Verse 88

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Preamble: Another meditative spell of Guru is taught

by Swamiji.

 

Verse 88

 

Aanamda maanamdakaram prasannam

Jnaana swaroopam nija bodha yuktam /

Yogimdra meedyam bhavaroga vaidyam

Shreematgurum nitya maham namaami //

 

Regular obeisance to sadguru who is the embodiment of

bliss, bliss-giver who is gracious, embodiment of

knowledge, self-realised, supreme yogin, praise-worthy

and the doctor for all diseases of SAMSAARA.

 

Here the key term in the verse (Sloka)is Prasannam.

Guru's natural trait is tranquility and it doesn't

fade. He ever wears it. Some, out of ignorance, say

that their Guru's mood is spoiled and in that state He

scolded and insulted them. That is nothing but sheer

ignorance.

 

A true Guru never gets angry. If anger comes to Him,

it never goes. It goes only when the intended good is

done to the disciple. The story of NEMI in the

Bhaagavata is useful to know how the compassion of

Guru is pervasive and how it continues to successive

generations, how it forgives the faults of devotees

and leads them on to a virtuous path.

 

Nemi's grandfather was a king who undertook penance

for progeny. Lord Brahma offered him sweetened

milk-rice. After taking that, a great son was born.

But he too was without progeny. He undertook a ritual

for

begetting a son. While the ritual was going on,

becoming thirsty, he drank water from an earthen pot

at midnight. The next morning, the priests who came

to know of it, burst out with laughter for that

enchanted water was intended for the queen and they

left it there for that purpose. But the king drank it

without the completion of the ritual.

 

As a result, the king himself conceived. After nine

months a son came out tearing open his stomaach. He

was NEMI. The king ws saved from death by the priests

with the power of their spells.

 

Nemi grew up to be a man. As the ritual was left

incomplete,he became very cruel. In course of time,

he assumed kingship. He passed an act

proclaiming himself as good and that people should

stop all rituals and serve him only. He did many

sinful things. In spite of that, his mother was very

fond of him. She was a great womean of penance.

Under her protection, he was not at all adversely

affected.

 

When his cruel deeds became unbearable, the great

saints assembled and thought over the developments.

As the last resort, they cut off king Nemi's legs.

But because of his mother's protection, not only did

he

survive, but demons took birth from his legs. The

saints killed them and after serious thinking, cut off

the king's hands. From those hands, beings of divine

nature were born. The saints entrusted the kingdom to

them and they ruled over it well. But Nemi could

neither die or lead life. He was poisoned, cut off

into pieces, but did not die owing to his mother's

protection.

 

That way he suffered hell in this world. Finally one

day Dattta Swami arrived here with his four dogs and

initiated him with Guru Mantra. With that he attained

the path of vitue.

 

Look how even a fallen man with the initiation of Guru

attains the righteous path. What all had happened to

Nemi was not out of Guru's anger but out of His grace

alone. It was an act of purging. So Guru is ever gracious.

 

 

 

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