Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 22: Guru principle transcends the three Gunas
🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 22 🌹
✍️ Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌷 Guru principle transcends the three Gunas 🌷
At once Brahma stimulated merely through mental vibrations, the intellects of his mind-born son Atri, and his shadow-born son Prajapati. The marriage between Atri and Anasuya, and the birth of Lord Dattatreya, the embodiment of the Trinity were a result of this action.
The story of the incarnation of Lord Dattatreya gives direct proof that the Guru principle transcends the three Gunas. We are all familiar with the story of Datta. We are all asked to study the story of Datta as a ritual for seven days or for 40 days.
Therefore, this Guru principle is close to all traditions and is not in conflict with any. Lord Dattatreya is the fundamental principle who is at the root of all subsequent different philosophies which have evolved.
Hence, whether knowingly or unknowingly all those who meditate upon Guru contemplate on Lord Dattatreya who is the form of the Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, as they chant, “Gurur brahma, gurur vishnuhu gurur devo maheswaraha …”
When these philosophical ideas are presented, some of you may express another doubt.
The impression is entertained by many that in life a Guru should be approached only when all worldly desires have been satisfied, and when one is ready to renounce all involvements. Another false notion of some people is that Guru should be sought only after retirement, and that once a Guru is accepted, one has to give up everything, or will lose everything and will have to become a sanyasi.
This is a mistaken idea.
Why are we engaging in this discussion? We began with the premise that the countless desires that we experience stem from three basic desires which each individual wishes to fulfill.
You may think that today you have only this one desire. Not just from this lifetime, but since innumerable past lifetimes you have been entertaining a multitude of desires. Some people adhere to only one desire through many consecutive lifetimes.
Such a persistent single desire is tantamount to penance. But we do not follow that trend. We forget the old desires and come up with new desires each time.
God in His compassion, has to satisfy all of our desires, and as a result we are forced to be born over and over again to experience the fulfillment of all such desires.
Hence, it is better not to entertain any desires. You have heard the story of King Kartaveeryarjuna. It is the ultimate example of one who got all his desires fulfilled.
If you study the history of Datta you will understand. Is anyone capable of asking for any greater boons than what Kartaveeryarjuna had asked for? Guru’s compassion granted him all his desires and bestowed even more boons upon him.
Worship of Guru is the best worship. There are several different austerities and rituals of worship. But the facility with worship of Guru is that it is superior.
Other manners of worship procure for you only what you ask for.
But with worship of Guru you not only have all your worldly desires fulfilled, but you gain benefits that you had not even imagined. In addition, without your knowledge, your intellect develops towards the understanding of higher spiritual truths.
That is why, although Kartaveeryarjuna approached Guru with a desire for kingdom, he ended up by climbing the spiritual ladder up to the level of becoming merged with his Guru. Even though he began with worldly desires, he did not simply remain at that level.
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