"To love someone whom you like is insignificant. To love someone because they love you is of no consequence To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life. To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living..." ----- His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankarji
Friday, 6 August 2010
GURU IS A CIRCUIT BREAKER!!!
*Guru is a circuit breaker*
A city without streets, a king without treasure, a merchant without business
and a life without a guru are all considered the same. Why the emphasis on
guru? Why do you need a guru?
Life sometimes seems very complicated. There is pleasure, pain, happiness,
suffering, generosity, greed, passion and dispassion. When our life is full
of such opposing values, our mind sometimes becomes unable to handle these
complications and just breaks down.
It is then that you need wisdom to guide you through troubled times. Guru is
that wisdom. You might have noticed you give great advice when you are not
involved in a situation but the same is not true when you are in trouble.
This is because wisdom dawns when you are out of the mess. Guru is one who
is out of the mess. He watches the chaos, amidst the chaos.
Guru is like a circuit breaker. When you cannot handle life, your guru comes
and saves so that you remain sane and balanced. If there is a compelling
desire that bothers you, your guru is there to offer solace. You offer all
your desires and pain to your guru. Having a guru means being able to relax
and smile all the time, walk with confidence, be fearless and have a vision.
That is wisdom.
*Guru is a tattva* -- an element, a quality inside you. It is not limited to
a body or form. Guru comes in your life in spite of your refusing or being
rebellious. The guru principle is so vital in life. There is an element of
the guru in every human being. That wisdom in each has to be invoked,
awakened. When this element is awakened, misery in life disappears. In our
consciousness, wisdom comes to life when guru tattva comes to life. When we
have no desires of our own, then the guru tattva dawns in our life. Wake up
and see that our life is changing every moment and feel grateful for
whatever you have received.
*Guru Purnima* is to review your growth. This review will give you
encouragement. If you think you haven't grown enough on the spiritual path
in the past few years, then you have not utilised the knowledge. If you feel
you are stuck somewhere, then the realisation that you are stuck is also
growth.
That is why we celebrate Guru Purnima. It is the day when the devotee arises
in full gratitude and feels grateful for the great knowledge he has received
from the Master. It is time to review how much knowledge you have ingrained
in your life and how you are growing in knowledge. This may bring about a
realisation for scope of improvement, which in turn will bring humility in
you. Be grateful for the way this knowledge has transformed you. Just think
how you could have been without this. Gratitude and humility together make
bloom a genuine prayer inside you
On Guru Purnima, remember all gurus of the past. When your life is full, you
get a feeling of gratitude then you start with the guru and end up adoring
everything in life. On Guru Purnima the devotee wakes up in full gratitude.
The devotee becomes like an ocean moving in itself. Guru Purnima is a time
to celebrate and rise in devotion and gratitude.
JAI GURUDEV!!
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