Satsang GURU BHAKTI by H.Venkat Rao

GURU BHAKTI
by
H. Venkat Rao, L.M. & S-, Dental Surgeon Madras.
Guru-Brahma Guru Vishnu Gurudeva Maheswarah
Guru Sakshat Para Brahmah Taswai
Shri Gurave Namah
Solutions be to prosperity-raining Guru, who is
(equal to) Brahma, Vishnu
and Maheswara and is in fact para Brahmah.

Who and why for is a Guru?

All great religions believe in God and most of them
consider that the whole universe consists of three
non-created and self existent principles -
Matters, Soul, and God, and that religion begins with
these Souls and ends in our seeking what their
destiny is and how best to attain it. Since the senses
and sense-objects are are placed outside the Soul,
the natural inclination and goal of the Soul is to go
outside to matter and hence think and aspire after
the happiness-though transitory and mixed with (its
opposite) sorrow - of the senses. Since the Soul
identifies itself with the senses, the mind and the
body, it becomes miserable, for sense happiness is
only a mirage and Soul forgets its eternal nature and
perfect happiness. Hence the current of action of the
Soul has to be - for its own good and object of life-
directed towards God by a process of correct
discrimination and with a strong and infallible force
in the shape of guidance by a perfect Soul with God
immanent who is to be requisitioned, sought, won
over and abided by all who seek the eternal goal of
life. Such aperson is called a "GURU".

God speaks through Guru
As you sow so you reap. As you think, so you become.
If the disciple sincerely seeks, worship and honestly
considers a proper Guru as God Parabrahman, God
through Guru helps him to easily fight the'Battle of Life"
and work out salvation for his Soul. One's own mother,
father, and husband come under the same category of
Guru-deva. God does not manifest Himself perceptible
to the physical eye in this materialistic age but easily
manifests Himself in and uses the Guru as a
mouthpiece to guide the devout disciple. It is un uphill
work if not impossible, for all to obtain God's vision by
Raja yoga. The easier path to all is to get hold of a
proper Guru, and with sincere devotion, love and
adoration of the Guru, the human embodiment of God,
the disciple, children and dutiful wife can work out their
Life's destiny with God's intuition and illumination through
the Guru. Again the weather beaten and experienced
individual Guru will be better stationed to help the devotee
to stear clear of tempestuous sea of Life. Hence the
disciple should have the"gtve and take policy", have
Gurubhakti, adoration and implicit faith in Guru and by
exchange receive selfless love, kind heartedness and
proper helpfrom the Guru.
Hindu codes obtain that the disciple should apprentice
himself to and do even manual labour to the Guru and
His family for some time before being initiated as a
disciple. This Karma yoga complete surrender to the
Guru - to become slave as it were - purifies the mind
and character of the disciple and reacts on the Guru
to feel completely attached to his disciple and plant
Jnana andBhakthiyogas in the worthy soil.