Nothing Can Be More Fortunate Than This For A Disciple
The essence of life is not just to take birth, grow up, find a livelihood for oneself, get married, have children, nurture your family and 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 and overcome each and everyone of them, it means to attain a state where one feels that there is nothing else to be achieved in life. And that situation is the one when a disciple is able to attain fulfillment under the guidance of a great Guru. One can never attain completeness in life without an able Guru and 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 and 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 by just seeing the feet, you can’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 month. 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 Yagya for the whole life pouring several kilograms of ghee or oil into the fire and chanting Lakshmi Aarti and your father and 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 and 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 and separated one kilometer apart was a temple of Lord Ram. One person reached Lord Ram’s temple and starting praying to Him, “Shri RamChand Kripalu Bhaj Man Haran Bhavbhaya Daarunam” and after that offered food to Him. Lord Ram was appeased and 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 couldn’t find her. He was the one who found her. You should also go to Him.
Here there are various departments. If you go to Lord Ram and 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 and seek Lord Hanuman’s favor. And if you go to Lord Hanuman and pray to 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 and have assigned tasks to them.
Thus there is no advantage to pray to those Gods and give them various offerings. To serve means to serve with selflessness. There should be no selfish intentions behind that service. And you should serve and serve along with sacrifice, and sacrifice of something which is most dear to you.
If you have five kilograms of sweets and you offer one piece of it to someone, then that is not a sacrifice. You have only one chapatti and you offer half of it with some 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 this 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 it is of no use for me.
Instead of that if you perform some work related society and all those people who helped in building this hall are getting a part 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 that 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 and perform Sadhanas. There is no use in giving me more clothes or offering money to me or offering any sweets. To serve corresponds to that work which is done by you and is useful for the common man. You can yourself see that the board here is not good; I should go and 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 and wherever there is a place worth for a sacrifice.
Serve, then sacrifice and then surrender oneself in hands of Guru. Surrendering means whatever we are today; we should surrender that feeling in the feet of Guru and completely get amalgamated in 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 completely filled, if your brain is completely filled or your heart is completely, then I can’t write a new letter there, my preaching will go as a waste.
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 can I put into it?
To surrender in the feet of Guru means that whatever I am, I am completely empty. I have lived my life and 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 use of the authority that you hold in the society. It is of no use if you are a millionaire or you are a famous personality. To surrender in the feet of Guru means that you are nothing now; you can’t surrender in the feet of Guru and yet carry an attitude of being a famous man or that you are a very wise person. This is not surrendering in the holy feet of Guru.
Surrendering means you are nothing, I am absolutely empty now, I don’t have any authority or money. Whatever there is, that is left behind at home; I am just a person standing in front of you for obtaining your grace.
When he gets these feeling, then he becomes a disciple after becoming a conscious man. Then only he becomes a disciple, he doesn’t become a disciple from the beginning. First he is an anxious man, then he becomes a conscious man and when all the three points of a conscious man appears in his life, then only he becomes a disciple.
In Sanskrit, a disciple means coming closer. A disciple comes closer to the Guru. Coming near is not to stand before him with horns locked together. Coming closer means coming closer eternally, your heart and my heart beat should become coherent. This is known as coming closer to Guru.
When the disciple is on the third stage, then he comes even closer to Guru. Coming closer means he doesn’t have any thought of himself, then he doesn’t have any questions of 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 and Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu and 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 and he finds Kashi there. His eyes get filled with tears when he becomes a disciple….. and 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 and 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 and 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” and 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 and 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 and 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 sondaughter 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….and 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 and 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 and the moment you married her, the love and 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 and 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 and wife.
Due to this reason I have said that the highest relationship in this complete universe is that of lovers and the same relationship should be there between Guru and disciple. Something like this should happen that if a time for 3:00 pm was given for meeting each other and if due to some reason the meeting can’t be held then there should be anxiety. He should try to look here and there for the Guru.
I bless you all that may you develop such a pious relationship in your life and may you all become true disciples. May you all be blessed with all the points that make a man a true disciple.
I bless you all again from the depth of my heart on this occasion of Guru Janmutsav and am inviting you all to come and obtain your wish for in life. I am ready to give you all you wish for. I am eagerly awaiting to meet you on this grand day.
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