Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 15
🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 15 🌹
✍️. Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻 Do not hold your own arrogance and your sin as higher than the power of Guru 🌻
We have learned that because of rejecting Guru, Indra had lost all his power.
The demons observed this and decided to wage war against him, considering this to be an opportune time.
This reminds us of the story of Emperor Nala, who once neglected to wash his feet properly with water, and Sani (Saturn) at once seized the opportunity to enter his life.
One should never perform an incomplete job of washing one’s feet. Troubles will always be waiting in the wings to approach us the moment we fail to watch our actions.
The demons saw that Indra has now become weak, having lost the support of his Guru, who with his power would have crushed the wings of the demons had they attempted to attack Indra.
Now Indra has no one to give him proper timely advice. As if by the influence of Saturn, Indra met with defeat at every step, in his war against the demons, because of the absence of Guru in his life.
Indra, in his bad judgment decided that since Brihaspati had left him, he will go ahead and look for another Guru and priest who is even greater than Brihaspati. It was after all my decision in the past to choose him. He began his search.
Arrogance builds up due to position. Indra became egotistical. Some people act foolishly out of ignorance also.
Tvashta, a Prajapati, for certain reasons married a demon maiden named Rachana. They had two great sons, Roopa and Viswaroopa. Indra approached Roopa and requested him to be his Guru.
Roopa gave good advice to Indra that changing Guru is detrimental both to Indra and to the new Guru, should he accept the request. “Your request is inappropriate, Indra. Changing Guru will bring you misfortune.
The right approach is to plead with Brihaspati to forgive you and to be your Guru once again. Are you greater than Brihaspati, that you are displaying such arrogance?
If you are greater than your own Guru then why do you need another Guru? One must never change Guru. You confess to your Guru that you have underestimated his glory.
Do not hold your own arrogance and your sin as higher than the power of Guru. You are making a mistake. You must not change your Guru. I must not accept your request.” Indra then approached Visvaroopa.
There are those in this world who will not heed good advice. They will not attempt to understand the logic behind the good words. They say, “How do they know my plight? They do not understand.”
They get angry at people who give them good advice. They feel slighted when their request is rejected and fail to consider the reason or justification for the good counsel that has been offered to them.
Their line of thinking goes like this: “I gave you importance and asked you to be my Guru. Who are you to tell me that my action is wrong? If you do not wish to oblige me, simply say so and that is sufficient.
Who are you to offer me advice?” Let us see what happens next.
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Date: 27/Jul/2020