Shankaracharya traveled on that path and due to this reason He has written that love means to completely forget about oneself, it means to completely destroy one’s identity, to hand over what all a person possess, it is a process of destroying one’s identity. And all this is important because the lover needs to remain safe, the lover needs to be safeguarded from all the problems. Only that person would be able to spread a smile in this entire world, only that person would be able to make this entire world fragrant. Only that person would be able to flourish on this entire universe, only that person would be able to stand tall against the storms and only that person would be able to tear apart all the thorns. If we let that person die, if we let the walls fall down and quietly look at all this painful activity, then that temple will definitely fall down. If the walls fall down, definitely the temple will also fall down and if temple will fall down the God residing in that temple will also fall down. Then nothing will be left behind except darkness, there would be only ruins of that temple. And if we wish to just see the ruins then nothing to bother about, however if we want to see the temple standing tall and strong, then love is a must, then it is must to destroy one’s identity.
A personality like that of Shankaracharya has not taken birth in last thousand years. He understood the correct meaning of life, He became a disciple in true sense, He became a Guru with full potential, but there was not even a single second in which His Guru didn’t reside in His heart. He said that there is nothing like God, He said that there is nothing like mother or father in life, Na Taato Na Maata Na Bandhu Na Bhraataa, some said to Him that there is something like Brahma and He replied that Aham Brahmaasmi i.e. I am myself Brahma, Dwiteeyo Nasti i.e. there is no other thing in this entire world. If there is Brahma then it is me, what I am doing is correct.
However, in the end He mentions that He is the worst person of this entire universe because He didn’t take care of His Guru when He needed the most. That personality (His Guru) should have lived for next twenty years or so however He was surrounded by the storms and died struggling with them only.
This will generate a great sin and this personality will never take birth again. I have done such a great sin that I will never forgive myself. I am so much filled with guilt that smile can never come on my face now. It is all because I didn’t surrender my life for the person who truly deserved it. He gave me the wisdom, He gave me the knowledge owing to which I have been able to write the book ShankraaBhaashya. And what I have done, I let that personality wither away who gave me such divine knowledge.
Panini mentioned that love doesn’t mean that two bodies should remain in physical contact. Love means no matter whether the lover is some where far from my place, yet I should have the feeling to sacrifice myself for the sake of my lover. Even if one has not seen the lover like Mira, one should put all possible efforts similar to the way Mira came out of the palace to safeguard her lover. She had never seen Krishna, yet she stepped out of the palace just to find out the lover and to save Him from the conspirers.
Shankara ran at that very moment when He came to know that the temple is about to fall down. He just had one feeling, to go and serve His Guru. He said “These books, these texts are of no use to me because it is the Guru who has given me the knowledge in this life.
If I let that knowledge to end, then there can’t be greater sinner than me in this entire universe”. And the last fourfive shlokas that He created were all fulled with guilt. Doesn’t history teach us that our last breaths should not be of guilt? Doesn’t history teach us to stand tall in front of the strong winds because we have the potential, we are still young, we have that courage? Doesn’t history teach us that we should not let the temple fall down? Will history ever forgive us that we allowed the Guru to get entangled in conspiracies and we just didn’t do anything for Him? History will never pardon you!
Then what would be the use of such a life? What would be the worth of your life? How will you then become a disciple? Disciple doesn’t refer to a person who just gets initiation in life. The entire journey from birth till death is the path of a disciple. Disciple means one who climbs up on the stairs rather than getting down the stairs. Disciple means one who fight against the strong winds rather than hiding himself from strong winds.
Disciple should analyze whether he is just watching the temple fall down or he is putting his conscious efforts to safeguard it, whether he is allowing the church to fall down or he is saving it, whether he is allowing the Gurudwara to fall down or he is saving it?
