Guru Bhakti (4)

Dear Friends

Though everyone thinks he acts according to his own wisdom but there are rare persons who do so.  One’s instincts , one’s desires, wishes take a shape of different thoughts and one thinks he is following one’s wisdom, awareness. The lust, the greed, the jealousy come in guise of different thoughts.

I mentioned in my first post Guru-Bhakti (1/10) that to act according to one’s own wisdom is just like to walk on razor’s edge. This way is totally the path of intelligence.

Most people find it difficult and there comes the need of a Guru who is in human form who may guide him.

On the first, it is one’s good luck that one gets a person with selfless motives and full of pure knowledge.

There is a prevalent thought in the field of spiritualism that when a disciple is ready, the Guru comes to help him as a shower of rain automatically fills a pit. That is why Guru is considered ‘a cloud full of blessings’, that quenches the spiritual thirst of a disciple. In this age of Kaliyuga we see a crowd of Gurus that are ready to show the path, what path they don’t know, to whom they want to guide is not known to them. The electronic media has produced a ‘band of Gurus’.

I am not condemning anyone; but most of them are story-tellers, katha-vaachaks.

They are there to set a record that they tell stories in aeroplanes, in ships and on the ground. As if story told in an aeroplanes has some better quality than that told on earth. All of these are tricks of ego. People follow these ‘Bapus’. When you are ready to become disciple they are already there to become Gurus.

But first decide what is your goal ?

Do you want to meet your real self or are just deceiving yourself ?

Now , in this age, when a man is frightened of oneself . One has no trust in himself how can a man trust anyone other. The man of modern age needs a Guru the most. Bewildered man accepts any Tom, Dick and Harry as Guru.

The reason is, this generation is spoon-fed. From very childhood tuitions, career guidance, competitions, references, so called sophistication.

What is there ?

Can a person developed in such an artificial atmosphere has spiritual thirst ! If one has, is it possible for him to get an authentic Guru ?

Then, what to do ? Pray. Just pray. To whom ? Pray to the universal Nature to guide him and there comes the ‘pure consciousness’ in form of a human being to guide you, to accompany you, to take you carefully to your spiritual goal. This man is the Guru. His words will tell, his gestures, his eyes will tell; and now what you have to do.

Surrender! Now surrender totally! But remain alert also. Awareness will increase if you are with the right person and on the right path. Selfless Guru, selfless disciple . The selfless psychic union is called ………. Sharnam Gachchhami !

This psychic union is called Guru-Bhakti!

Om Tat Sat!

Vinod Shori

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http://shriaprajita.blogspot.com

Guru Bhakti (3)

Dear Friends

In my previous post I wrote ‘Jai Dutt Guru’ as salutation. This is my pranaam to the Guru of each and every ‘saadhak’ Lord Dattatreya.

Lord Dattatreya is omnipresent ; the most mystic personality , helper of everyone in the field of meditation.

Every ‘saadhak’ can seek his help and he is there to help him but he is most difficult to be recognized even by his dedicated followers.

A ‘saadhak’ of any religion, at any part of this planet remains incomplete in his practices unless and until he gets the blessings of Lord Dattatreya.

Lord Dattatreya is mentioned in Hindu Puranas and other scriptures ; but he has nothing to do with any religion (as we see it in its present forms). He is always there to help a Bhakta, a Jnaani, a Yogi and whosoever wants his spiritual upliftment.

As he is a balanced combination of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, he is above from Brahma, Vishnu and even Mahesh.

Every sect that knows the importance of its Guru, that knows very well that without Guru nothing is possible ; gets the blessing of Lord Dattatreya. To please him no mantras are required , no flowers, no scents, no bells, not even a single ritual.

He is ‘Smaran Maatren Santushtah’. Just remember him and he is satisfied.

It means just get balanced and your ‘pure consciousness’ is there to bless you with a sense of fulfillment, satisfaction, grace and ecstasy.

The picture we see of Lord Dutt is just a symbol of him. He has no shape , he can obtain any shape.

