They who will look and listen, will learn.

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The Srutis say: ³To that high-souled aspirant, whose devotion to the Lord is

great and whose devotion to his Guru is as great as that to the Lord, the

secrets explained herein become illuminated².

 

Guru is Brahman, the Absolute, or God Himself. He guides and inspires you

from the innermost core of your being. He is everywhere. Have a new angle of

vision. Behold the entire universe as the form of the Guru. See the guiding

hand, the awakening voice, the illuminating touch of the Guru in every

object in this creation. The whole world will now stand transformed before

your changed vision. The world as Guru will reveal all the precious secrets

of life to you, and bestow wisdom upon you. The supreme Guru, as manifested

in visible nature, will teach you the most valuable lessons of life. Worship

daily this Guru of Gurus, the Guru who taught even the Avadhuta Dattatreya.

 

Dattatreya, regarded as God and the Guru of Gurus, considered Nature Herself

as His Guru, and learnt a number of lessons from Her twenty-four creatures,

and hence he is said to have had twenty-four Gurus. The silent, all-enduring

earth with its lofty forbearance, the shady fruit-bearing tree with its

willing self-sacrifice, the mighty banyan tree reposing with patience in the

tiny seed, the drops of rain whose persistence wears away even the rocks,

the planets and the seasons with their orderly punctuality and regularity

were all divine Gurus to him. They who will look and listen, will learn.

 

Become a personification of receptivity. Empty yourself of your petty ego.

All the treasures locked up in the bosom of Nature will become yours. You

will progress and attain perfection in an amazingly short time. Become pure

and unattached as the mountain breeze. As the river flows continuously,

steadily and constantly towards its goal, the ocean, so also let your life

flow ceaselessly towards the supreme state of absolute

Existence-Knowledge-Bliss, by letting all your thoughts, all your words and

all your actions be directed only towards the goal.

(Swami Sivananda)