Guru Gita Discourse Three

Gurucharanam Saranam

The Rishis Said:

Guhyaat Guhyatamam Saaram Gurugiita Visheshatah
Twat Prasaadaaccha Shrotavyaa Tat Sarvam Bhruuhi Suuta Naha

O Suuta! Guru Gita is very unique, and its contents holding greatest hidden meaning. Therefore may it please you to render all of that, which would be suitable for our ears!

Comments:

Guru Gita is in the form of a dialogue between Siva and his consort Paarvati. Sage Suuta was a disciple of Vyasa and the son of sage Loma. He was approached by a group of rishis who were eager to go into the depths of the law of Guru. Suuta, then contacts through his visionary wisdom the knowledge that was given by Siva to Parvati on the mystery of GURU. And Suuta relates it to the eager rishis.

Guru Gita thus commences here.

One of the qualities of a spiritual seeker is said to be the quality of inquisitiveness or eagerness for knowledge. Where there is no desire for knowledge, it would be futile to sow the seed of wisdom. Once the disciples of Buddha asked the Noble One that why he was unable to liberate the suffering masses through his teachings of Noble Dharma! Upon this Buddha asked his disciples to go and bring any person they could find desiring liberation.

As advised by Buddha, the disciples went down to the nearby village. Door to door they went. They were surprised to find out that all persons wanted something or the other in life, but not liberation. All wanted just solutions to problems which are in abundance in life and are found to recur without an end. The disciples thus returned to Buddha disappointed. They were unable to find a single person desiring salvation!

Most of us are not prepared to look beyond and search for permanent solutions and remedies to the problems and riddles in life. But the ascetics- the rishis are noble souls of wisdom and the opportunity to learn from a great sage is made use of with an urgency of knowing the truth related to Guru.

Mukundan