Today, let us understand the fact that guru is not a mere personality or a tattva (principle), but the eternal truth of life in this dark age of Kaliyug.
Guru is that force that works in tandem with you 24X7. For us to realise this force working for us, we have to nurture consistently the divine attributes of shraddha and bhakti (faith and devotion). Then, all our noble desires, vision and mission will be fulfilled by the shakti of the guru. If we are ever aware that the force of guru is always with us, then our life itself turns into a miracle.
Each and every moment, we can experience miracles and understand why we were created. For this, we have to germinate belief and patience and hold the divine hand of the guru firmly, so that we can move from the eerie shadows to the soft glow of warm light.
The guru shakti works very subtly within us. If we just think of the guru, the guru manifests inside us. This can be identified through our aura. Just like in any object, the protons, neutrons and electrons keep moving in an atom, which brings about changes in the nature of the object; the guru shakti works constantly internally and brings about a noticeable transformation in us, which gets visible in our aura.
Our aura preserves this condition and draws universal cosmic energy. If not, our aura mostly attracts negativity, problems and hiccups.
When our aura is further conditioned by the universal energy of the cosmos, we generate more and more bhakti or devotion. Devotion leads to knowledge. This state generates energetic vibrations that clear all disturbances in our aura. When negative energy gets dislodged, this becomes the loveliest phase of our life as whatever work we undertake, results in success. This success further increases the quotient of faith and confidence on the guru shakti.
We will now establish deep communication with our creator. The guru is the bridge that connects us to our creator. Our guru internally will be our consultant, advisor, mentor, friend, philosopher, guide, father, mother, brother, sister, everything. So, we will not want to move an inch without the consent and blessings of the guru.
Deep love becomes the binding factor of relationship with our self. As a devoted disciple, we now start collecting small granules of love, atom by atom and cherish it. Just like we open an RD account or an FD account in a bank to generate wealth, we go on collecting granules of love and generate love in the scale of 1:10, 1:100. 1: 1000.
During this phase of life, you realise that money is not the whole of you, limited information is not knowledge, but your chaitanya or consciousness is the whole of you. Guru shakti within you is the whole of you. You and the guru shakti are not different. You now become selective in mingling with people. You would not want to socialise with people who reduce your chaitanya. In this phase, you will be very clear who is nurturing your aura and who is reducing the chaitanya or power of our aura. So, you will choose to maintain your status of purity. You will be firm so that your aura remains unaffected.
This is when you become perfect channel for divine grace to flow. The divine forces will now start manifesting from within you. At this stage, if we recall our past we realise that from merely being a struggler, trying to solve our problems, clearing obstacles, facing challenges, we are now in a position to solve problems faced by others just like our guru.
Instead of being hollow within, we are now creating an aura of halo. From a state of ignorance, we are now in the state of awareness. From a state of experiencing problems, you will now be the walking, talking miracle yourself!
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