Anandashram Kanhangad - Satsang 6 July 2021
Channel: Anandashram Kanhangad
Date: 2021-07-06

Chidanand Swamiji---"Aspirants fulfil their desire to receive from the Guru a quickening impulse that will give impetus in their journey beyond sorrow to the realm of eternal bliss..."




Om Sri Ram jai Ram jai jai Ram

Beloved Papa is trying to prepare us to have the right background before we arrive on the 24th which happens to be the Guru poornima day. 

The Guru is within. Through the outer Guru we are given opportunity to know about the Guru within...

Otherwise our journey becomes lukewarm...

Swami Chidanandaji---(Guru Dakshina)---"On the Guru Poornima day, the aspirants offer Guru dakshina as a symbol of their reverence. They fulfil their desire to receive from Him a quickening impulse that will give impetus in their journey beyond sorrow to the realm of eternal bliss..."

In the joy of adoring the form of  the Guru, we forget the ideal

In 2002 or 2003 we were camping in North India in an Ashram..

For Guru poornima people came from all over...Ashram was overflowing with them

There was havana...On that day... People bring offerings to the Guru..Bhajan etc was there ...There was talk in the evening..After 2 days all left..We wondered if all this really helped them... Later on we felt that if these activities were not there, the day would have gone in chatting etc...

Now Chidanand Swamiji is telling the reason for all the rituals is to get impetus to move to the realm beyond sorrow..

Symbolically we give cloths, sweets etc...

Chidanand Swami says, "the real dakshina desired by the Guru is that each aspirant must shine as a centre of  fiery aspiration, intense fervour , total dedication to the ideal, resolute determination to follow the ideal..."

Are we trying to convert our Gurudakshina into this. Because of our preoccupation with so many activities, we may not be seeing the finger of God in everything

I cannot isolate myself from activities. So I seek the blessings of Guru within through the Guru without to see the connection, see the finger of God...

Chidanand Swami ---"work for renewal within yourself... Emerge as shiny new being, having annihilated the old self which is wedded to sense objects and ignorance...Guru dev used to say, kill the little I

Papa--stand on the ashes of your cremated ego...

So, removing the me and mine is the Gurudakshina

We are getting stuck with petty needs...That our mind highlights...As soon as we reached their Mataji gave us coffee etc

They do it to touch and Kindle us..

We are not to get stuck there

Chidanand Swami---Work for the renewal from the self wedded to sense objects and ignorance..

Om Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram