Guru Gita 177

Guru Gita 177

Oh Parvathi, like the ocean is king of all lakes

Thus among all gurus king is the Param guru.

Shiva says : Oh Parvathi, a Param guru is a king among all ordinary gurus. He is like an ocean among the lakes. 

The procession ended at Sri Yukteswar's ashram joyfully. The master gave a short speech on Kriya yoga. Master allowed me-Mukunda to sleep beside him. We sat a while in a state of intense divine tranquillity. Hardly ten minutes in bed, Master rose and began to dress. "What's the matter sir?" I felt a tinge in the unexpected joy of sleeping beside my guru. 

"I think a few students who missed their train, by the time they come, let us prepare some food."

"Guruji, it's one o'clock in the morning, no one would come".

"Stay in bed; you have been working very hard. But I am going to cook".

I jumped up and followed him to the kitchen. Rice and dal was soon boiling. My guru smiled affectionately. " Tonight you have conquered fatigue and fear of hard work; you shall never be bothered by them in the future". As he uttered this lifelong blessing, footsteps foundered in the courtyard.

Oh God,we pray thee to bless us such Godlike Master.

Guru Gita 176

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Never ill, everlasting, the wholesome Brahma

Stays within self that who shows is ParamGuru

Shiva says: Brahma is such that can never be ill. It is whole, however it stays within, that who shows it is a Param guru. Others are only Beguilers. 

The winter solstice celebration was held in Serampore; the first one I attended left me with a permanent blessing.

Sri Yukteswar sponsored four yearly festivals, at the equinoxes and solstices, when his students gathered from far and near. The festivities started in the morning with a barefoot procession along the street. Enthusiastic townspeople strewed the path with flowers, glad by our resounding praise of Lord's blessed name and music. The procession ended in the Hermitage. There we encircled our guru. His public speech emphasized the value of Kriya yoga, and a life of self respect, calmness, determination, simple diet, and regular exercise. What was the blessing that we will be continued tomorrow.

Oh God, we are waiting for your blessings and vision.

Guru Gita 175

Guru Gita 175

Hear oh Devi, it says, holy texts until man leave all desires

Then only one gets right to have a guru and self knowledge.

Shiva says to Devi: The holy texts says that man has to leave all desires to get the merit to have a Guru and self realisation. 

  Sri Yukteswar was planning a religious procession. He asked me to lead the disciples over the town and beach of Puri. It was the hottest day of summer.

"Guruji, how can I take the barefooted students over the fiery sands?" I spoke despairingly.

"I will tell you a secret" Master responded. "The Lord will send an umbrella of clouds; you shall walk in comfort." 

No sooner had we left the Hermitage than the part of the sky filled with clouds, a very light shower fell, cooling the city streets and the burning sea shore.

"You see how God feels for us," Master replied.

Oh God love eternal, shower thy love and light on us, bless us.

Guru Gita 174

Guru Gita 174

Obeying prohibited guru's words with polluted wish and whims, one-

Goes to evil wombs, remain there up to dissolution of world or more.

Oh Devi, Shiva says : The one obeying a prohibited/ fraud guru of greed and envy will go to evil wombs and remain there for time up to dissolution of world. 

Also, one who disobey a sadguru will perish. Kumar was a new enthusiast who joined Sri Yukteswar's ashram. Soon he became the favorite of the Master. Incharge ship was transferred from Mukunda to Kumar. Sadsangh/ congregation with divine people increase our glow of Aura. One day Kumar went to his home against the will of Master. After a long time, Kumar came to the Ashram. But the divinity in him was drained due to bad friends. Master asked Mukunda to tell Kumar to leave the Ashram.

Oh God, keep us in the company of pious people and lead us to divinity.

Guru Gita 173

Guru Gita 173

Parvathi asked:-

If a death fearing unfortunate fool himself meets

A Fraud guru by fate what will happen to him ?

Devi Parvathi asked Lord Shiva: If an unlucky worldly man happen to have a Fraud Guru; what will be his fate ? What will happen to him ?

