Guru wanted

[Ravi Mayavaram]

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Vaidya N. Sundaram wrote:

> >
>
>  In verses 33-34 are described the qualifications for such a Guru:
>
> The Guru is well versed in the Vedas; he is sinless; he is not smitten
> by desire; he is a knower of Brahman; he is super-eminent;
> withdrawing himself into Brahman, he is ever at peace; he is like a
> smouldering fire unfed by fuel.
>
>  Shri Chandrasekhara BhArati has explained in excellent language about
> each of the above mentioned qualities. I would like to specifically mention
> one here.
>  The Guru`s compassion is unmotivated by anything else than the urge to
> destroy the affliction of another. To show that the Guru`s compassion is
> not of the kind where the compassion is borne out of a need to erase a
> sense of pain felt on seeing another in distress, Sri Sankara uses the word
>  " ahetuka " - meaning, pain cannot touch one who has realised the Brahman.
> So the Guru`s compassion has to quite obviously be only to help every one
> cross the ocean of SamsAra.
>
namaste

Thanks for the beautiful post.  In the verse explaining the
guru lakshaNam,

shrotriyo.avR^ijino.akaamahato yo brahmavittamaH .
brahmaNyuparataH shaanto nirindhana ivaanalaH .
ahetuka dayaasindhurbandhuraanamataaM sataam.h .. 33..

"nirindhana iva analaH" is explained as "he is like a
smouldering fire unfed by fuel". What exactly is meant by this simile?

--
Ravi

chittasya shuddhaye karma na tu vastu upalabdhaye |
vastu siddhirvichaareNa na ki.nchit karma koTibhiH || 11||

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