How my Guru Taught us

How my Guru Teaches

To know true love, one has to first see someone display true love to someone. Secondly one has to feel that love directed towards them. Thirdly one has to see the joy in showing True love. 

I believe, when we saw you show that True love to 'Ma', we first learnt what true love is. Then when you showed unconditional love, towards us, expecting us to just show that love to 'Ma' and Then when we show that bhava of love from the bottom of our heart, not only did we feel the joy, we also saw joy in you.

Before we met you, we did not truly understand the principle behind hinduism and its rituals. We knew it was part of our culture. Our heritage. And we were meant to 'religiously' follow our rituals. We had heard a lot of myths and stories about our Gods. But we could not relate to our Gods. We saw the myth as probably stories of heros. Stories that were too good to believe - we were even told so. We only acknowledged them as Gods only because we had to be explained the concept of Gods only through them. We even dismissed some of them as fables. "Tatparyam" & "Bhavam", were absent in the way we saw God. We were told to follow rituals, because they were followed from time immemorial. 

We did not love our God and we remained God Fearing People, running to him/her in only times of trouble or facing challenges.

Projecting an image of flawlessness

As people are more and more 'educated', I see an primal need for them to project an image of flawlessness. Yes, compared to the earlier generation, each new generation does know a lot more about a lot more things. But I feel that, since a major portion of their time is occupied by gathering this lot more information, they have little time to know what would probably give them more satisfaction and more fulfilment, even a sense of achievement. Each new generation devotes less and less time time of the knowledge of self. This could be the simple explanation to the rise of atheism and the fall of many a religion.

Today's generation has found a deep sense of achievement in talking about things which they are by no means an authority. Even when talking amongst ourselves, instead of making enquiries, we make statements. As if they were the grand truth. We do not seek more and more knowledge, but seek more and more opportunities to display our knowledge or ignorance thereof.

One of the cultures we have lost today is the art of argument and debate. We do not know when we have lost the argument. We do not know how to present arguments in an organised manner. We try to distort one aspect of the opponents speech and prove it to be false and hence try and make the inference that what they have said is entirely false. We take an analogy in that speech and start arguing about the analogy. We take a statement in the speech and test its corollary. 

For eg. When one person says 'all crows are black'. Today's smart argument is to say that, does that mean to say that you are suggesting that all black birds are crows."