Guru Puja: Criteria To Introspect Yourself Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)
Guru puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 28 July 1996. Today we have gathered here to do Guru puja. This system started long time back in India, I think even at the time of Patanjali, maybe even earlier, when there were great seekers. And their gurus were sitting in the jungles, where they used to get permission to go there and then they would get their realisation, very few of them, one or two. So we had many rishis and munis in the olden times in India. So this system of guru started. Also one of the reasons is that, that there is no organised religion in India. There’s no popes, there are no priests, nothing like them. They have priests just for worshipping in the temples. But for giving realisation, for talking about higher life, they all had to go to very great realised souls. And it was absolutely the freedom of the guru, whom to accept whom not to accept. And everybody was tested thoroughly by the guru if they are capable of achieving Self-realisation or not. And this test was so hard, so difficult, and also to a point of cruelty, that very few could pass through that test. It’s not like Sahaja Yoga, everybody is a Sahaja Yogi, it’s not like that. That, of course, made it a very narrow margin for people to achieve their realisation and these gurus never used to leave their own seats, they call it takiya (meaning: pillow). They would be there in Read More …