Guru Poornima 2008

Gurum Bhaje 08

Guru Purnima was celebrated with great pomp and spirit at the Bidadi ashram on July 17th 2008. Close to 20,000 devotees came from far and wide to take blessings from Swamiji and offer bhiksha. Swamiji met each and every one and gave blessings through out the day.

Following are some of the pictures taken during Guru Purnima.

Significance of Guru Poornima

What is Guru Poornima?

Guru Poornima is the day to pay our deep gratitude to all the great gurus or Masters who have happened on planet Earth. The guru is the one who dispels the darkness of ignorance and infuses the light of awareness into our lives.

Who is a Guru?

Guru is a person who has achieved the Ultimate Truth, the state of enlightenment, as an experience and who can create the technology and the techniques to reproduce the same experience in any human being.

He is the ultimate scientist of the Inner world because he is the one who can initiate others into the same experience that happened in him. He gives the ‘weapons of knowledge’ through his words, body language and the techniques he has developed. These, when used with awareness, can simply pull you out of any kind of depression and negative thinking and lead you to a positive, blissful living.


What is the need for a guru in one’s life?
It is very difficult especially for the modern mind to understand the need for a guru or Master.

The guru is the one who gives you a glimpse of the Real, the truth of who you are.
He is not here to teach; he is here to awaken.
The guru is the only scripture which is alive.

A person who reproduces the visualization from his head to your head is a teacher, an acharya. The person who reproduces the experience from his being to your being is a Master, guru. That is the difference between the teacher and guru.

The greatest gift on planet Earth is the rare event of an enlightened Master happening in one’s life. He is the ultimate luxury.

The guru is like dynamite because he has exploded in 360 degrees and he has the capacity to create that same explosion of enlightenment in each and every one. When you are around a living Master, your potential to experience pure, eternal bliss or nithya-ananda gets heightened.

Whenever a disciple just sits in the presence of the Master, the same experience of enlightenment which happened in the Master is reproduced in the disciple. This great happening is Upanishad -just sitting.

Surrender towards God is difficult because you don’t know where God is or who God is. The guru is One with the Whole; he has reached the Ultimate. Through him, you can also take the quantum jump into the arms of God.

Life is a divine flow. The more river-like one is, the more one is in tune with life. But we have become stagnant. The guru’s whole work is to bring back the flow of life so that you start becoming joyous and utterly happy and blissful for no reason at all.
Just ‘to be’ is enough; one need not ‘have’ anything to be blissful.

The only thing standing between you and your true nature of bliss is your ego. The process of becoming a disciple is the process of renouncing your ego. The guru-disciple relationship is a device to help the disciple drop the ego. The ego is very difficult to drop because dropping it means losing the solid identity that you have been carrying thinking you need it for survival. Dropping the ego looks like death when actually it is the ego that stands between you and life.

Dropping the ego is possible only in a relationship of deep trust, love and reverence with the guru. Then slowly you gather the courage and risk dropping the only thing you cling onto throughout your life - your ego, because now you know you will only fall into the unfailing safety net of the infinite love and compassion of Existence embodied by the guru.

The Guru-Disciple Relationship
The guru-disciple relationship is the most extraordinary relationship in the world.
As you walk with him, you walk in the light of Existence, away from the darkness of ignorance. You leave behind all the problems of your life and move towards the peak experiences of life.

The guru has much to say but it cannot be said because words are too poor to convey what he has to commune. In the deep, vibrant silence there is a communion. Nothing is said, nothing is heard, but a flame is transferred.

It is an incomparable journey where the guru leads you from the visible to the invisible, from the material to the divine, from the ephemeral to the eternal.

Gurum Bhaje - Guru Poornima 2008 with Paramahamsa Nithyananda

This Guru Poornima we have the rare opportunity to be in the presence of the living enlightened Master Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

It is only on this day that Paramahamsa directly accepts any kind of offering (bhiksha) that comes from your heart, be it fruits or flowers or whatever. Offering bhiksha to the embodiment of Existence, the guru, is actually a wonderful technique devised by the rishis, inner scientists, for offloading your karmas..

The Guru Gita says, you can neither add to nor subtract from the guru by what you give or don’t give him. Just by the very act of accepting your bhiksha (karma), his grace starts flowing into your life. This is the ultimate expression of compassion

DOUBT, FAITH AND TRUST!

Where you stand - Paramahamsa Nithyananda

One day, a disciple falls into the river and shouts out to his Master for help. The Master says, ‘You are atman - soul, stand up!’ The disciple says, ‘Teach me Vedanta later on but now save my life! The Master says, ‘Stand up!’ and the disciple musters the courage and stands up to realize that the water is only knee deep! When you stand up, you always realize that the water is only up to the knee level. Whatever you may think as major problems, if you stand up, you will realize that they are only ankle deep, not even knee deep. But the thing is, how to stand up? The Master is the yoga danda or stick of support for you to stand up. Having his support, you can stand up. Be very clear: when the support of the Master is there, you can stand up as an independent, or an individual


One more thing – the faith or trust on God or the Master is actually called the yoga danda. Never think that you are doing them a favor by placing your trust on them. You are doing a favor to yourself.
When your intellect reaches its peak, it becomes intelligence. When your emotion reaches its peak, it becomes love. When your Being ripens and reaches its peak, it experiences the space called Trust. Trust is the space by creating which you are doing a favor to yourself. I am letting myself be used by you to stand up. You can trust a stone, a statue or a tree – anything you trust, you will reach the same goal.

