Beautiful 3 days spent in the land of Rajasthan with the Master. Every nook and corner we travelled in Lalsot had posters of the shivir at every locations including taxis and markets. One thing i was surprised with was the heights of hospitality in a world where one thinks of so many excuses or shrinks away to even offer someone a glass of water or tea and here are the Rajasthanis, who go beyond anything to serve their guests. All the while i was thinking that the home next to the venue, where we ate food, was a place arranged by people for us as done in other locations we travel to. To my surprise while we sat on the ground and ate our food in the huge compound of this home, i saw many new people walking into this compound inside which sat ladies of the house making rotis. When people walked in, they were asked to sit, paper plates were laid and food was served immediately. The lady making rotis asked all those seated continuously whether they wanted rotis. If it was a yes, she would
Once you make one your Guru, He will not leave you
I was looking at my prior post on FB "Once you make one your Guru, He will not leave you......" So true this is. i would rather put it as "Because you made one your Guru (in some lifetime) He has still not left you :)
The bond of a Guru and disciple is beyond any imaginable relationship. Most of
the time, this is understood by the just the mind due to the heavy curtains
that the mind and sanskars put upon the soul. It is for so many lifetimes that
this bond is created over. i know of few friends of mine, who never knew
anything about Baba but suddenly had strange affinity towards Him and His
teachings (just like i had in 2008).
Many of them do not even know who the person (Guru) is but still find themselves being guided. i have a couple of friends who are connected with Babaji more subtly. They have not attended shivirs, but they find His guiding light in their lives. He comes up in their dreams, guides them in various ways, comforts and heals. Some end up having kriyas and emotional outbursts that among new sadhaks are normally seen only in the physical presence of the Guru. Some just watch him on TV and find a nourishing Guru-Shishya relationship. This goes out far to clearly indicate the subtle presence of the Guru even when the disciple may not understand or see or decipher it at all. When i look back into my years long, long before i came into ShivYog or even knew Baba in any way, i see a very strong connection and understanding of experiences that now reveal to me that i was watched over even during those times. The experiences that seemed weird in those years, only became clear to me when similar experiences i witnessed after meeting my Guru, which clearly indicated in many, many ways that it was the same subtle presence then and today. i had read of how the Guru follows the soul, lifetimes over, especially when the soul has deviated from the path of Light, like a lost sheep from the flock, but i realize it all only now.
Guru is not actually the person we see,
that is just a body of this life time. Guru is that divine soul who has changed
bodies just like you and me have changed, only as the means to catch up again with the souls The
only difference is that we come each time, knowingly or unknowingly, out of our
unfulfilled desires and strong impressions that tries to manifest itself
through various lifetimes. And the Guru comes not for His own, because He is
done with it all. He now comes to remind you of what you left pending last time
and where you could not make it. While we forget that our birth itself is an
attempt to achieve freedom from it all, the Guru comes with an attempt to make
that attempt possible. With the natural laws prohibiting the Guru from direct interference
into the freewill of the soul, the Guru tries all possible ways to reach the
souls in order to awaken and shake them off the dream of the illusory life,
that can again make the soul wander or fall. Even if found, it is still a task
to keep one awake from the deep slumbers of karmic substance. This is why this
relationship can never replace any other.
It takes a fraction of time for the Guru to return back to source for He
is all liberated but out of sheer love, compassion and unconditional love
chooses to linger around and trying to do the maximum possible. When the time
comes, and the soul has dealt with certain amount of karma destined in it's
prarabdh, the lost link of previous lifetimes is re-established with the Guru.
All the reasons to bring a seeker and Guru together are just reasons and the
play of the Consciousness, which might feel like a strange inclination or a
unknown fascination or a feeling of knowing the Guru or familiarity with
various aspect of the Guru or an untoward incident that propels one to the Guru
or an urge to do something for Him or a feeling of connectedness in the very
first meeting or a moment of ecstasy or emotions when seeing or hearing about
the Guru or one may call it simply it a coincidence of having come to the Guru.
