The Silent Teaching Of Lord Dakshinamurti

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I am sorry to hear about Aumji. He is one of the mainstays of this

group. He used an almost divine inspiration to direct and guide

discussions on this forum. I do hope he gets better soon.

 

Perhaps this is the time to contemplate lord Dakshinamurthy (the

ultimate guru) and I wanted to share this write-up with the group.

 

 

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From the Indian newspaper

 

ONE INDIA

 

The Silent Teaching Of Lord Dakshinamurti

 

 

The four Sanakadi Rishis, when their eyes first beheld the form of Lord

Dakshinamurti sitting under the banyan tree, perceived that He was the

real Sadguru. Hence they approached and circumambulated Him and after

having paid their due respects started putting forth queries of great

spiritual interest.

 

Lord Dakshinamurti, the incarnation of Lord Shiva pleased about the

earnestness of their pursuit and the wisdom and maturity in the queries

that they put forth stated answering them.

 

Thus the question and answer section stretched on to a whole year.

 

But as and when there was an answer from the Lord, more doubts in the

form of questions arose.

 

The Lord then merged Himself into the supreme silence the impact of

which caused their minds to involuntarily surrender to the impending

silence.

 

Their minds merged with the self with the resultant silence sans inner

chattering.

 

The doubts were thus dispelled with the self, the ultimate clarity

showing forth with all its splendour.

 

Silence is thus the true Upadesa or the teaching suited for the most

advanced.

 

The silence of an enlightened master is infectious to minds marching

ahead to unswervingly to the ultimate realization.

 

When Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi narrated the story to Muruganar, a

disciple, the latter questioned of the relevance of Dakshinamurti's

verbal response to the queries.

 

Bhagavan curtly emphasised the verbal discourse that took place before

the ultimate teaching of abiding in silence.

 

The truth then dawned to Muruganar that the Maharshi was none other

than Lord Dakshinamurti.