Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 173
✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
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We discussed so far that the Guru uplifts some people visibly. He uplifts some others invisibly. If the disciple is being benefited indirectly, he should never become egoistic thinking that he alone is responsible for his own progress. Neither should a devotee become egoistic upon realizing that the Guru is invisibly uplifting him. It is wrong to think that you are responsible for your progress. Without getting egoistic, one must realize that the Guru is the reason for that progress.
You should keep saying physically, “If I am able to do all this, it is the Guru’s invisible hand. If Guru is visibly uplifting me, there is no greater fortune.” Only such a person becomes the best of disciples. He will be the one that understands the Guru’s intentions well. A true disciple is one who realizes that it is the Guru’s invisible hand that is uplifting him.
Guru protects like a mother, like a father, like a friend, like a relative. We don’t even realize that sometimes the Guru is in the form of a relative. Yes, the relative is well known to us, but the Guru entered the relative and is helping us out. Visibly, the Guru uplifts as a friend, as a relative, as a father, as a mother and so on. He protects us and keeps us from falling from the path of Dharma. All this is evidence that Guru is always watching over you. Even when we don’t ask or realize, our father gives us guidance. The mother gives us guidance. We get guidance in not one, but in so many forms, from a friend, a brother and so on.
The Guru entered them and appeared to us in their form. A small house fly, a small bird also teaches us lessons in Guru Principle. We should look at them from that perspective. Don’t dismiss a dog as just a dog. See the dog as an evolved soul. Of course, the dog will not talk to you, but you will surely find something in the dog that you can learn from.
We see so many instances where a tiger cub was raised by a cat. Similarly, we’ve seen a baby cuckoo being raised by a crow. We keep seeing such instances even today. It makes us so happy. We have even seen instances where a kitten suckles a dog. Even though it looks strange, see how God protected the kitten in the form a dog.
All these creatures may look strange to us. But, we should try to learn lessons from all the beings around us. You should not dismiss them, saying “This is a dog”, “This is a wolf”. That is why, Guru tries to keep us from falling from the path of Dharma by appearing to us in various forms. The role of a Guru in our lives in that important.
We discussed that even Lord Datta had 24 Gurus. It is never enough to recollect this over and over again just as it is never enough to recite the Guru Gita over and over again. These are 24 Gurus who teach us the Guru Principle. We know that this has already been described in the scriptures.
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04 Jan 2021