Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 19: God determines Guru for each person, and the disciple has no right to find fault that his Guru
🌹 Guru Geeta - 19 🌹
Datta Vaakya
✍️ Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌷 God determines Guru for each person, and the disciple has no right to find fault that his Guru 🌷
Indra realized the truth and meditated upon his Guru Brihaspati as per the instruction given by Lord Dattatreya. By the grace of Lord Dattatreya, Brihaspati appeared before Indra.
Indra was under the false impression that Brihaspati had concealed himself somewhere.
As a matter of fact Guru is all-pervasive. He does not go anywhere. That is the secret of the Guru principle. In truth Lord Datta and Brihaspati are one and the same.
Lord Datta, who knows this secret, summoned Brihaspati, and he at once came and stood before Indra.
Had Indra alone begged for Brihaspati to come, he would not have come. Because Lord Datta intervened and helped Indra, Brihaspati came.
Because of his repentance, his intense penance, and the exhaustion of the effects of his past bad karma, Brihaspati cleansed Indra of his sins and restored to him his past glory.
By the command and grace of Datta, and by the prayers of Indra whose eyes were now opened to his own past mistakes, Brihaspati gave Indra back his power and grandeur.
When one as great and powerful as Devendra could have suffered a fate such as this, it requires no mention how vulnerable the frail and weak-minded humans and other gods are.
During the incarnation of Lord Dattatreya as Sri Narasimha Saraswati, a similar incident occurred.
A spiritual aspirant, displeased at the short temper of his Guru, left him and approached Sri Nrsimha Saraswati. Many people mistakenly criticize that he, who cannot control his own temper is not eligible to be Guru.
Sri Narasimha Saraswati gave the seeker some good counsel and explained that each individual gets the Guru that he deserves, and sent him back to his previous Guru.
God determines Guru for each person, he said, and the disciple has no right to find fault that his Guru has either a short temper or that he is frivolous.
The story of Trisanku is a good example. Under no circumstance should Guru be changed. Similarly, one cannot have two or three gurus, one for the morning, one for the evening, and for the holidays.
Gurus are not restaurants that one can visit a different one each week and as per wish order a different item from the menu each time, such as masala dosa, etc.
One should have only one Guru. You cannot have one Guru for explaining scriptures, one Guru for singing songs, one Guru for performing rituals, and so on.
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