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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
JULY 2014
Thus He Was Thus He Spake : The Guru I was all in a flow to write on the subject of 'aloneness' faith which is wonderful- We must have strict yardsticks till Dhanvant Bhai mentioned to me that his topic this for what constitutes a 'guru'- Infact all our prayers or time is on a 'Guru and Guru Poornima.'I was delighted wishes should be - Oh Lord, make me meet that who till he further added that for him it was on 'books being does not need anyone.' better 'Gurus' than any other living person.
Someone who can make me reach that place where I I was aghast.
need none, nothing. So on the onset of this piece, I need to state my position. We must question and we will find ourselves I am completely, irrevocably, and totally of the belief questioning long after too but that is the only way system that only through a 'Pratyaksh' Guru (A living possible. being) one can reach that point of liberation where the Lastly, the most difficult thing to discard is the concept need of form completely ceases.
of self, and that only someone outside of me can make Luckily for me. 'Anekantvad' will come to help me when me come outside of my superficial self and connect I state my reasons.
me to that part of me which is the purest, the all
knowing- so yes, the journey is finally from the self to What is the meaning of 'Pratyaksh?' 'A living person
the self, just from a lower self to a higher self... from so incase you are all sorted in this lifetime itself, please
out to in but the catalyst, the margdarshak can only be know that in some other lifetime this 'Pratyaksh' Guru
a Guru- A Sadguru...of course. has done his bit. If you find yourself attracted to the likes of Shabri, Mira,
Deep down, we all have it in us-every man, woman,
and child and with enough hard work and Rumi, Gautam Swami then explaining the role of a Guru
concentration, every human being is capable of...the is redundant.
feat.... of liberation, but for that we must let yourself If you find yourself attracted to Krishnamurti, to Osho,
evaporate.. And for that we will need the Grace and to Gurdjeiff, to individualism know that they too however
Guidance of the Guru till that moment when the briefly have had their masters , have had their purest
emptiness inside our body will grow lighter than the air light as a reflection to / of someone else.
around us. Little by little, we will begin to weigh less The second point to this argument is that a Guru can than nothing, and we will see ourselves ( ego, be in any forms-the most conventional being a disciple/ form)evaporate. master but he could also come in the role of a father
And in that state, this phenomena that we call the
and Rushabh Bhagwan and Bahubali/ Bharat Chakraborty,
Guru and this phenomenon that we call 'l, me, will friend( Rumi- Shams, husband (Nem Rajul), master
merge, dissolve and in that oneness, that advait state, maid. (Ganga Sati / Pan Bai.)
we will know that there was no Guru nor we ever were Books/ Scriptures can be a support, an ally but to make a shishya - 'Chidanand roopaha shivoham them the Guru has the first problem of shivoham....but till that state only. interpretation. What you read and understand is directly linked to the limited ness of your conditioning and not the limitless world of A master.
Reshma Jain
The Narrators We might take a long time in establishing our faith in
Tel: 9920951074 someone, an even longer time truly surrendering to that "While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the ultimate balancing act, nothing more, nothing less. And if you're deteremined to fix every situation you deem as bad, or difficult, or somehow unsavory, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it, or even grow from it. Some things, no matter how painful, happen for a reason. A reason you or I may not be able to grasp at first sight, not without knowing a person's entire life story—their cumulative past. And to just barge in and interfere, no matter how well-intentioned, would be akin to robbing them of their journey. Something that's better not done."
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