[Advaita-l] GURU TRAYAM

[KAMESWARARAO MULA]

Dear members,                        Toaday's TOI speaking tree article speaks about something related to 'Guru' by Author Charan Singh
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/the-guru-who-taught-us-to-fear-none-scare-none/

In his messages ,Guru Tegh Bahadur (Sikh 9th Guru) menioned in  the Guru Grantha Sahib (GGS) can be summarised thus: Human birth is precious, so don’t waste it; shun bad company; treat pain/pleasures equal and keep your emotional self above joy/sorrow; God dwells inside you like image within a mirror; life is seeping away like water from a pitcher; what is the point of going on a pilgrimage when the mind is not in control, it’s like a stone that is kept immersed in water and still the water does not penetrate it; this world is like smoke, nothing permanent or everlasting; nothing will go beyond this life except meditation; body is like a hailstone, it quickly melts away, so shed all delusions; why worry when nothing is permanent in this world; why this false pride when knowing that this world is like a dream and nothing is yours; and as a pet dog does not leave the house of master, stay steadfast in meditation.


Earlier, Guru Nanak had started holding inter-faith dialogues while interacting with spiritual masters of different faiths and their compositions later became part of the GGS. The supreme sacrifice of Guru Tegh Bahadur upholds the same principle, to accept diversity of belief and respect plurality in society. The sacrifice also reveals that strong social bonds get established with inter-faith dialogues. Kashmiri Pandits, for example, chose to come to Guru Tegh Bahadur, who reciprocated happily and even gave his life for the cause.The lesson to be drawn from the sacrifice is that the freedom to practise faith of one’s choice is a matter of human rights, individual conscience, for which no force or allurements should be used.
MEANINGS OF SOME IMPORTANT SANSKRIT WORDS ON GURU CAN BE FOUND IN THE LINK

http://3pointgroup.blogspot.com/2012/06/meanings-of-important-sanskrit-words.html

I will be writing about the role of guru, parama guru, paramesti guru in the followups of this thread with my understandings.
Sri Guru Padaravindarpana Mastu
Kameswara