Guru is my only refuge, I only worship the Guru. I am always with the Guru
and I pay my tributes to Guru. There is nobody greater than Guru, I am His
child and my intellect is fixed on Him. O Gurudev, protect me!
The essence of life is not just to take birth, grow up, find a livelihood for oneself, get married, have children, nurture your family, & then finally die. They are all very important aspects of life; however, they are not the essence of life. Life means to live it to the fullest, it means to face thousands of hurdles & overcome each one of them, it means to attain a state where one feels that there is nothing else to be achieved in life. & that situation is the one when a disciple can attain fulfillment under the guidance of a great Guru. One can never attain completeness in life without the grace of an able Guru & that is why our ancient texts have placed Guru way above the God Trinity too. Provided below is an extract from the great sermons delivered by SadGurudev in which he explains how a disciple can attain greatness in life.
Three situations will come before you while traveling on this path. First is that you should have the intent to serve your Guru. If you can’t serve Him, you can’t walk on this path. Serving is the base of travelling on this path & you have no services towards your Guru’s feet. You can’t see Ganges in your Guru’s feet, you just witness feet there and if you just see the feet, you won’t attain consciousness in life.
Your eyes should be filled with tears when you are unable to see Him. If you are at such a level, if you have such an affinity towards your Guru, then consider that you have achieved consciousness in life. You all should attain a stage where you should feel anxious if you can’t see your Guru for one week. You should feel uneasy and try to meet Him, you feel that none of your work looks interesting to you and even the Guru should feel this uneasiness, why the disciple hasn’t come, what happened to him, he must have come. If one achieves such a stage, then that disciple has reached the stage of consciousness.
And you people sometimes start chanting Hanuman Chalisa. Nothing significant will happen in your life by chanting this Hymn. You can perform YAJNA for the whole life pouring several kilograms of ghee or oil into the fire and chanting Lakshmi Aarti & your father & forefather did the same and so can you. However, Lakshmi never came before your ancestors and will neither appear before you like this. Lakshmi can’t be pleased by chanting Aarti or pouring ghee, there is a separate method to appease Her. That other path is the path of becoming conscious not a corpse. Your life is like a corpse, & you are bound within a small circle which includes your wife, your children, your mother, and father and some twenty-twenty five thousand pieces of paper and that’s all. You have nothing apart from all these! You need to step outside of that small circle and step into this bigger one which is the path of Sadhanas. But for that, you should have service towards your Guru.
If you feel that Hanuman Ji will help you win a lottery if you make Him an offering of some sweets of five rupees, then He will win a lottery for Himself, why for you? There was a temple of Lord Hanuman that was one kilometer away from temple of Lord Ram. One person reached Lord Ram’s temple and started praying to Him,
“Shri RamChand Kripalu Bhaj Man Haran Bhavbhaya Daarunam”
& after that offered food to Him. Lord Ram was appeased & appeared before him, “What happened my child?”
He said – My wife is lost. Lord Ram said – Look, this is not my department. One kilometer afar is a temple of Lord Hanuman. He looks after such cases. Even my wife was lost and I couldn’t find her. He was the one who found her. You should also go to Him.
There are various departments with which we have associated the Gods & Goddesses. If you go to Lord Ram & seek his help to find your wife, then Lord Ram will not be able to help you in this case. You will have to go & seek Lord Hanuman’s favor. And if you go to Lord Hanuman & pray Him to help you to find a suitable match for yourself then He will reply that I am myself a bachelor. I couldn’t find a match for myself; then how can I help you. We have segregated Gods & have assigned tasks to them. Thus, there is no advantage in praying to those Gods & give them various offerings. To serve means to serve with selflessness. There should be no selfish intentions behind that service. And you should serve with sacrifice, a sacrifice of something which is most dear to you.
If you have five kilograms of sweets & you offer one piece of it to someone, then that is not a sacrifice. You have only one chapatti & you offer half of it to someone then that is a sacrifice. However, the sacrifice should only be done where it is worthy. If you buy a kurta for me by sacrificing your money, then your sacrifice is worthless. This is because I already have fifty kurtas so your kurta will be useless for me. If you offer me sweets, then it is also a waste because I don’t eat sweets. If you offer me a box of sweets then again it is of no use to me.
Instead of that, if you perform some work related to society & all those people who helped in building this hall are getting a part of virtue of this holy deed. Even though I bought the land, yet all those people who helped in construction are liable to get some benefit from this…no matter it be the hundredth part or be it thousandth part, it is irrelevant. Something good is happening here, if I wouldn’t have bought this land, someone might have opened a bar here. However, it is the good luck of those people who created this hall & Sadhanas are being performed here.
Now if you add some more facilities here, then it is your sacrifice. It will be of more use for all those who come here & perform Sadhanas. There is no use in giving me more clothes or offering money to me or offering any sweets. To serve means a work which is done to benefit the common man. You can yourself see that the board here is not good; I should go & get a good board for here. I am not saying this so that you should go and bring a board, this is just an example. You can look for such things around you, may be in the temple of Goddess Santoshi or Goddess Jagadamaba, wherever you have a feeling of sacrifice & wherever there is a place worthy of it.
Serve, then sacrifice & then surrender oneself in hands of Guru. Surrendering means whatever we are today; we should surrender that feeling in the feet of Guru & completely get amalgamated into Him. Once you amalgamate yourself in Guru, you will be able to obtain everything in life. When the tumbler gets completely empty, then it can be completely filler. If your mind is filled, if your brain is completely filled or your heart is completely filled, then I can’t write a new letter there, my preaching will go in vain.
