The Guru's Gift: Beyond Physical Presence

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Guru Purnima celebrates the sacred relationship between spiritual teacher and disciple, honoring the guru's role in revealing our true nature as formless awareness. The ultimate gift a guru offers is showing us that when we realize our nature is bliss, we no longer merely feel peace—we become peace itself.

• The guru serves as a medium for highest wisdom, revealing Brahm Gyan (knowledge of formless reality)
• True devotion to the guru means living in awareness of formless consciousness, not just offering praise
• Ethical teachings from gurus guide householders in balancing spiritual life with worldly responsibilities
• Householder path and monk path are equally valid—what matters is following your natural tendencies
• Spiritual growth comes through guru's grace rather than personal effort
• Being a sincere disciple means embodying the teachings in daily life
• The mark of true realization is maintaining awareness of the formless even when not in the guru's presence

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Be the
Mystic podcast, and today isGuru Purnima.
So happy Guru Purnima to all ofyou and to your respective
gurus and teachers.
You know the guru is veryimportant when it comes to

(00:20):
spiritual practice.
I think we all know theimportance of having a guru, but
sometimes we can ignore theimportance of having a living
teacher who can guide us, whocan embody the very spiritual
values that we should beapplying into our own lives.
I know it's very easy sometimesto over impose the physicality

(00:50):
and the importance of thephysical, but what does the Guru
really do and why do wecelebrate the Guru so much?
Now, the Guru is a medium forthe highest wisdom.
The Guru is a medium for thehighest wisdom In the sense of,
in my own life, it's the Guruthat shows you or reveals to you
the Brahm Gyan, the knowledgeof the formless, the knowledge

(01:13):
of Brahman, the knowledge of theultimate reality, and discloses
that knowledge to you, impartsthat knowledge to you.
Now, that's the first step ofwhat a teacher does, and it's
important.
It's an important step to knowhow to recognize our true nature

(01:35):
.
And so, through Brahmagyan, weare shown our true nature as
formless consciousness orformless awareness, and that's
where the guru's job is more orless done.
Now, that would be ideal, and Isay it's ideal because it would

(01:57):
be easy then.
However, people like me, we arehouseholders, so we have roles
to perform in society, we havejobs to maintain, we and keep up
with, we have families and wehave friends and we have a

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social circle, and with thosesocial circles come social norms
and we have to live accordingly.
And how do we balancespirituality in those moments?
And that's when the guru comesin with the ethical side, the
morality side, where they teachus basic human values of how to

(02:39):
keep our humanness and ourhumanity in check whilst
pursuing a spiritual life.
Now, when we are attuned to theGuru's message and the ultimate
message is always Brahmagyan, bythe way what does it mean to

(03:02):
have devotion or gratitudetowards the guru?
Now, in my opinion, it'sliterally living in the
awareness of formless awarenessat all times.
That is the best gratitude, thebest practice, the best
appreciation towards the guru.
If you really want to show yourdevotion, you know, towards the

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guru, if you really want toshow your devotion, you know, uh
, giving your gurus platitudesof praise is not going to do
anything if your life is notactually living according to
that teaching of brahmgyan, theembodiment of brahmgyan, the
living in the awareness offormless awareness.
Unless that's not done, itdoesn't matter what praises we
give the Guru in front of theGuru, the Guru is not going to

(03:51):
be impressed.
I've seen it literally.
You know, once I attended aSamagama Satsang where my Guru
was present and this was duringBabaji's time, so it's quite
some time ago, around 10 yearsago, more than 10 years ago in
fact.
And the reason why I'm sayingthat I don't want to let in on

(04:14):
what I saw, because if I tellyou the time period you know,
some people will know what I'mtalking about.
But I attended a particularSamargam in a particular
location, but I attended aparticular Samargum in a
particular location and the incharge of that location, of that
branch of that satsang, was,you know, giving heaps of praise
to Babaji and Babaji didn'tsmile once.

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And so I asked Babajiafterwards.
I was like, you know, thisperson praised you, but you
didn't smile and he just saidyou were observing all this.
And I said, yeah, you know, Iobserved you not smiling and I
said I'm assuming you didn'tfind it genuine.

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He didn't reply back, which issmart.
But For me, I realise thatEmpty praise doesn't mean
anything.
But if you, if you truly arepractising being connected to
Nagar, to formless awareness, ifyou're really connected to

(05:19):
Brahman, that matters more thananything.
So, really, what I want to sayhere is that that's the real
thing.
Now, when the Guru gives usethical teachings of how to live
in the world, that's to guideus and remember.

(05:39):
These teachings that the Gurugives is literally from
householders themselves.
They're more or less based fromthe Upanishads.
So you know, when we talk abouthumility, they were
householders.
Sri Krishna, whatever hementioned in the Bhagavad Gita,
he was a householder.
You know, he wasn't a monk.

(06:02):
So, and like I mentioned inyesterday's video, a householder
, in my opinion, is the bestpath.
And that may be because I'm ahouseholder and I'm going to say
so.
But that doesn't mean I'm notdiscouraging anyone from saying
that a monk is bad.
I'm not saying that either.
Like, oh, that's a worse path.
No, they're neither better orworse.
I'm talking about my own kind oftendencies, not necessarily.

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If someone has a tendency to bea monk, I'm fine with that.
I don't think that's a badchoice.
It's probably a good choice Ifyou have a tendency to be a monk
and you're forced to be ahouseholder.
You may be doing more harm thangood in my honest opinion.
But anyway, back to the Guru andthe teachings of the guru.

