[Advaita-l] Guru Worship

[kuntimaddi sadananda]

--- Lakshmi Muthuswamy <lakmuthu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> When he teaches that you are limitless, he doesnot mean, "I am
> limited; you are limitless." In fact you are limitless and he is
> limitless.
> 
> The limitless is Brahma, the limitless is Vishnuh, the limitless is
> Rudra or Shiva, and the limitless is you. Everything is this
> limitlessness.
> 
> So when we praise the guru, the human element is absorbed into the
> total element. you either relegate the human element into the
> background or absorb it into the total.It is the total that is
> worshipped. In that way, the guru, the person with a human body who
> teaches, becomes a kind of altar of worship, but what is being invoked
> is the Lord.

Laksmiji  - Beautifully presented. My PraNAms to you.

Hari OM!
Sadananda