sarvaśrutiśiro-ratna-virājit-padāmbhujaṁ | vedāntārthapraktāraṁ tasmāt samPūjāyedguruṁ || 54 ||
54. The holy lotus feet of the Guru shine like the pearls of the entire Śrutis. He (Guru) is the exponent of the true meaning of Vedānta. Therefore, worship the Guru.
yasya smaranmatreṇa jñānamutpadhyate svayaṁ | saḥ evam sarvasampattiḥ tasmāt-samPūjāyed-guruṁ || 55 ||
55. By the mere remembrance of whom, the knowledge (of the Self) dawns in one by itself; He (the Guru) only is one's entire wealth. Therefore, worship the Guru.
Understand, for the few people who have done great charity, God gives wealth. For the few people who always do good, He gives power. For the few people who share food, He gives them grains. For the few people who are able to bring up the kids as good citizens of the society, He gives sanntāna, children. Only for a few, He gives Himself as Guru!
Many get His wealth; many get His land; many get His properties; many get His powers; very few get Śiva Himself as Guru! Understand, the moment you are My disciple, you are the favorite inheritor of the Cosmos! Be very clear!
Understand, I wanted all of you to radiate enlightenment, to radiate Advaita with all its powers and Siddhis. Never have the beggar mentality of acquiring or accumulating Siddhis. It is like you steal in your own father's mango garden. No! You own it! The moment you are my disciple, I tell you, you own the whole Cosmos! You are the favorite inheritor of the Cosmos—brahmanyam bahuputratām!
You don't move with the idea of acquiring Siddhis, with the beggar mentality. Be very clear, it is your nature—wake it up! Know very clearly, it is your nature; you don't need to accumulate, acquire. Start thinking and acting from the context of Advaita. Start thinking and acting from the basic truth of Advaita; automatically, these Siddhis will start expressing! You will be radiating the Siddhis!
kṛumikoṭibhirāviṣtaṁ durgandhkuladūṣītaṁ | anityaṁ duhkhanilayaṁ dehaṁ viddhi varānane || 56 ||
56. O beautiful-faced Pārvati, know this body as transitory, the abode of pains, full of worms, blood, faecal matter, urine and other foul smelling things.
[Note: the contents of the physical body are enumerated here to create dispassion in the minds of Sadhaka. ]
Tasmai śri guruve Namah
saṁsāra-vṛkṣamāṛūḍhāḥ patanti narakārṇave | yastānudharate sarvān tasmai śrīgurave namaḥ || 57 ||
57. Those who have climbed the worldly tree of Saṁsāra, fall into the ocean of hell (narak). Surrender to that ŚrīGuru who uplifts all of those fallen ones (patita).
Tasmai - ; Namah; Namah: is not prostations, it is surrender (na ma ahnot I am )
gurubrahmā guruViṣṇur-gurordevomaheśvaraḥ | guroreva paraṁ brahma tasmai śrigurave namaḥ || 58 ||
58. Guru is Brahma. Guru is Viṣṇu. Guru is Lord Maheṣvara (Śiva). Guru is indeed the Supreme Brahman—parabrahma. I surrender to that Śri Guru.
ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñāna-anjanaśalākayā | cakṣurunmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrigurave namaḥ || 59 ||
ajñana – ignorance, timir- ??; andhasya – who is blinded; jnana- knowledge; anjana- ??? , śalākaya- ???? ; cakṣu-third eye, the eye center between the eyebrows; mīlitaṁ- ???' yena- ??? ; tasmai śrigurave namaḥ
59. Surrender to that Śri Guru, who with the collyrium stick of wisdom shows the supreme state of Brahman to the one blinded by the darkness of ignorance (ajñana).
Please listen.
Let me tell you a story narrated by a great Sadhu who lived in Tiruvannamalai, Sadhu Om. Tiruvannamalai is not only the place for great Masters, well-known Masters like Ramaṇa Mahaṛṣi, Seśādri Swamigal, Yogi Rāmsurat Kumār and in the modern day, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM! It is not only the place for well-known Masters, it was also a place for great Sadhus who just lived doing tapas (penance) and left the body, not known to the world. So, Sadhu Om was not much known to the world, but he was a great Sadhu.
Listen to the story narrated by him.
Every morning, a father and his seven-year-old son go for a walk outside their house.
