Sri Guru Gita -Discourse One

Gurucharanam Saranam

Sri Guru Gita
(The Guru Disciple Paradigm)

Paramaachaarya Padapraaptam, Paramaatma Swaruupakam
Karunaakara Gurum Vande, Bhavaroga Bhishagwaram

My obeisance to Sri Karunakara Guru, who has attained the seat of Supreme Guru-hood and who is the embodiment of the Absolute Truth and is the healer of the affliction that is life on the earth plane!

Comments: This mantra is an invocation to Guru seeking his blessings. It is an ancient practice that when we commence a work, first we pray to Guru and at the end, the whole action is submitted at the lotus feet of Guru. All our actions and thought files are submitted at the Divine Server called GURU so that he might keep them safely in our folders available with Him.

It would also be beneficial if we recollect all our thoughts and actions of the day before going to bed, so that we can analyze them in our mental screen and make subjective amendments wherever required. Please remember, virtue or vice, pain or gain, right or wrong, everything has to be submitted at the lotus feet of Guru. It is a subjective process that could help in our harmonious mind-soul integration. The residues of conflicts work subjectively and create ripples of disharmony in the mind and body level leading to ailments in the form of worry, tension and so on.

We must understand that GURU is the Supreme everlasting Consciousness Screen of the universe. Every phenomenon in the universe is ultimately integrated, harmonized and supported in this universal screen called Guru. The afflictions arising out of the binaries of existence could be harmonized only on this plane of Absolute Truth. The thoughts and actions of ours that are not submitted at the feet of Guru are lost like forlorn and fallen leaves tossed about in the natural wind.

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