Realize your Guru -- Sadhakam3

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Whoever or whatever... teaches, inspires and guides is a Guru. The

Guru realization is critical for moving forward in sadhana (human

evolutionary process).

 

GRIHASTA SANNYASA

........... ............

' ' ' '

Guru in Idols

and forms

(Bakthi)

| Guru in

| scriptures and role models

| |

| | Guru in

| | self

| | |

-oo <-|--|---|-----0---------|->+oo

| | No Guru self duality

Guru |

in person |

(Guru kula) Guru in

Abstract forces

and Energies

(Agni, Vaayu, Kundalini...)

'...........' '.....'

BRAHMACHARIA VANAPRASTHA

 

As one evolves (from left to right) the sadhaka's ability of

acceptance grows. Sadhaka starts gradually imbibing the direction and

inspiration from more sources. The evolution may correspond to four

asramas the sadhaka passes through at different point in times.

 

Pranam to this enlightened Group ...

V.Srinivasan

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Dear Sri V. Srinivasan,

 

I am intrigued by this conception of aspects of the guru relative to the four

ashrama of life. Unfortunately, the formatting of the text seems to have become

garbled so that I have difficulty analysing it fully. A further post on the

same subject would be most welcome.

 

Pranaams,

Shivaram

 

 

advaitin, "V.Srinivasan <test0001@u...>" <test0001@u...>

wrote:

> Whoever or whatever... teaches, inspires and guides is a Guru. The

> Guru realization is critical for moving forward in sadhana (human

> evolutionary process).

>

> GRIHASTA SANNYASA

> ........... ............

> ' ' ' '

> Guru in Idols

> and forms

> (Bakthi)

> | Guru in

> | scriptures and role models

> | |

> | | Guru in

> | | self

> | | |

> -oo <-|--|---|-----0---------|->+oo

> | | No Guru self duality

> Guru |

> in person |

> (Guru kula) Guru in

> Abstract forces

> and Energies

> (Agni, Vaayu, Kundalini...)

> '...........' '.....'

> BRAHMACHARIA VANAPRASTHA

>

> As one evolves (from left to right) the sadhaka's ability of

> acceptance grows. Sadhaka starts gradually imbibing the direction and

> inspiration from more sources. The evolution may correspond to four

> asramas the sadhaka passes through at different point in times.

>

> Pranam to this enlightened Group ...

> V.Srinivasan

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advaitin, "Shivaram Das <conte@i...>"

<conte@i...> wrote:

> Dear Sri V. Srinivasan,

>

> I am intrigued by this conception of aspects of the guru relative

to the four ashrama of life. Unfortunately, the formatting of the

text seems to have become garbled so that I have difficulty analysing

it fully. A further post on the same subject would be most welcome.

>

> Pranaams,

> Shivaram

 

Pranam Shivaram-ji,

 

I replaced the empty space with a dot in an attempt to give a

backbone to the graph. Its good when you view it through escribes

website. Here i've contrasted it with one other representation from

previous post # :15032...

 

Brahmacharya: Child has very little reasoning power. If you check the

reasons of their actions it would be "mom/dad or teacher told....".

Hence imparting knowledge and guidance needs physical proximity to a

teacher (who can teach physical,emotional and intellectual

control)..Since the child lives the intent of the parent or teacher

it is not responsible for its actions and hence does not accumulate

vasanas...

 

As it grows it acquires knowledge and hence the reasoning power

starts working...it eventually defines its own goal and destiny and

evolves to a state of a Grihasta. Here the human lives his or her

intent and hence is totally responsible for its actions. Hence they

get into the cycle of creating and living the vasanas...( Every

action has equal and opposite reaction -- applies to all

materials...Every intent for the action or a non-action has equal and

opposite reaction which is called vasana -- applies to all living

beings with intent )

 

In this stage the Grihasta has to graduate on vairagya in doing the

right thing(dharma) as the role of life (Karma) warrants ie., as a

sibling, as a parent, as an employee, as a friend, as a spouse, as a

citizen, as a neighbour, as a satsanger, as a... To acheive it one

needs to master total surrender(bhakthi) to a deity and/or to a

process (nithya karma). After attainig sort of equanimity one should

gradually start acquiring the higher knowledge from scriptures (for

guidance and direction) and start attempting to live the lines

(sadhana) to trancend this state...Since this stage in life is very

heavy and tricky with millions of caveats... many get struck in one

stage or other during their life time. I sometimes feel it equivalent

to the booster stage in a rocket launch .

..... to be continued

 

........GRIHASTA....SANNYASA

......+++++++++++..++++++++++++

......|..........|.|...........|

....Guru in Idols

.....and forms

......(Bakthi)

..........|..Guru in

..........|.scriptures and role models

..........|...|

..........|...|..Guru in

..........|...|...self

..........|...|.....|

-oo <-|--|---|-----0---------|->+oo

.....|.........|.......No Guru self duality

.....Guru........|

...in person.....|

..(Guru kula)..Guru in

.............Abstract forces

..............and Energies

............(Agni, Vaayu, Kundalini...)

|...........|.|......|

+++++++++++...++++++

BRAHMACHARIA...VANAPRASTHA

 

 

 

 

........Material

........Humanstate

............|.Sadhaka

............|..state

............|...|...Savikalpa

............|...|....state.....Nirvikalpa state

............|...|.....|.........|

-oo <-|--|-|---|-----0---------|->+oo

.......|..|

.......|.ignorant/childish state

......Animal state

 

 

Pranams to advaitins

V.Srinivasan