Holi is one of the most auspicious days for accomplishing great sadhanas in life. It is one of those days when a sadhak can get full success in any Tantrokt sadhana. Presented below is a speech given on the auspicious day of Holi by Gurudev which explains the importance of this day in life.
Aham Hutaatyaam Havishyati Nityaaya
Satyaaya Hootaatmakaaya, Chaitanyaaya
Bhavyaaya Paraatparaaya, Shudhaaya
Buddhaaya Niranjanaaya, Namastu Nityam
Guru Shekharaaya.
We offer our prayers to the omnipresent, truth, conscious, great, pious and divine Guru Holi was initially named as “Hutaatma” meaning one which creates positive waves in our soul. Holi means that we should take out everything that we have within our heart, what all is embedded within, happiness, pleasure etc. We have been celebrating Holi since past thousands of years. This festival is celebrated is the month of Vasant, when the autumn is over, all the yellowish colored leaves fell down and new buds start coming. It is neither hot nor cold; nor does it rain in this period. Farmers become happy as they are able to earn money after selling their harvest, poor people gets happy because they no longer have to bear cold and a common man becomes delighted looking at the nature around himself.
Holi doesn’t just mean burning something. Holi is not celebrated just because Holika was burnt on this day. Holi is a day when waves of pleasure comes in our heart and if no waves appear on this day then no waves can appear in the entire year and if no waves can appear in our life, then such a life is useless. Such a life is a selfish life. I am not asking you to become selfless in life. I want you to stay in the middle of these two and then only you can obtain happiness in life.
Happiness can’t come on the face of a selfish man and it can’t even come on the face of a selfless man. Happiness can’t be seen on the face of a saint. If he is a true saint, he will remain sober in his life, nothing will come out of him as there is nothing within him. No wave can appear in his life. On the other hand a selfish man will always think how to cheat others, how to snatch things from others. Standing in between these two ends is known is Holi. Where there is no feeling of selfishness, a man can’t even think of sacrificing everything that he has in life. You are blessed that you have a Guru, a guide who can create waves of love and pleasure in your life. Due to this reason, Guru is also known as Hutaatma, Holi is also known as Hutaatma, the God residing within is called Hutaatma. “Hut” means sacrificing and sacrificing means the happiness that is outside, we should absorb that and express it. Pain, tensions etc. will always remain in our life, but if one looks at it with a wider horizon, there is nothing like that. God has not created things like tensions, pains etc., humans have created them. We just feel that there are lots of troubles in our life, there are lots of tensions in our life.
However, what this tension is all about? It will get resolved today or tomorrow or at max by day after tomorrow, it will certainly get resolved. We ourselves create tensions in our life. We become sad because of us only, what will happen tomorrow, the daughter has grown twenty years old and what will happen now, what will happen if son won’t give me money, what will happen to my family if I die. We will face it whenever anything like that happen in our life. We unnecessarily become sad in our life and God has not given these sufferings to us in our life. Holi is the means by which we can remove all these negative thoughts from our life.
Happiness can come into our life only if there are changes in our life. Sun arise everyday in a new way, it doesn’t arise from the place it arose the day before. When sun can’t arise from the same place every day, then even you can’t stay in same state of mind until and unless you are feeling troubled in your life and this trouble is nothing but your own creation. If we visit Konark temple, then we can see that there are 365 small holes in the wall. Each day sun rays enters into this temple from one of the holes and then shifts its position the next day to the next hole. We can imagine the level of knowledge our ancestors had about the earth’s revolution around the sun. There is no need to see those rocks cut images there; this architecture itself explains the greatness of those people
When sunrise doesn’t happen from the same point everyday, then even we can’t remain in the same state of mind everyday and if we remain in the same state, then it means that we are tensed and this tension is something which is created by you only. I am feeling unhappy because I have worked for two more hours today, I am unhappy because he cursed me and so on. What if he abused me, its his mouth which got tainted. If someone tries to spit on moon, the spit will fall back on his own face, then why do you get tensed or distressed. I am not asking you to become a saint and I am neither asking you to become a selfish man, stand in the middle of both these situations. Whatever is happening around us will continue to happen whether we wish for it or not.
