TWENTYFOUR GURUS

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Shivaya Namaha,

 

A KING WAS passing through a forest in all pomp and

pageantry, with his army and retinue behind him. He came

across a man with not even a cod-piece on, lying on the ground,

with one leg cocked over the other. He was laughing away,

apparently supremely happy, contented with himself and all

the world. The king was struck with the manfs happy state and

sent for him. But when the kingfs men approached the nude

ascetic and delivered the kingfs message, he took absolutely

no notice and continued in his ascetic bliss. On being told of

this, the king himself went to the man and even then the man

took no notice. Thereupon it struck the king that this must

be no common man, and said, eSwami, you are evidently

supremely happy. May we know what is the secret of such

happiness and from which guru you learnt it?f Thereupon the

ascetic told the king, eI have had twentyfour gurus. Everything,

this body, the earth, the birds, some instruments, some persons,

all have taught mef. All the things in the world may be classed

as either good or bad. The good taught him what he must

seek. Similarly, the bad taught him what he must avoid. The

ascetic was Dattatreya, the avadhuta.

 

Story by Ramana Maharishi

Ramya

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Dear Ramya, Guru Datta's 24 GURUS were EARTH (PATIENCE & doing good to others), WATER (Purity of thought & actions), AIR(No attachment though moving constantly), FIRE(glow with splendour of self knowledge & austerity), SKY(Self is all pervading though it has contact with anybody), MOON(self is always perfect & changeless.It is onlythe limiting adjuncts that cast shadows over it), SUN(Brahman appears different because of the bodies caused by reflection through the mind), PIGEONS(Attachment is the root cause of earthly bondage), PYTHON(to be unmindful of food & be content with what you get

to eat), OCEAN(To remain unmoved among all the various sorts of temptations,difficulties & troubles), MOTH(To control the sense of sight & fix the mind on the self), BLACK BEE(Gathering food from different households & yet not being a burden on them), BEES(It is useless to hoard things), MALE ELEPHANT(to destroy LUST), DEER(Never listen to lewd songs), FISH(never to be greedy for food & fall to baits offered by others), DANCING GIRL PINGALA-FALLEN WOMEN (Abandonment of hope leads to contentment), RAVEN(you become happy when you abandon sensual pleasures), CHILD(to be cheerful always), MAIDEN"s BANGLES (Living among many creates discord,disturbance,dispute & quarrel,hence best to remain alone in solitude), SERPENT(does not build it's own hole,it lives in holes dug by others-thus an ascetic should not build a home for himself but live in temples or caves built by others, ARROW MAKER(Intense concentration of mind), SPIDER(like a spider getting caught in it's own web.Man makes a web of his own ideas & gets entangled in it,hence abandon all wordly thoughts) & BEETLE ( give up all attachments to the body & attain liberation.Meditate on the self by constantly contemplating on it) ' Like the LORD,if we can ascribe to each passing hour of the day one quality,we too could learn from every hour as our GURU & become better human

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Sivaya Namaha

VERY TRUE SIR

, " P.R.K. Prasad "

<aarkepee wrote:

>

> Dear Ramya,

>

> Guru Datta's 24 GURUS were

> EARTH (PATIENCE & doing good to others),

> WATER (Purity of thought & actions),

> AIR(No attachment though moving constantly),

> FIRE(glow with splendour of self knowledge & austerity),

> SKY(Self is all pervading though it has contact with anybody),

> MOON(self is always perfect & changeless.It is onlythe limiting

adjuncts that cast shadows over it),

> SUN(Brahman appears different because of the bodies caused by

reflection through the mind),

> PIGEONS(Attachment is the root cause of earthly bondage),

> PYTHON(to be unmindful of food & be content with what you get to

eat),

> OCEAN(To remain unmoved among all the various sorts of

temptations,difficulties & troubles),

> MOTH(To control the sense of sight & fix the mind on the self),

> BLACK BEE(Gathering food from different households & yet not

being a burden on them),

> BEES(It is useless to hoard things),

> MALE ELEPHANT(to destroy LUST),

> DEER(Never listen to lewd songs),

> FISH(never to be greedy for food & fall to baits offered by

others),

> DANCING GIRL PINGALA-FALLEN WOMEN (Abandonment of hope leads to

contentment),

> RAVEN(you become happy when you abandon sensual pleasures),

> CHILD(to be cheerful always),

> MAIDEN " s BANGLES (Living among many creates

discord,disturbance,dispute & quarrel,hence best to remain alone in

solitude),

> SERPENT(does not build it's own hole,it lives in holes dug by

others-thus an ascetic should not build a home for himself but live

in temples or caves built by others,

> ARROW MAKER(Intense concentration of mind),

> SPIDER(like a spider getting caught in it's own web.Man makes a

web of his own ideas & gets entangled in it,hence abandon all wordly

thoughts) &

> BEETLE ( give up all attachments to the body & attain

liberation.Meditate on the self by constantly contemplating on it) '

> Like the LORD,if we can ascribe to each passing hour of the day

one quality,we too could learn from every hour as our GURU & become

better human beings.

>

>

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