It has been the practice in the past–all the Upanishads are full of stories where the student comes and the teacher just keeps him in His ashram. And He watches and sees, and what He sees is which way his heart functions, which way his mind functions, which way his life is drifting. And He helps him to straighten out all the human element to err, all the wrong way of thinking, wrong way of feeling, wrong way of understanding. And this takes years of time to culture a man.
And when the teacher is satisfied, ‘Fine, I give you this knowledge, now you give it to all others.’ But we are now in a hurry to improve society because Nature wants us to. It has been too much. We want to revert Life back to what it is always–bliss consciousness–back to the Absolute value. And therefore we have to speak many together, many at a time. But when I am talking to you many at a time, we should not in our minds minimize the great value of this teaching which is only passed on from heart to heart.
It’s a very great teaching. More is passed on silently. Much less of knowledge goes through words, but a lot of it goes between words in those paused moments, in those silent moments between words. A lot of it goes between words. And it’s a very great phenomenon that is happening for the world and is happening for all times. Only, you have to take it as it is.
We know from the line of our Masters: Human life is all Divine. We don’t have to sing it on the street. Every breath of ours, every movement of ours, every whisper of ours sings it naturally. This is the song of the knower of Reality. You have that dignity of Life which is so scarce in this Kali Yuga. It has not been so profuse even in any other Yugas.
– His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Image: Swami Brahmananda Saraswati Jagadguru Bhagvan Shankaracharya of Joytir Math of Himalayas. . . .
Igor Kufayev
ON GURU PURNIMA - The Full Moon of the Guru
It has been the practice in the past–all the Upanishads are full of stories where the student comes and the teacher just keeps him in His ashram. And He watches and sees, and what He sees is which way his heart functions, which way his mind functions, which way his life is drifting. And He helps him to straighten out all the human element to err, all the wrong way of thinking, wrong way of feeling, wrong way of understanding. And this takes years of time to culture a man.
And when the teacher is satisfied, ‘Fine, I give you this knowledge, now you give it to all others.’
But we are now in a hurry to improve society because Nature wants us to. It has been too much. We want to revert Life back to what it is always–bliss consciousness–back to the Absolute value. And therefore we have to speak many together, many at a time. But when I am talking to you many at a time, we should not in our minds minimize the great value of this teaching which is only passed on from heart to heart.
It’s a very great teaching. More is passed on silently. Much less of knowledge goes through words, but a lot of it goes between words in those paused moments, in those silent moments between words. A lot of it goes between words. And it’s a very great phenomenon that is happening for the world and is happening for all times. Only, you have to take it as it is.
We know from the line of our Masters: Human life is all Divine. We don’t have to sing it on the street. Every breath of ours, every movement of ours, every whisper of ours sings it naturally. This is the song of the knower of Reality. You have that dignity of Life which is so scarce in this Kali Yuga. It has not been so profuse even in any other Yugas.
– His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Image: Swami Brahmananda Saraswati Jagadguru Bhagvan Shankaracharya of Joytir Math of Himalayas.
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