While explaining duties, Bhishma explains to Yudhistira that:
One Acharya is superior to ten Brahmanas learned in the Vedas. One Upadhyaya is again superior to ten Acharyas. The father, again, is superior to ten Upadhyayas. The mother again, is superior to ten fathers, or perhaps, the whole worl...
@Swapnil ah right! That's what I forgot to tell lol.
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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.
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
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).
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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.
"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 ...
All I know is realisation or mukti or God's grace cannot happen without Guru's help. And according to Advaitic traditions Guru just transmists information, not logical or verbal information, but information deep at the level of auric or pranic level, which may or may not be supplemented with verbal information exchange. Therefore Guru is of paramount importance.
The main reason why Datura is different to the other intoxicants for scriptural reasons is that it is thoroughly unpleasant in terms of recreational use and thus it shouldn't be possible to get addicted to it.
It is also cheap, often legal (due to it not being addictive), and very powerful, causi...