There are many instances that man do violent killings under the ideology of some intellectuals. They think they can change the society through this violence. However, the society forget the blood shed and the man has to bear the stain and strain for whole life. There are many stories of dacoits who repented for their wrongs became sanyasi. The man who advocate such wrong idea is a bad guru/ Fraud guru. World is full of such thamasic gurus and so the violence and exploitation will continue.

Oh God, we pray to thee to fill us with love and joy eternal. Let divine joy flow and flood everywhere.

Guru Gita 172

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There are so many types of gurus on earth 

But, one should select to serve only Param guru.

Shiva said: There are so many types of Gurus, more are fraud and the real do not show up. The one who want realisation should select only a Param Guru. The identity of Param Guru is given here.

Sri Yukteswer was a Param Guru. He gave samadhi to Yogananda, and taught him what is God. He said "God is near and dear. After the mind been cleared by Kriya Yoga of sensory obstacles, meditation furnishes a twofold proof of God. God is ever- new joy is evidence of His existence, convincing to our very atoms. Also, in meditation one finds His instant guidance, His adequate response to every difficulty."  Human life is beat with sorrows until we know how to tune with the Divine Will." God bears the burden of the cosmos; He alone can give unerring counsel."

Oh God, guide us to knowledge and lead to liberation.

Guru Gita 171

Guru Gita  171

Accumulated punya of many birth one gets thus a Param guru

There after the pupil never get any rebirth here.

Shiva says: With the Punyam/ merit accumulated from many birth, man get a Param Guru. Once one gets the blessings of Param Guru, he is liberated from rebirth.

Sri Yukteswar taught me how to summon the blessed experience at will, and also how to transmit to the capable and deserving.

One day I took a problem to Master. 

"I want to know, sir - when shall I find God?"

"You have found Him."

"O no, I don't think so."

My Guru was smiling. "I am sure you aren't expecting a venerable Personage, adorning a throne in some corner of the cosmos! I see, however, that you are imagining that having miraculous powers is knowledge of God. Spiritual advancement is not measured by one's outward powers, but only by the depth of his bliss in meditation." 

" Ever - New joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue meditation for years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity."

Oh God, we pray for your presence, we await for thy eternal beguiling in our being.

Guru Gita 170

Guru Gita  170

That guru who remove all worries and doubts of his pupil

Save pupil from fear of birth death, such supreme guru is param guru.

Shiva says: The Guru who lead his disciples to realisation, protected from worries and doubts is a Param Guru. He save his pupil from the circle of birth and death. 

Pranam to Param Guru Babaji, who had created a line of Param Gurus and sages. Many of the realised saints remain in their own cocoon and act unknown and take even mahasamadhi. 

How one is saved from the circle of birth and death ?

Many thinking that only Yogi do it. No, it's not so. Because as per texts, a soldier if dies fighting for his people is liberated. Some get salvation with devotion. Some get liberated through selfless service. Considering all this, we can see that ending of Karma is liberation. To end our Karma, we have to shed our craving or wants. 

 Meditate, you will unite with soul. When United with soul, death will be a walk away from a body, to the infinity of liberation.

Oh Mother Divine receive us to thy divine lap. 

Guru Gita 169

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The guru initiate using affirmation like “Thou art That “

He is called Karanakhya guru he cure pupils bad fate.

Karanakhya= cause for motivation

Shiva says: A Guru who use affirmation like "Thou art that" is known as a Karanakhya Guru. He giving this Mantra, remove all ill fates and sin.

Sabarimala, a temple for all religions is famous for the Mantra "TATWAMASI" means "Thou art That". 

Supreme soul is the same that is present in all individuals. To know that meditation and devotion is required. Shankaracharya the renowned Saint who reinstated Hinduism was an orthodox, believing in untouchability. He designed a cast system dividing men, as per their business.  He was illuminated by Lord Shiva, in the form of a Chandala- a low cast, and he realised the futility of cast, and found one is God. A repent Shankaracharya later started spreading awareness of "Adwaitham" One-God and One- Soul". When man begins to know God, then his descrimination ends; in other words " Where spirituality start there end Religions."

