8.7 - Guru Worship

8.7 - Guru Worship



That is a correct description of Baba’s Marga. It has been called Guru Marga in Guru Gita. Guru Marga is a form of Bhakthi Marga in which faith in and devotion to the Guru is the only Sadhana for achieving everything including salvation, Mukti or Brahmaiktya, Satchidananda conquest of samsara, and also all yoga, siddhis and temporal welfare.
Here Baba showed the applicability of the Guru Gita to religious progress. The one who is acquainted with the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of the spiritual field, a forest is a vanjari. The fourth person, Baba who realized that a guide was needed, and mere talk with bookish knowledge was of no use at all to help one to realize God and himself. Above all, the question was not an intellectual one. It was a problem as to how a particular soul was to be raised to realization, and that as essentially a matter of moulding the entire soul of the student or sishya. What is wanted therefore is humility, receptivity, and a powerful desire to reach the goal with the aid of a Guru. Therefore, a readiness to adopt a Guru and surrender everything to the Guru is needed. Everything is Tan, Man, Dhan that is, body, mind and possession. As a result of the intense love he bore to his Guru, Baba sacrificed and surrendered at the feet of his Guru. The solution of the problem as to whether there is need for a Guru is already reached when the sishya get into the proper humility, receptivity, and longing attachment to the Guru, culminating in mutual love. Then realization is reached. Purely by Guru’s grace, Realization flashes upon the sishya. Baba said, “The Guru’s grace is our only sadhana. Jnana comes as experience or in the wake of Guru’s grace. He alone succeeds who feels the Guru is the one thing needed.”