Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 20: As long as you have your Guru, you should only follow his precepts

🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya -  20  🌹

✍️ Sri GS Swami ji 

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌷 As long as you have your Guru, you should only follow his precepts 🌷

 

It has been stressed that under no circumstance should one change the Guru and also that one cannot have more than one Guru. The question arises whether holy persons who are not one’s Guru are not great souls worthy of reverence when they come into your life. 

Yes, all great souls are worthy of reverence and worship. You must offer them service when required. See them all as different forms of your own Guru. You must accept the truth that Guru appears in many forms. You must adore and worship them, no doubt, but it is not acceptable that you should treat them as Guru and follow the principles or practices that they teach. 

What your Guru has instructed is the only path for you to follow. Once you decide to follow the precepts of one Guru, you should never receive instructions from other gurus, regardless of the worth and eligibility of the other great souls. 

You should only follow what your Guru has taught you. If what the others teach is in accordance with the teachings of your own Guru, there is no conflict and you can appreciate the similarity. It endorses that they also think along the same lines as your own Guru. But if there is any difference in the principles taught you must never say, “Oh, my Guru has failed to teach me this," or "oh, someday perhaps my Guru will also teach me the same thing, there is nothing great about this person.” One feeling expresses your ego, and the other sentiment is baseless.

 

To a true seeker, every single atom in Creation is Guru. Avadhoota has 24 gurus according to the Datta Purana. When any teaching from another guru differs from what your own Guru has taught you, such teaching should be rejected. Guru determines the instruction that is suited to each disciple, and customizes his teaching. That is where a spiritual seeker has to be extremely careful. That is the significance of the 24 gurus mentioned in Datta Purana. One must be very careful in following the specific instruction given to each disciple.

 

When a great soul enters your life, serve him as if he is another form of your own Guru, but never consider him to be yet another Guru in your life. Such a thought must never arise in the mind. It is only under circumstances where your Sadguru gives up his physical form, leaves for penance to some faraway place such as the Himalayas on an extended stay, or when he himself directs you to follow another Guru, that you are allowed to accept another Guru. This should be done only when there is absolutely no chance for you to follow your own Guru in the rest of your lifetime. 

As long as you have your Guru, you should only follow his precepts. This is ordained and endorsed by the scriptures. You must not receive any initiation or yantras (ritual diagrams or images) from other gurus. 

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