Remember, in life it is simply not possible to get along with certain people, however much one may try and adjust, strive to accommodate. Their level of evolution does not permit effective cooperative co-existence and this is the pity of it after all. The disjointedness of human relations often makes for all the rancour in life whose collective resolution in the macroscopic plane is war. And ego plays the truant in all of this.
The Acharyas are the sole refuge in this world of delusive dreams and absolute devotion unto their teachings alone helps deliver the soul in bondage unto infinite freedom. These Acharyas are 'the living commentary on the Vedas' (to quote Vivekananda) even as their thoughts themselves are chronicled as the verbal commentary on the Vedas. These spiritual luminaries, these men of God, these veritable incarnations of God Himself are the living pilgrimages where we must go and cleanse ourselves of all the accretions of the ages that have clouded our spiritual vision.
The Guru is the linkman to God, the necessary intermediary between the oblivious soul and its deeper essence which it has forgotten. He is the living light that illumines our evolutionary path, that lightens our earthly burden and energises us to traverse the razor-edge of enlightened reason, of the abundance of detached affection to the divinities on earth with whom life then becomes a playhouse of endless joy as the undercurrent of its superficial angularities and conflicts.
But this harmony is not come by easily. Self-restraint as prescribed by the Guru and prolonged practice of the spiritual disciplines gradually leads the soul along this inclined plane and when it has attained a certain altitude, it can live at a depth where sameness abides and the embattled forces are in functional harmony. Then and then alone is a person able to take the surface separateness into stride, the fractured understanding of men about situations and the attempted impositions of others on his self in a free spirit without caving in under pressure. Such a life then becomes a delight and a benediction unto all.
Written by Sugata Bose
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