Girish's Blog

1.     Meaning of Guru Kabir says: “The only thing worth doing is to wake up my mind.” The God, the REAL Guru, is inside. The word ‘Guru’ is untranslatable. Neither does the word ‘teacher’ nor the word ‘Master’ have that beauty. In fact, the phenomenon of the Guru is so deeply Indian that no other language of any country is capable of translating it. It is something intrinsically Eastern. The word ‘Guru’ is made of two words, ‘gu’ and ‘ru’. ‘Gu’ means darkness, ‘ru’ means one who dispels it. Guru literally means ‘the light’ or ‘the dispeller of darkness’. 1a. The Guru, the outer Master is simply a mirror so that you can see your face, so that you can see that you also have the same face, the same possibility, the same potential. And once this has settled in your heart, that “I have also the same potential, the same seed”, a great journey has started. You will never be the same again. Looking into the eyes of a living Master, something synchronizes in you, something is ...

Recently I had to travel to Idukki in Kerala for a Residential Refresher Course conducted by the Alleppey Branch of the South India Regional Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India from 23 May to 25 May. I had a 3AC train ticket which was wait listed when I booked it. I had an emergency quota letter from a MP – curtsey of CA Ramaniji of Goa, who was to join me at midnight at Madgaon. About three hours before departure, when I checked online the reservation had come down to RAC, and by the time I got onto the train I had got seat. When I got into the train I saw that B63 berth had two people – so effectively I had got half a seat. When the TC came he said that he will check and allot another berth to one of us. Mentally I was positive that I will not have to shift. Around 9pm, the TC came and told me you stay on B63 and he shifted the other gentleman to another seat. Ramaniji to got a berth and I caught up with him the next morning. We reached Alleppey at 5pm – for...