VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM - Courtesy ARUN

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(210) Gurutamah -The Greatest Teacher; One who had inspired with

knowledge and initiated the very Creator Brahmaaji into the

knowledge of the four Vedas. The creative mind of the very first

Spiritual Master must have received this experience of the

Transcendental, initiated by none other than the Supreme Itself.

Later on, the Man of Realization might come to help other seekers,

and to that extent the following generations of disciples, can, no

doubt, psychologically believe that the teacher guided them to

Truth. But, in fact for all times to come, the final experience of

the theme of the Vedas is arrived at only through the final

revelation, which has nothing to do with the teacher or the text.

Svetaasvatara Upanishad (6-18) says, " He who first Created the

Creator (Brahmaa) and imparted him the Vedas. "

 

The Guru and the scripture, devotion to God, meditation, moral

conduct and the religious discipline are all necessary, in as much

as, they prepare the bosom of the seeker for the dawn of

realization. But the final unveiling is done by the Infinite alone,

and hence, Vishnu, the Self, is the best among the Gurus. Heaviness

is called by the same term (Gurutvam), and in this sense the Lord is

Indicated here as " that which is heavier than the heaviest.