Pearls of Wisdom from His Holiness Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Swaminah

January 27, 2004

Being a new entrant, I have not gone through the earlier postings to verify if

conversations with His Holiness Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Swaminah of Sringeri

Sharada Peetham were already there. If this is a repetition, please excuse me.

With best wishes,

Nagaraja

The Guru is everlasting

If as a result of listening to so much of upadesa you now feel that from

tomorrow you are going to miss your Guru, then I must say that both of us have

wasted so many months in preaching and listening.For, in truth, you do not miss

anything. It is a mistake to think that 'Guru' means a mere person, or a mortal

being.The term really denotes a principle, an activating principle, a

sublimating force, that is ever present, ever conscious, ever luminous, and

ever protecting. Once you grasp it in that light, which is the only correct

thing for you to do, you cannot possibly miss your Guru, when His mortal form

transforms.

The means to happiness

Ordinarily speaking, we say that we are happy when we get the thing we are

longing for. At the time when we desire something, our mind is in a state of

unrest; but when we get that thing, the state of unrest is replaced by a sense

of peace.Similarly, we say we are happy when we get rid of a thing, which we

loathed. At the time when we loathe something, out mind is restless; but when

we get rid of that thing, our mind becomes calm. Therefore, happiness follows

when a preceding state of unrest is ended.Happiness is identical with the

feeling of rest or peace. Only he who knows mental peace experiences true

happiness. And to still the mind (i.e., remove all thoughts) is the aim of all

spiritual practices.

All Dieties are none but the Guru

"Gururbrahma Gururvishnur-Gururdevo Mahesvarah; Gurussakshaath Param Brahma

tasmai Srigurave Namaha".Our very conception of a Guru is that He is verily the

Absolute Brahman Itself and necessarily includes all Its limitations and

manifestations. There is therefore no contradiction in having the form of the

Guru before you when you are reciting the Dhyana sloka or repeating the Mantra

of any particular Deity, for even that Deity is included and inherent in the

Guru.

The Practical path to Peace

If a cook wants to serve a tasty dish to another, he has to know what things and

how much of each thing go into its composition and how they have to be prepared

and mixed and in what proportion and so on. The person who is only asked to

relish it need not have that knowledge. So leave the dialectics of our

philosophy to the learned among us for they have to prepare the dish for

others. You may confine yourself to the practical enjoyment of the peace and

joy of the Self.

Strive now for spiritual upliftment!

If you honestly believe in the law of karma and honestly believe that pain and

pleasure are both the result of antecedent karma, and if you do actually get

one of them, namely pain, without the least attempt or intention on your part

to get it, why do you long for and work for the other, pleasure alone? Will it

not come of its own accord if you have merited it by your past karma and will

it ever come to you in spite of your most earnest efforts now, if you have not

merited it already?Why do you waste your time and energy in this futile

endeavor? Spend them in accumulating the store of virtue to enable you to lead

a higher and better life in other regions or in future births or, better still,

spend them in trying to eliminate birth altogether, for, if you happen to take

birth again, I feel sure that you will not find then even the few facilities

which you now have for spiritual

upliftment."

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January 27, 2004

Yours in Bhagavan,

shyamNagaraja Pani <swayanjata (AT) (DOT) co.in> wrote:

Dear All,