The Greatest Guru Dakshina

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The Greatest Guru Dakshina

 

Today, Thursday, is the day of contemplating the Guru. Let us

consider the question: What is the best reverence, what is the best

worship, what is the best devotion, guru bhakti, and what is the

best service, guru seva, that we can offer the Guru?

 

The best guru bhakti is to love all, to be kind and compassionate

towards all and never hurt any living creature—to try as much as

possible to benefit life around us, to be good, do good, and to

serve, so that out of us only good comes, only help comes, only

service comes, only usefulness. All that is positive, creative,

constructive, auspicious, good, beautiful—that only should come to

all life around us, all God's creation, through our thoughts, words

and actions. Anything that is negative, anything that is

destructive, harmful or injurious should never come.

 

Thus, there is no greater guru bhakti, there is no greater guru

seva, there is no greater worship and adoration of the Guru than to

become an embodiment of kindness, compassion and doing good to

others. This is the greatest guru dakshina (gift to the Guru) also.

This is the hallmark of discipleship.

 

What is the greatest worship of the Guru, the greatest reverence we

can offer, the greatest bhakti and seva? Truthfulness is the

greatest guru dakshina, the greatest guru bhakti, the greatest guru

seva. This is the second great way of worshipping and adoring the

Guru. There is no greater way.

 

All that contradicts truth contradicts guru bhakti, contradicts your

reverence to the Guru. Reverence becomes a parody, an anomaly; it

turns into an empty nothingness if we do not live to uphold that

which the great Gurus of all time stood for, that which they

proclaimed. Truthfulness, therefore, in all things, integrity,

therefore, in all things is the highest guru bhakti, the highest

guru dakshina, the highest guru seva.

 

What is the greatest guru seva, guru bhakti and dakshina? Control

the self, conquer the mind and its desires and be established in

concentration and inner meditation. There is no guru seva, no guru

bhakti, no guru dakshina higher than this. This is the highest way

of paying reverence to the Guru. Be a person of self-control. To be

a person of self-control, who has mastered his mind, its desires,

vagaries and fantasies, to he established in self-control,

overcoming the mind and successfully centering it upon God—that is

the greatest guru bhakti and dakshina. That is the greatest guru

seva and it is true reverence to the Guru who is Brahma, Vishnu and

Mahesvara.

 

Lord Siva has a trident. It is a weapon of destruction. He holds it

and he wields it. Lord Vishnu has a discus. It is also a weapon of

destruction. He holds it and wields it. Brahma has no weapon of

destruction or harm. He is an embodiment of ahimsa, non-injury. He

gives life, he creates life. He holds a kamandalu in one hand, a

japa maala in another, the Veda in another, and he gives

fearlessness with the other hand.

 

Therefore, Brahma is the creator of life and the embodiment of

ahimsa. Lord Vishnu is Satyanarayana, truthfulness, and Lord Siva is

ever self-absorbed, perfectly self-controlled, with mind and senses

withdrawn and his entire interior plunged into a state of deep, deep

meditation. These three—ahimsa, satya, brahmacharya—constitute the

essential part of guru tattva, and to reflect that in our own

personality, in our own life, character and conduct, is to shine

like the full moon, absorbing the light that shines in the Guru, in

the guru tattva and embodying it in ourselves, reflecting it in all

its fullness, glory and immaculate grandness and greatness.

 

That is discipleship. That is the greatest guru seva; that is the

greatest guru bhakti; that is the greatest guru aradhana (worship);

that is the greatest way we can pay our guru dakshina. To become an

embodiment of compassion, kindness, truthfulness, perfect self-

control and contemplation is the essence of discipleship. It is the

essence of guru bhakti and seva.

 

May we contemplate these facts, these truths of our own individual

personal spiritual life, and may we realise their truth and become

blessed!

 

Baba Said

 

" The Guru alone knows the topsy-turvy Suspension, 'with head down

and feet up' can give happiness "

 

Baba is every where just feel him and keep on saying ‘Om Sai Ram’ to whom so

ever you meet.

 

OM SAI SRI SAI JAI JAI SAI!!! Let us pray at the lotus feet of Bhagwan Baba who

is the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and

increase our devotion towards him

 

Jai Sai Ram

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Shri Sai-Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!