TASHMAI SHREE GURUWE NAMAH

                                                                             “ Agyaan timiraandhasya gyaanaanjan shalaakayaa; Chakshurunmeelitan yen tasmai shree guruwe namah.” I was wandering in the darkness of ignorance. A man developed my eyes with a stick of anjan (kajal- a black colour applied on the eyebrow) of knowledge. I began to see the universe vividly. I became able to see good and bad. I came to know the humanity and animality. Briefly, I took re-birth as a man.

                                        The place of the guru is too much higher than the parents. Suppose you make a statue. Some body gives life in it. Who should be called superior? Obviously, the life-giving person. Without knowledge, we are not better than a statue. It is better to die than to wander like an animal without knowledge.

                                                                     Parents are called first gurus of a child. Hence, they are creators, tamers, and educators. That is why they are superior to all. Think about the children who do not serve their parents. We cannot repay the debt of our parents even offering our lives. ‘Sheesh diye jo guru mile, to bhee sastaa jaan’. It is cheaper to have guru even offering our heads.

                                                   ‘Aatmaiv guruh’. The soul is the very guru. It is foolishness to wander hither and thither in search of guru, when this is in everyone’s heart. ‘Tera sai tujh me jyon puhpan me baas; Kastooree kaa mrig jyon phir phir soonghe ghaas.’ God is in you like the scent in flowers. The scented kastooree is in the very deer, but it smells grass again and again to have the very perfume. ------- On Guru Purnima, 3^rd July,2012.--- Ohm Namo bhagvate shree Ramanaay.