Guru Tattva - An Inner Essence- Part 3 By Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji.

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Dear Members,

 

Sundara Kaandam in Ramayana depicts Guru Tattva.

Valmiki has named the different cantos in Ramayana as

Kishkinta kaandam, Ayodhya kaandam, Yuddha kaandam,

Aaranya kaandam but he has named this canto as Sundara

(Beautiful) kaandam. He could have named it as

‘samudra kaandam’ as Hanuman jumped over the ocean or

‘Sita darshana kaandam’. But, he has named it as

Sundara Kaandam because it speaks about a

‘sundaramaana vishaya’ (beautiful matter).What is

‘sundaramaana vishayam’ for a ‘samsaari’? To attain

liberation from this samsaara is the ‘sundaramaana

vishaya’ for a samsaari.

 

What does Valimiki say here? In the meeting to decide

about the messenger to be sent to Sri Lanka to meet

Sita, each monkey speaks out the distance that he can

cover over the ocean. One monkey says that he can jump

upto 30 ‘yojana’ (measure of distance), another says

40 and so on. But, this only meant that they could not

cross over the ocean totally. How then can they bring

Sita over to the Lord? Only Hanuman could jump across

the ocean, meet Sita in Asoka vana and help in

bringing her back to her Lord. A Guru who has

performed austerities only about 10% or another who

has done about 20% or yet another who has done 30% can

never help another to cross the ocean of samsara. Such

a Guru falls and is drowned being unable to find a way

out for himself. How then can he help another cross

over the ocean of life? Here, Hanuman is shown as the

Guru.

 

One should not label himself as a Guru. Neither is he

able to cross over the ocean nor help another. If he

does pose as a Guru, he will struggle as one caught

between the devil and the deep sea!

 

You may be doing japa of a mantra. When someone seeks

you out for some help you may advice something and by

chance it might meet with the anticipated result. He

then considers you a Guru. This works in your mind and

you also begin to think that you are indeed a Guru!

But, later on you find that you are caught up with

‘devotees’ whom you are unable to help cross over the

ocean of samsara (life), as you are yourself

struggling to find a way out! Having become a ‘Guru’,

you come to have ‘sishyaas’! You expect respect from

your ‘sishyas’. When it is not forthcoming you feel

disappointed and angry. You begin to feel malice

towards other Gurus as they seem to pull larger crowd

than you! When this happens you lose out on the

purpose for which you had given up everything in life.

It will push you into a situation far worse than

‘loukiika’ (world). This is because usually we nurture

jealousy towards people in the same field. A musician

may regularly attend a dance consort and praise the

performance sky-high but would never do the same with

another musician. In the same manner, an immature

‘Guru’ holds malice towards other ‘Gurus’ and competes

to out beat them in crowd pulling.

Therefore, we should be very careful while doing japa,

dhyana. We should try to inherit the quality of

Hanuman. What is the foremost quality of Hanuman?

‘Vinaya’ (humility). A Guru should wander about

without remembering his ‘paraakrama’

(strength/prowess). Hanuman is said to unaware of his

prowess. What does this mean? A Guru should move

amongst the people as an ordinary man. A true Guru is

very humble without any pomp and show.

 

While there were many monkeys, why did Rama choose

Hanuman to go to Sita? Why did Rama give His ring to

Hanuman? Guru should be one sent by Bhagavaan.

Bhagavaan should give him the permission to help

people cross the ocean of life. Only then should he go

to do this work.

 

!!! Will Continue !!!

 

Regards

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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