Guru Gita 107

Guru Gita

106

Lusty, furious, violent, heinous adamant.

Ignorant, duty avoider, angersome,sinners,

Are never worthy for Guru Darshan.

107

Other than these people should Oh Devi

Serve a worthy sadguru with firm faith.

Shiva says the list of bad people in previous poems, who are never destined to get a guru. Those who never have bad contact are lucky. Such lucky should have a guru and serve his sadguru with firm faith to get liberated.

Salvation should be the prime aim of life. It says Bhakthi/devotion is the best path to salvation. Melpathur Bhattathiri in his Narayaniyam the compact version of Maha Bhagavatham has mentioned it. The author of Narayaniyam is believed to be the incarnation of Ananda (the great snake on which Lord Vishnu rest.).

Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri was an ordinary Brahman of Kerala. He married daughter of his uncle and was staying with them. After marriage he was reluctant to do his daily spiritual practices. One day he heard his uncle's soliloquy "a great brahmana birth is being wasted". Hearing this Narayana repented and changed. He mastered Sanskrit and other literatures soon.

His uncle had arthritis and suffering badly. All treatments failed. As per astrologer's advise, the illness can only be taken by somebody. No willing person was there to take the ailment, then Narayana took the arthritis on him.

Narayana was suffering badly and while approaching for a solution, the translator of Valmiki Ramayana advised him to start with fish. As Brahmins don't eat fish, Narayana, a devotee of Lord Vishu, started Bhajana at Guruvayoor temple. There he starts to recites ten slokas daily briefing Bhagavatam, the tails of Lord. In hundred days, he was recovered as well as got the sight of Lord Krishna. In hundred days he composed Nayayaniyam, whole Bhagavatham (more than eighteen thousand slokas) skimmed to thousand one hundred slokas with all the beauty and less omissions of spiritual messages. His Narayaniyam is being recited devotionally in many temples, is a great joy to hear. Those who have not heard it should at least hear it once.