One day morning, suddenly, the son started getting frightened seeing an old tree. He just stood in a corner saying, 'Oh, it is a ghost. It is a ghost.' He started shivering, crying, and holding the father, screaming, telling the father, 'please take me away from here. Take me away from here. That is a ghost.'
Please listen, if the father is trying to comfort the child and for the comfort of the child if the father is taking away the child from that tree, I tell you, it is equivalent to me (Guru) giving up on you. That is the worst thing that can happen in your life.
Even if you go to hell, don't be given up on by Guru; you will simply come out. If you are not given-up on by Guru, even if you go to Hell, you will come out just like that. Hell fire won't be able to touch you. If you are given up on by the Guru, even Heaven will burn you. There are tons of people who are suffering in Heaven. Indra (king of heaven) himself is suffering in heaven because he can't go anywhere else. And Heaven is the most unstable place; it was cursed by the Ṛṣis (sages). That is why, whenever you feel any pleasure, you will always feel the insecurity–'Will it be there or not?' The pleasure and insecurity always go hand in hand.
Understand, if you are not given up on by the Master, even Hell cannot touch you; even if you are in Hell, hell fire cannot touch you; you will come out of it. If you are given up on by the Master, even Heaven will be the worst hell, suffering.
If that father takes away the child for the comfort of the child, saying, 'Oh my son, don't worry. You are crying, you are afraid of that ghost, don't worry, I will take you away'—if he takes away the child, it is literally destroying the child, because the child will never know the truth that the tree is not ghost.
If you take away the child, just for the sake of comfort of the child, he may not be now afraid of this tree, but tomorrow he is going to be afraid of seeing some other tree. His whole life he is going to suffer with that pattern. This father, who did not take the responsibility of making the child understand and complete with that pattern, he is responsible for the child's whole life suffering.
A real father, what he should do? He should carry the child in his hands and say, 'My dear son, don't worry. The ghost cannot do anything to you. I am protecting you. Come on, I will take you near.' He should carry the child near the tree.
Naturally, when you carry the child near the tree, what will the child do? It will just hold you tightly and cry, shout and hide behind you. Sometimes the child may even beat you. You can console the child, but you have no right to take the child away from the tree without removing that fear pattern.
You have to take the child near slowly, slowly and show him, 'see...see...see. You can see this tree. See I am standing near the tree, nothing is happening to me.' Then the child will slowly open one eye and see and then close the eyes again fearing it may be ghost.
Then, slowly, it will open the other eye and see; then he will have little comfort and feel a little okay, 'Oh, it is not a ghost...!'
Father should say, 'Yes my son. Who told you this is a ghost?'
Then the child will start blaming, 'my friend told me yesterday because I did not give him the candy. He told me this is the ghost and it will catch me.' Then the father's responsibility is removing that misunderstanding, ignorance also. 'No, my son, don't worry. Because people tell, don't take things. Look in. See.'
Then slowly the father is supposed to take the hand of the child and make that child's hand touch that tree 'See, it is only a tree.'
Understand. Only this knowledge is what Mahādeva is explaining here:
ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñāna-anjanaśalākayā | cakṣurunmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrigurave namaḥ || 59 ||
TAT-TVAM-ASI PADA DARSAN (3 verses)
Opening your eyes with the knowledge kājal, the knowledge eye-liner—jñāna anjana, and helping you to see the truth.
Please understand, in Vedic tradition, the eyeliner (anjana) is not just a make-up or the dressing up material. It is made out of a ghee lamp.
Do you know how originally the eyeliner is made? The ghee (clarified-butter) lamp is made to burn. The pure cotton and the pure ghee, cow ghee lamp is burnt and you are supposed to stare at that lamp through your cakṣu—the third eye (the energy center between the eyebrows). The energy of the third-eye should be stored in that fire. And when the smoke settles from that fire, that is made as kājal or anjana, the eyeliner. When that eyeline is used, it is healthy for your eyes physically, and the energy of the third-eye is constantly made to work in both the eyes also. It is a physical and spiritual medicine.
So, originally the Masters are supposed to sit and stare at the lamp, make Kājal, energize it and share it with the disciples; for the disciples to always have the power of Guru's third eye. The 'Kājal', the eyeliner was a gift by the Enlightened Masters to open, to awaken the disciples from their incompletions, their ignorance, ajñāna.
