Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 23: More than what you had ever imagined will be your Reward when you follow Guru
🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 23 🌹
✍️ Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌷 More than what you had ever imagined will be your Reward when you follow Guru 🌷
Compared to other spiritual practices, the method of following Guru offers a great advantage.
The other pursuits grant only what you wish for, nothing else, and nothing more. In addition to satisfying your worldly desires, without your awareness your intellect will soar towards higher realms, and more than what you had ever imagined will be your reward when you follow Guru.
The worship of other deities bestows only the boons that you ask for, whereas Guru, while he gives you what you desire, also grants you liberation.
That is why, Kartaveeryarjuna, who approached Guru initially with a desire for kingdom, step by step rose to the highest spiritual level.
Swamiji is initiating all of you into this Guru Gita with the hope and desire that in addition to fulfilling all your desires, it would also open the doors to your blissful inner consciousness, the existence of which you never even imagined.
He is not only initiating you into this teaching, but he is also sharing with you all the secret inner meanings contained in it. You are indeed very fortunate and blessed. Utilize this great beneficence and fulfill the purpose of your lives.
Wishing for your welfare, for the satisfaction of all your wishes, and for granting you an experience of bliss, by meditating upon Guru Lord Dattatreya, he is now going to begin this spiritual journey.
We have to learn the detailed meaning of the verses that lead us into the contemplation of Guru.
Before commencing any good deed, one should remember Guru. Since we are going to be discussing the Guru Gita, an act that is unsurpassed in the world for its merit, let us begin with the contemplation of Guru.
The foremost Guru of all is Lord Dattatreya. He embodies the Trinity. Guru is Brahma, Guru is Vishnu, and Guru is Siva.
All Gurus who follow in this lineage are all also embodiments of all the three. Without question, Lord Dattatreya is the ultimate Supreme Soul. We offer him our prostrations.
In this context, let us learn how Guru Veda Dharma blessed his disciple Deepaka. It is an important incident in a short story. In the olden days, Deepaka, the disciple of Guru Veda Dharma believed that Guru was all in all.
He believed that all deities resided in his Guru. When Siva and Vishnu appeared before him and offered him boons, Deepaka remained unmoved in his dedication to Guru.
For possessing such intense devotion, let us find out what immense grace he received. Assuming that Deepaka’s devotion to Guru was not genuine, the other disciples created obstacles in every single effort of his. It is natural and commonplace that when one is trying to rise high, others try to pull him down.
Afraid that Deepaka may rise to dizzying heights by the grace of Guru, the rest of the disciples tried their level best to drag him down by placing hurdles in his path of devotion to Guru. Let us see what happened after they managed to drag him down.
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