Message by H. H. Narasimha Swamiji for Guru Poornima on 10th July 1949.

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Message by H. H. Narasimha Swamiji for Guru Poornima on 10th July 1949.

 

Today is a highly blessed day. A very very auspicious day. We are now

celebrating the worship of our Guru Sri Sai and of every other Guru of ours.

Sri Sai has always identified himself with the other Gurus of his devotees.

Today i.e. Jyeshta Poorniraa is prescribed by Agaraas as the appropriate time

to approach the Guru with articles of worship and hearts overflowing with

devotion. The Guru also accepts the articles and devotion and agrees to stay

for two or four months consecutively by the side of his devotees; whereby the

devotees have not merely the instruction expressly imparted by the Guru, but

also vivifying and spiritualising personal proximity of the Guru. Vyasa being

the author or codifier of the Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharatha and the Puranas,

is appro­priately the centre of worship today and the Radiator of all

Spirituality. Sai is Vyasa, Vyasa is Sai—an identity which those who lose

themselves in Samadhi when contemplating the picture of either or both of them

will necessarily experience. A Guru worship without meditation is like taking

rice without butter, ghee, or milk. The flower of the ceremony of worship is

meditation and the fruit is realisation of Supreme Bliss.

May Sri Sai enter into the hearts of one and all of you and enable you to go on

with daily or at least periodical scriptural study and meditation leading to

Realisation and Bliss.