On the occasion of Guru Purnima, Mohanji has given following message to all.<\/p>\n
Love and regards,<\/p>\n
Mohanji Family<\/p>\n
\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n My Beloved Embodiments of Love,<\/p>\n Happy Guru Purnima to all of you and your families!<\/p>\n Thank you for all the wishes, prayers, healings and\u00a0concerns over my health. It was not serious though and\u00a0I am feeling\u00a0much better now\u00a0and should be fine in another day. I would physically meet some of you who are here in Muscat on the Guru Poornima day. All of you who are\u00a0not in Muscat, I will certainly\u00a0meet in the energy plane and you will know my presence.<\/p>\n Let me share a few of my thoughts today. Since we have not communicated much off late, this could be a long letter. Beware! I am looking at the world and am looking at you, too. Please do read without prejudice, which would do a lot of good, if digested well.<\/p>\n If you have firm faith and conviction in your path, tradition or Guru, that itself will lead you, guide you. All you need is firm faith and conviction. When asked how he received his powers, Baba Muktananda said \u201cI never asked my Guru (Bhagawan Nithyananda) \u2013 \u201cWHY?\u201d.\u201d He just followed the instructions of Bhagawan without questioning or analyzing. His faith in his Guru gave him everything. This is the path of Shiva. This is the path of Dattatreya. This is the path of Nath Gurus. All you have to do is take the plunge. The river itself takes you to the destination. Sometimes you may feel there is no movement; that nothing is happening. Sometimes, repetition of the same thing may give you boredom. Patience. Devotion and Deep Faith. You will be tested for your determination and endurance. The path of Shiva is not an easy path. Dissolution means agony before ecstasy. If you survive with determination, it is\u00a0the sacred golden path where only Unconditional Love exists. No expectation or binding exists. When you take the plunge, you become the river. Beingness! Total Beingness!\u00a0There is no duality anymore. Only oneness exists.<\/p>\n Natural acts of kindness and compassion truly make us human. It elevates and maintains consciousness at a higher level. It helps endure and erase\u00a0the emotional terrains of our existence. When kindness and compassion overflow from deep within, man becomes human. My sincere appreciations, blessings and congratulations to my beloved Delhi team for their continuous expressions of selflessness against all odds. Ekta, Smriti, Yamini, Sakshi (Jammu), Bharati, Dana, Joga, Shashank, Phani, Sumit\u00a0and\u00a0all the lovely\u00a0team members of Delhi and Jammu,\u00a0I am so proud of you. I am also proud of Namrata and her teams efforts in Mumbai; Annette, Hein and their team in South Africa. These acts of compassion and\u00a0kindness are the most\u00a0splendid Guru Dakshina any Guru would cherish.<\/p>\n Guru Dakshina is an expression of gratitude. Prior to the foreign invasions into India, and commercialisation as well as communalisation\u00a0of our educational systems,\u00a0India used to have a system where those who seek knowledge or those who have eligibility for knowledge were attracted to the\u00a0abode of\u00a0teachers, stayed with them, served them and attained knowledge and skills. Education was spontaneous. Teacher delivered to each one according to their nature, level of receptivity or capacity. This was a beautiful system where the bonding between a student and the teacher automatically opened all channels and the eternal wisdom of the master\u00a0enriched the seekers. It also gave practical training in life and living. Before the student left, as an expression of gratitude, Guru Dakshina was offered to the Guru. It used to be whatever is available in the neighborhood, as the students were not earning money and the teacher\u2019s abode usually used to be in the forest or at least in remote villages, away from the\u00a0contamination of city life. Guru Dakshina also used to be selfless service to the Guru and his mission. So, what can the student give to\u00a0the teacher? A fruit, a plant or in some cases, a thesis work on what he learned from the Guru. Guru never expected anything from his disciples and delivered everything that the disciple could digest without expectations.\u00a0Guru would be well pleased when his disciples live his teachings rather than imitate his lifestyle<\/strong>. This was such a pure relationship. Even Great Avatars like Krishna, Rama, or Adi Shankara were students like this. They were the source of all knowledge, what did they have to learn from anyone? Just to establish the dharma\u00a0and faith on\u00a0this beautiful system, they set the examples\u00a0by subjecting, committing\u00a0themselves to it. Remember, the real test of life is in enduring and navigating successfully through the winding roads of karmic life itself, and not in the marks you scored in your examination. This needs FAITH. This needs GRACE. Knowledge may not come in handy at all times of turmoil. If one has deep faith, grace is always around them. Grace never leaves their hands. They are always protected.