When a small fire is created in the forest, where you don’t get anything to cook and eat, will you allow it to die? With all care, you will protect it, is it not? In the same way, if you get an inch of faith, keep it alive in your heart and work all possible ways for that to grow intensely and deeply. People tell me, ‘I have doubt and faith, Swamiji. What do I do?’ Tell your Master that he is the one who gives you both, and pray that both should leave you. Surrender both and relax.

'No special experience can make you surrender. Only deep trust can make you surrender'.

"When Master happens in our lives, nothing else is needed.
If he does not happen, nothing else is of use."

Sitting at the feet of the Master

When you watch something, everything that you see gets recorded in you. When you sit with the Master, nothing gets recorded inside you…only the Energy gets recorded! You will sit for 10 hours with me but you will not be able to recall anything that I said because I don’t allow you to record anything. I flood my Consciousness into your Being so that the recordings from your past get burnt away.

Upanishad means sitting with the Master. For enlightenment, you need 3 things – sitting with the Master, sitting with the Master and sitting with the Master…

The great enlightened Master Shankara sang:

Satsangatve nissangatvam, nissangatve nirmohatvam, nirmohatve nischalathatvam, nischalathatve jeevan mukthi hee.

It means: when you sit with the Master, you don’t accumulate new engrams – memories. And the old engrams lose their power over you. When they lose power over you, they disappear and when they disappear you become enlightened!

I will not add more engrams to you. I don’t work on your intellect, I work with your energy. How do you find out if you have carried back energy or engrams from me? If you are alert and alive, it is energy, if you are dull and tired, it is engrams.

"The presence of the Master is like phosphorus:
wherever you keep it, it burns away everything"

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Hammering from the Master

"You are blessed - If you are hammered by the Master!"

The Guru is like a potter. While a potter is creating the pot, he is clearing away the unwanted with one hand while supporting the pot from inside with the other hand. While he hammers contineously from the outside, he also goes on supporting from with in. This is the work of the Master.

If you are being hammered by the master, consider yourself blessed. It means you have earned it! A Master does not hammer anyone and everyone - hes not interested in doing that. He does it not because he enjoys hammering. He does it because of his great unimaginable and unmeasurable compassion.

The Master is a reflection. A reflection of your own inner self. You being invites the Master to hit you so that you will awaken. Why is he hitting you? The unconscious disciple sometimes doesnt understand the hit. But the hit happens only because there is a deep longing within the disciple to be awake. The master simply responds to that longing.

With maturity the disciple starts realizing and understanding the hit from the master. When a master hits, it is simply pure love. It is love because he is creating you and moulding you. Hes making you aware and responsible. He is trying to make you aware of your true nature. He is connecting you to your SELF.

But to receive this hit one needs to be deserving. A master has no vested interest in you. Hes not interested in using his anger on you just for nothing. You are his interest. So when you deserve the hit, sometimes the hit comes. And it comes only to make you a little more aware, a little more responsible, a little more conscious.

As time goes by and your awareness increases, you become aware that even while the Master is hammering at you and hitting at you, he is still loving you and supporting you. Hes always there. In any situation, whatsoever it may be, Hes always there. His loving support is always there

"When Master happens in our lives, nothing else is needed.
If he does not happen, nothing else is of use."

The Masters work on you

Just open up!

In Master's own words: When I throw words at you like – 'you disturbed me' – I intend it to have a particular effect. I want you to decide, 'I will not disturb him anymore. Whatever I have been doing, I will tone that down also. I will surrender that also. I will become a nobody. Then the energy clot becomes energy!'

When you start thinking, 'I never did anything! There are so many people who do many worse things than me but he accuses only me! As if others have not disturbed him, you start creating violence, resistance, anger within yourself. Resistance creates the first seed for the clot. Then you add more and more stuff to it. Slowly – not even slowly, immediately, you take out the file of all past incidents that support it – and in ten minutes you are already into depression. This is the art and science of creating depression.

You create depression for yourself. Nobody creates depression for you. The moment you understand this, you will never create depression for yourself. The moment you feel resistance, drop it. Tell yourself: no, no... Relax...Wait. The tumor simply won’t form. The thought will simply become part of your energy. The moment you understand the energy clot, it dissolves and gives solid energy to you.

Here I am clearing your doubts with all compassion and love. I am operating on your tumor with all my compassion and love. My words are the gnana katka – the sword of knowledge – with which I am slowly performing the operation. My love and compassion are the anesthesia. If you don’t resist, I will go deep and remove the whole tumor. How much I am able to go deep, that much of the tumor I can remove.

But I will wait with all my love and compassion – because I know the art of waiting.
I will wait for when you will open the other part of the tumor also. I will wait till you open the whole tumor.

I am not the dream that fulfills your fantasies. I am the dream to awaken you