The Guru

[Guest guest]

The Vedas, Rigved, Yajurved, Saamved and Atharvaved, are the origin

of the Indian culture. All the knowledge, sciences, arts, traditions

and rituals in the whole Universe originated from the Vedas.

According to the Vedas, Guru or spiritual teacher is higher and more

real than god. The Guru is the one who enlightens the mind of the

disciple, from whom the disciple receives the initiatory mantra, and

who instructs in rituals and religious ceremonies. The Upanishads

have profoundly underlined the role of the guru. Mundakopanishad says

to realize the supreme godhead the disciple should surrender before

the guru who knows the secrets of Vedas. Kathopanishad, too, speaks

of the guru as the preceptor who alone can guide the disciple on the

spiritual path.

 

Tantra, which is a part of Atharvaved, is no exception. In tantra,

every ritual and sadhana begins and ends with prayer to the Guru. No

ritual can be complete without the Guru, nothing can be successful

without the Guru. Purity, divinity, success, pleasure and salvation

are not possible without the Guru.

 

I pray to my guru. May he bless this group with success.