Oh Mother divine, bind us in thy Love Divine.

Guru Gita 168

Guru Gita 168

Life is momentary sorrowful, way of escape is restrain 

The guru who show this truth is called Vihith guru

Vihit= Ordaining 

Shiva continues: on different types of guru. A Vihit Guru is the ordaining guru, who show the disciple that life is of turmoils and the way of freedom is restrain. Devotion and commitment to God awareness is the way to it.

Sri Yuktheswer was a great guru. He was Yoganad's destained guru. He groomed Yogananda, into a successful yogi. As a blessing Sri Yukteswar bestowed samadhi on Yogananda, also due to the intense craving of Yoganada. The Lord, as the Cosmic Vision, is drawn by the server's magnetic ardor into his range of consciousness. 

The Yogi wrote on samadhi…

"Vanished the veils of light and shade

Lifted every vapour of sorrow

Sailed away all Dawn's of fleeting joy,

Gone the dim sensory mirage. 

Love hate,health,disease,life,death,

Perished these false shadows

On the screen of duality".

Oh Divine Mother destroy duality in us and bless us.

Guru Gita 167

Guru Gita 167

Enchanting by occult black magics, brain wash talks

Such occultist guru, wise always says get rid them.

Shiva says: There are cheaters in the guise of Guru. They attract simple people with occult powers, black magics and brain wash them for own purposes. The wise men says that get rid of them and ignore these Fraud Gurus. They lead to destruction and sin.

Fraud Gurus advocate for selfish, brutal ideas; ignore them.  When it comes to spirituality; there end all differences. Religion, cast and creed comes to end. Eternal law of love begins to rule. Preaching and conversion ends. Respect and care prevail. Love and bliss springs and spreads all-over. No conquest, no challenges no hatred; only love divine is there. Devotion and selfless service is the Path, Prayer is the slogan and Divinity is then the moto. 

Oh Mother Divine, bless us, thy children with all thy love.

Guru Gita 166

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Oh Parvathi Initiating with holy five syllable manthra

Is a Bodhak guru who is better than the former two.

Bodhak= Teacher/ Deshika

Shiva says: Oh Parvathi, the one who initiate his disciple to spiritual path by giving General five syllable Manthra, is a Bodhak Guru. He is higher than the former two (Vachak and Suchak Guru).

Ordinary Yogis can't give experience of God to his disciple. Yogananda says: "A Master bestows the divine cosmic experience of God, when the disciple, by meditation, has strengthened his mind to the desired level. This experience can never be given through one's mere intellectual willingness or open mindedness. It is only yoga practice, meditation and Bhakti that acquire the merit.

Oh God, bless us with merit to experience thy presence.

Guru Gita 165

Guru Gita 165
The doe's and don'ts of religion leading to basic cast system
That who advocates and spreads is a Vachak guru
Vachak = Lecture, missionary.

Shiva says: Next to SuchakGuru, is Vachak Guru, ample in the streets as Missionary who advocate certain ideology. They cannot elevate you in your spiritual path.

Paramhansa Yogananda was a Sadguru, he never converted people to his religion. He showed the path for realization, the disciple staying with own faith and family. It was the wish of Babaji, by which Yogananda went to US to spread Kriya Yoga. Kriya Yoga is such a technique that enables an aspirant to realization in very short time. Kriya remove the bad Karmas very quickly and paves the path for liberation, in a jet/ rocket vehicle.
Ananda Sangha in Mumbai is initiating in Kriya Yoga.
Let us pray to the great Gurus for blessings. Jai Guru.

Guru Gita 164

Guru Gita 164

For successful worldly life texts of dharmas taught 

That primary guru Oh Devi is called as Suchak guru

Shiva says:  A primary teacher, one who start the teaching for successful worldly life is called a Suchak Guru. He may or may not cause his disciple to spiritual path.

