Guru Tattva - An Inner Essence- Part 2 By Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji.

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Dear Members,

 

Death is akin to sleep and birth is akin to waking up-

Valluvar has said so,

 

(“Thoonguvadu polavumaam saakaadu; thoongi vizhippadu

polavumaam pirappu’).

 

Sleep is for a night and death is a long sleep in

another world for some 10/20 years. The ‘sukshma

sariira’ (subtle body that is the ‘mind’) rests for

certain period in another world and takes a body/form,

human or otherwise as per its doings in its past

births. Thus, his qualities of earlier births do not

change. The wicked does not turn into virtuous and

vice versa. It is only in the waking state that we can

work and not in sleep. We cannot study or work during

the hour of sleep. It is only this time that we have

taken birth, which is the waking state and the period

of death is sleep state. Our intelligence lies in

exerting effort, during this waking state, to liberate

ourselves from this ‘samsara’.

 

What is the effort that has to be exerted to liberate

ourselves from this samsara? Every jiva takes

innumerable births. In every birth he is only

searching for a way to get out of this samsara. He

wonders, ‘How and what has to be done for this?’ He

searches for a True Guru for this. When do you attain

a Sadguru? When Bhagavan decides a janma to be the

very last one, the man attains a Sadguru. He might

have gone to a guru before this. But, neither the guru

nor the disciple would go to Moksha. So, he takes many

more births. Even in our life we find that a man as an

Engineer constructs a building. Continuing in his

profession he finds that the building built after some

20 years is far better than those constructed earlier.

This is because they had been constructed in his

initial period of practice. For some consultation in

any field we prefer to go to one who has 30 or 40

years of experience in that field. This is because we

know that such a man of experience knows best.

Similarly, while beginning to search for a Guru, man

does not know who is a Guru. He does not know about

the qualities of a Guru. So, he does not go to a

proper Guru. He passes through many associations

(Sangha) before reaching the right one. He then learns

to differentiate the genuine from fake. This takes lot

of janmas. Only in his last janma, he comes to the

True Guru.

 

Who is a Guru? Is the one who reads your past and

foretells your future a Guru? No! Certainly not. I

have seen that in days past there have been

astrologers who have possessed astounding capacity to

foretell your future and read your past. May be these

days such great ones are hard to be met with. They can

tell that it is a ‘salagraama’ or a pen or a marble

that is held within your closed palm. If you point out

to a tree, they can mark the exact place where its

shadow would fall at a particular time of the day.

They can make out that the horoscope shown to him is

that of a calf! But, this does not make Guru of him.

Having lots of followers also does not make Guru of a

man. Some persons pose like a yogi for clicking

photographs of him. Posing as a yogi does not make him

a Guru. Wearing beard is not a sign of dispassion

(‘virakti’). How is a real Guru? A true Guru has no

pomp and show. A true Guru bears no external sign. It

is very difficult to know a real Guru. ‘Well! You say

that one should go to a Sadguru but it is difficult to

spot him. Then, how can this come about?’ When you see

the one who has been decided by Bhagavaan to be your

Guru in this janma, automatically a deep feeling will

rise up in you. Without your knowledge an intense

feeling of affection for him rises up. This feeling is

indescribable. There may be many Mahatmas living at

the same time. But, this sort of intense feeling of

attraction does not arise on seeing all of them. This

is because they are not the ones willed by Bhagavaan

to be our Guru. Only on seeing the one who has been

ordained by Bhagavaan to be our Guru, a ‘pravaaham’

(gush of love), ‘premai’ (Love), ‘anbu’ (affection),

‘inumpuriyaada kaadal’ (incomprehinble feeling of

love), fills up our hearts. We feel deeply attracted

to the Guru. We wonder, “Won’t I see him? Won’t I

speak to him? Won’t I be able to follow Him

everywhere?” It is such feelings that show the

permanent relationship between him and the Guru.

 

!!! Will Continue !!!

 

Regards

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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