🕉 SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTIONS 🕉

🕉 SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTIONS 🕉 

There is a nirgun nirākār essence in you which you are. Its manifestation this outer mind-body entity is which you in error identify yourself with. The Guru is to be worshipped, none else, none else, none else ever. He is your all in all and will guide you to this innermost glory. Therefore, focus wholly and with complete concentration on the Guru. Only bear his instructions and carry them out to perfection with absolute allegiance. May you be illumined! Tat tvam asi! 🕉

P.S. Constancy of will and fullness of concentration will take you to Atmajnān. The Guru forever holds, never forsakes. He is the only one to be worshipped. His words are Veda. His form is the temple. His mind is the vigraha and his soul is the anantasagar which is Parabrahma. 'Gurur sākshāt Parabrahma Tasmai Shree Gurave namaha.' The Guru and the shishyā are one in essence. Post-realisation all distinctions disappear. 🕉

Ego is the principal hindrance to arriving at the essential principle, that of Ātmajnān. Absolute self-surrender is necessary to witness the Self. The slightest trace of ego blocks vision. Therefore, in the spiritual path the means is obliteration of the ego. That comes easy to the one who is simplicity itself. But for the crooked realisation cones not till the twisted self is straightened. The Geetā says, "Bhidyatey hridayagranthi chhindanti sarvasangshayā" when the realisation of the Self dawns in samādhi. The knots of the heart are sundered and all doubts are dispelled. This simplicity, if it be there through past good karma, makes spiritual progress possible. The crooked never reach the goal. Desires galore, they bar the way and take one to the alleyways of the material world far from the royal avenue of God. A life is wasted in chasing mirage when with simplicity, rectitude and the spirit of surrender to the preceptor the ultimate purpose of life could have been achieved. But who cares to follow the Guru? Omniscience before Self-realisation is the pitiable state of all. Therefore, be you different and align yourself to the preceptor's laid-out principles, to his inspired instructions, and make a heaven out of life. Transcend life itself to arrive at the Truth which you in essence are. Be blessed! 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose