The Wisdom of Guru Gita

Gurucharanam Saranam

Guru Gita

 Verse -28 

Guru Vakthre Sthita Vidya Guru Bhakthya Cha Labhyate

Trailokye Asphuta Vakhtharo Devarshi Pitru Maanavaaha

The knowledge that exists in Guru is received through one’s devotion to Guru. In the three worlds, a deva (or) the rishi under the deva, the ancestral souls and humans are vague in expressing it.

What is the source of spiritual knowledge and enlightenment? Is it a deva (god) or a sage who worship the deva or an angel?  Is it the ancestors or the other men in this world?  Guru-hood is the state of Truth, Knowledge, Awareness or spiritual Consciousness flowing through a human medium relatable to human existence and experience. This state of Truth is different from the different astral as well as human embodiments or statuses such as an angel, a deva, a deva-worshipping seer or any other human beings - a pundit or philosopher. Guru-hood is a pure spiritual status connecting the human soul to the spiritual Bliss, the Truth and Consciousness of God. Only by our devotion to that Spiritual Status in the form of Guru, we can distil down the fragrance of that Eternal Truth through the muddled mediums of our understanding - the senses and the intellect.

Guru-hood is achievable only by transcending all conditional states or stages of consciousness expressed through different bodies or partial aspects of Truth. They cannot express or relate to us the truth of Guru-hood or the Knowledge, which flows down through that medium in its purity. Therefore, we have to worship always the Guru, the bestower of supreme blessedness.

Guru Gita Verses

Gurucharanam Saranam

Guru Gita-27 

Gukaarashcha Andhakaaro Hi Rukaarah Teja Uchyate

Ajnaana Graasakam Brahm Gurureva Na Samshayah:

The syllable ‘Gu’ means darkness and the syllable ‘Ru’ light. There is no doubt that the Absolute Brahman, the destroyer of ignorance is verily Guru Himself.

The knowledge that breaks us free from all limitations comes in the form of Guru, which brightens one’s life with truth and knowledge. Guru is the Light that lifts us up beyond the unpleasant truths of life and establishes us on the serene joy of transcendental Truth. Therefore, Guru is the destroyer of ignorance and miseries, because Guru through right knowledge liberates us from the thralldom of all forms of suffering.

 

Someone said that by following a guru, one forgets God and the guru becomes a block between man and God. That depends upon what that person or that guru considers as God. If that person considers God Almighty as a deity, god or goddess, that is not going to take him to the Ultimate Truth. God is indefinable and unperceivable source of the universe. That Supreme Light is known only through the help of a highly evolved soul who through the efforts and self-sacrifices of innumerable lives was able to peep into the truth of that Cosmic Light succeeding many levels of the astral world. No soul can reach the source of that Cosmic Light by any other method, except through the path discovered by such Gurus, who are scientists of spirituality.  

 

Brahman (Almighty God) has two aspects- the manifest and unmanifest. When Brahman is unmanifest, there is nothingness, a silence unperceivable by anything second. When this unmanifest, indefinable and unknowable power manifests itself in a human universe, it has to be through a human medium in the form of Guru. That is why it is mentioned that Brahman indeed is Guru Himself.

Guru Gita Verses

Gurucharanam Saranam

Guru Gita-25

Svaashramam cha Svajaatim cha

Svakeertim Pushti Vardhanam

Etat Sarvam Parithyajyaa

Gurumeva Samaashrayet

One should take refuge in Guru alone, leaving aside everything else such as one’s stage in life (like being a householder etc.), caste, reputation and wealth.

Complete surrender to Guru is the principle. One’s ego lives in a delusory paradise in the company of four enchanting terrestrial beauties. They are one’s social status (svaashramam), caste or class-consciousness (svajaatim), desire for fame (svakeertim) and wealth accumulation (pushti vardhanam). Spiritual sublimity is possible only when the ego is crushed or diluted. The ego when tied to the four pillars of worldly worries in the form of social status, class-consciousness, desire for fame and wealth creation, cannot enjoy freedom and spiritual joy because of the conflicts, struggle and pain related to these enterprises. Men perish in the cage of their very ego unable to break free from its cruel and painful claws. One can break free only by the surrender to Guru, under His merciful care. Guru becomes the very aim of life, the personification of Supreme Light, unto whom the ego, nay the soul itself is surrendered as an offering, in the name of Truth, in the name of God. Peace and spiritual illumination dawn on such persons in due course. There is no other support than Guru in this venture. So take refuge in Guru alone. The ego can be obliterated with a conscious thought process or constant reflection that what exists is eternal consciousness alone in which and by whose truth we seem to exist like bubbles in the ocean. Such reflection alone can bring us solace.