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Bhakti Marga

• Herausgeber: Bhakti Marga Publications
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Serie: Guruvakya Meditations Collection
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 100

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Guru: The Rarest Life Treasure is the second book of the Guruvakya Meditations series that is designed to help you deepen your inner relationship with the Divine Source, which you might know as Krishna, Christ, God, Divine Mother, or, as is the focus of this book, the Guru or spiritual Master. In this volume, you’ll get 365 Guruvakyas so you can use a different insight each day of the year. Use them for the five-minute 3-Step Guruvakya Meditation described inside, and you’ll quickly deepen your unique connection with the source of Divine Love, the indweller of your heart, your Guru. Paramahamsa Vishwananda is an enlightened spiritual Master who has the unique ability to awaken the soul’s inner Light and Love, helping us all advance more quickly toward the ultimate goal of life. Naturally being a living example of the focus of this book, His personal connection to ‘the Guru of all Gurus’, Mahavatar Babaji, is profound and timeless.

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Guru: The Rarest Life Treasure

Bhakti Marga Publications

Copyright © 2017 Bhakti Event GmbH

All rights reserved.

First Edition, English

ISBN: 978-3-940381-61-3

Printed in Germany

GURUVAKYA MEDITATIONS COLLECTION

Guru

THE RAREST LIFE TREASURE

A SELECTION OF 365 INSIGHTS

DEDICATION TO OUR BELOVED GURU

All praises to our beloved Satgurudev, Paramahamsa Vishwananda, whose words are like precious gems. Priceless beyond measure, they fill every desire of our eager souls that long for truly limitless Love.

Yasya jñānādidaṁ viśvaṁ na dṛśyaṁ bhinna bhedataḥ Sadeka rūpa rūpāya tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ

Salutations to the Guru by whose knowledge this creation is no longer seen as different from the Supreme Lord Himself whose form is Truth.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication to our Beloved Guru

About Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda

Preface

Note from the Editors

INTRODUCTION

The Soul’s Call

The Meaning of the Word ‘Guru’

Why do we Need a Guru?

The True Guru Finds the Sincere Seeker

How do we Recognise our True Guru?

The Roles of the Guru and the Disciple

How to Use this Book

THE CORE OF THIS GURUVAKYA MEDITATION

Developing Your Connection

The Surrender of the Mind

The Supreme Form of the Guru

The Power of the Name of Narayana

How to Get the Most out of the Guruvakya Meditation

The 3-Step Guruvakya Meditation

Mahavatar Babaji, the Guru of Gurus

365 GURUVAKYAS ABOUT THE GURU

Guru: A Servant of Mankind

The Eternal Love Relationship

The Divine Nature of the Guru

The Love of the Guru

The Word of the Guru

The Grace of the Guru

Love, Devotion, and Service to the Guru

Surrender to the Guru

RESOURCES

ABOUT BHAKTI MARGA

ABOUT PARAMAHAMSA SRI SWAMI VISHWANANDA

Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda is a fully realised spiritual Master, whose international mission, is known as 'Bhakti Marga', the path of devotion. He travels the world to encourage all people to recognise the universal Love that lies within each human being, and to awaken their innate ability to express that Love in their daily lives.

Effortlessly connecting principles of eastern spirituality with elements of western spiritual tradition, Paramahamsa Vishwananda reveals the underlying oneness of the Divine and inspires a unique experience of spirituality, regardless of culture, religion, gender or age.

The simple yet transformational spiritual practices he teaches are designed to help each individual move toward more peaceful and inspired life experiences. Accessing the wisdom of the heart, these practices help change the way you relate to yourself, others and the world around you.

Giving Darshans and Satsangs tirelessly as he travels throughout the year, Paramahamsa Vishwananda introduces simple but profound concepts in a very personal way, answering questions about love, life, death, healing, and faith.

Most recently, his commentaries on supplementary Vedic texts and on the Shreemad Bhagavad Gita, one of the most popular sacred Hindu scriptures in the world, help a worldwide audience gain a deeper understanding of the universal messages they contain, and make ancient wisdom accessible and applicable to contemporary life.

PREFACE

What are you searching for?

Everybody goes through life, consciously or unconsciously, in an unavoidable quest for love and happiness. The real question is: how many people really achieve everlasting love and happiness in their lives? Very few.

In the physical plane, everything has a dual nature and nothing lasts forever. Everything on Earth has a beginning and an end, but most often, human beings ignore this impermanent and transitory nature of life. They take their existence for granted, rely on earthly things for temporary satisfactions, and unknowingly doom themselves to continual suffering in a perpetual vicious cycle. They keep turning around and around and around, unaware, and without a true sense of direction or purpose in life.

Since time immemorial, Masters have come on Earth to remind us of our divine nature and of the true purpose of our existence: to realise the eternal Love relationship of our soul with the Supreme Soul (commonly referred to as Creator, God, Divine Source), even while living on Earth. Only then can one be truly happy, feeling in continuous connection with this Divine Love and supreme bliss at every moment, wherever one is, whatever one is doing.

Today, millions of people are actually searching for a new direction in life. When this longing reaches a point where people start searching sincerely, and are willing to purify and transform themselves, God appears before them, in flesh and blood, in the form of the Guru.

Although a true Guru, a Satguru, is a great mystery that human minds can’t fathom, we can say that the Guru is a pure embodiment of Divine Love, a manifestation of the Divine Consciousness. It’s a sacred universal phenomenon, where the Supreme Divine Source descends on Earth and lives in a body to be close to human beings and to serve them.

The Guru has been often referred to as the Kalpataru or Kalpavriksha (wish-fulfilling tree), because the Guru fulfils people’s wishes and helps them to advance spiritually until they are ready for the fulfilment of the soul’s unique desire.

