Who is Guru?..
"Just enter the door of the Master and come home. Only the Presence
of the Master will bring fulfillment to all your relationships. The
Presence is vast, infinite, stable and centred."
~~ H.H. Sri Sri Guruji
Gurudev
Words by themselves are inadequate to express what a master or a Guru
brings to one's life. His presence, his love, his grace and his
shining light can uplift one from the miseries and the sorrow that life
brings us. One knows one has come to master when there is a sense of
completeness; the feeling of a child peacefully sleeping on the
mother's lap without any worries.
Gurudev chants a Sanskrit shloka every time he starts a discourse. It
means that Ishwara that is the Divine, Guru the Master and Aatma the
Self are one and the same.
When the sadhak (spiritual seeker) is ready on the path, The Guru
himself manifests. Many seekers chant, meditate and do other spiritual
practices, but they find a lack. They feel the need for somebody to
guide them on the path. Sometimes on the path, one feels lost. There
is emotional disturbance, confusion, guilt and there are doubts. You
need somebody to say with reassurance: "Yes, this is the path. You
just be there. It dosen't matter if you fall this way or that way, I
am with you."
It is like mathematics. The technique is taught, but still certain
problems may be going wrong, and the teacher comes around and shows you
where you are going wrong. And, then you've solved it! To learn an
ordinary subject like mathematics, we need a guide. So on the spiritual
path, the need for a guide; a teacher is so much greater! Somebody who
is like a friend with whom you can share inner most feelings, who is
disciplining like a father and caring and loving like a mother. Maybe
one in a million many not need a master, a Guru. They may be able to
walk the path alone, but the majority needs a Guru.
The Guru comes to the disciple. The disciple never goes to the Guru
because he does not know who the true Guru is. One who is ignorant
cannot know what knowledge is! It is like the divine has itself
manifested in the human form. We are comfortable relation to a physical
form. So, when that is the state, the Divine manifests in the physical
form that is the Guru. He takes one along the path and then when the
disciple is mature enough, the Guru lessens the dependence on the
physical form and the craving for the physical form. Even though the
craving is very beautiful, the Guru takes the disciple beyond those
limitations and starts showing him increasingly that `I am with you!
I am your very Self, your Aatma! Guru is antar tam; the inner essence
that dispels all the ignorance and darkness in our lives.
And, the Guru also shows you that `I am in everybody.' The Guru
is speaking, acting and manifesting through each and every particle of
creation. In fact, Guru means that which is vast, boundless. His body
is the entire space. Fortunate are the ones who really come to the
master!
`Tumhi sarva prana sa pranadhar saratsara' – `You are
everything; you are even the source of my life breath, the very essence
of my life.' Being without a Guru is like a ship in the endless
ocean that has lost direction. Fortunate are those who graduate from
being a disciple to becoming a devotee. The disciple has a goal in
life. He wants to get enlightened or get knowledge, but a devotee does
not want anything.
The Guru tatva is infinite. Any amount of explanation is not enough.
Talking about it is beautiful, but feeling the Presence goes beyond mere
words. The language of the enlightened masters is silence. The very
Presence speaks. The master discourses in the silence and all the
doubts are dispelled.
Jai Gurudev..
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of the Master will bring fulfillment to all your relationships. The
Presence is vast, infinite, stable and centred."
~~ H.H. Sri Sri Guruji
Gurudev
Words by themselves are inadequate to express what a master or a Guru
brings to one's life. His presence, his love, his grace and his
shining light can uplift one from the miseries and the sorrow that life
brings us. One knows one has come to master when there is a sense of
completeness; the feeling of a child peacefully sleeping on the
mother's lap without any worries.
Gurudev chants a Sanskrit shloka every time he starts a discourse. It
means that Ishwara that is the Divine, Guru the Master and Aatma the
Self are one and the same.
When the sadhak (spiritual seeker) is ready on the path, The Guru
himself manifests. Many seekers chant, meditate and do other spiritual
practices, but they find a lack. They feel the need for somebody to
guide them on the path. Sometimes on the path, one feels lost. There
is emotional disturbance, confusion, guilt and there are doubts. You
need somebody to say with reassurance: "Yes, this is the path. You
just be there. It dosen't matter if you fall this way or that way, I
am with you."
It is like mathematics. The technique is taught, but still certain
problems may be going wrong, and the teacher comes around and shows you
where you are going wrong. And, then you've solved it! To learn an
ordinary subject like mathematics, we need a guide. So on the spiritual
path, the need for a guide; a teacher is so much greater! Somebody who
is like a friend with whom you can share inner most feelings, who is
disciplining like a father and caring and loving like a mother. Maybe
one in a million many not need a master, a Guru. They may be able to
walk the path alone, but the majority needs a Guru.
The Guru comes to the disciple. The disciple never goes to the Guru
because he does not know who the true Guru is. One who is ignorant
cannot know what knowledge is! It is like the divine has itself
manifested in the human form. We are comfortable relation to a physical
form. So, when that is the state, the Divine manifests in the physical
form that is the Guru. He takes one along the path and then when the
disciple is mature enough, the Guru lessens the dependence on the
physical form and the craving for the physical form. Even though the
craving is very beautiful, the Guru takes the disciple beyond those
limitations and starts showing him increasingly that `I am with you!
I am your very Self, your Aatma! Guru is antar tam; the inner essence
that dispels all the ignorance and darkness in our lives.
And, the Guru also shows you that `I am in everybody.' The Guru
is speaking, acting and manifesting through each and every particle of
creation. In fact, Guru means that which is vast, boundless. His body
is the entire space. Fortunate are the ones who really come to the
master!
`Tumhi sarva prana sa pranadhar saratsara' – `You are
everything; you are even the source of my life breath, the very essence
of my life.' Being without a Guru is like a ship in the endless
ocean that has lost direction. Fortunate are those who graduate from
being a disciple to becoming a devotee. The disciple has a goal in
life. He wants to get enlightened or get knowledge, but a devotee does
not want anything.
The Guru tatva is infinite. Any amount of explanation is not enough.
Talking about it is beautiful, but feeling the Presence goes beyond mere
words. The language of the enlightened masters is silence. The very
Presence speaks. The master discourses in the silence and all the
doubts are dispelled.
Jai Gurudev..
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Experience sharing from Pakistan - An old video, but interesting.
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