Guru is a famous term everyone around the world some time has come across. You refer someone as Guru who had master in something. It can be anything. From cleaning garbage till cutting and shaping diamond Gurus masters in one or more skills.
Guru in Sanskrit means the person who dispels the darkness. I asked Google, it answered me this. Waaaw…Excellent …Thanks to machine learning. However, it is amazingly true in all sense. In Sanskrit “Gu” means darkness and “Ru” means light. So the word Guru means dispeller of darkness.
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Who Is The First Guru (Spiritual Master)?
From various scriptures, findings from ancient Vedic culture, such as from Shivashtakam Shiva Samhita, Gurudev Vani, and various other books Indians presume the Adiyogi or the first yogi as the first guru who is none other than Shiva himself.
About 15000 years ago the Adiyogi appears and taught his knowledge to Saptarishis. Saptarishis were those people who made themselves practicing ways for 84 years, making them ready to receive the knowledge from Adiyogi.
When Will I Meet My Guru? How Do I Find My Guru or Spiritual Master?
Many of us have the same question where will I find my Guru? Now around India various realized beings as Guru used to say that you need not find Guru, Rather Guru will find you. Depending on the intention or preparation you must prepare yourself.
Does it mean you will keep on searching for Guru? Essentially it is something that you or I do not know. Here it is like you are trying to do something with confidence. But confidence without clarity becomes a massacre.
What Is The Actual Role Of A Guru?
Guru does not have to be an educated or person with great knowledge in terms of degree in education, not necessarily. But essentially Guru should give you clarity. Guru will not give you morality or impose something as a moral issue, which is a separate subject itself.
Difference between Morality and Clarity
Morality will teach you which is good or which is a bad or little bit good based on your perception of good or bad. Guru will give you spirituality instead of morality. With spirituality, different questions will be evolving beyond your senses or knowledge you have received from time to time while you grow up.
What Should Be The Relation Between Gurus To His Shisya?
There is a specific story you might have heard between Paramahansa Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. Ramakrishna was the Guru of Swami Vivekananda and there were so many stories behind their “Guru-Shisya” relationship.
Significance of Gurukul in Practicing Best Lifestyle
From ancient times austerity is practiced by the Disciples and Guru both in Gurukul. Gurukul meaning in English “a residential schooling system where both Guru (Master) and Shisya (Disciples) stay together for education.
From the age of 13 till 25 years until the disciple is capable enough they had to stay in gurukul and learn about life education.
The education system was also a bit different. The education was more about skills you are interested upon. It is more about practicality of life and being unique with any one’s aspect of life. Here most important teaching was about yoga and teachings on ultimate realization.
Paramahansa Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda – Guru-Shisya(Chela) Relationship
Swami Vivekananda initially was an atheist and he never tried to believe anything beyond his senses. Whatever he could not see he never used to believe. While he comes in touch with Paramahansa Ramakrishna, Swamiji kept on testing him whether he is fit for being his Guru.
Swamiji tested Sri Ramakrishna whether he can teach something which he had never experienced before. Ramakrishna also tested Swami Vivekananda in various ways.
What Should Be The Qualities Of Guru?
Swamiji in his famous book “My Master” had written what should be the quality of Guru.
- A Guru according to him must be knowing the truth, irrespective of time place, and person, or the relative truth. Guru should know very well the actual truth.
- Swamiji also emphasized one version of the truth, irrespective of scriptures, practices Guru leads to the ultimate freedom or the ultimate truth.
- Guru must teach his disciple that physical life is a combination of Purusha and Prakriti. Purusha and Prakriti is an ultimate dimension for masculine and feminine energy.
- Guru must have the knowledge of the motion in spirituality.
Swamiji worshipped Sri Ramakrishna as the “Avataravarishtha” which means Sri Ramakrishna is the highest Life practice of Avatara (incarnate being) from all the Avataras.
What Are the Ways Gurus Follow For The Ultimate Liberation
This means – Guru Brahma – Guru is Brahma, the Lord of Creation, Guru Vishnu means Guru is Vishnu the Lord of Stability and organizer), Guru Devo Maheshwarah means Guru is the Maheshwara the destroyer), Guru Sakshat Parabrahma means Parbrahma he who is the supreme almighty god.
There are five different ways a Guru used to follow for showing the ultimate liberation for his disciple. It is named Srishti, Sthiti, Vinasa, Shakti, and Siddhi. Each of them represents god or goddess in Vedic Sanatan Dharma.
