taking a break.

[T Swaminarayan]

To whomsoever it may interest among list members:
Hari Om!,

Yes. No doubt,Without the right Guru,the progress in
the realm of spirituality is verily
impossible.Personally, I have been enamoured by this
statement made in whichever text I go through,without
a proper guru you cannot progress atall in this
field.I have gone through every Sloka that praises the
Guru, the ideal guru however has to be encountered by
the aspirant.But how? So far I have not been convinced
and made to feel like as if I have approached THE
RIGHT GURU ! i HAVE HEARD SOME TELLING ME THAT WHEN
THE TIME IS RIPE FOR YOU TO PROGRESS FURTHER THAN
WHERE YOU HAVE REACHED IN YOUR ENQUIRY THE GURU WILL
AUTOMATICALLY APPEAR!May be I have to overcome my EGO
in order to see the capacity and compassion in another
who can lift me up and push me forward in the right
direction.I am not a one to BLINDLY follow somebody or
surrender unless I am convinced that the ONE to show
me the way is a Jeevan Mukta and a BRAHMANISHTI

i WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR ANY ADVICE WHICH CAN HELP ME TO
CROSS OVER THIS STUMBLING BLOCK IN MY PRESENT QUEST.

Hari Om!

Swaminarayan.

--- elmec <elmec at GIASBG01.VSNL.NET.IN> wrote:
> Hari Om,
> Namaste everybody,
>
> I would like to take a break from the List for about
> two months as it is
> summer vacation for all the colleges here in
> Bangalore, India, and as
> such I will not be available in town as we have
> plans to visit places
> and people during the holidays. I will not have
> access to computer
> wherever we go and I do not like to keep the
> messages from the List
> unattended for days together. Hence kindly permit me
> to take a break now
> and re-join you all after the vacation, say around
> mid June. I hope this
> sort of temporary " Signoff " is allowed by the List
> managers.
> Otherwise, kindly let me know what is to be done. I
> will be here till
> Sunday,the 23rd.
>
> My greetings to all the List members in advance for
> the Shankara
> Jayanthi celebrations. I would like to quote here
> one of my favorite
> Guru stutis found in
> " Upadesha Saahasri " of Sri Shankara.
>
> " Vedaanta vaakya pushpebhyo jnaanaamR^ita
> madhuuttamam
>   ujjahaaraalivadhyo nastasmai sadgurave namaha "
>
> My obeisance to sadguru who has extracted the best
> honey called  jnaana
> from the flowers of sentences of veda just like a
> bee ( extracting honey
> from the flowers ) and given it to me !
>
> What a wonderful stuti !  I literally cried reading
> this.
> Man may have technologically advanced very much. But
> can he ever select
> the right flowers and extract the best honey from
> them using any
> equipment ??! No, never. Inspite of the superiority
> that we claim over
> other beings because of our intelligence, we have to
> surrender to the
> little bee to get us the sweetest of honey. Only a
> bee can discriminate
> which flower has what kind of honey in it.
>
> Similarly, it is only the Guru who can extract that
> honey called jnaana
> choosing the right sentences from garden of  flowers
> called vedas. If we
> totally surrender to such a Guru, do his service
> with all our devotion
> and beg for jnaana, he will certainly be pleased and
> readily gives us
> the best of the honey that he has collected. Without
> a Guru, can we ever
> imagine collecting that honey from such a vast
> garden ourselves ?! We
> would be totally lost and can never ever break  free
> from this viscious
> samsaara chakra. Come, let us surrender ourselves to
> such a Guru and
> partake from him what he has to offer.
>
> naguroradhikam tattwam  naguroradhikam tapaha
> tattwajnaanaat param naasti  tasmai sri gurave
> namaha.
>
> Regards,
> Hari Om,
> Latha Vidyaranya
>

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