Guest guest Posted October 9, 2009 Report Share Posted October 9, 2009 Dear Friends, Wanted to share with you all some thoughts on God and Guru. None of us have seen God. We have not touched Him nor smelt Him. We have only heard about Him. At best we can imagine or infer about God. Thus God is an unseen or unknown entity. For most of us God is still a concept of the mind. Scriptures tell us that God is all-pure, noble, sublime etc. etc. Let us conceive of a human being in whom we find manifestations of purity, sublimity, nobility, loftiness of conduct, character, nature, thought ,feeling, and action. These qualities , the scriptures tell us, are associated with God. When we can find an individual possessing such qualities we can say that there is Godliness in him. In the Vedic tradition such a being is the GURU who is the PRATYAKSHA DEVA or visible God. God reveals Himself through Guru. The Guru becomes the linking factor between the individual soul(jivatama) and its source, the Universal Soul. If we create a channel between ourselves and our Guru, that channel will become the means for receiving not only the Guru Kripa from the Guru but all that the Guru stands for . Such a channel is called the Guru-Bhakti. The Svetasvatara Upanishad declares,"Yasya Deve Para Bhakthih Yatha Deve Thatha Gurau, Tasyaithe Kathitha Hyarthah Prakasante Mahatmanah". It means, if you have supreme devotion to God and the same kind of Devotion to your Guru, then the essence and subtle truths of scriptures become revealed. Guru-Bhakti is thus the effective channel which enables the Guru to share with the disciple what the Guru has been endowed with from God. G.Balasubramanian Get on board. You're invited to try the new Mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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