Wishing you all a very auspicious Guru Purnima! 😇 May the Divine Grace of the all-pervading Guru continue to bless and guide us all towards the truth, wisdom and everlasting bliss! 🙏✨

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🍃🌼SHUBH GURU-PURNIMA🌼🍃

✨Guru and Grace✨
🪔As Explained by Sri Ramana🪔

I have not said that the Guru is not necessary. But a Guru need not always be in human form. First a person thinks that he is inferior and that there is a superior, all-knowing, all powerful God who controls his own and the world’s destiny and worships him or does bhakti (devotion).When he reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him onward. That Guru comes only to tell him, ‘That God is within yourself. Dive within and realize’. God, Guru and the Self are the same.

Realization is the result of the Master’s (Guru’s) grace, more than teachings, lectures, meditations, etc. They are only secondary aids, whereas the former is the primary and essential cause. Guru’s grace is always there. You imagine it to be something somewhere high up in the sky, far away and which has to descend. It is really inside you in your Heart, and the moment, by any of the methods, you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its source, the grace rushes forth, spouting as from a spring from within you.

Contact with jnanis is good. They will work through silence. A Guru is not the physical form. Hence His contact remains even after the physical form of the Guru vanishes. After your bhakti to God has matured you, God comes in the shape of a Guru and from outside pushes your mind inside, while being inside as Self He draws you there from within. Such a Guru is needed generally, though not for very rare and advanced souls.

One can go to another Guru after one’s Guru passes away. But after all, Gurus are one, as none of them are the form. Mental contact is always the best. Satsangh means association with Sat or Reality. One who knows or has realized Sat is also regarded as Sat. Such association is absolutely necessary for all. Adi Sankara has said, “In all the three worlds there is no boat like satsangh to carry one safely across the ocean of births and deaths.”

Guru not being confined to physical, His contact will continue to those in need, even after His form vanishes. If one Jnani exists in the world, His influence will be felt by or benefit all people in the world, and not simply His immediate disciples. As described in "Vedanta Chudamani", all the people in the world can be put under four categories: The Guru’s disciples, bhaktas, those who are indifferent to Him and those who are hostile to Him. All these will be benefited by the existence of the Jnani — each in his own way and to various degrees.
        
🍃🌸 Wishing you all a very Auspicious Guru Purnima. May the grace of Ishvara/Sadhguru guide you and bless you with your highest good.🌸🍃

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🌿By negation it does not mean that the world and Jiva cease to be perceptible to the senses, it means the conviction of their illusory character. Otherwise people would be automatically liberated in deep sleep or in a faint.

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🌿​​​​☀️SHUBH JANAMASHTAMI☀️🌿

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🌿To play the leading role in the great war fought on the battlefield of Kurukshetra [where he delivered His wonderful message of the Gita].

🌿To become the centre of a marvellous development of the Bhakti schools of India.

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