……“If one realizes the Sadguru, he will realize God and vice-vera

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……“If one realizes the Sadguru, he will realize God and vice-versa, as he

is the unmanifested form of God on this earth. Therefore, the role of the

Sadguru is so magnanimous and universal covering the entire macro and micro

dimensions of the universe that no amount of literature produced by the entire

human civilization through millions of years of efforts can codify even an

infinitesimally small quantity of knowledge about their role.

 

A few examples from the lives of Saints will perhaps give a better perception.

 

Take for example, the relationship of Shri Ramakrishna Parmahamsa and Shri

Vivekananda. Shri Vivekananda was an English educated rationalist with certain

amount of skepticism during his early period of life. Shri Ramakrishna knew

about his inner potential and drew him near to him. Shri Ramakrishna had

reportedly told Vivekananda that once he (Vivekananda) realized who he really

was, he would not remain in his physical body. What Shri Ramakrishna indicated

was that Shri Vivekananda was a spiritually advanced soul who had come with a

human body for a divine purpose and once the purpose was fulfilled he will

realize his original state and quit the body. During the process of his

evolution, Shri Vivekananda rendered spiritual help to many persons even when he

was not conscious of his own original divine state. He was the ‘charge man’

of Shri Ramakrishna and spread his message all the world over through his famous

speech in the World Parliament of

Religions in 1893 at Chicago. After Shri Ramakrishna left his mortal body, Shri

Vivekananda spread his message all over and set-up institutions to propagate the

Vedic knowledge all over the globe. Having fulfilled the purpose of his divine

incarnation Shri Vivekananda left his body at an early age just like the Adi

Shankara or Christ.

 

Relating from the history of Shirdi Sai, Shri Upasani Maharaj was drawn by Shri

Sai with a purpose. Shri Upasani Maharaj never knew that he was to be the main

disciple and ‘charge man’ of Shri Sainath. But Shri Sai announced before

everyone at Shirdi that he weighed Shri Upasani Maharaj on one side and the

whole world on the other side of the spiritual scale. Such is the love of the

Sadguru that he took over the entire responsibility of Upasani Maharaj, inspite

of protests from and jealousy of many other devotees who thought that Upasani

Baba did not deserve all that attention from Shri Sai Baba. Shri Sai controlled

the life of Shri Upasani Maharaj so closely that when the latter wanted to go

back to his home, he was forced, under strange circumstances to return to Shirdi

within eight days as Sai Baba had predicted. Similarly Sadguru Shri Lokanath

Brahmachari of Baridi (now in Bangladesh) had pulled his main disciple Shri

Bijay Krishna Goswami by

strange methods and evolved him to the state of a Guru in the late 19th

Century. Life history of Sufi Saints is full of such instances.

 

These are only a few examples but the Sadgurus always play the same or similar

role with other disciples at various stages of development. These disciples when

evolved also play the same or similar roles with their disciples. Thus the Guru

lineage goes on and on.

 

The inner motivation, methods of action of the disciple of the Sadguru cannot be

completely understood by anybody else than the Sadguru who has taken over the

entire responsibility of such devotees. All other persons including his family

members and closest relatives cannot understand the value of this disciple. The

world may or may not be able to recognize his inner virtues and may even discard

him, but the Sadguru who is the ‘Antar-Sakshi’ (the witness of his inner

self), always loves him and stands by him. Gradually this disciple comes to

realize the limitations of human love and the illusions of the worldly games and

totally surrenders to his Guru - the spring of eternal love. He has no choice;

once he is chosen by the Sadguru.

 

In the ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’, written by Shri Yogananda it is mentioned

that the disciple Shri Lahiri Mahashaya and his Guru Shri Mahavatara Baba had

striking physical similarities. In some cases even the voice and way of

expression of the Sadguru and his close disciple have been found to be similar.

 

Sadguru, the Pivot of the universe ushers in all major and important events of

history like change of rulers, wars, large scale destructions, new discoveries

leading human civilization in the path of evolution, spread and sustenance of

spiritual energy on earth through temples, churches and other groups carrying on

such jobs. Only a few evolved souls can know as to which Master, through what

method got wars precipitated, settled peace and opened the door to new fields of

knowledge to help mankind. " .........