Yes, wherever he is ; a bonfire is found there. A ‘pious bonfire’ ; a ‘dhooni’ is always there.

Now, what is this ‘dhooni’ ? A fire of pure consciousness where impurity of every kind is burnt.

If one wants to put a picture of Lord Dattatreya to bow before him. He should put it in his pooja room and not in any other room or at shop etc. Ladies must avoid to bow before him.

The friends who have more curiosity to know about ‘Guru-Tattva’ may ask whatsoever they wish.

Again, this is a platform where I talk about Sanatan Dharma according to religious scriptures of Hindu thinking. But it has nothing to do with fanaticism. Advait vedanta as per Aadi Shankar and Upnishdas will remain prominent.

Love to all

Hari Om Tat Sat

Jai Guru Dutt

Vinod Shori

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http://shriaprajita.blogspot.com

Guru Bhakti (2)

Dear Friends

Thanks a lot for joining me. One of friends has asked why did I write Jai Guru Dev as salutation, did I recognize a particular man who runs a sect whose followers salute each other saying Jai Gurudev? I said ‘no’.  Not at all. I am not a lover of any particular person. The contemporary person who dyes his hair to look young and charges from people just to tell them how to inhale from left nostril and exhale from the right or vice versa is not worth respecting what to say of reverence.

As I mentioned earlier one’s own awareness and wisdom is to be followed first. Now, who can follow his own awareness? Can a mind full of lust, greed and arrogance etc. follow a pure awareness. The answer is categorically ‘no’. This dust lying on the mirror of consciousness is the basic obstacle, the main hindrance in the way that leads to a pure self.  That pure self is consciousness. Or this can be said also that this consciousness is pure self that has the capacity of becoming one’s Guru. A person who has attained pure consciousness can be someone’s Guru. The words uttered by a person who is pure in a sense mentioned above can also be one’s Guru. So once again I will emphasize to follow one’s own awareness first.

This awareness will tell you about your needs and how these needs can be fulfilled.

I will talk about spirituality, religion, philosophy and mantra-vigyaan. I am here to help suffering humanity, my fellows, the persons who have every worldly luxury with them but are not peaceful. Or who are penniless and sufferers. I am here to help, to share, to celebrate. Come, join and have a taste of consciousness that has no selfish goal.

Jai Dutt Guru

Vinod Shori

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http://shriaprajita.blogspot.com

Guru Bhakti (1)

 I bow to my Guru who is eternal and provider of fulfilment to all kinds of my needs.

Guru can never be imposed on anybody by anyone whosoever it may be. Nature , that is the supreme power, has given this glory to every human being that one can choose one’s Guru and adore him as super power and can get each and everything from Guru by having full devotion towards him.

This full devotion towards Guru is called Guru Bhakti.

To visit one’s Guru with Dakshina and other offerings and just to have a mantra from Guru and visit him once a year or fortnightly and doing ‘Dandvat’ Pranams is not Guru Bhakti.

Now who is my Guru it depends upon me.

There are sects which believe only a person in human form can be one’s Guru and another sect completely refuses to do so.

Who is right and who is wrong, it is a futile discussion. I am not here to discuss such silly topics. Sitting at my Guruji’s lotus feet whatsoever I have learnt I want to share with all of you whom I take as my friends. I think there are three types of Gurus. And no one can change these steps if one is free of prejudices. All the three types of Gurus are as below :-

1.  One’s own intellect , wisdom, power of reasoning and awareness.
2.  Any person in form of human being.
3.  Any scripture.

First of all one will have to respect his own wisdom, then comes any person and then is the place of any holy scripture.

According to this choose your Guru. One single can do and all of three  may also do. But if devotion is not there towards one’s intellect, the person you have chosen and the holy scripture you have chosen then none of the three can do.

So, let us take a start. Choose your Guru and pay your full devotion without any spec of doubt!

Jai Gurudev !

Vinod Shori

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http://shriaprajita.blogspot.com