What Makes Our Guru Happy?

 

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What Makes Our Guru Happy?

The Guru always wants us to meditate, be compassionate and show gratitude – we should ask ourselves - do we do this on an ongoing basis? Whenever we are meditative, we feel blissful; whenever we are in compassion, we feel ecstatic. And then gratitude arises - not towards anyone in particular, gratitude just arises. We feel so grateful just for being here, just for being alive, just for being able to be meditative, just for being able to be in compassion. We feel simply grateful. That gratefulness is not towards anybody, it is towards the whole and the whole (cosmos) is represented by our Guru.

If we feel grateful towards our Guru, it is a gratitude of the mind. If we meditate and if we flower in compassion, we will feel simply grateful, not grateful towards the Guru. Then there is no “towards” - we feel simply grateful towards all. And when we feel grateful towards all, that is really gratefulness towards the Guru, never before it. When it is a choice, we choose the Guru; then our Guru becomes limited, and not the whole.

When we really flower then our fragrance is not addressed to anybody; when we really flower the fragrance goes in all directions. It simply moves in all directions, and whoever passes near us, is filled with our fragrance, he carries our fragrance. And if nobody passes us, then on that silent, lonely path our fragrance goes on spreading - but it is not addressed.

Remember, the mind is always addressed; the being is never addressed. The mind is always moving towards something; the being is simply moving towards all. It is a movement without any goal. A goal exists because of motive - we move towards something because there is desire. When there is no desire, how can one move? Movement is there but no motivation.

Then we move in all directions, then we overflow. Then our Guru is everywhere; then Swamiji is everywhere. And only when this point comes are we free from the Guru also. Then we are freed of all relationship, we are freed of all presence, of all bondage. And that is what Swamiji is telling us – become free, become your own Guru.

One thing we can do Swamiji - drop this mind, we should allow our being to flower; then we will be fragrant. Then in all dimensions and directions the whole will be happy. We will be bliss and our gratitude will not be narrow. It will not be towards a point, it will be moving all over, everywhere. Only then do we achieve prayer. This gratitude towards the whole, as represented by Swamiji, is prayer.

When we go in a temple and pray, it is not prayer; but when, after compassion, gratitude arises, the whole existence becomes the temple. Whatever we touch, it becomes a prayer; whatever we do, it becomes filled with prayer. We cannot be otherwise.

Deeply rooted, anchored in meditation, deeply flowing into compassion, we cannot be otherwise. We become prayer, we become gratitude. When we reach this stage, Swamiji’s objective of making each disciple a Guru is achieved – that gives Him the greatest happiness.