Awaken your inner Guru

Just by planning, you cannot expect any benefit. You have to nurture, give continuous efforts, love to enjoy your efforts with all your sincerity and then you can accrue benefits. Remember also that the benefit what has been accrued is to be also passed on to  others.  Then only, a total cycle of competing satisfaction will be evolved. It is said that the seed is Brahma and the supreme power. The tree is recognized as Brahma.  But you cannot expect any tangible benefits from seed.  But trees can give you the benefits of shade and fruits.  To provide these benefits, the tree has to go below the ground, break out of its shell, sprout and then grow as a tree.  The tree has no ego.  It never refuses to use its existence to the earth.  If it ever thinks in that manner and feels that everything starts and ends with its own existence, the seed will not become a tree.  It will be probably trampled by the pressure of human beings feet or will be eaten by rats.  Similarly, out of our arrogance and hubris, if we always think and brag our existence, we will collapse or we will live halfheartedly.  Some people have a knack to think, “Every thing is in me.”  “Why should I be dominated by others?”  In that stage of living, we will never realize God.  We will be in the shackles of the dark alleys of worldly affairs.  Let us take a case of sapling.  When you plant a sapling, you have to nurture it regularly. You have to provide water, fertilizer and medicine.  You have to ensure and save it from the scorching sun and heavy rain.  When you take care of the sapling, it will give you fruit. Before you get a sapling, you have to ensure the seed sprouts and grows.  You need to fence the area, so that the animals are not in a position to destroy these saplings.  Once it becomes a tree after taking all care, you need not to bother much. The tree then continues to give you its fruits. Similarly, our life, till the time we attain our goals, the fence of yamas and niyams and the teachings of a guru and his influence are very much needed. Once we understand the true meaning of life and its surroundings, we will think always good for others and we will only do well, which benefits the world.  In this life, nothing is really binding us.  We will reach and touch the supreme power, once we shed all our egoist approach and we get rid of thinking in terms of “I”.  This thinking of “I” only causes harm to all our senses and we are not able to progress. So, we need to break out from the shell of “I” which only causes our downfall and invites all our miseries. Our presence in this world is like a holistic journey.  As you see a map for the purpose of navigation, the life map shows you the journey of your life from where to start, but it depends on you how ably you start, you manage your state of affair and you like to end your journey. The life map also helps us to decide to take a  route to reach a particular point. Mostly, we don’t have practical knowledge of these fundamental things, we have no practical experience and we do not have enough zeal to reach the particular point.  The reason behind this, we lack knowledge of ground realities. We may encounter many impediments and unwanted incidents in our journey.  

 

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As said above, since, we don’t have the inklings of the conditions of the journey of our lives, we always live in doubts. Whether the journey is conducive to travel or not, we have no ideas. There might be ferocious animals or robbers on the way.  The roads might not be smooth. So, if someone who has undertaken this type of journey, accompanies us, we may take his support and guidance without showing any ego. But we must trust him.  If we cast a doubt of his authenticity, then we will not have peace of mind. We must have total faith in the person who accompanies us. You have to treat and respect him like a guru and follow his commands to fulfill your mission.

 

We must focus our attention to implement the truth, what we have learned from him. We must open our heart to the guru.  Then only, we can fill our heart.  For that we must shed our ego and learn to inculcate an attitude to surrender.  For example, moisture is the reason for a seed to sprout; the same way a mother hen causes an egg to hatch. If you want to realize the “self”, you have to come out from the shell of ego.  For this purpose, not only the presence of the guru, but also his grace  is a must and your discipline to get this grace is inevitable. The true guru, the inner one is available within us, but we are not able to find because of our ego. This ego only pushes us in the dark, alley of ignorance and makes us spiritually blind.  In reality, the outer guru, is awakening the inner guru. Until our inner guru awakens, we are not able to understand the real meaning of our life and self.  In that case, we are not able to nurture the thing, we plant.  No sooner, the inner guru, is awakened, whatever we plant, nurture, and  love, it will grow to the benefits of you and the whole mankind.