Attaining Higher Plane in Spirituality
The guru masters over Gati Gyan. In Sanskrit Gati means Motion. Gati prapti and Gati moksha are another two ideas implemented by the guru for his disciple. Time and tide is the same unending devotion, related with Sadhana (disciplined and dedicated practice) for applying the energy dimension they are on the physical senses.
Gati moksha is the ultimate stage by the disciple attains samadhi. Gati prapti means while the energy dimension keeps opening up for the Sadhak (the disciple or who is doing the Sadhana or Tapasya)
Gita – The Gist of Guru’s Knowledge about Philosophy
Guru must know the Darshan Shastra and Vedic truth of the Gita. Gita is the ultimate knowledge shared by Krishna to his friend Arjuna. Even though Krishna was there with Arjuna as his chariot or Sarathi.
Krishna chose an amazing time to share his knowledge while Arjuna was reluctant the fight. It is just a metaphor (rupak) and every other dimension of his knowledge is associated with the inner war we fight with ourselves.
What Are The Qualities Are Required For Becoming A Disciple?
For being a disciple you must go through the spiritual process. Guru leads the way in an unbiased direction irrespective of the quality of the disciple.
- The disciple needs to be a seeker who maintains an atmosphere of discipline in the experiential purity.
- It should happen with Manasa Karmana Bacha. It means a disciple must be pure with the mind, work and words.
- He must have complete devotion to Guru – Gurubhakti.
- A Pure disciple or if you are a good student you can learn anywhere.
Will Guru Teaches You How To Go Beyond Your Sensory Perception?
The answer lies in the question itself. Until and unless you are away from the thing according to your senses, your strive will be limited. As you must understand by now as physical identity is a very limited identity.
You will not be able to cross except what your sense and memory tell you. The more your intention will grow to strive and go beyond the limitation of your senses naturally you can cross every limitation from your physical plane. You will move to a higher dimension where you can see things beyond your sensory perception.
How to Become a Good Guru?
A good Guru doesn’t teach rather it is you who has to seek. To become a seeker Guru makes you so thirsty so that you yourself start finding the light. There is a famous story of Sri Ramakrishna and a boy.
When the boy asked “I want to see God” to Sri Ramakrishna, he took him to the river. At the time of taking bath and he dipped his head down the river water until he was suffocated for breathing. Then the boy made a heavy attempt to get up his head from the river water so to save his life.
Later Sri Ramakrishna told the boy that to see god you have to have that much intense level. So the intensity of the seeking or the thirst for knowing the ultimate should be such a level that the disciple will follow the direction of the Guru whatever direction Guru shows.
Being A Disciple Or Shisya What Can You Do For Your Guru?
While you start your spiritual journey under the guidance of a Guru, all you need to do is to grow up from inside. It is a kind of analogy while the garden asks the gardener what they should do for the gardener. The simple answer is you must grow and blossom.
It is the same thing you must do for your Guru. All you have to do is to leave all the past actions and karmas in the feet of your Guru and bloom your inner-self. Grow up in such a way that your fragrance makes pleasant every once present around you.
How Do You Know Gurukripa (Guru’s Grace) Is upon You?
Imagine you have entered a five-star hotel and there used to be a soft music play all the time in the lobby or the dining. Initially, you might have heard that music but very soon you are accustomed and acquainted with the environment, so later the music doesn’t come to your ear.
It’s the same thing as our breathing process. Most of us forget the breathing process for the whole day. We don’t recognize that we are alive because of breathing. It’s not that the breathing has stopped, it keeps on going but we remain unconscious.
what happens if we stop breathing or the music stops in the hotel lobby it’s just that the hotel lobby will be dead silent and regarding breathing you will be missing the joy of being alive or bring being graceful. So keep this in mind and knowing that Guru’s Grace is with you all the time.
Exploiting Gurukripa as Fulfilling Personal Plan
We experience grace from Guru and it’s on all the time from Guru. but we are expecting grace for our personal plan telling Guru or God about your personal plan fulfilling of how much money, your tax, house all materialistic comfortless.
Essentially what you should ask from your Guru are blessing and grace. Ask his grace for seeing the light from your Guru.
What Is The Significance Of Guru Purnima?
Guru Purnima was the time while Adiyogi became Adi Guru for transmitting the significant knowledge to his seven disciples known as Sapta Rishi. He distributed the knowledge to those seven sages for the well-being of human life.
Conclusion
From time to time we all have seen realized being came as Guru for wellbeing in many incidents in human history. Guru will show you the path which lies next door, yet without Guru, you keep on searching the whole world. So it’s just you who must make the soil ready so the seed to a grown tree is just a matter of time.
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