Faith in your Guru

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Faith in your Guru

 

Faith is the state of mind towards the all supreme. It is a devotional surrender

for the protection and grace of the lord. Sri Sai Baba preferred the sadhanas

involving faith and bhakti. He advocated worship of several things -images,

coins, pictures, padukas etc. He has no mean place for the guru, the giver of

Ghana and the solidifier of faith. The path to the goal is rugged, and Sri Sai

Baba warns us that it is infested with hungry wolves and tigers and with yawning

pits to negotiate and stresses the need for a guide or guru. In brief, the

attainment of gnana is largely upon our Guru. Trust in the guru fully and

wholeheartedly. Leave off all doubts that is the only sadhana. Guru is God. Guru

is everything. He is brother, father, well-wisher, relative and true friend.

Seeing all as Guru is the highest state and he who feels him in every creature

verily becomes Myself. To aspirants for gnana, the mere acquisition of a Guru

alone can never suffice. Lucky

indeed must be he that finds the proper guru at whose feet he is privileged to

sit and learn. Hindus, before they start on any of their prayers, first invoke

their Gurus to lead them aright and to be acceptable to their Gods. A

subjugation of the mind and will and absolute faith in the guru are the

essentials of a true Bhakta. Sri Sai Baba Says: " Stick to your own Guru with

unabated faith whatever the merits of the other gurus. We must not give up our

attachment to our own Guru but even more firmly rest in Him and Him alone. "

 

You may have an idea of what constitutes Bhakti and how every one of us old and

young, men and women, rich and poor strong and disabled, cultured and

uncultured- can follow the path of devotion to attain salvation. To be deeply

devoted to God, we should have an idea in the first place. God is everywhere.

There is no place where He is not. Everything rests in Him; He resides in the

heart of every being. He is in the king, in the beggar, in the animal, in the

minutest worm, in plants and also in inanimate objects. That is why in the Gita

the Lord said, " He who sees me everywhere and seeth everything in me, of him I

will never lose hold and he shall never lose hold of me. " Holiness Guru Swami

Kesavaiahji chosen apostle of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba deprecated the practice of

being lured by those who exhibit occult powers, but He always insisted in his

articles that infinite faith in the Guru would ultimately give satisfaction and

bliss to those who respect

tradition and religion. Swamiji stresses on saying all saints, Guru's are one.

Service to suffering humanity is Baba's Dharma. He taught catholicity of

religion. Everyone should serve and help others to his capacity. It is only the

good we do, that accompanies our souls. Hatred and jealousy should be forbidden.

Honesty and truthfulness are necessary. God recedes from those who are dishonest

and untruthful. Character and truth are essential. Truth and righteousness alone

save us. The ignorant youth is running away from religious and moral discipline

because he gets no religious education either at home or at school to mould his

character. Now-a-days science and politics are considered the 'Be all and end

all' of man's life. The responsibility to teach their children, the devotion to

God reverence to one's Guru, obedience to their elders, and to make them speak

truth always is on the mothers.' May Sri Sai Baba guide us all in the path of

devotion and

bless us!