There is no God in Punjab, they just have Guru. The temple where they go is Guru’s door. What is God? Nanak taught us that there is only Guru and their holy book is called GuruGrantha Sahib, it is not called Krishna Grantha Sahib or Ram Grantha Sahib. He must have understood something, those ten Gurus must have realized that the greatest state of life can only be attained by means of a Guru. They didn’t use any other name for the holy book, they created a single book and named it Guru Grantha Sahib. They really understood this thing what is Guru and it is definitely something to understand that what Guru is. Everyone in Punjab understood that God is something far but the living God is none other than Guru. If we even don’t understand Him, then everything in our life is futile. And due to this reason, they termed Guru a living God.
They said that what would we attain from that God, what all is there can be obtained from this Gurudwaara, it can be attained from Guru Grantha Sahib and it can be attained once the person gets rid of inner anger in life. If you come riding on a horse of anger, then there can’t be a greater sinner than you. The moment you show anger, you destroyed yourself. There is no significance of your life if the seed of love doesn’t get germinated in your heart. If you have loved then you have climbed up four stairs in your life. If you sacrifice your life, then you will attain your destination because love is the synonym of completeness of life. There is nothing beyond love. There is no word beyond love. This is the process to meet your beloved, it means to become each other’s shadow, it is the process to amalgamate in one another and it is the process to completely sacrifice oneself.
And if you are not able to sacrifice yourself in life, then you are just carrying a burden on your shoulder in this life. This is not the greatness in life. This is not the synonym of being a human. There is no importance of such a life. This is just a game, this is just an illusion. This is just an illusion that if I will create a bungalow then I will become great in life, if I become the head of this temple’s committee then I will become great. There would be hundreds of such committee heads in Delhi itself and we don’t know the name of even a single person!
And a Guru can be identified only by the inner eyes. You will not be able to understand Guru if the seed of love doesn’t get germinated in your heart. If you are able to understand Guru than that seedling will quickly grow up. There is love in you all, however you don’t energize it. They don’t get energized because there is a great impact of your anger, your hatred and external surrounding on you. You have become a part of all this and you have suppressed that love. The moment you remove this darkness, the moment you get rid of your anger, the moment you remove your conspiracies, seed of love will germinate in your heart and your face will glow up with a divine smile. Fragrance will start to emerge out of your body, your body will start feeling divine, your eyes will be filled with joy, a beat of love will emerge out of your heart and you will then devote your life to safeguard this divine state.
All those who became great in life removed unnecessary or worldly things from their life so that seed of love may get germinated and flourish in their life. They didn’t become a victim of those unnecessary things. If you will go out, you will only get conspiracies, betrayal, false promises and conspirers who could even destroy the biggest kingdoms. Conspiracies flourish easily, thorns flourish easily whereas it is extremely painful to grow a rose flower.
You have to give it water, manure at proper time and in proper quantity. You will have to wrap a cloth around it to protect it from strong winds and ensure that the plant become strong. It takes great pains to blossom a rose flower. You don’t have to put any extra efforts for the thorns, they will grow even if you don’t take any care of them. However, these thorns will eventually pierce our own foot!
What are you sowing? There is hatred in your heart, there are thorns in your heart because the environment you are living in is polluted. Do you have that potential to remove them from your life? If you will remove them, then for the first time in your life, you will be able to climb up on the stairs of greatness. If you further nurture your plant of love, you will further rise above on this stair. If you offer this love to someone in your life, you will reach to the higher levels and if you sacrifice yourself then this is the greatest achievement of life.
May you attain such a level because till the time this anger, this conspiracy exist in your life, you will remain among the worst creatures of this world. If you are among one of those conspirers, then there is no worst sinner than you. If love exist in your heart, if the plant of love is swaying in you, then you are among great personalities of this world. Rose flower grows well if they are nurtured with blood. It is seen that sometimes rose plants are provided blood and this results in rose flowers of weight even up to one kilograms.