Tea was the gift by Bodhidharma. He just tore both his eyelids, threw them on the field and the plant that grew from that field is a tea-leaf plant. It is the gift of Enlightened Masters to their disciples.
That is why Mahādeva is singing the glory of Guru. Surrender to that Guru who awakens the third-eye with His knowledge eye-liner, His power of third-eye.
ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñāna-anjanaśalākayā | cakṣurunmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrigurave namaḥ || 59 ||
Please understand, the father should have done this job for the son—taking the son, finally making him touch that tree. Finally, the result should be that the child should be completely free from the fear, he should get down from the father's shoulders and hug the tree, be comfortable with the tree. That is exactly supposed to be the result. Only then the child is free from the anxiety and adamancy, anxiety and arrogance. Please understand, many of our fathers did not do this job, unfortunately either because we did not allow or they did not do. Sometimes they did not have the patience to do or we did not allow them to do.
In my case also some of the kids are not allowing me to do this job. Sometimes the children don't allow the father to do this job.
Listen. Listen. When you do not allow the father to do this job or the father did not do this job, the loss is for you; your whole life you will be suffering with the deadly combination of anxiety and adamancy, anxiety and arrogance. Please understand, alcohol separately does not kill you; sleeping pill separately does not kill you; anti depressant separately does not kill you. But the cocktail of all these three patterns simply kills you immediately.
Anxiety pattern separately does not destroy you. Arrogance pattern separately does not destroy you. Taking decision during the anxiety and arrogance does not destroy you separately. But all these three patterns together is a deadly combination that destroys you.
Please understand, the arrogance pattern does not destroy you. There are so many people living with arrogance pattern. The anxiety pattern does not destroy you. There are so many people with anxiety pattern who are taking some anti-anxiety medicines and living; they don't get destroyed. There are some people who take major decisions during the anxiety; even they don't get destroyed. But all these three patterns together is a deadly combination; it just destroys you for ages.
Understand, some of the decisions you make when all these three are together— anxiety, arrogance, and making decision during the anxiety and arrogance, when the anxiety and arrogance joins, it will make you believe as if this anxiety is never going to end, this is the way exactly your whole life is going to be, which is not true. No! It is not going to be this way forever. The moment you stand in the Space of Completion, the whole thing is going to be different.
Understand, till you get out of that anxiety pattern, that incompletion, your life is going to be hell; but your life is not going to be Hell forever. The Hell is made by your incompletions. Sometime, unfortunately, you start believing the incompletion is going to be the inevitable part of your life, which is not true.
Incompletion will become inevitable part of you, when you know? If the father does not attend to that child and instead says, 'Okay! Oh son, you are so afraid, don't worry. Let us go back to the house.' If he just brings the child back to the home and locks the child inside the home saying, 'see now we are comfortable. No ghost, nothing,' then naturally the child will stop crying. He will feel comfortable. Only then anxiety is going to be the lifestyle of that child. Because, now, everywhere, anywhere he sees the tree, he is going to be shouting, screaming, 'Bhūta! Būta! Būta! Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!'
Please listen. In all of you, unfortunately, whoever did not have a Living Enlightened Guru to bring you up–it means, literally every one of you, other than me. I had the fortune and my Gurukul kids have the fortune. I had the fortune of three Enlightened Beings bringing me up. And my Gurukul kids are having the fortune of an
Incarnation bringing them up. Other than me and my Gurukul kids, all of you carry that frightened, arrogant child inside you.
Please complete with that child. Every day, whenever you remember, let your thinking be directed towards completing the child inside you. Complete that child, which is anxious, frightened, arrogant, who tells you, 'I don't know what I will do next, but I don't want to be here.'
Wherever you go, whatever you do, the child will be doing only that —'I will not be here. I will not be here. I don't want to be here.'
'Then where you want to be?'—'That I don't know.' 'What will you do?'—'I will face when it comes.' 'When it comes, have you faced now?'—'No I have not faced.' 'Then how are you going to face tomorrow?'—'No. All that I don't know. Don't ask me too many questions. I just don't want to be here.'
Please listen. Look in.
That frightened, anxious, arrogant child inside you, that is responsible for all the suffering in your life. It goes on instigating you. It goes on pushing you. It goes on torturing you. Please listen. Every night, sit with that child. Understand, every incompletion you have now is from that child, illogical. From that time you have started building this pattern. Why you are carrying it? Nobody knows.
