*13th July - Guru Poornima Celebrations At Boone Ashram* Guru Purnima is a new year celebration for a seeker. That is a time for report card. How you have done in one year, how much you have grown, how much you have moved, and how much you have stabilized. There are 3 levels of understanding : Level 1 - Through the words. You learn through words. When you come to Guru, it is the word. Level 2 - The next level from words is you don't hang on to the words so much. You learn from just the feeling. You don't hang on to the words, but you look beyond the words, (at the) meaning or the feeling there. Level 3 - The third level is you transcend the feeling also. Because feeling, meaning, they all change. That is through silence, where you don't have to say anything. In silence, you get everything. That's it. No doubt Guru gives you comfort, but you must understand that Guru is Sarvadhi Saakshi Bhutam. We say, 'Sarvadhi Saakshi Bhutam,' that means Guru is a witness to all types of intellect, all types of mind, and all types of thoughts. Good, bad, right, wrong. Not involved in anything if you are a witness. And that is it. That's it. You are a witness to all type of things. See because pleasant experiences have made you grow, so also the unpleasant experience. It is the wrong that makes the right, right. If there is no wrong, there can be no right. In life there are ups and downs. Every up has brought celebration, the down has made you deep and wise. Guru Tattva is a witness for all that. Guru Tattva is a witness, Sarvadhi Saakshi Bhutam. Bhaava teetam, beyond the feelings. Yet it embraces all the three gunas, sattva, rajas, and tamas. Everything is part of it. That is what the Guru's secret is sacred. So through words, beyond the words, and no words or silence and witness to all. There is no escape in life. Don't think knowledge is a way to escape from life. Knowledge is being in it and being a witness to everything and above that, staying afloat. From thinking mind to feeling, where you move from question to gratitude. And that gratitude leads you into blissful silence. Know (that) all is done for you. All will be done, so go with that. Everything is taken care. All is going to be fine. Once you are on the path, for sure only the best can happen to you. Someone from the audience said - Gurudev, you look like a king. Gurudev - Kings are not happy. Someone from the audience : Gurudev, I love you. Gurudev - See nothing changes anyway. You come to Guru with tears and you back from Guru with tears. Of course there is a difference. There is sweet tear of gratitude and the tear of whatever (was there) before. So it is the same. So it is a teary day. It has been raining quite a bit here, right? It is very nice. Swami ji has come from Sri Adichunchanagiri Math in Karnataka, India. They have over 250 educational institutions and they are serving the really needy people.
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