Stories may be a thousand but the reason is just ONE. We look at stories
because it fascinates us but He knows it before the story has even unfolded. He
is not excited about this story or meeting for this has happened many times
before, He is only happy that He has another opportunity the present time and He is only eager to know your eagerness for that is what will
accelerate His willingness to help. This is why scriptures also say that it is
not you who finds the Guru but it is the Guru who finds you. Jesus Christ, as i
knew Him from childhood, is known as the Good Shepherd, who is most of the time depicted being among grazing sheep and often shown with a sheep around His shoulder. This has a very deep meaning with
and is similar to what a Guru is. He has the commitment of that of a shepherd when
it comes to taking care of it. He guards over them. He is alert over them. Many
a times, He goes in search of the sheep gone astray and brings them back
untiringly one after the other. In the
Bible there are thousands of times the word Shepherd is referred to. One of the most popular parable in the Bible
is "The Lost Sheep" where it is quoted as "What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of
them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go in
search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he
rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it
is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones
should perish."
Here, souls are referred to as
sheep and in the scripture it says that God will send a Shepherd to take care
of the sheep. The Shepherd is the Guru in form. Now, there are all kinds of
shepherds and that is why Christ is referred to as the GOOD SHEPHERD. Shepherds
count their sheep every night. In these quotes, it says, what would happen when
a shepherd came back by late evening with his 100 sheep after grazing only to
find one sheep missing? The Shepherd does not rest after that. It leaves the 99
on the hill and goes in search of that one that is lost. And when that one is
found, he rejoices over it more than the 99 who never went astray. It ends with the quote that it is the
will of God that not a single sheep should perish.

Now, for that reason the Divine
assigns this humongous task to a Guru. This i could relate is so clearly when
Baba once in a shivir said, "It is natural for a mother who has many kids
but runs to take care of the weakest." Here, He meant that He is more
striving to take care of the weak for the strong are equipped enough to handle
themselves. This is perfect what is in tune with the Good Shepherd who leaves
the 99 just for that one sheep that is lost. Here, lost sheep means the soul
that has wandered off the path or from one's objective of taking this birth.
The Shepherd knows that lost sheep are more vulnerable to the wolves and fierce
weather. The Guru's purpose of incarnation itself is to search the lost lambs
and bring them to the path of light. And what joy the shepherd has when He
finds the sheep and brings it back in His arms and this is why He rejoices more
when the lost are found, more than the "found" are found :) That is why Jesus was popularly known to be among
sinners. Sinners are the karmically burdened. The human being is not capable of
handling one's own karmas and here are the mighty enlightened souls (Guru) who
manage with thousands of people's karma, which is not at all a human task, but can
only be managed by those who are chosen by the Divine themselves. When Baba
Nityananda was once questioned as to why when He was such an elevated being, how
come the society in which He lived in was so bad, to which Baba answered,
"Why would I need good people?' which speaks volumes of the work of fire
of the Chosen ones. They come not to sit and rest. They toil for others. What they make, they don't even sit back and relish it, but is all put back to certain causes. Baba is always on the move, touching every area of life with His Midas touch as Ishan bhaiya calls it. Anything He touches bakes, because His touch is fire, sooner or later, it has to bake. To us what seems like being baked in a few months or years is not true. It has taken baking for lifetimes, it is only that the souls were left half-baked which only has continued in this lifetime, which may be seen or not even known, but that is the way it is. It is unimaginable to know what patience must have gone through the Guru to persistently bake a soul over lifetimes, never ever giving up.

This is what makes a Guru special
for His only agenda is to bring lost souls to the path. This He does by shaking
all the myths and comforts of illusion in various ways that are not often
easily understood by the thinking mind. They may be understood, not understood
or half-understood, it still does not matter to them for they see the whole
picture clear. This is why the bond between a Guru and disciple is most
precious. Who else can take this kind of care and compassion for souls? It is
not easy for them as well because for this divine task to undertake, they
themselves go through a lot. The soldier is battling at the
border to safeguard his country while his countrymen are lying in the comforts
of their beds, partying, and in merry spirits, safe and sound. At this same
time, there is a soldier who is facing harsh climatic condition, surviving
through all odds, and risking everything. Wonder what makes a soldier not think
that it would have been so better choosing another career of comfort. It is not
so for them, because they have a different force within them that sees things
more than themselves. The biggest thing that a soldier offers is sacrifice, not just life, but everything - in return for someone else's good. That gives meaning to
their lives and they are happy about it. Gurus are extremely happy themselves
for the cause that they undertake to live in the human body, which is so
limiting to them. The human body confines their vastness and subtleness into various
limitations when gross, yet they are willing to come down the grosser planes
because on the grosser planes are many souls struggling to liberate. God
frequency is such unimaginably high that it is not so easy for a lower
vibration to even come close, though the divine will is so. The more gross, the
more far. This is when a mediator arrives - the Guru - who lives in the best of
both worlds and who can relate and act as a mediator to connect these two
extremes. This is why the role of a Guru is treated very sacred in the Sanatan
Dharma. Very high reverence is given to the Guru who plays such an important
role to souls, without whom, who knows, when and how a lost sheep can find its
way back. It is a vast sea out there, where a soul can easily and hopelessly
adrift in the sea of uncertainty.

