Hinduism

5:30 AM

@GIRIBLR same is the case in any sampradaya of Dharma.

5:56 AM

@TheLittleNaruto Namaskar :)

Yes sure, but when? xD

10:37 AM

@Swapnil ah right! That's what I forgot to tell lol.

It's gonna be at 8PM IST. @Swapnil @Archit @ParabrahmanJyoti @Pandya @TheDestroyer @GIRIBLR @Carmensandiego @HinduKid @RakeshJoshi @MrGreenGold and others.

10:50 AM

@TheLittleNaruto I'm in.

GIRIBLR

11:26 AM

ho is the Sad-Guru. Ramana Maharshi says that God, Guru and Self are one and the same. The Sad-Guru is within abiding always in the
profound depths of the Self. All sadhana is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is outside, that we are separate
from the Self so that we may discover in the end first
intellectually and then as living truth that the seeker himself
never was anything else but that which he was seeking
with so much effort. Still this seemingly unnecessary effort
is a vital condition in one’s sadhana till it becomes effortless.

2:32 PM

I think we can start now.

Let's start with this famous shloka:

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> गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णु र्गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः
गुरु साक्षात परब्रह्मा तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः

    Guru is the Creator (Brahma), Guru is the Preserver(Vishnu), GuruDeva is Destroyer(Maheshwara)
    Guru is the absolute (singular) Lord himself, Salutations to that Sri Guru

@TheLittleNaruto

GIRIBLR

Anyone joined ?

@GIRIBLR I think we 3 only

I wonder what is source of this well known shloka

Do you guys know?

@HinduKid ^

2:45 PM

oh, i remeber some part

brahma, vishu, shiva tried to test a devotee and devotee chanted that !.. I think

Ok that's good

@HinduKid Oh

So that's from some Pauranic story?

yes, found it. A Devotee Named Kutsa

Oh

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I think this shloka is present in Guru Gita

2:51 PM

oh, you were asking, from which text, shloka is taken from!..

i thought you were asking story!. XD

Yes

In any case, in the above verse, Guru is equated as God himself.

This is very important.

This is because Guru is God in human form.

yes

twitter.com/Kuchela70/status/1334454989926744064

Guru is one who teaches the essential Truth. So he is the
means for leading one to the attainment of the potency of mantra
and mudra.

important ^^

In Malinivijaya, it has been said (Siva addressing Parvat
says)
"One, who knows all the principles in their essentials, being
able to throw light on the virility or efficiency of mantras, is a
guru like myself." (11,10).

In Spandakarika, such matters being well known have not been
treated. But in a way this matter has also been treated there in
the last verse which is as follows:
"I offer my homage to that wonderful teaching of my guru,
serving as a boat in crossing the fathomless ocean of doubts
and full of such words as express wonderful, uncommon ideas."
(IV 1).

@HinduKid Checking

Or guru may be said to be the power of divine grace. As
has been said in Malinivijaya "That (the power of grace) has
been said to be the collective whole of saktis, that has been said
to be the mouth of the guru, i.e. the guru's power of grace."
In Mantrisirobhairava also, the same idea has been expressed
in the following way.
"Guru's power of grace inherent in the mouth of the guru is
greater than the guru himself." That power of grace affording

@HinduKid That's a good finding. Good job!

With all these been said, Guru is like a mother who nourishes and look after his disciple like his own child and shape him better.

3:07 PM

@TheLittleNaruto Sadhu!

:)

I think it takes a lot of good Karma and grace of divine mother to receive blessings of Guru.

Very true. The word 'Guru' means the one 'who's the dispeller of darkness'.

Finding such a divine incarnate must need a lot of good karma.

Q: Why "GURU" is equal to "supreme GODS"?

Yes

But there is this one thing

In today's world, finding a right Guru is very difficult.

One should read Kaularnava's Ullasha 11 to 13 which explains the characteristics of Guru and also characteristics of disciple :)

A good read:

14

"Gurur brahmaa gurur vishnuh gurur devo maheshvarah gurur saakshaat parabrahma tasmai shree gurave namah." Translation: Know the Guru to be Brahma himself. He is Vishnu. He is also Shiva. Know Him to be the Supreme Brahman, and offer the adorations unto that peerless Guru. Why is Guru ...

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3:23 PM

@TheLittleNaruto Ah, I feel it :P

Mr Green Gold

this is deep scriptural discussion

@Swapnil xD

@MrGreenGold Yes feel free to participate :)

Mr Green Gold

I don't have such scriptural background, I've just read contemporary stuff. 🙏

@MrGreenGold Whatever it is, feel free to share your thoughts on Guru.

Archit

4:55 PM

@TheLittleNaruto most likely Skanda Purāṇa Uttara Kanda (not in print it seems)

@Archit It's in Guru Gita

Pandya

@TheLittleNaruto Which Shloka?

@Archit Namaskarah!

3 hours ago, by TheLittleNaruto

> गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णु र्गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः
गुरु साक्षात परब्रह्मा तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः

Pandya

5:15 PM

@TheLittleNaruto True

Happy Guru Poornima :)