Gurubhav Param Tirtham
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Hari Om ll
Gurubhav Param Tirtham
ARADHANA
JYOTI NUMBER 17
“Gurubhavah Param Tirtham, Anyatirtham Nirarthakam, l
Sarvatirthashrayam Devi Padangushthe che Vartate ll
Om Brahma-Vishnu-Maheshwarebhyam Namah” ll
Sadguru Shri
Aniruddha Bapu explained the meaning of this Aradhana Jyoti given in the
Aradhana Jyoti Pustika. The entire Aradhana Jyoti is dedicated to Sadguru.
He started His
discourse by explaining a small part of prose from Shree Hanuman Challisa.
Hanuman Challisa starts with “Shree Guru Charan Saroj Raj, Nij Manu Mukur Sudhari”. Manu
Mukur means let my brow be covered and bestowed with the grace of having
Sadguru’s charan-dhul (soil touched by Sadguru’s
feet). One should gauge the importance of Sadguru’s charan dhul from this when
an extremely pure and sacred hymn like Hanuman Challisa describes it this way.
Our mind, conscience and thinking that are muddied by various shadripus
(attractions and honey-traps) which can be cleaned only by Sadguru and no one
else.
He further drew a
reference from Shree Sunderkand which says that “Garala Sudha Ripu Karahi
Mitai” which means that with Sadguru’s blessings even our foe transforms to
our friend. To explain this in the real sense He says that, a foe becoming a
friend means, whatever our foe does against us turns to be blessing in disguise
and it actually becomes beneficial to us.
He says that
Ram- Bhakta (devotee) Hanumant’s Challisa starts with praise, respect and
adoration of Sadguru, which illustrates that Sadguru and Parmatma (God), (here
Parmatma Ram) are not different but one and the same. For any endeavor to be
successful in our life we need backing and blessings of Sadguru. Only Sadguru
can do ‘Labhevin Priti’ (Unconditional, true and non-returns expecting
love).
He further goes
to explain that even a book can be our Sadguru. Great religious granthas
(sacred books) like Sunderkand, Shree Sai Saccharita, Grantharaj Shreemad
Purushartha, etc can also be our Sadguru.
Then He switched to the topic of recitations. Many people boast of completion recitations of some religious text or hymn for some stipuled number of times viz., reciting Hanuman Challisa or Ram Raksha or Ghorkashta Uddharana Stotra, etc for 108, times, etc. He explained that definitely these recitations are helpful and do give excellent results to bhaktas but a recitation will be truly helpful and would be impregnated by the blessings of Sadguru only when they are performed from bottom of one’s heart only out of love for God. Moreover one shouldn’t get on Could 9 after he finishes his recitation. Our Sadguru Shri Aniruddha Bapu Himself also does these recitations. So He advises all the bhaktas to do the same but, further goes on to explain that as one goes on increasing his recitations his love, devotion towards Sadguru should increase and ego should decrease. He also promises that even if one doesn’t have complete concentration towards his recitations or if one thinks about the other worldly things during the process of recitations and worship, even if one makes numerous mistakes like these Sadguru will always take his care and accept his offering of recitations gleefully. Only He can do it because Sadguru is the ultimate zenith of Love, Purity, Compassion, etc. He says that to win Sadguru one needs to put in mahat-prayas (extreme efforts).
Then He switched to the topic of recitations. Many people boast of completion recitations of some religious text or hymn for some stipuled number of times viz., reciting Hanuman Challisa or Ram Raksha or Ghorkashta Uddharana Stotra, etc for 108, times, etc. He explained that definitely these recitations are helpful and do give excellent results to bhaktas but a recitation will be truly helpful and would be impregnated by the blessings of Sadguru only when they are performed from bottom of one’s heart only out of love for God. Moreover one shouldn’t get on Could 9 after he finishes his recitation. Our Sadguru Shri Aniruddha Bapu Himself also does these recitations. So He advises all the bhaktas to do the same but, further goes on to explain that as one goes on increasing his recitations his love, devotion towards Sadguru should increase and ego should decrease. He also promises that even if one doesn’t have complete concentration towards his recitations or if one thinks about the other worldly things during the process of recitations and worship, even if one makes numerous mistakes like these Sadguru will always take his care and accept his offering of recitations gleefully. Only He can do it because Sadguru is the ultimate zenith of Love, Purity, Compassion, etc. He says that to win Sadguru one needs to put in mahat-prayas (extreme efforts).
He gives example
of Vibhishan (demon king Ravan’s brother) here. He says one’s trust on his
Sadguru should be like Vibhishan. Goddess Sita was kidnapped and imprisoned by
Ravan. Lord Ram couldn’t even locate Her for the start (actually Lord knows
everything but has to follow human limitations when he descends on this earth.
And out of those human limitations Lord Ram chose to search for Sita with
keeping in mind the human boundaries set which He was abiding voluntarily). Now
Vibhishan was amongst the senior most ministers of Ravan’s cabinet, he was
Ravan’s brother, this was the same Ravan who had kidnapped and imprisoned
Goddess Sita. Looking at this situation from a layman’s point of view anybody
would assume Lord Ram to be a normal human being and not Parmatma. But in spite
of this, Vibhishan worshipped Lord Ram as his Sadguru and finally joined forces
with Him against his own brother.
He further says
that if one feels proud of oneself after achieving success and out of this
thinking says that ‘I have done this, I got success, I am great, etc’ then he loses
everything. For any success, credit should always be given to Sadguru. It is
because of him that one achieves success and climbs new peaks of prosperity.
So now to inculcate this love, affection, worship, surrender
and thoughts towards Sadguru one should chant this Aradhana Jyoti No. 17
everyday. The best time for the recitation of the same is the time when we get
up from bed and the time when we go to sleep. At the time of getting up we
should first recite mantras like “Om Krupa Sindhu Shri Sai Nathaya Namah”, “Om
Abhay-data Shri Swami Samarthaya Namah”, “Om Manasamarthyadata Shri Aniruddha
Namah”, etc and then start with this hymn. At the bedtime one can start it
directly.
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Hari Om ll
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