This is a great tragedy of life. A great Guru never got the number of good disciples which he wanted in His life. Buddha also said the same thing, “Anand, I need 200 disciples to properly flourish my knowledge.” However, all that He had was Anand. This is the biggest draw back of life. This pain always resides in the heart. If the Guru couldn’t get the right disciples in life, then His life gets restricted. I don’t want that show off where you just speak out Gurudev-Gurudev and press my feet. I don’t have any desire that you should wash my feet and drink that water. It is your ritual to touch my feet and I have to bless you in return.
However, I bless you to bring some solid transformations in your life, some amazing changes must come in your life. You should not just keep on pleading in your life, you should stand tall and face all sorts of troubles of life, you should be able to accept all sorts of challenges of life. No matter whether there are saints in front of you or there are ascetics or any tantrik or even God. You should have the personality to not only face them but to win over them. If you are living, be alive each and every moment. What is the use of living like a wet stick, which neither burns completely nor remains unburnt, it just creates fumes. You are living just like that!
Sometime you convince your wife, sometime you convince your neighbors, sometimes you plead before your manager that Navratri is approaching, please grant me leave. You should possess power, there should be a fire in your eyes, you should look directly in his eyes and say that you have to give me a leave. Don’t you wish to remain alive? Your manager will think what has happened to him? Just think about it for a moment. What harm can he do? He can’t throw you out of your job. All he can do is to suspend you. If he will suspend you, still you will get the salary for three years sitting at your home.
There should be a feeling of taking challenges in life. When I see you pleading, when I see you praying to others, when I see you convincing others, I feel like where have I got stuck in life. I am trying to transform you into a lion. You are definitely a lion, however you are surrounded by hyenas. I am trying to teach you how to attack in life. You don’t recognize that you are a lion and due to this reason, you are pleading before others. The day you will realize that you are a lion, that you are the disciple of a Guru who possesses a lots of power, who has a great personality, you will find that no one can harm you. You are disciple of that Guru who never got terrified of any troubles or any sorrow in His entire life. I travel in the entire country. I also go to the city of pundits and scold them there and also kick ascetics even now.
These words are the means of transforming your personality. Listen to me very carefully now. You will not get a Guru like me in the next 100 years and if you will not recognize me, if you will pass by then definitely I will be left disappointed, but the coming generation will never forgive you. And if you will be able to recognize me, then mind my words that I am always with you – for complete 24 hours. And if you will ever look back at any moment, you will find me there ready for you and this is a guaranty from my end.
Each and every moment of your life should be spent in household and society, however you should also spend your time in sadhanas with full potential. Your life will get transformed even if you will get success in one or two sadhanas. However for that you will need power, you will need faith, you will need energy. And for all that you need love in your life. All this can only be possible by means of love and love only. Love can flourish by means of blood. Love can flourish by taking life to a greater height. Where love exists, all the thorns would disappear from life and then life will be full of joy and happiness, there would be completeness in life and you would attain greatness of life.
Once you attain greatness then you will become Haridas in true sense, you will become Shankaracharya in true sense, you will become a great personality in true sense. History will only remember how you created your name, whether you wish to be remembered as Ganjiz Khan or as Aurangzeb or as Akbar or as Shankaracharya. It is all in your hands how you wish to be remembered in history. What you give to Guru in the entire day is in your hands – whether you give Him a smile or hatred, whether you stand tall in between your Guru and those storms or you get involved in killing Him.
What you offer is your mathematics, I am blessing you that may the seed of love germinate in your heart, may you become a shield for someone, may you get rid of all the hatred that has been filled in your heart by others, may you get free of all the plotting that you are involved into, may you get free from all the fears in your life and may you overcome all the shortcomings of your life. If you are fearless, then you are alive. If you are afraid, then you are the worst person of this entire universe. When you will overcome your fears only then love will flourish. May you become fearless and flourish the love, flourish the rose within your heart, may you gain consciousness. I am blessing you once again from the depth of my heart.
SadGuruDev Shri KailashChand Shrimali
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