Its your affinity to grab distress and tensions, you don’t grab happiness in life. If I expresses happiness by seeing your face, then it becomes a pleasure for me, where as if feel your arrival like an unwanted guest, I may feel distressed in life. You may feel that there is a great pleasure in wearing good clothes whereas it is painful to wear normal clothes. All these painful situations are your own creations. Our life have all the pleasures and pains, good and bad things. If you are delighted from inside, then it means Holi is present around you, else your life is colorless.
Due to this reason, each moment of this life should be spent by becoming special for someone or by making someone special in your life. You have to perform one of these tasks. If you become special for someone, you will no longer be a selfish man. If you make someone special in your life, then also you will get away from selfishness. Now it is all in your hands to either become selfish or a Hutaatma in life. Hutaatma means Guru, it means God, it means your body, it means your great thoughts. No one is going to stop you from becoming a negative thinker or a positive thinker.
My father died when I was fourteen years old and I remained sad for four to six months, yet the life continued at its pace. It was fine when I was an ascetic and it is fine even now when I am a householder. It is fine when I am completely healthy and it was also fine when I remained ill for more than six months earlier. It’s the body and both happiness and sadness will come near to us. However, what is more important is what I accept in my life and our this acceptance makes us a positive or a negative thinker in life.
Holi is the means by which we should inspect ourselves, it’s the means by which we should analyze and think about how am I going to spend this coming year ahead. Whether I will accumulate pains and sufferings in life or I will remain happy and bring happiness to others. Holi is the occasion to stop for a moment and think about our life. The aim of our life is to achieve happiness and we are unable to understand that. If I see the same wrinkles on your faces that were there a month ago, then there is no use of this Holi in the life, that will mean that you are all dead. Holi will be beneficial only if I could see some positive changes in you, else it would become useless. Face is mirror of what we are in life. What all we are, whether good or bad, gets reflected on our face. Holi means that we should bring positive changes in our life.
I am blessing you all to either get completely attached to me or to get completely detached from me. I am giving you both the options – either get attached or get detached from me in life. I will not feel any pain in my life, I will not feel depressed even if millions get detached. It didn’t matter when millions get attach with me, I didn’t feel pain or happiness at that time and will neither feel it now. I will complete all the tasks that are assigned to me on this earth and then I will move to some other destination. I will spent twenty, forty or sixty years there and will move ahead again. There are hundreds of places like Vishnu Lok, Brahma Lok, Shiva Lok etc. This earth is known as Prithvi Lok.
Someone will understand it someday, if not today, may be after two thousand years. It is not a necessity that someone should understand me. I don’t think about it. If no one is there to understand, then even my family will not understand me, and if someone is willing to understand, then that God sitting way off can also understand me. When Bhishma was all pierced by the arrows and became sick and weak, then Lord Krishna went to meet him.
Bhishma asked Krishna the reason for his such a painful situation. Krishna told him that it is because of the sins that he had committed by favoring Kauravas and due to this reason, he was also liable to suffer for those sins. Similarly, Guru has to suffer from all the sins committed by his disciples. I will have to pay for all the sins that have been committed by you all because there is a link between us. I have not committed any sin in my life. I may scold you but I have never cheated anyone. It is your desire to call me a cheat or your Guru. It is all up to you.
I never get mentally sick, if I get sick it only effects my body. I have already mentioned you the reason behind my sickness above. It will be because of the sins committed by my disciples whose sins I have to take over myself because you people are in my resort. I will feel happy if you remain delighted, pious and make others happy too. If your remain in the same pathetic state, it will give pain to me. I am standing still at my place and I have the details of all your deeds, I always keep my eyes opened.
I bless you all that may all your sins get removed, may you be able to accomplish sadhanas in life, may your fortune rise, may you live a happy life, may smile always remain on your face, may all of your enjoy every moment of your life. I bless you all again from the depth of my heart.
– SadGuruDev Shri Kailash Shrimali
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