About Guru - The Liberator.
Life is a mystery. The cosmos is a mystery. What are its
boundaries? If it is an expanding universe, where does it expand
to? What is beyond it. Some of the stars are millions of light
years away from us. What an unimaginable distance! What is there
in the cosmos? Who made it? When did it form? What was here,
before it was formed?
Who are we? Am I a body with a name? Then how do some people
have good luck and some bad? Why some children get cancer at a
very young age and some people with all the bad habits live a
healthy life for a long time? What are we destined to do on this
earth. Where did we come from and where shall we go?
Why there is so much misery in the world? Why do we love some
people and hate some? What is that which will satisfy us? What
is the objective of human life? There are so many questions in
the minds of us. Every religion has its own theory and its own
explanation. In India, it is considered that the The Guru is the
only one who can answer all these questions.
Who is Guru? According to Indian scriptures, Guru is God in
human body. He comes on this earth to liberate followers. A Guru
is not to be confused with people who write well or speak well
about Indian mythology and philosophy. They might be called as
learned persons or good speakers or good writers of books. But
none of them is The Guru.
West is getting attracted to Hinduism. Many branches of Hinduism
including Yoga are becoming very popular in the west. Many
people travel from India to the west to lecture upon Hinduism
and scriptures of India, and many people call them as my Guru.
That is wrong use of word Guru. Guru is very mysterious.
How to know that some one is Guru? After coming in contact with
Guru, you must feel a change that is life altering. The change
is not something like -I feel good, or I feel peaceful. But Guru
brings about changes that can never be explained by you to
others. If anytime, you come across Guru, you will know by these
changes and then over a period of time The Guru will reveal
his/her identity to you. That depends on his/her wish.
No one should take every saint in India as Guru. There are very
few in the world. According to Indian scriptures, only if you
have collected lot of good karma, do you get Guru. I can only
make one statement. The experience of the power of Guru is very
different than anything else. And in the beginning the
experience may be very painful rather than pleasant. But the end
is pure bliss.