Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 79
🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 79 🌹
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
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We discussed that the term “Guru” is of utmost importance in one’s life. There is no one greater than the Guru. We also discussed that Guru is also Lord Krishna.
Let’s understand the qualities of the Guru through some stories of Lord Krishna. If compassion and sacrifice were to take a form, that form would become Guru. That itself is the divine form of Lord Krishna.
Wandering in Gokulam as a cowherd, Krishna displayed many miracles that amazed even the Gods. We’ll understand them if we read the Bhagavatam. Recently, Swamiji went to Mathura and Vrindavan for the volunteer camp with children from Sri Datta Humane Services.
There, I remembered a lot of Krishna’s childhood leelas. I recalled every incident. The songs from the Kannada Bhagavatam that revered Jayalakshmi Mata composed were ringing in my ears. Appaji was 5 years old when He went to Gokulam with Jayalakshmi Mata and the rest of the family.
Back then, it was not as chaotic as it is now. People used to always chant “Radhe” or “Radhe Shyam”. Not only that, they would serve milk, yogurt and food in every house. These days, they keep demanding money instead.
Back then, Jayalakshmi Mata wrote the song “Mathura Nagaravu…” after seeing the city where Lord Krishna grew up. I still cannot forget the song. I keep singing the song once a while. Even today, I remember the place where Lord Krishna grew up.
Nanda Gokulam, Govardhana mountain are all located fairly close to each other, about 16-17 kilometers apart from each other. Lord Krishna worked very hard. He worked very hard to uphold Dharma. Lord Krishna stood by every being, in every instance and in every situation as a Guru.
That is why, Sri Krishna is hailed as the best among the best and is the only one that can be called Jagadguru. Merely traveling to foreign lands doesn’t make one a Jagadguru.
Lord Krishna is worshiped as Guru in all the worlds, in the entire cosmos. Nowadays, traveling to 2-3 continents seems to qualify someone as Jagadguru. That is not correct.
Beings in all the worlds in the cosmos, from gods to Yakshas, Kinnaras and Kimpurushas, all worshiped Lord Krishna. That is why the Lord was Guru to everyone. He remained a Guru even in Golokam.
Taking on a body, discarding the body, Lord Krishna worked very hard. You will see this when you read his life history. All divine incarnations worked very hard. Didn’t the Lord work hard in Matsya (fish) Avatara? Appearing as a gigantic fish, he had to work very hard.
As Kurma (tortoise) Avatara, as Varaha (boar) Avatara, he worked very hard. Just when we thought that the Lord would not have to work so hard in a human form, he had to work very hard in his incarnation as Lord Rama.
And as Lord Krishna, he had to work very, very hard. As Guru to all the worlds, he wandered as a cowherd in Gokulam, displaying miracles and causing amazement to everyone including the Gods.
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