Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 170
✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
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If you listen to the Guru Ashtakam that you just heard, over and over again, if you learn it by-heart, if you keep chanting this mantra all the time, you will attain the good fortune of having read the Guru Gita, you will attain the good fortune of having followed the Guru’s instructions, you will attain the good fortune of having understood the Guru Principle.
Whether you are a great scholar or a lay person, whether you are a Yogi, whether you are diseased or wealthy, regardless of who you are and what state you are in – God gave everyone a different state – you will benefit from it.
Whether you are a Karma (action) Yogi or a Jnana (knowledge) Yogi or a Tyaga (sacrifice) Yogi, it’s a state you acquired due to your past karma. It’s a certificate you received. It is inevitable that you go through the experience.
However, everyone needs to practice good habits. In some instances we can, but in some others we are unable to. For instance, sometimes, it may be hard to study the big Guru Gita.
That is why, they made a scripture like Ramayana easy for us with the 100 verse Shata Shloki Ramayana because we may not have the opportunity to study and learn by-heart the 24000 verses in the Ramayana. But, for those who want more stories than what is in the 100 verses, it’s enough to read Sundarakanda (one of the 7 sections in Ramayana).
If you study it everyday, that’s good. Even if you chant the Eka-Shloki (single verse) Ramayana every day, that’s good. If you don’t have the opportunity to do that, it is enough if you chant “Rama”, “Sita”, “Rama”. Like that, they have made everything easy and more accessible for us.
Similarly,
Final verse in Guru Ashtakam:
Gurorashtakam yah pathet punya dehi Yatir bhupatir brahmachari ca gehi |
Labhed vancitaartham padam brahma sanjam Guro ruktavakye mano yasya lagnam ||
Just as we discussed so far, whether he is a Yati or a king, whether he is a Brahmacari (celibate) or a householder, whoever he is, if he studies the Guru Ashtakam, he will be purified, his mind will be absorbed in the Guru’s instructions, all his wishes will be fulfilled and he will attain Supreme bliss.
It does not matter who you are, if you have the desire to study the big Guru Gita, but do not have the opportunity to, you can study the Guru Ashtakam any number of times, at all times and in all states.
You attain great fortune if you study the Guru Ashtakam or learn it by heart of even listen to the recording. One attains supreme bliss (Brahmanandam) and all his wishes will be fulfilled. “Brahmam” refers to bliss that is unparalleled.
It’s not the ordinary, mundane kind of joy. People that attain this supreme bliss are merging into the supreme reality. They are merging with eternal bliss. The greatness of Guru Ashtakam is such.
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01 Jan 2021
Just as we discussed so far, whether he is a Yati or a king, whether he is a Brahmacari (celibate) or a householder, whoever he is, if he studies the Guru Ashtakam, he will be purified, his mind will be absorbed in the Guru’s instructions, all his wishes will be fulfilled and he will attain Supreme bliss.
It does not matter who you are, if you have the desire to study the big Guru Gita, but do not have the opportunity to, you can study the Guru Ashtakam any number of times, at all times and in all states.
You attain great fortune if you study the Guru Ashtakam or learn it by heart of even listen to the recording. One attains supreme bliss (Brahmanandam) and all his wishes will be fulfilled. “Brahmam” refers to bliss that is unparalleled.
It’s not the ordinary, mundane kind of joy. People that attain this supreme bliss are merging into the supreme reality. They are merging with eternal bliss. The greatness of Guru Ashtakam is such.
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01 Jan 2021