However, if we go through our ancient texts like Vedas, Purans, Upanishads etc, then we can gain a lot of confidence in this word. Guru is not like any other common person and thus Gurutatva (essence of Guru) itself becomes divine. All of these texts talk about our great Gurus and their significant contribution towards the society.
The Guru may be in the form of Vishwamitra, who helped his disciple Rama, to defeat his disciple’s enemy Ravana and eradicate the demons from this earth. The Guru may also be in the form of Ram Krishna Param Hans who blessed his pupil Vivekanand with Divine knowledge, using which Vivekanand helped the Indians to regain faith in themselves and their religion. Two examples have been quoted here from two very vastly separated eras of our Aryan civilization; just to show how old is this Guru and Disciple relationship.
Mentioned below are few of Kabir’s famous sayings, where he has tried to narrate the greatness of Guru.
Sab Dharti Kagaj Karon, Lekhani Sab Vanrai.
Saath Samudra Ki Masi Karon, Guru Gun Likha Na Jaaye.
Kabir says it is impossible to write about the Gurutatva even if this complete earth is used as paper, creating pens from all the woods that would be available by cutting down the trees in the forests on this earth and using all the water available in the seven seas. Such is the vastness of Guru and Gurutatva. In an another saying he explains greatness of Guru as follows:
Yeh Tan Vish Ki Belari, Guru Amrit Khaan,
Sheesh Diyo Jo Guru Mile, To Bhi Sasta Gyaan
Kabir here says that this body is full of venomous thoughts and every now and then it gives birth to many ill thoughts where as Guru is a mine of elixir. He further says that even if one has to sacrifice oneself to achieve closeness of Guru, the deal is still very cheap. At another place he says Kabir that,
Guru Govind Dou Khade, Ka Ke Lagun
Paaye, Balihari Guru Aapne, Govind Diyo Batae
Here Kabir mentions the Guru to be greater than the God. He says that when Guru and Govind (Lord Krishna) both appeared before him, he wasn’t able to decide as to whose feet he should touch. Then realizing the supremacy of Guru, who enabled Him to witness Govind and he touched his Guru’s feet.
Guru is one who fulfills both materialistic and spiritual wishes of his disciple. If a person is in great need of money and Guru tries to teach him sadhana related to spiritualism, then he will not be able to concentrate in that sadhana. Instead his entire focus will be on the money only. Due to this reason only, Guru first tries to eradicate the poverty from his disciple’s life by giving him sadhanas related to gaining financial boon. Once the disciple is able to eradicate all the short comings of his life, then only can he achieve totality in life.
An ascetic doesn’t know the problems that we face in a householder’s life; a man wearing saffron clothes can’t understand the situation when the daughter becomes 24 years old. He can’t understand the tension but we can understand that. An ascetic can’t understand the hunger. This is because wherever he stands and give his blessings, people will feed them. They are far healthier than us, their face aren’t pale. They have reddish cheeks and our cheeks are all deflated. None of these ascetics are dying out of hunger, all of them are living a healthy life and we are all pale. We are sad and full of tension, they are healthier because they are fed with food free of cost…and we have to put in lots of efforts for the same. We barely survive by all our efforts.
Thus the meaning of sadhana is that what all shortcomings are there in our life…..if you have lots of diseases then no matter how many sadhanas Guru teach you, you won’t achieve success in it because you won’t be able to accomplish the sadhana. Will you cough or perform the sadhana? If you don’t have a son, still you won’t be able to perform sadhana because a tension is there in your mind. If you have a grown-up daughter, again you won’t be able to concentrate. If the wife quarrels with her husband or the husband quarrels with the wife then again you can’t perform sadhana in life. Thus it is the duty of the Guru to first solve the problems of his disciple by means of the sadhanas. If he is able to remove all these hurdles from your life, then only he is Guru, a person just delivering his sermons can’t be a true Guru….the problem doesn’t get solve like this and such a person is also not a true Guru.
Guru is the one who can understand your problems. Guru is the one who can relieve you from your pain and miseries, who can teach you the sadhana, who can give you the mantra using which you can eradicate all your pains, sufferings and short comings from your life. However all this will only be possible if Guru can reside within our heart. This is not a very difficult task. All we need is to come closer to Guru’s heart and hand over all our suffering, pains, diseases and short comings in His holy feet. The Guru is always willing to accept all these short comings of our life happily. He wishes to see us all merry and cherished in life.
It is our duty to reach in His holy feet and to amalgamate ourselves in Him. Gurudev is calling all of us to Varanasi on 19-20-21 April on the occassion of Sadh Gurudev’s Birthday so that He can fulfill all our desires.
This year this auspicious festival will be celebrated on 19-20-21 April in Varanasi. It is important to note that Akshaya Tritiya is also falling on 21st April on this day.Thus any diksha, sadhana, worship done on this day will have its everlasting effect in the life of the concerned person. Not only this, Rudrabhisheka will be performed on the holy land of Varanasi, which is the land of Lord Shiva. Gurudev will also be granting Tara Dhan Lakshmi MahaGauri Shiva Shakti dikshas for a blessed married life.
It is mandatory to obtain Guru Diksha from Revered Gurudev before performing any Sadhana or taking any other Diksha. Please contact Kailash Siddhashram, Jodhpur through Email , Whatsapp, Phone or Submit Request to obtain consecrated-energized and mantra-sanctified Sadhana material and further guidance,