If you bring a completely empty paper before me, then you will be able to read out whatever lines of wisdom I put into it. If it is already filled with lies, hatred, tricks, jealousy then what can I put into it? Where will I write on it? To surrender in the feet of Guru means that whatever I am, I am completely empty. I have lived my life & now I wish that you should teach me how to live a life, I am ready to become whatever you want to make out of me, you tell me how to do it. I will follow all your orders.
Then there is no utilization of the power that you hold in the general public. It is of no utilization in the event that you are a millionaire or you are a well known personality. To surrender in the feet of Guru implies that you aren’t anything now; you can’t surrender in that frame of mind yet convey a disposition of being a renowned man or that you are an exceptionally talented individual. This isn’t surrendering into the sacred feet of Guru.
Giving up implies you aren’t anything, I’m totally vacant now, I have no power or cash. Anything that I owned is abandoned at home; I’m simply an individual remaining before you for getting your wisdom. At the point when he gets these inclination, then he turns into a pupil in the wake of turning into a conscious man. Then, at that point, just he turns into a devotee, he doesn’t turn into a follower all along. First he is a restless man, then, at that point, he turns into a conscious man & when all the three marks of a consciousness shows up in his life, then, at that point, just he turns into a disciple.
In Sanskrit, a disciple implies drawing nearer. A disciple draws nearer to the Master. Approaching isn’t to remain before him with horns locked together. Drawing nearer implies drawing nearer forever, your heart & my heart beat ought to become rational. This is known as drawing nearer to Master. At the point when the follower is on the third stage, then, at that point, he draws significantly nearer to Guru. Coming closer means he doesn’t have any thought of himself, then he doesn’t have any questions or doubts, then there is no doubt that the person standing in front of me is a normal man or a God. Then he is filled of just one thought and that is he is my Guru & Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu & he is everything for me.
When he touches the holy feet of Guru with such thought, then he doesn’t see skin there. He then witnesses Haridwar there, he finds Mathura there & he finds Kashi there. His eyes get filled with tears when he becomes a disciple….. & then he learns the knowledge of surrendering oneself in the holy feet of Guru.
And when he reaches such a stage, the Guru grants him all the boons. There is no give & take relationship here. To get into the heart beats of the Guru means that we should get such close to Guru that our soul and His soul gets amalgamated, His body & our body gets amalgamated. Every moment there should be a thought how I can please Him. This is because your body is definitely yours, but even the Guru’s body is yours. If a thorn pierces Guru’s feet then you should also feel the pain. You should feel that even though you don’t have any pain, then why there is such an anxiety, something is definitely wrong. This can happen only if your soul gets attached to my soul. And when they get united, you will become a disciple.
Meera said, “Ankhiyan ki kari kothari”, I will create a room in my eyes, “Putali Palang Bichaaye” & will create a bed of my pupil in it.
“Ankhiyan Ki Kari Kothari
Putali Palang Bichaaye
Palakan Ki Chik Daari Ke
Piyu Ko Liya Rijhaaye ”
I want to please my beloved by this. I
wish this because when this happens,
“Na Main Dehkun Aur Ko
Na Tohe Dekhan Deyun”
I will not be able to see anyone & neither I will allow you to see anyone else. When Kabir reached such a state, he said, “Main to Ram Ki Bahuriya”. It is mentioned in Shishyopanishad that Guru & disciple are just like lovers. This is because the most pious relationship in this world is of lovers, much pious that mother-father or brother-sister nor son-daughter relationship.
There is freshness in this relationship; everyday there is a desire to meet the beloved. If for a single day the lover can’t see his beloved, he feels the entire day went in vain. He tries to console his heart. What could have happened to her, there must be some reason why she has not come today? Maybe she is sick or his parents must have stopped her…..her father is very cruel, I will twist his neck if I get a chance someday…she has not reached till now…I have asked her to meet at Cannaught Place, still there are five more minutes remaining, let me wait a bit more, she will definitely come. There will be no fault of her, her father is a big bastard….& you wait for her for next two to three hours.
What must have happened, should I go to her home, what will happen if her father sees me? He will still go and will try to even get a glimpse of her& then will remain anxious for the entire night. Now there is no telephone, how can I call her? Mother always picks up the phone, this telephone can get freedom only if this old lady will die and the entire night will pass like this only. This is because this is the relationship of lovers. This is not a relationship of husband and wife, if you had your food then it is fine, if not have it tomorrow.
This happens…the same beloved for which you have spent so much time wandering around her for last two years, you were not even feeling lively without her & the moment you married her, the love & that enthusiasm dies out…no attraction remains towards her…. And then people start looking out for a new beloved. Now she has becomes a wife, now what’s her use? She will complain that you come so late from the office & you will reply that I you have loads of work in the office. I have not signed any contract to come home at five in the evening. She is the same beloved for whom you had such great feeling.
She will say she has not eaten the food and you will reply that there must be a stomach ace for why you have not eaten the food. Go and visit a doctor or take a medicine….now all that attraction has died out. There can be no attraction in between husband & wife.
Due to this reason I have said that the highest relationship in this complete universe is that of lovers & the same relationship should be there between Guru & disciple. Something like this should happen that if a time for three pm was given for meeting each other and if due to some reason the meeting can’t be held then there should be an anxiety. He should try to look here & there for the Guru.
I bless you all that may you develop such a pious relationship in your life & may you all become true disciples. May you all be blessed with all the points that makes a man a true disciple. I bless you all again from the depth of my heart on this occasion of Guru Poornima & am inviting you all to come & obtain you wish for in life. I am ready to give what all you wish for. I am eagerly awaiting to meet you on this grand day.
-SadGurudev Kailash Shrimali Ji
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