Sri Yukteswar was a Sadguru, who guided Yogananda. " It is the Spirit of God that actively sustains every form and force in the universe; yet God is transcendental and aloof in the blissful uncreated void beyond the worlds of vibratory phenomena,"Master explained. " Saints who realize their divinity even while in the flesh know a similar two fold existence. Consciously engaging in earthly work, they yet remain immersed in an inward beatitude. The Lord has created all men from limitless joy of His being. God expects that souls rise above all sense identifications and reunite with Him.

Guru Gita 163

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Different types of gurus such as Suchaka guru

Wise seeker should decide ideal sadguru for self.

Shiva says: There are different types of guru's, fraudulent and the original, categorized Suchak guru etc. It's the responsibility of the seeker to chose to find his suitable guru. 

Sri Yukteswar induced samadhi on Yogananda, which was being explained here. 

My breath came to a stand still, my sense and identity was merged in an intense awareness; beyond my body. I saw the things in a transparent liquid form. I see through thick walls and through mud, tree with roots. I was in unexhosted Bliss. Divine rays poured into me. Sound Aum, was resonant in me and vibrating. 

Suddenly the breath returned to my lungs, limited me to the cage of body. My Guru was standing motionless before me. " You must not get overdrunk with ecstasy. Much work yey remains for you." I was still entrance d in unspeakable rapture. I saw our bodies as two astral pictures. 

Let us behold the experience of young Yoganada in our mind, and cherish for a similar experience of ecstasy. Oh Divine Mother bless us with divine vision.

Guru Gita 162

Guru Gita 162

Clean and calm is guru humble and less speaking

Free of lust and rage he is decent and restrained.

Shiva says: Clean and calm is a God realized Guru; also humble and introverted, so less speaking. He is free from lusts, rage and is approachable. He is restrained and self disciplined. 

Such was Sri Yukteswar, master of Mukuda. Mukunda continue with his samadhi explanation… 

An oceanic joy broke up on me. The entire cosmos was luminous. The creative rays poured from Eternity. I recognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart. Irradiating splendor issued from my nucleus to every part of the universal structure. Blissfully amritha, the nectar of immortality, pulsed through me with a quicksilverlike fluidity. The creative voice of God I heard resounding as "Aum," the vibration of the Cosmic Motor. 

Oh God, we are inspired by Mukunda, the little Yogananda, Oh divine spirits, Oh learned Sages, Mother Divine; bless us with divine illumination.

Guru Gita 161

Guru Gita 161
Skilled, wise and god knowing, pious
Serine minded will be excellent guru.

Shiva says: A Good Guru will be skilled in all works, wise and realized. He will be pious, content, pleasant and radiant.

Sri Yukteswar gave a short samadhi to Mukunda, the experience that which we were reading…
The divine dispersion of days poured from an Eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.
Remembering the achievement of Mukunda, we too have a wish to have Samadhi. So, let us pray to God to bless us with divine insight.

Guru Gita 160

Guru Gita 160

 Fraud Gurus are so many who thieve wealthy pupil

Scanty is such guru who abolish his pupil's sorrows.

Shiva says: There are fraud gurus in ample than the true gurus. They thieves the wealth of his disciple. Rare is the guru who protect his disciple from sorrows and liberating them.

Young Mukunda was lucky to get a true guru Sri Yukteswar. By pity the Master gave him samadhi which was explained here.

An oceanic joy broke upon calm endless shores of my soul. The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light. A swelling glory within me began to envelope towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems and floating universe. The entire cosmos, gently luminous, like a city seen afar at night, glimmered within the infinitude of my being. The sharply etched global outlines faded somewhat at the farthest edges; there I could see a mellow radiance, ever-undiminished. It was indescribably subtle; the planetary pictures were formed of a grosser light." 

Like Arjuna seeing the universal effect of Lord, Yoganada, witnessed every thing unending… so will continue

Oh Lord bless us with thy eternal knowledge and experience.

