Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya 14
🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya 14 🌹
✍️ Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻 Guru should not be ignored under any circumstance. He should never be treated or spoken of lightly. 🌻
We were discussing the story of Indra. In that story, we learned that Indra was living very happily and comfortably in his kingdom. His mind then turned towards sensual pleasures.
What happens to people when they become wealthy? They lose all their wealth in gambling, in consuming liquor, in various vices and evil habits.
Similarly, one day Indra in heaven was absorbed in witnessing the dance and relishing the pleasures given by the Apsaras, the celestial maidens.
At that time, while Indra was intoxicated with arrogance and immersed in the enjoyment of pleasures, his Guru Brihaspati came there.
Devendra ignored his presence. There is no greater misdeed than ignoring the arrival and presence of one’s Guru.
Observing this, Brihaspati left in fury. No one knew where he went. It was impossible to trace his whereabouts even through deep contemplation.
Indra got very angry at Brihaspati that he arrived at an inopportune time without any advance intimation, and also that he left so unceremoniously. ‘When I was immersed in my pleasures, he came in.
Even after seeing me, he left without accosting or greeting me. Is this the proper behavior for a guru and a respectable individual?” Indra was seething with displeasure at the behavior of Brihaspati.
Indra regarded him only as a minister and a priest. He forgot to acknowledge that Brihaspati was his Guru. Brihaspati was giving him guidance and advice as a minister.
Hence, Indra treated him only as a consultant, an astrologer, and as a fixer of schedules of important events, and as a casual counselor.
He never treated him as Guru should be treated. In truth, one who has been accepted as one’s Guru should not be used for such petty services.
It is not fair. It is not proper to treat him like an ordinary consultant. Guru is extremely special and exalted.
There are many qualified professionals who can set dates for marriages and house warming ceremonies. It is wrong to ask Guru for approval of such dates.
Guru is extremely powerful and competent in releasing one from bondage.
He brings about a transformation in an individual. Indra forgot that Brihaspati was his Guru. Because of this misdemeanor committed by him, Indra lost all his acquired merit.
There is no need to elaborate on this. All the accumulated merit and good fortune gets melted away the moment one rejects Guru.
It goes without saying that Guru should not be ignored under any circumstance. He should never be treated or spoken of lightly. It must never be said complainingly, “My Guru predicted something, but it turned out differently.”
Your line of thinking should be, “What if he had said something different, how much worse it would have been for me.”
Guru’s statements should be analyzed from different angles with the conviction, “It is for my benefit that he spoke such words.
My Guru, who knows all past and future lifetimes of all individuals, knows what is best for each one at any given time.” Even Indra, who was so knowledgeable, suffered the fate of losing all his glory because he treated his Guru with disrespect.
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Date: 26/Jul/2020