Adi Jagadguru Sri Shankaracharya

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dear friend

 

The right side (Dakshina) of Datta is the form of Guru. Datta is the united form

of the three forms (Brahma, Vishnu and Siva). Therefore in the south (Dakshina)

the three Gurus viz., Sankara (Siva), Ramanuja (Vishnu) and Madhva (Brahma) were

born as three Gurus. All the human Gurus must treat them as their Gurus. The

left side of Datta is the form of Bhagavan. Therefore Rama, Krishna etc., were

born as incarnations of Bhagavan in the North who are the ideals for the human

beings. Sankara had only four disciples. He never craved for disciples, for fame

and money like the present human Gurus. If there are ten disciples, the Guru

collects ten paise from each disciple and can get one rupee. The aim of Satguru

is not to earn one rupee and His aim is to completely cut off the bond with

money in the case of at least one deserving disciple to give salvation to him.

Therefore Satguru takes one rupee from such a single deserving disciple. The

Lord came as a guest to the house of Saktuprastha.

 

The aim of the Lord is to liberate Saktuprastha and his family from the bonds of

money and to give them salvation. The aim of the Lord is not to pacify His

hunger because the Lord has no hunger. The Lord in the form of guest asked for

the entire food that was prepared for the family. A beggar goes to ten houses

and earns his complete meal. An inefficient teacher collects the fees from ten

students and each student gets ten marks only and fails. The aim of such a

teacher is not the pass of the student. An efficient teacher concentrates on

only one deserving student and concentrates on Him only so that He passes with

good marks.

 

A doctor in a government hospital gives some medicine for temporary relief of a

single disease, which is reported by the patient. The doctor of Apollo hospital

conducts all the tests and cures all the diseases. The doctor of Government

hospital takes a fee of ten rupees from ten patients. The second doctor collects

hundred rupees from the single patient. In Shirdi several householders were

ready to give food to Sai Baba. But Sai took food only from five houses through

out His life. He wanted to liberate those five deserving devotees and His aim

was not His food. A beggar goes to all houses since his aim is his food only.

This is the difference between a Satguru and Guru.

 

Today the human gurus are unable to liberate even a single person through their

preaching. They are similar to the barber on the Tirupathi hill who shaves a

little for each person and shaving is not completed. Ten customers will surround

him and each is incompletely shaved. Such several incomplete disciples surround

the present Gurus. No disciple is completely liberated. The aim of present human

guru is the fame of having several disciples and collection of money from all

the disciples. No human Guru is interested in the final welfare of any single

disciple. But the Satguru aims at the liberation of at least a single disciple

and His preaching is always harsh because it is truth. The preaching of human

Guru is always false and sweet. When a sugar patient goes to a hotel and asks

for a sweet by paying ten rupees, the owner of the hotel supplies the sweet and

does not enquire about your sugar. Therefore he is sweet to you. This is the

case of the human Guru.

 

But the case of Satguru (Guru Datta) is different. The “Datta Café Hotel” is

very peculiar. When you go to the ‘Datta Café' for the sweet, the owner will

charge you rupees thirty for blood test. If there is sugar, he will charge

rupees ten further and will give you bitter medicine. You have lost rupees forty

and during blood test you feel lot of misery when the needle is injected. You

will get lot of unhappiness while taking the medicine. This is the difference

between the human Guru and the Satguru. Therefore today all the human gurus must

remember Adi Sankara who is a Satguru.

 

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

 

surya

 

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pyari_h <no_reply> wrote:

Namaste _/\_ all.

 

An excerpt from Adi Jagadguru Sri Shankara Bhagavatpada's biography

with the translation of my favorite 'Sri Krishnashtakam':

 

The Acharya had, even during his earlier wanderings, paid visits to

most of the shrines and sacred places on the banks of the