Guru Gita 159

Guru Gita 159

Undevoted, traitor, squander, rough and to atheist

Never ever mention them  gurugita even in silently.

Shiva caution Devi not to mention Gurugita even in silence to a bad man like atheist, thief, traitor as well as to a squander. They are never destined to realisation or introduction to God's path.

There can be rare child like Mukunda who was resolved to God's path from childhood. Sri Yukteswar gave him samadhi and the experience was being explaining… "All objects within my panoramic gaze trembled and liberated like quick motion pictures. My body, Masters, the trees and Sunshine, occasionally became violently agitated, until all melted into a luminescent sea; even as sugar crystals, lloglass of water, dissolve after being shaken. The unifying light alternated with materialisations of form, the metamorphosis revealing the law of cause and effect in creation. 

An oceanic joy broke upon calm endless shores of my soul. Mukunda's ecstacy to be continued...

Lucky is Mukunda, he realised God in such an early age. Let us also pray, Oh Gurus, Oh realized Souls, Oh God, Oh Divine Mother, consider us with sympathy, we long for your Love and vision. 

Hari Om, Jay Guru.

Guru Gita 158

Guru Gita 158

158

Lusty immoral faithless to wife 

But he mind laid to a whore.

To such fools oh Devi, do

Never share this knowledge.

Shiva says: the immoral husband who is slave to whore, should never be shared this knowledge of Guru Gita. 

Mukunda continues his experience...

The whole vicinity lay bare before me. My ordinary frontal vision was now changed to a vast spherical sight, simultaneously all perceptive. Through the back of my head I saw men strolling far down Rai That Road, and also noticed a white cow who was leisurely approaching. When she reached the space in front of the open ashram gate, I observed her with my two physical eyes. As she passed by, behind the brick wall, I saw her clearly still.

More of Mukunda's experience will continue… Let us pray to Guru and Mother Divine to be kind and bless us with realisation. 

Guru Gita 157

Guru Gita

157

Devotion to guru is a divine spring

All other holy springs are useless.

Since all holy springs oh Devi is-

Present at the feet of guru dev.

Shiva says: Dip in the divine spring of Guru devotion. Because all the divinity is present at the Guru deva's feet. All other holy springs don't have that benefit. 

Sri Yogananda wrote in his Autobiography of a Yogi….

"Mukunda, your heart's desire shall be fulfilled". Master's calm gaze was unfathomable. Sri Yukteswar seldom indulged in riddles; I was bewildered.

He struck gently on my chest above the heart.

My body became immovably rooted; breath was drawn out of my lungs as if by some huge magnet. Soul and mind instantly lost their physical bondage, and streamed out like a fluid piercing light from my every pore. The flesh was as before and I, been fully alive. My sense of identity was no longer narrowly confined to a body, but embraced the circumambient atoms. People on distant streets seemed to be moving gently over my own remote periphery. The roots of plants and trees appeared through a dim transparency of the soil; I discerned the inward flow of their saap.

To be continued with more experience. 

Let us also pray "Oh God, bless us with thy cosmic vision. JAI GURU.

Guru Gita 156

Guru Gita

156

Wise yogi stays even in day and night and calm

Such great sages, Wade all three world alike. 

Shiva says : A wise yogi stays in the self, calm and joyous state continuesly. Such perfect sages travels in all three world at will and remains in ecstasy.

"Mukunda", Master's voice sounded from the distant balcony. I felt as rebellious as my thoughts. "Master always urges me to meditate."  I remained obstinately silent. He called me again. The third time his tone held rebuke.

"Sir, I am meditating". I shouted protestingly.

"I know how you are meditating," my guru called out, " with your mind distributed like leaves in a storm! Come here to me".

Snubbed and exposed, I made my way sadly to his side.

" Poor boy, the mountains couldn't give what you wanted".

Let us pray, Mukunda get what he wanted from his beloved Guru.