Question: I want to have a Sadguru - but Who? When? Where? Who should I choose as my Sadguru?

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Radhe Krishna To All,

 

1. I want to have a Sadguru - but Who? When? Where? Who should I choose as my

Sadguru?

 

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji:

 

The human life is said to be the greatest gift of God. In this life, getting the

quest for God and the need for a Sadguru is indeed even more rare. When your

quest is real, the Lord will automatically bless you with a Sadguru at the right

moment. Until then, keep chanting the Mahamantra constantly, taking the Almighty

as your Guru. You will soon be blessed with a guru.

 

2. 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.

 

3. When do you attain a Sadguru?

 

When Bhagavan decides a birth 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 (Sangh) before reaching the right one. He then learns to

differentiate the genuine from fake.

This takes lot of births. Only in his last birth, he comes to the True Guru.

 

4. 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.

 

5. 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 Bhagavan 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 Bhagavan to be our Guru. Only on seeing the one who

has been ordained by Bhagavan to be our Guru, a gush of love, affection,

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.

 

Guru and Nama Kirtan.

 

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

 

Regards

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