(06:47):
So the guru can give ethicalteachings, but if somebody just
follows the ethical teachingwithout understanding that the
base of that is brahmgyana, thenit's really missed what the
guru is really highlighting.
Because you can become a goodethical person, for sure, but

(07:11):
the added dimension ofspirituality that was implied
when the guru gives the ethicalteachings, it becomes more of.
It doesn't become your being.
So you'll do the ethicalactions as if it's something you
need to do rather thansomething that is automatically

(07:31):
happening.
And that automatically happeningonly occurs if one is actually
in formless awareness, if one isactually established in the
awareness of this Nirgha, thisShiva, this Brahman, this Niraka
, this Formless One.
So that is ultimately it For me.

(07:53):
My Guru has shown me andrevealed to me, made me perceive
this Formless in all forms,where I no longer see Maya as
something separate, but actuallyit's this Satchitananda, and
once that's established, oncethat's understood, once that's
connected with, and once one isaware of this and one merges

(08:15):
into that awareness, not assomething separate, but the
appearance of two becomes one.
This is the ultimate gift thatthe Guru gives, and some people
either accept the gift, somepeople don't, and either one is
fine, and but all I know is thatthe Guru completes your journey

(08:42):
and it's the grace of the Guruthat takes.
You know, in my own life I feellike most of my spiritual work
or spiritual efforts has beenthe grace of my guru.
I haven't specifically doneanything.
Also, it appears to me so, and,you know, in a way I'm very

(09:06):
glad for that as well.
Well, because it's easy to getan ego from doing spiritual
practice as well, having an egobecause you know I am doing this
practice, I am the one thatdone, in doing this, I'm the one
putting effort in.
But when you let go and give itto grace, there's just so much
peace that comes with that.
There's just so much you canjust let go and you can just be

(09:29):
in formless awareness ratherthan trying to keep up the image
of a spiritual aspirant.
Uh, yeah, so really, that's mymessage that I wanted to share
today.
I'm just truly grateful to myguru for everything.
I mean I there's not enoughwords or feelings, feelings that
I can muster up to say howgrateful I am and how fortunate

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I feel.
I am.
You know, to even you know Ifeel so fortunate, so lucky to
have even forget about comingacross the Guru but to even be
given the access to Brahm Gyan.
I don't know if I deserved itor what I've done to deserve it.

(10:20):
I don't know, and all I can sayis that I'm eternally grateful
and I just pray that I can be agood disciple.
I don't know if I am a gooddisciple to remain a good
disciple, but if I'm not a gooddisciple to be a good disciple.
I think it's, you know, reallydifficult to be a true disciple.

(10:43):
And ever since Chris has beenborn, I feel even more pressure
to show um, not to show but tobe the right disciple, to be the
right example of how to be adisciple.
And I think that's beenimportant for me, and every step

(11:04):
that I'm taking ever since he'sbeen born is to to show that
and to try and be that disciple,that one that my Guru expects,
but the one that I want my sonto be.
Because in the end, you know,the world will always be
dazzling in all its glory, butif anyone has seen the light of

(11:25):
truth.
You know that the dazzling ofthe world is literally an iota
of the light of the truth and,again, this is all Guru's grace
that comes in play.
And so, when I receivedBrahmagyan from Babaji to today,
under the guidance of Mataji,and even Satguru, mataji and

(11:48):
Rajputaji both of them have beeninfluential because I'm part of
the Nyingari tradition andthat's my foundation and, yes,
I've utilized Advaita tounderstand this Brahmagyan fully
and to actually practice thisBrahmagyan fully in all its

(12:09):
dimensions.
I feel Advaita Vedanta has giventhose missing pieces that I
found, that I felt was there, um, and all I can say is being a
sincere devotee, being a sinceredisciple, makes a difference.
And, yeah, I, you know, yeah,what can I say?

(12:34):
You know, the guru has to takeyou to where you truly are, to
your true nature.
And I think sometimes we don'tunderstand that the guru is not
there to make us feel blissful.
And this is an important thing,because when you realize your

(12:55):
nature is bliss, you no longerfeel bliss, no longer do you
feel peace, you are peace itself, and that's what the Guru
really gives.
And sometimes we try to thinkthat and, yes, we do.
Obviously, I remember whenyou're in the guru's presence,

(13:19):
of course, you feel happy andjoyful and, yes, ecstatic,
definitely.
But what about when you're notin the physical presence?
Can you be the same in theday-to-day life when you're not
in the physical presence?
Can you have that same amountof love and joy?

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And that can only happen if weconnect to the formless and then
we immerse our awareness intothe formless, where only the
formless remains, into theformless where only the formless
remains.
So, ultimately, you know, that'smy take and those are my few

(13:59):
words, and I just want to wisheveryone a happy Guru Purnima to
you and your respective gurusand, obviously, happy Guru
Purnima to my own gurus, and Ithank them from the bottom of my
heart.
You know whether that'sSiddhikumar Rajpita or Swami
Sivarapriyananda and so manyothers that I've accounted

(14:21):
throughout the years who'vehelped me.
Even people who may not have anofficial guru title, like those
who have helped me on myjourney, are more or less a guru
to me and they have added to myspirituality, and I am grateful
to them and even to those ofyou that have asked questions or

(14:45):
who have encountered my podcastand have spoken to me.
I've learnt from you also, andso I thank you for allowing me
to learn from you, and I hopethat I can continue to have that
aspect in me of learning andseeking and just being grateful

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for the wisdom that you allshare.
So yeah, thank you everyone forlistening.
Take care, namaste.