Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 11
✍️ Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻 Guru subjects disciples to tests to remove the dirt that is inside them. 🌻
It is possible for the devotee to forget the purpose for which he has taken refuge with Guru in the first place, after seeing the glorious form of Guru.
It is natural that once the divinity of Guru is experienced, the feeling comes that now Guru should be used to satisfy all worldly desires. The original purpose of earning spiritual knowledge and merging with the Supreme Soul is often forgotten.
The disciple is given the task of counting the heaps and heaps of gold. Regardless of who it belongs to, he is given the job of counting it. He is tempted to pocket a few fistfuls.
That he has been brought here in the first place to perform the divine task of counting the gold is forgotten. The thought comes into the mind, “Why can’t Guru give me a part of the heap of gold that he possesses?”
The feeling comes into the mind that worldly desires can now be fulfilled by the absolutely pure and perfect Sadguru’s immense power and grace.
In spite of coming into the divine presence of Sadguru, the fundamental aim is forgotten and is replaced by the desire to enjoy worldly pleasures. There are many people who reach this stage and then slip and suffer a downfall.
As if this is not enough, Guru’s tests commence at this point. As soon as Sadguru is seen, the list of desires surfaces in the mind of the disciple.
Desire wreaks havoc in his mind. The sense that he has obtained this immense boon of obtaining Guru, and a chance to obtain spiritual knowledge, is wiped out.
The disciple now worries that he may forget to ask Guru for this or that worldly favor, and so recites the entire list of wishes in the presence of Guru on the very same day.
That is the weakness suffered by many. He fails to recognize his blessing that he has earned Guru‘s grace.
The disciple begins to think, “Yes, it is true that there is much happiness in my heart since Guru has entered my life, but my troubles at home have increased since then.” With this thought some people leave their Guru. ”I used to be moderately healthy before.
After I started taking this medicine, my health has deteriorated,” Is the complaint of some disciples. Such people use this excuse to leave Guru.
The reason that the symptoms that were hitherto suppressed have now become severe is because the infection, the toxic contamination that has been hiding inside is now being taken out, being expelled, by Guru.
For example, if you kiss a dirty silk garment and carefully store it inside, it is not going to become clean.
It will get clean only if it is washed with a cleaning agent. Similarly, a lump of gold is not usable as it is. Only if it gets repeatedly purified in fire, it will be possible to make ornaments with it.
If because the fabric is pure silk, you do not wish to wash it, or because it is gold, you refuse to apply heat to it, they will forever remain dirty and impure.
Guru subjects disciples to tests to remove the dirt that is inside them. Not knowing this, and not wishing to undergo such tests, some people leave Guru.
The severity of Guru’s tests is exemplified in the example of Deepaka in Datta Purana. Several examples are given of tests administered by Sadguru. The more he tests, the more the disciple gets purified.
How much heat should be applied to retrieve the purest form of gold! Do you know? How can you be satisfied by being left as dirty and impure gold? Several stories are there to explain this.
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23 Jul 2020