The Supreme Guru 3

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Om Namah Sivaya

 

During the absence of Devi, when Lord Siva was alone,

the sons of Brahma, who are sages Sanaka, Sanandana,

Sanatana and Sanatkumara, came to have Darsana of Lord

Siva and prostrated before Him. They entreated the

Lord to teach them the way to remove Avidya and attain

salvation. They expressed that in spite of the vast

study of scriptures they had no internal peace and

they were in need of learning the inner secrets, by

knowing which they could attain salvation.

 

Lord Siva, hearing this appeal made by the sages,

assumed the form of Dakshinamurti (named after the

Divine Mother) a personality he assumed to impart

knowledge to the seeking Kumaras or the first-born

sons of Brahma. He began to teach the FOUR Progressive

Spiritual Stages of the Jivas, He explained Charya,

Kriya, Yoga but to set a PERFECT example of the FINAL

stage, i.e JNANA, He teach them the inner secrets by

keeping Mouna (UTTER Silence) and showing Chinmudra by

His hand.

 

The sages began to meditate on the lines shown by the

Lord and attained the state of inexpressible and

illimitable joy (SIVANADAM). Thus Lord Siva came to be

known as Dakshinamurti. This Chinmudra represents (i.e

holding the thumb and the next fingure together and

the other three separately) ONE and ONLY way to attain

TRUE Salvation is to become free from triple

impurities: Anava (egoism), Karma (action) and Maya

(illusion) via the Grace of the Lord and hence REUNITE

with ParaSiva.

 

Picture of Lord Dakshinamurti :

http://livingheritage.org/pix/dakshinamurti-200.jpg

 

Lord Siva incarnated himself in the form of

Dakshinamurti to impart knowledge to the four Kumaras.

Bhagavan Dakshinamurti is therefore the first Jnana

Guru of the Golden age viz. Satya Yuga, wherein the

seeker after truth has by his previous performance of

Svadharma and his penance destroyed all the impurities

within his heart and thus goes before the Master with

no obstacles (on his own side) on the path of Divine

Knowledge.

 

And the successive Jnana Gurus who follow Him in later

ages of the same Krita Yuga and come from time to time

in response to the needs and exigencies of the actual

situation before them, merely carry on Bhagavan

Dakshinamurti’s work of enlightening the world on more

or less the same lines as have been explained. Sri Adi

SANKARACARYA is an ASPECT of Bhagavan Dakshinamurti.

 

 

Namah Sivaya

 

 

 

 

 

 

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