Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 178
✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
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Avadhoota Swamy taught king Yadu, “I told you my second Guru is Air. Air is everywhere. We breathe in only as much air as we need. Similarly, I learned that wise people eat not to appease their tongue, but just enough to survive. Air carries fragrant smells. It also carries bad odors, but remains unchanged itself.
Similarly, I learned that Yogis remain unattached to joys and sorrow. Yogis remain unattached. They are untainted and unblemished. Thus I learned that purity and impurity pertain to the body and not to the soul”. “This is good, this is bad” is only for the body and not the soul, taught the Avadhoota.
From Air, a disciple who is a spiritual seeker should realize that “Excess” is very dangerous and should be cast away while “Moderation” aids our spiritual progress like a good friend. That is the thought here. This is how they are describing the gist of lessons learned from Air.
Third Guru is Sky. Avadhoota Swamy so far taught king Yadu what he learned from Earth and Air. Next, he talked about Sky. In this context, let’s learn about the important characteristics of Sky.
“Yadausha Akasa Anandosyat”
The Vedas say that the Supreme reveals Himself to us through the sound of the Sky. The Absolute is very great. It’s all pervasive. It is divine. There is no greater example than the Sky to prove that God is all pervasive. Sky is everywhere, where is it not? It pervades everywhere. We do not know where it ends.
We do not know where it begins. We do not know where it goes. It has no beginning and no end. That is how the Sky is. God has this omnipresent quality of the Sky. There is no greater example than the Sky to show God’s omnipresence. Upanishads say, “Akasadvayuh, Vayoragnih”.
The sky was born from the Absolute. The sky supports the existence of the other elements of Nature and has the attribute of sound. All beings are born from the Sky and merge back into the Sky. Sky is the biggest of all elements of Nature. It supports all the elements of Nature. Sky is none other than the Absolute.
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09 Jan 2021