Happy Guru Purnima. May the light of full knowledge reflect on our souls, to glance at the blissful thankfulness to all of those, who helped us grow, in our self.
--- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Happy Guru Purnima > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Dick Mays <dickmays@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 6:34 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi talks of his first sight of Guru Dev > â" transcript > > > >  > > From: Purusha in Himalaya <donotreply@...> > > > > New post on Purusha in Himalaya > Maharishi talks of his first sight of Guru Dev â" transcriptby Andrew > Lawson Kerr > I found Guru Dev by the grace of God and by my desire to find him. In India, > itâs a very normal thing for a child to think of God and to find Him and > converse with Him. God-realization is a very concrete experience in the > Indian air, and this instills in every Indian heart a desire to find a way > and to seek a good guide to help them reach the goal. > This situation was true in my case in the early days. One day I was led by > those, who knew I was fond of meeting saints, to a house somewhere in the > forest, and then I was led up some stairs to a terrace. It so happened that > this was a very dark night and I could barely see a chair with a few people > sitting around it, all quiet. The silence there was so great that one felt > hesitant to even breathe properly, because breath was felt so horribly in > that atmosphere. As I came close to the chair a car came down a nearby road, > and its highlights lit up the porch for a moment. Then I saw Guru Dev and I > thought: âHere is the sunâ This was the flashing moment of light, which > decided my destiny. > I somehow was able to speak with him. He asked me about everything I was > doing, and when he heard I was student he said: âFirst finish your > studiesâ. There was nothing to argue about or discuss. > By the time I had finished my studies, he had become Shankaracharya in Jyotir > Math. I was told that many people were going to that place and I went there > and found Guru Dev, and then I stayed. > This devotion to Guru Dev, devotion to oneâs Master, when you will go in > detail of the Vedic tradition, to which we belong, it seems it has been of > just this series of instances, where the disciple surrendered and got > enlightened through surrender. And such surrender is not a thing on the > thinking level or manipulation, no, itâs a very genuine, innocent, abstract > yet very concrete contact with the reality. The history of this tradition is > full of these values of surrender to the Master and this is what sustains > knowledge generation after generation > The great impact of Guru Dev in his lifetime is in bringing out so clearly > and in such simple worlds this technique of TM and his blessing for this > Movement, which came out much after he left his body, because there was no > occasion during his lifetime for any of his intimate blessed disciples to go > out of his presence. Thatâs why any such Movement to bless the world could > not have started during his time. > He was so divine, he was so sublime. It was not possible to think of one > day away from him. It was just not possible. > So his expression, his teachings, made the whole possibility of everyone to > get onto this blessed state of unity through a scientific procedure, > systematic procedure, because the truth is that not many people are at any > time in any age in a position to follow this spontaneous and innocent path of > surrender and get enlightenment. It is just not practical. It is not > possible. And therefore a system, a procedure, a method, something very > tangible, concrete yet based on the same spontaneous impulse of life which > makes one surrender to his master-same spontaneous impulse of life. We just > get sold out to something so sublime and so divine, same impulse takes the > mind to the transcendent and getting this direct experience of this > unboundedness. Same impulse of life, same tender innocent impulse of life > seeking abundance is used spontaneously in that path of surrender to the > master and living that unified state of life and the same tender impulse of > life seeking > for more and more is used in Transcendental Meditation in order to bring > that unboundedness and rise eventually to unity. The same thing, the same > value of life, used in this way bringing the same results; used in this way > bringing the same results. > And this is the greatness of his teaching. This is the fullness of his value > for the world for all times. > The same tender impulse of life to be used by every man in the world without > having anything to do with anything else. Nothing to do with the master or > teaching or anything or anything. Master is all right, Teacher is all right. > As long as one thing has been learned and once one has learned it is on the > level of life itself. > This do it yourself technique it doesnât involve anything individual, > anything other than what he himself is and then brings him enlightenment > right there were he is.        > --Maharishi   Guru Purnima July 8, 1971 > Andrew Lawson Kerr | July 21, 2013 at 4:11 pm | Categories: Knowledge & > news, Maharishi's wisdom | URL: http://wp.me/p2VvD6-7s > Comment    See all comments > > Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. > Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: > http://www.alkpurusha.net/maharishi-talks-of-his-first-sight-of-guru-dev-transcript/ >