Every day, sit and see the incompletions you are carrying. Trace them back to that frightened child inside you, and see how you were building the same patterns from that age till now and suffering with it. The moment you recognize, that pattern's power will be lost; it will lose power over you; it will become powerless. Now completing that pattern and dropping will be very easy for you, because you have taken away life. Once the life is taken away burning that body is very easy.
The moment you recognize that frightened child in you it will lose its power over you. the deadly combination of frightened, arrogant child and taking decision during that frightened arrogant moment, that is a deadly combination of alcohol, anti-depressant and sleeping pill. Don't take that. It will separate you from the Master.
Everyone who missed the great fortune of directly being attended by the Master Surgeon who removes the cancer of birth and death, everyone who ran away from
His surgery table half-way, mid-way, before starting, before stitching or during surgery, everyone unfortunately took this deadly combination of alcohol, sleeping pill, anti-depressant—means the deadly combination of frightened anxiety, arrogance and taking decision during that frightened arrogance. These three incompletions put together is a deadly combination. Don't do it. Don't have it.
I tell you, I may have many thousands of children, I will carry all you guys on my shoulder and take you near that tree and make you all understand that the tree is not ghost. I will make you all climb on that tree, and play in that tree, enjoy in that tree, tie a swing and jump around that tree, and live—be complete.
Understand, never ever allow these three deadly combination to settle inside you. That is the most powerful incompletion that may destroy you beyond repair. If you just take alcohol, you will get out. Doctor can clear you with some medication. If you just take sleeping pills, stomach wash is enough, you will be out. If you just take anti depressant, you will sleep and get out; no problem. But all these three will be a deadly combination.
In the same way, if you are just arrogant, no problem. Master knows, He will make life will teach you. If you are just anxious, frightened, His love will heal you. But if you have all the three deadly combination–frightened, arrogant and making decisions– with these three patterns, you may damage yourself beyond repair.
So, heal, complete that frightened, arrogant child in you, which is adamant to make decisions when it is frightened, when it is in the space of anxiety. Complete with that child. When you close your eyes and go to bed, you should not even be able to remember that child in you. It means that in the young age how you felt frightened and felt the anxiety about everything, even that memory should not be there in you; to that level complete it. Complete every day, every night; whenever you get a chance, complete.
Om pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṃ pūrṇāt pūrṇamudacyate | pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇameva avaśiṣyate ||
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Every night and even during the daytime do completion. See, in the modern world nobody works more than two or three hours a day. The remaining time your mind is available to you. So, always, let your thinking be towards the Completion. Every incompletion you have, fear you have, anxiety you have, trace back and see how that frightened child is carrying that incompletion. The moment you understood, now you just need to re-live and complete it and drop it. If you can close your eyes in the daytime, close and re-live and complete and drop. If you can't close your eyes, then tell yourself, 'Please wait. In the night I will attend to you' and at night before going to sleep—sit and relive, complete and drop.
akhanḍa-manḍalākāraṁ vyāptaṁ yena carācaraṁ | tatpadaṁ darśitaṁ yena tasmai śrigurave namaḥ || 60 ||
60. Surrender to that Śri Guru, by whom the whole Universe comprising of the indivisible Consciousness pervades every moving and unmoving creation, and who has brought to vision, 'that' Supreme Consciousness—tat pada.
sthāvaraṁ jangamaṁ vyāptaṁ yatkincita-sacarācaraṁ | tvaṁpadaṁ darśitaṁ yena tasmai śrigurave namaḥ || 61 ||
61. Surrender to that Śri Guru, who reveals the real significance of 'tvaṁ pada', which pervades the animate and inanimate creation, the moving and unmoving here.
(Whatever is moving and unmoving here and that which pervades whatever is there with life and without life, to that ŚriGuru who reveals these and the real significance of tvaṁpada, I surrender.)
cinmayaṁ vyāpitaṁ sarvaṁ trailokyaṁ sacarācaraṁ | asitvaṁ darśitaṁ yena tasmai śrigurave namaḥ || 62 ||
62. Surrender to that Śri Guru, who has brought to vision the 'asi-tvaṁ', which pervades the three worlds as the pure light of consciousness, Cinmaya, in all the movable and immovable.