<\/p>\n The criteria for admission to such Gurukuls were eligibility, receptivity and never purchasing power. You can understand the depth of degeneration our education system has undergone as of today. Education has systematically become degenerated over the years. Education is another commodity for sale. It is sold and bought, and there is no value system in its true sense. Superior knowledge is used for gaining supremacy over people, institutions or governments. Education is invoking competition, one-upmanship. Students are forced into studies, which they do not often like or\u00a0are opposite to their natural aptitude. They are forced to compete with one another. They are insensitively called failures, which ruins them for life. Our system demands the fish to climb the tree and when the fish fails in its attempts, it is branded as a failure! Children suffer like this. It takes away their faith in education and even in parents who force them. They become tired. They rebel. They find solace in drugs or unholy company which preaches destruction. There is no peace at home. Parents are anxious, often angry\u00a0and insensitive. They push the children to the edge, society and teachers do the same. Their inherent anger instilled by the system is nurtured by negative company. They destroy themselves and the world. Self-destruction is so rampant today. When a person is self-destructive due to bottled up anger within, one destroys the society too.\u00a0Lack of real spiritual grounding\u00a0 beyond the walls of religions and emotional existence\u00a0is the curse of our society today.<\/p>\n Children exist in virtual world of make-believe. Relationships are virtual for them. All gratifications are virtual. Nothing is real. They are scared of the real. They expect the ease of make-believe in real life and suffer miserably when alternative realities hit between their eyes. They create friends on-screen and create a virtual life on-screen. Sometimes the speed of connectivity also determines the speed of failure in relationship. When constantly in the virtual word, when\u00a0a child creates its own sunshine and the wind, it fails to accept or appreciate the real Sun. Real Sun becomes too harsh and intolerable and so does nature. These children\u00a0become misfits in the real world. If any catastrophe happens, they perish. Nobody can prevent the decay. Society is creating them. Society\u00a0 will also destroy them when they are not needed anymore.\u00a0Awareness is the key<\/strong>. Nurturing awareness of who you are and instilling it in the children will keep them grounded. You could use any gadget, as long as nothing enslaves you.<\/p>\n Intellect provides artificial comfort and a feeling of superiority over others, at least temporarily. When you know things better than the other, you feel better off. This is also bondage. \u201cOne who is proud of his intellect is like a prisoner who is proud of his prison cell\u201d \u2013 Fr.Antony D\u2019mello. This is the truth. When knowledge becomes escapism and a means to show off, man binds himself. These are all subtle traps of our existence on Earth and should be extremely cautious about.<\/p>\n We cannot ignore the world and stay spiritual. Spirituality is not escapism. Spirituality is being natural, being flexible and spontaneous. We need to be aware of life, living and the suffering of the new generation. We are constantly creating a restless world which thrives on emotions and emotional outbursts. Parents are destroying the children because of their undue\u00a0anxiety and total ignorance of karma. Every child is a karmic being and will go on with its individual karma whether you worry about it or not. Society is destroying the children because of its insensitivity and silly judgements such as winners and losers. Nobody is always a winner or nobody can always be a looser too. All are relative terms. It depends on many factors. There is no faith, there is no trust. Just sheer competition. Success in life and not in examination,\u00a0is real success. This means a life lived with peace and purpose. A life lived in kindness and compassion, satisfaction and acceptance. A purposeful, purpose bound\u00a0life\u00a0will be\u00a0a complete life. An emotional life overflowing with desires and\u00a0judgement\u00a0will never give any satisfaction at any point in time.<\/p>\n Guru is a primarily a principle. Life is the biggest Guru. Nobody can teach you anything better than life itself. Nature is Guru. Every event, every moment gives forth some valuable lesson. We can continue to learn if we have the eyes to see or entertain average receptivity, from everything around us.