THE LOTUS FEET OF THE SAT GURU IN THE HEART

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THE LOTUS FEET OF THE GURU IN THE HEART

 

The Lotus feet of the Sat-Guru is the point where we can touch his Grace. It is

a beautiful expression echoed by the prostration of the Devotee to touch the

soft feet of the Master.

 

These lotus feet aretouched by diving into the spiritual heart through the door

way found on the Rt. Side of chest.

 

The Sat Guru never dies.

 

As absolute pure consciousness –Awareness he is ever present in the heart of his

devotees.By Surrendering the mind to his lotus feet we invoke his Grace .

 

Read the great book Padamalai

`The Feet' by The great Tamil Poet Murugana's poem recording the advanced

teaching of Sri Bhagavan before and after his Self Realisation. Translated into

aphorisms with a commentary.

 

In this world, Sri Guru is the only beauty or asset, wealth. There is nothing

else. Carana means feet. Sri-guru-carana-padma the feet of Sri Guru are compared

to the lotus. This is also very significant.

Why are his feet compared to the lotus and not to anything else? The lotus

flower looks very nice and beautiful, and it also provides very sweet honey,

madhu. The bumblebee collects honey from different flowers, but especially from

the lotus flower. So what sort of special quality is there in the honey

collected from the lotus flower that is not present in the honey collected from

other flowers? It is a special type of honey known as padma-madhu. The disciple

who is like a bumblebee, who is very hungry and greedy for that honey, relishes

it.

 

Similarly, the jiva who is wandering and wandering through the innumerable

universes and through the innumerable species of life of this material world —

brahmanda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva* — gets only more and more suffering,

misery, and torture. There is no cooling effect in the material world, which is

like a blazing forest fire — samsara-davanala. Nobody starts the forest fire,

but automatically by the rubbing of two pieces of wood, the whole forest is

burned and the animals that live in the forest are burned to ashes. They feel

the burning heat, which is very painful. Similarly, the conditioned souls in

this material world feel the burning sensation coming from the three tapas:

adhyatmika, adhibhautika, and adhidaivika. After wandering through innumerable

universes and innumerable species of life, at last the fortunate soul, bhagyavan

jiva, comes to the lotus feet of Sri Guru and takes shelter in the cooling shade

there. As the bumblebee sucks honey from the lotus flower, similarly, the

guru-pada-padma, the lotus feet of Sri Guru, allow that jiva, who is compared to

the bumblebee, to suck the nice honey whereby he gets real nourishment and also

premananda, loving happiness.

 

Similarly, when one takes shelter at the lotus feet of Sri Guru and gets the

guru's mercy, the guru allows the surrendered disciple to taste that sweet honey

emanating from the guru's lotus feet. That is the medicine whereby his material

eyes will be cleansed of all material contamination. He develops transcendental

vision.

He may have been blinded by the dense darkness of ignorance, ajnana-andhakara,

but that will all be gone now. The darkness is dispelled and he receives the

eyes of knowledge— divya-jnana-caksu. Sri Guru imparts tattva-jnana, and by his

mercy the disciple develops transcendental vision. With that vision he will be

able to see the beautiful form of the Supreme Lord, Syamasundar. This is the

honey, or madhu, emanating from the lotus feet of Sri Guru; it acts in such a

wonderful way. Therefore the phrase, " sri-guru-carana-padma " is very significant

— the lotus feet of Sri Guru are compared to a lotus. Why is this comparison

made and how to explain it?

 

Wandering Hopeless! If such persons are fortunate, they will come to the lotus

feet of Sri Guru. That guru is like a physician, sadhu-vaidya. He knows the

perfect and unfailing medicine to cure the material disease, bhava-roga. He

knows the cause of the jiva's suffering. There is only one medicine, the honey

emanating from the lotus feet of Sri Guru — guru-pada-padma-madhu. So, as the

lotus allows the bumblebee whose wings are torn by the thorns of the ketaki

flower to take shelter inside the flower, similarly, the guru allows the

disciple to take shelter at his lotus feet.

 

The guru-pada-padma, the lotus feet of Sri Guru, gives such hopeless wandering

souls shelter and allows them to suck honey, whereby they regain their vitality.

The suffering jiva gets nourishment and life there. That is why we say,

" sri-guru-carana-padma. " The lotus feet of Sri Guru are compared to a lotus, and

not to anything else. This phrase has very great significance.