“Among the 12-13 full moons in a year the vaishakha full moon is dedicated to (his birth and enlightenment), jyeshtha full moon to mother earth and the aashadha full moon is dedicated to the memory of masters. This is Guru-Purnima.
It is the day when the disciple wakes up in his fullness and in the wakefulness he can’t be but grateful. This gratitude is not of dwaita (you and me), but of advaita. It is not a river moving from somewhere to somewhere, but is the ocean moving within itself. So, gratefulness on Guru-Purnima symbolizes that fullness.
The purpose of the Guru Purnima celebration is to turn back and review and see in this last one year how much one has progressed in life. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year. As the full moon rises and sets, tears of gratitude arise and repose into the vastness of one’s own self.”
"You know, our body has millions of cells, and each cell has its own life. Many cells are being born every day and many are dying. So, you are a moving town. So many cities are on the planet Earth and planet Earth is revolving and moving around the Sun. Same way, there are so many cells and so many living beings inside you and you are moving around. You are a moving township. Like in a beehive, there are so many bees which come and sit, but there is one queen bee. If the queen bee goes away, every other bee goes away. In the same way, there is an atom in our body, the queen bee. If that is not there, everything else goes away.
Locate in that, in that tiniest of the tiny atom, the atma or the self. It is everywhere yet nowhere. That is the queen bee and that is what you are. That is what the Divine is, and that is the Guru principle. Like there is fatherhood, motherhood, there is Guruhood also. You all have to play Guruhood at least to somebody. You do play, you keep giving advices and guiding people consciously or unconsciously, and give them love and care. But do it with 100 percent without expecting anything in return. That is living the Guruhood, living the self. There is no difference between the Divine, you and the Guru Principle. It is all coming to one thing, the queen bee.
Meditation is relaxing and reposing in that atom. So, think of all the things that you could be grateful for, and ask what you want. And bless everybody. We receive, but not just receiving is enough, we should give and bless those who are in need."
~ Sri Sri Ravishankar
Mooji's words today on Guru Purnima:
Of all celebrations, I cannot see any as significant as Guru Purnima, because it honours the Satguru within one’s own Self. That which removes ignorance or the apparent veil that seems to eclipse the supreme realization of the Self is the Self itself.
That light itself takes on the form of some magnetism, some attraction in order to experience this Yoga of Self-Realisation.
It has already prepared the ground for its revelation inside the Heart of the Beings who it attracts. This attraction is not limited to a mere teaching, or a learning, rather, it is a resonance, a non-conceptual attraction to the single source of all existence.
And as it begins to stir, to vibrate, to attune itself as one presence inside the heart, both the seeker and also the Master gradually vanish as concepts and remain as the single inseparable Truth.
We don’t need more knowledge or scholars.
Let us seek, celebrate and welcome beings whose presence in this world are the evidence of the True, not conceptual evidence, but whose life are authentically, all-roundedly and wholesomely the embodiment of the True.
How do we know You are True?
Because of the power of the Presence and the Presence of the Power inside your Heart you will become spontaneously convinced.
Every day I am looking for You, and looking at You and looking from You and looking in you as You and as ‘I Am’.
In order to know the true One you have to forget yourself.
You have to be nothing—just resting in and as Being itself
so that there is nobody remaining to determine anything anymore and your actions are just spontaneously unfolding out of the source itself.
It is That which you are.
If this is what You honour and acknowledge in your Heart, then
Happy Guru Purnima Day!
od prije 5 minuta:
Sri Sri: Hmmm.... Guru is present like the space in life. You just sang a song... Ajo Ananthaya.. Ajo means never born, Ananthanya means infinity, Satchidananda means pure bliss. Guru principle is like the space. You cannot avoid space. Whether you recognize there is space or not is another occasion. Today is the time you recognize that there is space. You know, air is there everywhere but when you sit near the fan, you feel it. In the same way, the Guru principle is there. When you recognize the existence of Guru principle and the role it has played in the life makes you grateful.
If there is no Guru is life, it means it is uncivilized. Like one who does not know any technology. It is good fortune to have access to knowledge. And this ancient tradition from millenniums has preserved the beautiful knowledge. Today we feel very grateful. An occasion to remember, to celebrate life in knowledge and life for knowledge.
It is wisdom that can eliminate misery in the world. If wisdom cannot bring happiness, nothing can bring happiness. So we have this privilege to spread happiness, spread this wisdom, knowledge.