Faith in your Guru

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Faith in your Guru

 

Faith is the state of mind towards the all supreme. It is a devotional surrender

for the protection and grace of the lord. Sri Sai Baba preferred the sadhanas

involving faith and bhakti. He advocated worship of several things -images,

coins, pictures, padukas etc. He has no mean place for the guru, the giver of

Ghana and the solidifier of faith. The path to the goal is rugged, and Sri Sai

Baba warns us that it is infested with hungry wolves and tigers and with yawning

pits to negotiate and stresses the need for a guide or guru. In brief, the

attainment of gnana is largely upon our Guru. Trust in the guru fully and

wholeheartedly. Leave off all doubts that is the only sadhana. Guru is God. Guru

is everything. He is brother, father, well-wisher, relative and true friend.

Seeing all as Guru is the highest state and he who feels him in every creature

verily becomes Myself. To aspirants for gnana, the mere acquisition of a Guru

alone can never suffice. Lucky indeed must be he that finds the proper guru at

whose feet he is privileged to sit and learn. Hindus, before they start on any

of their prayers, first invoke their Gurus to lead them aright and to be

acceptable to their Gods. A subjugation of the mind and will and absolute faith

in the guru are the essentials of a true Bhakta. Sri Sai Baba Says: " Stick to

your own Guru with unabated faith whatever the merits of the other gurus. We

must not give up our attachment to our own Guru but even more firmly rest in Him

and Him alone. "

 

You may have an idea of what constitutes Bhakti and how every one of us old and

young, men and women, rich and poor strong and disabled, cultured and

uncultured- can follow the path of devotion to attain salvation. To be deeply

devoted to God, we should have an idea in the first place. God is everywhere.

There is no place where He is not. Everything rests in Him; He resides in the

heart of every being. He is in the king, in the beggar, in the animal, in the

minutest worm, in plants and also in inanimate objects. That is why in the Gita

the Lord said, " He who sees me everywhere and seeth everything in me, of him I

will never lose hold and he shall never lose hold of me. " Holiness Guru Swami

Kesavaiahji chosen apostle of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba deprecated the practice of

being lured by those who exhibit occult powers, but He always insisted in his

articles that infinite faith in the Guru would ultimately give satisfaction and

bliss to those who respect tradition and religion. Swamiji stresses on saying

all saints, Guru's are one. Service to suffering humanity is Baba's Dharma. He

taught catholicity of religion. Everyone should serve and help others to his

capacity. It is only the good we do, that accompanies our souls. Hatred and

jealousy should be forbidden. Honesty and truthfulness are necessary. God

recedes from those who are dishonest and untruthful. Character and truth are

essential. Truth and righteousness alone save us. The ignorant youth is running

away from religious and moral discipline because he gets no religious education

either at home or at school to mould his character. Now-a-days science and

politics are considered the 'Be all and end all' of man's life. The

responsibility to teach their children, the devotion to God reverence to one's

Guru, obedience to their elders, and to make them speak truth always is on the

mothers.' May Sri Sai Baba guide us all in the path of devotion and bless us!