Question and Answers about a Guru
( Guru Vishayak Prashnoutter )
( Guru Vishayak Prashnoutter )
Shree Hari
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Question: Some people get super natural experience from awakening of Kundalini with the help of some Gurus. What is this?
Answer: Such miracles do happen but they do not help in attainment of eternal bliss or salvation. Salvation takes place when one transcends the body and the world.
Question: I have accepted a mala (chain of beads, like a rosary) from a Guru, but now I have no faith in him. Should I return the mala?
Answer: I never say to return the chain. My advice is that you may count the beads of the mala once ofwith the sacred message (guru mantra), imparted to you by you Guru and the remaining time you should chant the holy name of your favorite deity, according to your liking, study the holy books and attend the divine discourses of exalted souls.
Question: Though I accepted someone as my Guru but now I have lost faith in him. Would it be a sin if I give him up?
Answer: When you have developed a strong disliking for the Guru, and have lost faith in him, it means that you have left him already. Better thing would be, neither to criticize him nor to have any bondage with him. There is no sin or offence in leaving a Guru who is greedy, has strong craving for women, has no sense of distinction between good and bad and indulges in undesirable activities.
The scriptures recommend leaving such a Guru -
Gurorpyavaliptasya kaaryaakaaryamajaanatah |
Utpathpratipannasya oarityaago vidheeyate || (Mahabharat, Udhyog. 178/48)
"If a Guru, out of his false ego, forgets what to do and what not to do and proceeds on a wrong path, he should be given up, it is sanctioned by the scriptures."
Gyaanaheeno guroostyaajyo mithyaavaadee vikalpakah |
Swavishraanti na jaanaati parashaanti karoti kim || (Sidhsidhaantsangrah, Gurugeeta)
"An ignorant, untruthful and confusing Guru should be given up, because the one who could not attain tranquility and peace himself, how can he give peace to others?"
Patitaa guruvasyaajyaa maataa cha na kathnchan |
Garbhdhaaranaposhaabhyam ten maataa gareeyasee ||
(skandpuran, Ma. Kou. 6/7, matsyapuran 227/150)
"Though a degraded Guru is to be renounce a mother is never so. Giving birth to a child and then upbringing him make a mother much greater than Gurus." (to be continued)
From book "Is Salvation Not Possible without a Guru?" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram Answer: Such miracles do happen but they do not help in attainment of eternal bliss or salvation. Salvation takes place when one transcends the body and the world.
Question: I have accepted a mala (chain of beads, like a rosary) from a Guru, but now I have no faith in him. Should I return the mala?
Answer: I never say to return the chain. My advice is that you may count the beads of the mala once ofwith the sacred message (guru mantra), imparted to you by you Guru and the remaining time you should chant the holy name of your favorite deity, according to your liking, study the holy books and attend the divine discourses of exalted souls.
Question: Though I accepted someone as my Guru but now I have lost faith in him. Would it be a sin if I give him up?
Answer: When you have developed a strong disliking for the Guru, and have lost faith in him, it means that you have left him already. Better thing would be, neither to criticize him nor to have any bondage with him. There is no sin or offence in leaving a Guru who is greedy, has strong craving for women, has no sense of distinction between good and bad and indulges in undesirable activities.
The scriptures recommend leaving such a Guru -
Gurorpyavaliptasya kaaryaakaaryamajaanatah |
Utpathpratipannasya oarityaago vidheeyate || (Mahabharat, Udhyog. 178/48)
"If a Guru, out of his false ego, forgets what to do and what not to do and proceeds on a wrong path, he should be given up, it is sanctioned by the scriptures."
Gyaanaheeno guroostyaajyo mithyaavaadee vikalpakah |
Swavishraanti na jaanaati parashaanti karoti kim || (Sidhsidhaantsangrah, Gurugeeta)
"An ignorant, untruthful and confusing Guru should be given up, because the one who could not attain tranquility and peace himself, how can he give peace to others?"
Patitaa guruvasyaajyaa maataa cha na kathnchan |
Garbhdhaaranaposhaabhyam ten maataa gareeyasee ||
(skandpuran, Ma. Kou. 6/7, matsyapuran 227/150)
"Though a degraded Guru is to be renounce a mother is never so. Giving birth to a child and then upbringing him make a mother much greater than Gurus." (to be continued)
From book "Is Salvation Not Possible without a Guru?" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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