Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 10
🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 10 🌹
✍️ Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻 Even You Found your Guru, You should not relax too much. You are still on the edge. It is easy for you to slip and fall. Remain as disciplined as possible 🌻
OM. Obeisance to Sadguru. “Since he is anyway going to come, why should we make any deliberate effort to go in search of Guru?” It is a false argument put forth by some, who are nothing but lazy.
The reason is that out of His infinite compassion the foremost Guru assumes innumerable forms to suit the innumerable differences in his disciples.
Not all of the forms are suitable for you. Not all of them are useful for you. Only some of those are of use to you. While you are still preparing to qualify for Guru, the Sadguru who is a match for you will be within proximity but will not reveal himself to you until the right time comes. It is only when you become eligible that his presence will become disclosed.
All your evil ways should leave you. That yearning that burns within you which makes you search for Guru with eagerness and zeal, qualifies you to receive Guru in your life.
You have not remained complacent and idle. Only when your heart is pure, attentive, committed, calm, devout, gentle, earnest, knowledgeable, and sincere, you become eligible to find Guru.
It is not enough if you simply close your eyes and tell yourself that you are seeking Guru. He, who has all along been close to you, then becomes recognizable in your heart. If you assume that since Guru has entered your life, all your troubles and responsibilities are at an end, that you do not have to worry about children or other obligations any more, you have made a huge mistake, and you will take a big toss. Yes, you have climbed a huge step. You have in fact reached the next higher level. But you are still on the edge. It is easy for you to slip and fall.
Now a certain peace and calm have entered into you. Because of the spiritual zeal and agony with which you have searched for Guru, you have now found Guru. You now feel a certain respite and solace.
Your thoughts are more at ease now. Your sense organs have earned some strength and courage. These are the benefits you have acquired by the entry of Guru into your life.
But because you have now become free from fear, your grip on your sense organs may loosen. Because of that, all the suppressed worldly desires may once again raise their heads. Your lack of self-restraint may resurface.
You must not relent in your tough determination in your pursuit. If your intellect becomes relaxed, your mental frailties will once gather strength.
If you think, “Sadguru is there now to take care. Why should I continue with my efforts and why should I struggle anymore? I can now behave as I please.
I do not need to follow strict austerities. Now that Guru has taken charge of my life, let me eat what I want, let me talk as I please, let me indulge in entertaining myself as my heart desires,” you are going to invite big trouble upon yourself.
Only if you remain as disciplined, as austere, and as self-restrained and committed as you were, while you were anxiously searching for Guru, only then, you will be successful. Otherwise you will not.
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21 Jul 2020