a sublime

personality. A person may loose his health and wealth. Friends and

relatives may leave him. But a Sadguru always remains with the

disciple and protects him from all calamities.

 

The need for a guru is predestined. He enters the life of men at an

opportune moment when he can ferry them across the ocean of samsara.

 

Every man is bound by the cycles of birth and death. If we get rid of

pride and prejudice and develop love and devotion to guru our

attachment to mundane things will be cut off. Guru-kripa enlightens

us to distinguish between good and evil and to select the right path

for salvation and release from bondage.

 

Ignorance is the root cause of all our sufferings, miseries and

sorrows in the world. It is due to ignorance that we believe

happiness exists outside us in the world. Ignorance gives rise to

desires which in turn lead us to act in order to fulfil those

desires. This wonderful combination of Ignorance-Desire-Action

(Avidyaa-Kaama-Karma) is called HRIDAYA GRANTHI (Knot of the heart)

in our scriptures (Mundaka Upanishad). To cut this Granthi or knot we

need the guidance and grace of a guru who must be a "Srotriya" (well

versed in texts), Brahmanishtha (established in Brahman or Reality).

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Thank you shri omnagarajan for a great post on guru on this thursday

dedicated to guru ! what a feast to the eyes and music to the

ears....

 

in a book titled " sarva vedanta siddhanta samgraha", bhagvatpada

adi shankara in one of the verses defines a true guru thus...

 

 

Srotriyo brahma-nishTo yah praZAntaH sama-darSanaH /

nirmamo nirahamkAro nirdvandvo nishparigrahaH //

anapekshaH Sucir-dakshaH karuNAmRta-sAgaraH /

evam lakshaNa-sampannaH sa gurur-brahma-vit-tamaH //

 

 

He (the guru) must be an adept in all the vedas.

 

He must be a realised Soul who is always rooted in absolute brahman.

 

Calm and serene, equanimous to the core, free from Ego, and from the

evil of 'mine' and 'thine' he is devoid of all delusions of duality

like happiness and misery, pleasure and pain, like and dislike,

honour and dishonour, cold and heat, friend and foe and even cause

and effect.

 

He has no desire for possessions, he has no wants, is always pure in

heart and mind and is at the top of his efficiency.

 

He is an ocean of compassion and grace.

 

our salutations to such a guru!!!

 

jai gurudeva!

 

jai mahakali!