Guru Gita 24

Gurucharanam Saranam

Guru Vaktre Sthitam Brahm, Praapyate Tat Prasaadatah

Guror Dhyaanam Tatthaa Kuryaat, Naarii Pativritaa Yatthaa

The grace of the Absolute Brahman present in the Guru’s face can be received only if Guru is pleased. (For this) engage in meditation on the Guru as intensely as a chaste woman would engross in the thought of her husband.

That Supreme Truth is anchored in the physical form of Guru for the spiritual direction of humanity! O’ Soul! Why do you run away from the benign light of Guru and reside in dark celestial regions? Open your eyes to the bright dawn of resplendent light in the settings of a new age. Witness that beauty and wisdom and constantly contemplate on Guru, like the unending meditations of a chaste wife on her husband.

The intimate physical and soul contact between the husband and wife attains a spiritual dimension. A woman’s life is at great stake when she enters into marriage as it is related to her spiritual elevation and life fulfillment. Likewise, if the husband does not find in his wife the spiritual support that he requires very badly, complications would arise in the family. Therefore, in ancient India, the enlightened rishis gave great importance to marriage. Ignorant of these soul intricacies and the genetic engineering of the rishis, the parents and pundits alike risk the lives of their children solely on material considerations like caste, creed, education, wealth etc.

Today, the practice of this precious genetic engineering rests with Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru. Guru permitted marriages only after ensuring spiritual balancing of the souls, looking into the spiritual, ancestral and karmic influences of the concerned couple and their families (gotras) through the astral eye of the Guru or His empowered disciples. The disqualifying spiritual backgrounds of the matched couples are astrally cleansed and synchronized by the sankalpam of the Guru and necessary instructions given before and after marriage so that the life of the husband and wife becomes a combined prayer for begetting a good progeny. The families can thus remain blessed by the birth of virtuous children and the society protected from the birth of a wicked generation.

Those who seek God without realizing the truth of Guru-manifestation are like people who merely enjoy watching of the distant birds, gliding above golden clouds. We can describe their beauty but can never fondle it. O’ soul! On what wings, other than Guru, will you travel to those forbidding heights?