\u00a0Yet, your personal Guru is your own soul.<\/strong>\u00a0All the spiritual guides who ever walked on earth are reminders of certain eternal truths of existence. Simple truths such as whatever you learn externally, has to be unlearned and nullified before you transcend to the highest, or before you dissolve completely. Whatever you learn externally must be shed to \u201cbecome the knowledge\u201d and merge into it. Knowledge lies within. Your soul knows everything. You have to transcend the intellect to reach the soul. In order to achieve that, we must systematically detach from the external. And detachment should happen spontaneously, when requirement for it ceases<\/strong>. Only what drops off by itself drops off forever. Whatever you forcefully shed, only get suppressed and will sprout back at another point in time.<\/p>\n Seeming illiterate\u00a0masters like Jesus, Bhagawan Nithyananda, Akkalkot Swami Samarth etc. proved this point with their own life. The learned men of their time asked, \u201cHow can an illiterate carpenter teach scriptures to the educated priests?\u201d. It is possible when you\u00a0are the source,\u00a0knowledge, or when you actually merge with the source. Acquired knowledge has limitation. When you become knowledge, there\u00a0are no limitations and you are not bound by the intellect either. They taught simple things and that too, non verbally,\u00a0mostly through their own lives. Simplicity is Godliness. Real spirituality is having access to everything \u2013 but not needing anything, even knowledge.<\/strong><\/p>\n Another important matter is \u201cunderstanding yourself and your guide\u201d<\/strong>. Shirdi Sai Baba did not even have a name. Mhalsapati called him Sai and others followed. What was the real name of the one whom we call Akkalkot Maharaj? Great masters never even had a name of their own, while today, we see gurus sporting big and long titles. Even a name is binding, just like fame. In the path of dissolution, all names, forms and titles are barriers, one way or the other. When the matter that\u00a0the Guru\u00a0delivers is profound, no titles are required. In today\u2019s spiritual climate, titles are\u00a0a clear sign of deep insecurity of the teacher. A sign of doubt within themselves whether\u00a0they are\u00a0recognised\u00a0and revered or not. Beware of fancy titles; which do not confirm any spiritual stature.\u00a0They may have acquired knowledge and certain siddhis. But, that is the minimum you can have in any case. All that glitters is not gold.<\/p>\n This is your individual journey. If my image or what I teach is seemingly blocking your progress, be bold enough to remove me and my teachings and progress further. If history proves that it was a mistake to leave me or the path that I am taking you through, welcome back, my doors are always open. Just do not develop regrets or guilt.<\/p>\n The path of Shiva is the path of dissolution.<\/strong>\u00a0There\u00a0are no\u00a0stops or detours\u00a0until we become Shiva. There should be no mid-way stops. There are only two possibilities here. Either we are SHIVA (The Source or the conscious) or Shava (the unconscious, the Ignorant or insignificant or another brick on the wall\u2026).<\/p>\n True Gurus need nothing from you. Every seeker should have eyes to see this. Who is a true Guru? One who exists beyond gunas, One who is always connected to the source and the sign is usually silence and reluctance to be visible in public. He will not be bothered about siddhis and will be usually the\u00a0matter-of-fact. He would be deeply rooted in non-duality. All the rest are acharyas holding fancy titles. Beware. As Swami Rama said, most are chasing siddhis (miracle powers) to earn their sustenance. They make tall claims and if they could not deliver, they blame the inefficiency of their disciples. Adi Shankara said the same thing; that it is for the sake of a square meal, these people are dressing up in weird ways. One truth that Swami Rama categorically expounded makes real sense even today. When a man spent years to learn the siddhi of spitting fire from his mouth, his Guru said, \u201cOh, that is sheer waste of time. I would rather buy a matchbox!\u201d The avadhoota whom we met in Kumbh Mela said, \u201cWhen will people drop the craving for finding\u00a0aura, chakra, or\u00a0kundalini and catch God?\u201d We are indeed beating around the bush since lifetimes! Craving for smaller siddhis does waste our lifetimes. When will we shed the dark, thick wall of our conditioned ego and embrace the overwhelming light? From Darkness to Eternal Light!<\/strong><\/p>\n We must develop eyes to see the truth. A true master has truly mastered his mind, elevated himself beyond gunas, and existing in eternal bliss state. He lives beyond all barriers. This will be unmistakable, too. Love is the expression along with perpetual compassion and kindness towards all beings.