Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 21: Praying the Guru, You are Praying all three primary deities Siva, Vishnu, and Brahma.
🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 21 🌹
✍️ Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌷 Praying the Guru, You are Praying all three primary deities Siva, Vishnu, and Brahma. Dattatreya Having 3 head is Symbol for that. 🌷
We have learned that when you have a Guru, you are not permitted to receive initiation, advice, spiritual images or talismans from other gurus. This is as per the direct counsel given by Lord Dattatreya to Lord Indra on the day he appeared before him (when Indra was hiding inside the lotus stalk). He had given this same instruction to King Kartaveeryarjuna also.
Some people express the doubt whether this tradition of following Guru applies more to the followers of Siva or to the followers of Vishnu.
The answer to this question has already been given during our earlier discussion. But does it really matter? In the early part of the Guru Gita, because it says, “Sivaya Gurave Namaha” some persons wonder whether this teaching belongs primarily to the followers of Siva. But in verse 141 it says, “Sachchidananda roopaya Krishnaya klesaharine
namo vedanta vedyaya gurave buddhisakshine.”
It is believed therefore that this instruction also belongs to the worshipers of Sakti because this came as an answer to the question posed by the Mother Goddess to Siva. However, one may question why in this scripture, in several instances Siva is referred to as Guru.
The primal reason is that Siva is giving this discourse to His consort Parvati. This clarifies that for a woman, the husband is the foremost guru.
When the husband is not eligible to be the guru to his wife, then both the husband and the wife should together seek initiation from the same Guru. Even then, Guru gives the initiation to the wife only through the husband, only after inquiring about the identity and whereabouts of the husband. Guru always honors that hierarchy. This is the tradition. Grace flows to the wife from Guru only through the husband. To make this point clear, it is shown that Siva, the husband of Parvati, is her true Guru.
There is another reason. Guru is easily pleased and grants boons quicker than any other deity. Siva, amongst all gods is the most easily pleased. He grants favors speedily. That is why in this scripture, Siva is presented as Guru. What is wrong in that?
The undivided Consciousness, by the turmoil caused by Maya (illusion) became split into two, as Nature and Soul (Prakriti and Purusha). Nature in turn divided itself into the three Gunas, Satva, Rajas, and Tamas. Consequently, Creation with name and form came into existence.
In this Creation, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, Devi and other deities came into being for performing the functions of Creation, Preservation, Destruction, and so on.
Brahma began creating the Universe using Rajo Guna, the creative force. But he found to his displeasure that the people who were being created were slipping gradually into Tamo Guna, ignorance.
Out of deep concern, to rescue his children from their plight and to uplift them, Brahma decided that an antidote for this had to be invented. He gave the issue some serious thought. The antidote had to raise their consciousness above and beyond the three Gunas.
He dedicated his attention towards this mission. He at once stimulated the intellects of his mind-born son Atri, and his shadow-born son Prajapati. This was done through contemplation alone. Let us see what the result of his effort was.
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