Dear Friends!
I am again with you discussing ‘Guru-Bhakti’. In my first post I discussed about three categories of Guru needed for progress in the field of spirituality. (a)One’s own intellect (b)Any person in a human form(c) Any Scripture.
In my previous two posts I discussed about scriptures.
Friends!
In search of a Guru he started his journey from a village of Kerala to the remote hills of Himalayas and found him there. The Guru made him adept in every branch of knowledge and blessed him with his spiritual powers. And he, with the blessings of his Guru and his own sharp intellect, brought to light the hidden meaning of Geeta, Upnishadas and Braham-Sutras.
I pay my regards to him.
He was a poor Brahmin from Kerala whom the world knows as Adi Shankaracharya. His commentary on Geeta, Upnishadas and Braham-Sutras made him Acharya.
In Aryavarta there is a tradition that unless and until a scholar propounds a new thought with commentary on Prasthan-Trayi(Geeta, Upnishadas and Brahm-Sutras), one cannot get entitled as Acharya.
It was not so like these days that every school-teacher or any yoga-trainer is entitled as Acharya. Someone are self-declared ones also.
Based on Vaidic knowledge and Upnishadic truth he established such a strong foundation of the principle of Advaita(non-dual) Vedanta that it cannot be even shaken. And with the help of his commentary on Prasthaan-Trayi he elaborated his principle so intelligently that all other schools of thought lost their glittery.
Advaita-Vedanta is considered a lion amongst other schools of thought.
Adi Shankar set such an example of a pious relationship between Guru and Shishya by spreading his Guru’s message throughout his life through his work of intellect and organizational skill that is found nowhere in the history and that was also the need of hour. The system organized by Adi Shankar played an important role in the uplift of golden principles of Sanatana Dharma.
Adi Shankar set such an example of a pious relationship between Guru and Shishya by spreading his Guru’s message throughout his life through his work of intellect and organizational skill that is found nowhere in the history and that was also the need of hour. The system organized by Adi Shankar played an important role in the uplift of golden principles of Sanatana Dharma.
Giving a basis of Vaidic principles he established four ‘maths’ in each direction of Aryavarta.
Ayam Atma Braham
Pragyaanam Braham
Aham Braham Asmi
Tat Twam Asi
In the company of his Guru an aspirant gets knowledge of Vedas, Upnishadas and through his austerity and renunciation of worldly desires attains supreme knowledge of ‘pure self’.
The Guru, from his experience, tells to his disciple, “Aham Braham Asmi(I am the Ultimate truth).” And again without a gap of a single moment, just simultaneously tells him, “Tat Twam Asi(Thou art That).” While uttering this ultimate truth the Guru is not talking about this mortal body but the blissful state of consciousness he is enjoying. Listening to this ‘mahavakya’ the Ultimate Truth regains its shine in the consciousness of the disciple.
And he repeats as a resonance of a right note on the tuned strings of Veena, “Aham Braham Asmi. Tat Twam Asi.” He is not just repeating the words of his Guru but expressing an ecstatic experience he is passing through in the company of his revered Guru. Thus happens the transmission of the lamp.
Undoubtedly the experience is subjective and has nothing to do with any dogma but the presence and need of a Guru is inevitable. Nothing can happen without the help of an enlightened Guru in form of a human being so far as the field of Spirituality is concerned.
Again, coming to the point what can an enlightened Guru do only, if there is no competence in the disciples. And if a competent disciple is there, where is the enlightened Guru to transmit the lamp?
Earlier, there used to be shops of Gurudom but now bigger malls of Gurudom are there not enlightened with the knowledge of self-realization but with neon-lights of advertisements to attract the innocent aspirants of truth and exploit them any way they can be.
Is it a state of hopelessness?
No one knows, perhaps.
OM TAT SAT!
VINOD SHORI
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