|| Shree Hari ||Connection, Disconnection and Unionसंयोग, वियोग और योग
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In fact, the Guru too does not give any new knowledge, rather the knowledge that is already present in the disciple from before, he draws the disciple’s attention towards it. By drawing his attention towards it, he awakens the inner spirit. If the pride comes in the Guru that I have given knowledge to the disciple, I have removed his ignorance, I have lead him to his salvation, then in fact he is not a Guru at all ! The sentiments within a real Guru, are that I have shared the disciple’s own view, and have made him look towards his own experience. I have
not given him anything new. Therefore enlightened souls, liberated souls, great souls who are lovers of God, they never has the feeling that they have given something to someone, that they have given them salvation. But if you see from the disciple’s point of view, then the Guru, out of His grace, has done so much, that there is no end to it ! No one else can ever give so much. Because the thing that he never paid attention towards in endless births, that Guru made him look towards that Divinity, that Essence (tattva), by which he was awakened. The Guru gave the embodied soul (jeev), who was side-tracked and wandering aimlessly from time immemorial, so much, that nothing further remained to be done, to be known and to be acquired !
Just as a man works the entire day in the fields, then in the evening the Owner gives him money. If one believes that the money was received due to working in the fields, then why does he not get money by going to any forest and doing work out there? If one believes that the money is received from the owner, then without working why does the owner not pay money? Therefore in fact, the money is received neither due to working,
nor from the owner, rather one gets it due to their own “praarabdh” (destiny). In the same way, one realizes that Essence (tattva), neither from the Guru, nor from God, rather out of one’s own quest to know. If the student does not have the inquisitiveness, if he does not have the desire to know, then what will the Guru do?
दीन्ही थी लागी नहीं, बाँस नलीमें फूँक ।
गुरु बेचारा क्या करे, चेले माँही चूक ॥
Therefore to know that Essence (tattva), there is no need to become some authority, rather only intense inquiry is needed. He who has an intense quest to know, he becomes entitled to know ! Union is not temporary, rather it is eternal. Even God calls this
“yog” (union) as “avyaya” (Eternal). ‒ ‘इमं विवस्वते योगं प्रोक्तवानहमव्ययम्’ (गीता ४।१) “Imam vivaswate yogam proktavaanhamvyayam” (Gita 4/1). The Lord preached this divine wisdom to Vivasvan, that is Sun God who preached to Manu and who in turn preached to Ikshvaku, ( Gita 4/1). Whatever path an aspirant takes, in the end, he will realize Eternal Union. If an aspirant has interest in Karmayog (path of action), then he will realize that eternal Union with Karmayog. If he has interest in Jnanayog, then he will realize eternal
union through Jnanayog (path of knowledge), and if an aspirant has interest in Bhaktiyog, then he will realize eternal union through Bhaktiyog (path of Devotion) and if an aspirant has interest in Dhyaan yog (path of Meditation), then he will realize the eternal union with Dhyaan yog. This eternal union is never non-existent in any state. In the state of ignorance too it remains as-it-is. In waking state, dream state, deep trance state, unconscious state, samadhi state (state of absolute nothingness), that eternal union is ever as-it-is, in it there is not the least bit of difference.
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From Book in Hindi "Jit Dekhu Tit Tu" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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