Guru Gita Discourse Five

Gurucharanam Saranam

Kena Maargena Bho Swaamin Dehii Brahmamayo Bhavet
Tat-kripaam Kuru Me Swaamin Namaami Charanau Tava

O Lord! Kindly tell me about that path by which soul attains union with God. O Lord! I bow at your feet.

Comments:
The eternal thirst of the jeeva; the essence of life; that is the question Parvati asked Siva. How to discharge one’s soul in Brahman, in God? In the journey of jeeva for this ultimate goal in life, one does not know how many births and deaths, how many lives of transformation and evolution it had undergone, before reaching this door of enlightenment to knock and ask , ‘how do I merge with God’ and find eternal peace. Parvati is that soul, that symbol of a disciple who has reached to this ultimate refinement in life.

Here we are faced with the real meaning of spirituality. What helps one here is not tradition or culture, blind religiosity or philosophies, rituals or riches, name or fame, but only GURU, of Godly experience. Therefore, to find the peace of soul, neutralizing all dualities in life, one ultimately sets out in search of Guru.

‘The Guru disciple bond is the most sublime subject’, Navajyoti Sri Karuakara Guru said. It goes beyond our traditional concept of Guru and Sishya; the treatment of this subject is taken unduly in a personalized context by some, even in a light vein by few others. Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru takes the concept of Guru and Sishya to a most elevated platform of spiritual realization when he said:

‘It is said that Guru is the embodiment of all dharma (Guru Sakala Dharmatma). We realize ourselves the vice and virtue in our soul accrued through many births and deaths that we have undergone and (in the end) submit everything (this karmic imprints of vice and virtue) at the feet of Guru. Guru by imparting spiritual experience breaks (such) karmic bonds in the light of that experience’.

This is the quintessence of Guru, the essentiality of the medium of Guru in God realization. Here we find Parvati, an example of true spiritual seeker surrendering at the feet of her Guru in all earnestness beseeching him to guide her in the science of the soul.

Mukundan