The Guru is also seen as the Philosopher’s Stone: a catalyst for transformation. This means that whomever comes in contact with the Guru begins to change from a human being into Divine. In fact, across all traditions, the Guru’s Grace has converted even great sinners into great saints, such as St. Paul (Christianity), Angulimala (Buddhism), and Valmiki (Hinduism), among many others.

Whether you have met your Guru or not, this book was designed to be a precious daily companion to help you to develop and strengthen your attunement to your inner Guru, your inner Self, so that you may fulfil your higher life purpose in the world.

It contains 365 sacred Guruvakyas (insights spoken or written by Paramahamsa Vishwananda) about the greatness of the Guru and of His eternal Divine Love relationship with the embodied souls on Earth.

Each Guruvakya holds timeless sacred wisdom and, in order to dive deeply into each one and unlock its gifts, we recommend taking a few minutes to do the Guruvakya Meditation with it.

By focusing one’s mind every day on the Name, form, and the words of a true Guru, not only the mind, but also the heart and Consciousness become naturally aligned and steadily in tune with the Divine’s guidance. In this way, one becomes more and more aware of one’s eternal Love relationship with the Divine, until one is completely immersed at all times in the ever-present Divine Love and bliss.

Life is precious. It has a sacred purpose. Don’t waste time. Take the hand of the Guru and let Him lead the way.

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS

The way we use and highlight some words in this book may be a bit unfamiliar to you, so we thought we’d take a moment to explain them.

HUMAN LOVE VS. DIVINE LOVE

There is what we know as love, and then there is Divine Love. Divine Love is a reality that is far beyond what humans think of as love. Human love is based on emotions, bound by conditions, coloured by individual and collective beliefs, filled with expectations, and characterised by dramatic ups and downs. Despite its temporary nature, its limitations, and the lack of fulfilment that comes from such love, it seems that an important part of the human condition is a constant search for more of it. However, it’s not this love we are actually craving. We want more, deeper, and stronger experiences of love because we are actually striving for endless Love – a love that has no limits or conditions at all.

Divine Love is our own true nature, the ultimate goal of life, and the true essence which permeates and connects everything animate and inanimate. As Paramahamsa Vishwananda says, ‘Divine Love is eternal, ever-growing and there is nothing higher than this pure Love.’ For this reason, in this book you will see Love with a capital ‘L’ when Paramahamsa Vishwananda refers to Divine Love.

THE DIVINE NAME

In a similar way, we highlight the Name of God. The holy scriptures say that there is no difference between God and His Name and that the Name of God is even more powerful than His form. So, whenever we refer to the Name, since we are also referring to the idea and form of God Himself, we honour that by capitalising ‘Name’ too.

MASTER, GURU, TEACHER AND SATGURU

In this book, the capitalised words ‘Master’, ‘Teacher’, ‘Guru’ and ‘Satguru’ are interchanged, respecting the oral speech or written words of Paramahamsa Vishwananda. They refer to the true Guru, appointed by God to guide the soul to the final destination, so that we can fulfil our life’s purpose on Earth.

SOUL, ATMA, AND SELF

Similarly, the words ‘soul’, ‘Atma’ and ‘Self are interchanged. They refer to the unchanging, eternal, ever-free, never-bound, innermost radiant essence of a living entity; a spark of God, a part of the Supersoul (also referred to as Paramatma, Supreme Self or Supreme Lord). Just as the seed of a tree contains all the qualities of the tree, the soul (the Atma or Self) has all the qualities of the Supreme Lord.

BHAKTA, DEVOTEE, AND DISCIPLE

Please note, that even if Paramahamsa Vishwananda sometimes interchanges the Sanskrit word ‘bhakta’, which refers to ‘devotee’ or ‘worshipper’, with the words ‘devotee’ and ‘disciple’, He has often emphasised the difference between a devotee and a disciple. The disciple is the devotee who has single-pointed devotion and absolute trust in the Guru, and so has surrendered the mind, actions, and fruits of those actions completely to the Guru.

GURU GENDER

In this book the words ‘Master’, ‘Teacher’, ‘Guru’ and ‘Satguru’ are always associated with ‘He’, ‘Him’, ‘His’. As mentioned previously, this is respecting the oral speech or written words of Paramahamsa Vishwananda. However, these masculine pronouns are used with a gender-neutral meaning, as Guruji recognises that a Guru can incarnate in a woman’s body as well as a man’s.

Now that these clarifications have been made, you’re fully equipped to gain the most from the wisdom to come.

INTRODUCTION

The Gurus don’t need anything from anybody. They have everything already as They have realised God. The only thing that They want is that all of you realise God, so They humble Themselves to be your

THE SOUL’S CALL

We are all spiritual beings. Nobody can deny that the human physical body only stays alive as long as the soul lives in it. However, a great part of humanity is so deeply entangled in the material world, it remains oblivious to the potential of its spiritual divine nature.

Paramahamsa Vishwananda has explained: ‘When one incarnates here on Earth, the ego, the intellect, the mind and the senses take control and the Consciousness gets covered. The Consciousness gets infected by “I”, “my”, “mine”, and so on, and one doesn’t see clearly. Then, one identifies oneself with the outer reality.’

Fortunately, hundreds of millions of people are awakening to their divine nature and are experiencing the dramatic changes that happen in their lives as a result. One of the tendencies of someone going through a process of spiritual awakening is to start searching for life answers and for other spiritually-minded people. Simultaneously, it seems that the ‘cosmos conspires’ to support one’s quest by creating amazing synchronicities in one’s daily life. In this way, a sincere seeker ends up meeting the Satguru, also referred to as the ‘true Guru’ or the ‘Guru who guides the soul to the final destination: the Supersoul, the Source of all creation, the Supreme Lord Narayana’.