Without a sense of direction and a sense of
path, to be alone, lost, and disoriented can be the worst thing that can happen
to a soul. How grateful would we feel to have a guide who could show the way back
home in the best possible way? Yet, we may not realize how fortunate we are,
because the worth of it still lies muddied under various karmic forces and
subtle impressions. But yet, a Guru is never bothered about it all for He knows
why you are what you are. He knows why you don't see what you have to see. And,
because of this very special quality of His, He is an eternal embodiment of sheer patience springing from unconditional love. He expects nothing in return except the eagerness to walk
the path. For then, it is easier for Him or else He waits over the laws of
non-interference with the only a steady gaze that still prefers to keep watch
over, steadily praying for the lost souls. Such great and vast is the heart of
the Master, to whom whatever we give can never ever be repaid back, as the
scripture rightly quotes. Earnest bow of Gratitude! Shri Gurubhyo Namaha!
Popular posts from this blog
In ShivYog , all sadhaks must have a GOLDEN BOOK. The Golden book is the book where you write your own destiny. By doing sadhana with the Golden book one materializes all that one has written in the book, in brief materializes all that one wants in life. Read ahead for more..... download the new all-in-one notes on Golden Book in PDF format Updated: January 2012 Babaji says that Golden Book is not for those who are contended in life or do not wish to bring any changes into their lives but for those who want to experience life fully and experience spiritual growth. First thing is to buy a good beautiful golden-coated book (or you may coat it with golden paper) One can decorate it or put a golden cover to it to make it feel special, because basically that is what ShivYog 's first step is about and on the journey we will be looking at it all the time like a traveller looks at his map! The Golden Book has been designed by Babaji and is available at shivir'
Durga Saptashati notes were published during the navratra period and was mentioned that every Shivyogi must imbibe the real meaning of the teachings of the Durga Saptashati . "Durga Saptashati is not an event which took place. It continuously unfolds in every human being at all times. Different chapters denote different phases of the individual. All characters in Durga Saptashati are actually traits and qualities within us" -- Baba ji at Delhi Shree Vidya shivir, Feb-March, 2012 Durga Saptashati (What a Shivyogi must learn) - contains teachings of Babaji in simple decoding language to be applied in daily life. Download 'Durga Saptashati' (PDF) One of the sadhak from Goa, has beautifully compiled few e-books. Special thanks to him. These E-books can be viewed on most of the electronic device like iPad. The size is also very small and even if one prints it the output will be crisp and clear now then
Beautiful 3 days spent in the land of Rajasthan with the Master. Every nook and corner we travelled in Lalsot had posters of the shivir at every locations including taxis and markets. One thing i was surprised with was the heights of hospitality in a world where one thinks of so many excuses or shrinks away to even offer someone a glass of water or tea and here are the Rajasthanis, who go beyond anything to serve their guests. All the while i was thinking that the home next to the venue, where we ate food, was a place arranged by people for us as done in other locations we travel to. To my surprise while we sat on the ground and ate our food in the huge compound of this home, i saw many new people walking into this compound inside which sat ladies of the house making rotis. When people walked in, they were asked to sit, paper plates were laid and food was served immediately. The lady making rotis asked all those seated continuously whether they wanted rotis. If it was a yes, she would
On Shree guruve namah
ReplyDeleteGratitude to you babaji. You have given a new life to me. Every day every moment you watch over us and guide us. How lucky we are indeed that we got ur grace. Lovely post. Jyot se jyot jagao sat guru jyot se jyot jalao, meri chit shakti ko jagao satguru jyot se jyot jalao
On Shree guruve namah
ReplyDeleteGratitude to you babaji. You have given a new life to me. Every day every moment you watch over us and guide us. How lucky we are indeed that we got ur grace. Lovely post. Jyot se jyot jagao sat guru jyot se jyot jalao, meri chit shakti ko jagao satguru jyot se jyot jalao