Our True Guru

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Dear Datta Devotees :

 

On 22nd Sept... in the list Server mail <JAIGURUDATTA >

a mail came to all of us from " dattadevotees " Subject : " Qualities of True

Guru " I have taken parts of it & compared it to our own Guru !!

 

Thanks much for your em on " Qualities of True Guru " thank you Hanuman...

to have opened up this wonderfull topic...

 

This em is from Prakash at the Sri Datta Venkateshwara Temple at the Ashrama

-Mysore. By our Sadguru deva's grace... my wife Gayathri & I have had the

privilege of being here & serving, fortunately have a chance to do three sevas

at the same time !!

 

1) Lord Sri Datta Venkateshwara,

2) Sadguru Sri Swamiji &

3) Narayana Seva to the The local people of Mysore & other Devotees of

Ashrama & City.

 

We have been at the ashram since 1997, & we see our own spiritual progress

taking shape day by day ... year by year. I would like to share with you... our

dear Datta devotees... our experience of our

" Dear dear True Guru ... "

 

I will take parts of above mail & elobarate it in comparision about our own

Dear Sadguru :

 

> Guru Ð The Remover of Ignorance

 

>The dispeller of ignorance is called Guru. In this two-lettered word, "gu"

>stands for darkness, and "ru" means, the remover of darkness. It is the

>ignorance of one's own self that causes all misery and suffering.

>This ignorance can be removed only by a person who himself has known or

>realized the Self.

 

 

What is this 'Ignorance ' we talk about ...

 

If we understand this : " The fact that The Allmighty is Permanent &

everything ( repeat EVERYTHING ) else is temporary " In the depth of this

statement alone We can understand the extent of our Ignorance. We think that

the Stars are Permanent ... No ! at the time of Pralaya even that will go away

.... ! so what to say of our car ... house ... & so on ...

What the Guru teaches us is the sense of detachment we have to acquire towards

all the materialistic things.

 

As Sri Swamiji has told us so many times our own mind is the one which creates

all the problems we face in our life ... On many occations He has chided us for

some wrong doing ... we take that as a blessing & try to correct ourself. He

tells us that those mistakes are due to our own Ignorance & corrects us ...

 

Sri Swamiji puts in certain situations together ( which the common man might

call it coincidence ) by which we learn so many things ...

I will narrate one such incedence :

 

One evening, at about 8:00pm .. it was time for the Final Arathi of the Lord, &

the Screen in front of the Lord was drawn shut. I was in the Pooja Counter of

Sri Datta Venkateshwara Temple, when I happened to see a

non Datta Devotee carry a book. I was not able to see its heading ..A longing

came up to my mind to see the book ... I then did something which I very rarely

do ...because of my leg problem ... I went round to the front to request him

to show me the Book ... My memory fails me to recollect the name of the book or

its author ... but the very 1st chapter started thus :

 

" Can you see God ... ? .... Yes, you can see God, provided you are able to

clear up the dirty muk you have accumalated on the screen in front of your eyes.

That screen is made of Glass & it is your Mind .... Just make it transparent &

you can see God " Just as I was pondering over what I had just read & musing

on it .. I looked up at the closed screen ...! Can I see the Lord's Murthy...

? Then & there it opened & Lo ... in all HIS Splender & Glamour was Sri Datta

Venkateshwara ... the Lord of Lords... ! The " Alankara Preyaha " was all decked

up & standing as a mute witness to all what is happening around Him ... ! How

very symbolic it was for me ... for what I had just read & what I saw.

Immediately ... I could see Sri Swamiji's hand in this ...

 

This happened almost four years ago ... Since then .. I have been trying to use

... all kinds of cleaning materials to wipe my mind clean .. But wow .. ! that

has been one H of a tough job... ! Everytime an unacceptable thought comes to

the mind ... Beekay is ready with a mop in the hand... !

 

For the past few months... I have been thinking ... How do I gain more

spirituality being here at His feet..... ? For one thing... I have been trying

to put all what He is teaching us into action. Secondly, Having satsanga

whenever possible... This is how My guru is driving away my Ignorance and

showing me the way to salvation.

 

In my opinion ...Our Appaji ... our Guru works with us on a one on one basis.

.... His very glance at you is enough. How does that work one may ask ...

Unfortunately ... our Human race has not yet found out instruments to measure or

confirm to our so called scientific mind .. that... Look this is how it is ...

 

On This note .. I would like to say Sri Guru Datta ...

 

On the next aspect it will in another em ... !

 

Prakash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JAIGURUDATTA [JAIGURUDATTA] On

Behalf Of dattadevotees

Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:49 PM

JAIGURUDATTA

Qualities of True Guru

 

Jaya Guru Datta

 

http://www.sadguruseva.org/sss/sssMain.html

 

Guru Ð The Remover of Ignorance

The dispeller of ignorance is called Guru. In this two-lettered word, ÔguÕ

stands for

darkness, and ÕruÕ means, the remover of darkness. It is the ignorance of oneÕs

own self

that causes all misery and suffering. This ignorance can be removed only by a

person who

himself has known or realized the Self.

 

According to Sri Vedanta Desika, the chief characteristics of a Guru are: He

must be Siddha

(Perfect), and have complete knowledge of the parampara (tradition); well-versed

in

scriptures (shaastras), firmly rooted in Brahman (the Supreme Self); truthful

and saatvik

(Godly and pure); should have unblemished conduct, and be free from vanity and

jealousy;

a master of the sense-organs and a dependable friend; compassionate and ready to

punish a student, when he goes astray, and dedicated to the spiritual welfare of

himself

and others.

 

Those, sincerely desirous of obtaining the knowledge of the ÔSelfÓ and the

consequent

liberation from samsaara (worldy bondage) i.e, the cycle of births and deaths,

should

aspire for and approach such a ÔGuruÕ.

 

Sri Guru Datta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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