Sri Aakassdeep`s message of the day :
My dear friend, for to learn anything, you need someone to teach you. There are exceptions also, but somehow, someway, there will be someone on the way, to help to learn it. In India they call them Guru, in English they call them teacher or Master, other languages, use different words, but fundamentally it remains the meaning, who helps to learn and teach the student. When we hear the word teacher, immediately a picture comes in our mind, someone teaching us, when we have been small, a boy or a girl. Sometimes memory is sweet or sometimes it is hard. For all children the first teacher always is the mother. Because of this, rest of the life, when somebody want to learn something, they look for the love and care, a mother is giving for to teach the child. But unfortunately, how much love and care a mother gives for to teach her child, no one can give that much of patience in the world. It is not only in humans, even we see the similar picture in the nature, too. In the nature, 90% times it is the mother, who helps the baby to learn how to live and survive in the existence. The father also does, but majority is being done by the mother. After the mother, spiritual Masters, spiritual Gurus, teaches about the wisdom and the self. Gurus, in Sufism they call "Ostat", it almost mean the same. They give such a high respect, they say, Guru and Ostat is the door to the God and reflection of God. A mother gives birth to your body and a Guru gives birth to yourself. But in the 21. century, it is almost impossible to find a true Guru. 99.99% Gurus are false and their main intention is to earn money and destroy a person`s freedom to create a new organization. I would like to say 100% Gurus are false, but just out of compassion, I use 99,99%. First, it is almost impossible in the 21. century, to live consciously and freely. On top, to help someone also to realize the self , God and love, is almost an impossible task. And at the same time, it is also impossible for the students to be a true seeker, because there are so many information and directions, everyone is confused to the maximum. After meet few teachers and experience fraud and lies, one looses the respect for Gurus. That`s why, nowadays, students don`t have respect for the teacher all over the world. In the past, teachers used to truly sacrifice for the students. And as a result, students also used to respect their Gurus and teachers. But nowadays, it is no more like this. But teachers still demand the same respect from the students. But when the student sees, the person is teaching just because of money, then why student will give them the respect? So, the whole relation became a bitter relation and an economical relation. There is no more trust and respect. If Gurus want to get the respect, now they have to earn it back from the students. A Guru is one, who shares his own experience and when one shares his experience, then he can guide the students from his authority. But the teacher are those, mostly they are accumulating information and what they share with the students, mostly what they have read from the books, from the school and university. So, they just teach like a parrot. The whole thing is now, blinds are leading other blinds. At the time of Buddha, students had a thirst for wisdom, they used to travel to Buddha and Sages and the place, sages used to stay, that place itself, became the temple of wisdom. If they were staying in the garden or near the ocean or in the mountain or forest, it does not matter. Wherever he stays, his house is the house/ashram of learning an wisdom for students/disciples. Those, who go only for inquiry or information, they remain as a student, but those who go to them for deep thirst, they become a disciple and out of that thirst, they drink the nectar of wisdom at the feet of the master. The most ancient book of learning is Veda. Veda is compiled of Upanishads. Upanishads means, what I have heard or learned near the feet of the Master. It is incomparable. Western holy scriptures, like Torah, Bible, Quran, are also similar to Upanishads, but a little difference is there, Prophets or Messiahs learned or got the wisdom from or through angels or astral bodies. In Upanishads, the disciple goes to the Guru and get the knowledge from a human as a Guru and learn in his house, called ashram. Moses went to the mountain and got the ten commandments and Mohammad was meditating 6 years in the mountain cave, when angels came and gave the introduction of the Quran to him. But, there we also see the similarity, when they reached to the peak of the thirst for wisdom, they had received that, from the supreme existence. So, if one is truly thirsty for wisdom, then one can drink the nectar of wisdom from the Guru or the supreme existence. And it is true, your thirst will be fulfill.
OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