\u00a0Keep your inner eyes open, you will see.<\/strong><\/p>\n Inner\u00a0eyes! That is what you must nurture.\u00a0Inner eyes always shows us the truth. External eyes are always confronting illusions.\u00a0Poor guys, they are confused. They cannot see what is real and what is unreal. And when they finally decide and focus\u00a0on the real, the image changes and they get disillusioned again.\u00a0Trust your inner eyes. They never deceive you. They are always open and focused on the REAL. They are married to higher awareness, too.<\/p>\n There are masters in all planes of existence, not only on Earth. They are the conduit between the gross and the subtle. They are the eternal connectors. They are the promise of higher connectivity. Delusion is mostly in earthly plane because we use senses much more than our inner\u00a0eyes,\u00a0intuition or the sixth sense. We hardly use our inner eyes consciously. External eyes\u00a0follow what glitters. We chase spiritual powers and get stuck with it. We flaunt it and pull ourselves down and away from the path of liberation. Liberation is the ultimate aim of every soul. Any knowledge or any path that makes it take further detours is its enemy. <\/em><\/strong>This is one criterion for knowing the right path. A path that keeps you liberated (unbound) and takes you towards liberation is the right path. All that binds you to rituals or gurus are wrong paths for the soul. Everything should be dissolved before the final exit. So, the less the baggage of habits and demands, the easier the transit! True Gurus keep you liberated. Acharyas bind you to systems. Systems give solace to mind because mind needs consistency. It cannot accept changes. Change is inevitable. Everything changes. Nothing can remain constant forever. Being flexible is important. Just by watching your thoughts, words or actions you can reach the highest. Being aware is the key, not \u201cdoing\u201d many things. Doing keeps you busy and makes you feel fine. But, ask yourself \u2013 are you being occupied or are you actually evolving? Have peace settled in? Is your inner space clean? Do you entertain anxieties and worries? Has your awareness shifted? Do the same anxieties and fears still bother you? Think again. Walk away from anything that binds you as this is your individual journey. No Guru will carry you on his shoulder.<\/p>\n Help the helpless. Our family members are doing a lot, Mohanji Foundation and Ammucare in India, ACT Foundation in South Africa and through UK. Participate, support and if you cannot be of physical assistance, be morally present. Let us see if we can wipe the tears of at least another being today and every day. You will remain immensely blessed.<\/p>\n Having said all\u00a0that, I wish you a Happy Guru Purnima. Surrender your thoughts, words and actions at the feet of your Sadguru, whoever it is, with deep faith and belief that he represents the Supreme Father, Parabrahma. Do good to the world and your fellow beings, so that you live the teachings of your Guru. Express your Guru in your daily life. Be one with your Guru. Be one with His consciousness.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Love You Eternally.<\/p>\n M<\/p>\n Dear All Family Members, 3rd July 2012 is the Guru Purnima, the most important day to offer deepest of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,283,284],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-guru-principle","tag-guru-tattwa","tag-mohanjis-guru-purnima-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12871,"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions\/12871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"lr-3304\"](\"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lr-3304.jpg\")
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When you grow beyond all gunas, after nullifying the binding karmas, you merge with the source, the supreme. The supreme contains all knowledge. The supreme is the knowledge. So, when you and your Father (the supreme) becomes one, there is nothing for you to know anymore. So, it is through shedding that you evolve, not through accumulation of knowledge. There is no need to chase knowledge. Much knowledge does not help you with liberation either. Sufficient knowledge, which would be promptly delivered time to time by the Guru-principle is sufficient for one\u2019s spiritual progress. Need for more knowledge than that is greed of the intellect, just like material greed, for the sake of some intellectual gratification. That will not help spiritual evolution. It is not in knowing, but in being, that awareness grows.<\/p>\n![\"Shaktipat](\"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/mohanji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shaktipat.jpg\")
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