EYE ON VEDIC HOLIDAYS: GURU PURNIMA AND JULY 20-21FULL MOON
The primary full moon after the summer season solstice could be very auspicious spiritually and it happens in the course of the fifteenth lunar day which runs July 2021 from about 730 am EDT on Saturday, July twentieth to 5:14 am on Sunday within the Japanese US. It’s a very auspicious time to obtain grace from the Guru or the Huge Thoughts. An exquisite time to learn non secular literature, and do puja in your Guru. Good time to donate to non secular masters and their faculties and assist non secular data. Meditation and pujas completed on Guru Purnima are significantly highly effective.
Should you do not need a Guru, it’s a day to honor our lecturers. Our first trainer was our mom after which our college lecturers and possibly our native priest after which our school mentors. Take time to fondly all of those who introduced you out of ignorance with deep love and gratitude.
Komilla Sutton discusses the significance of the Guru and this present day says: Gu means darkness, Ru means Dispel, remove. Guru means the one who dispels the darkness of ignorance. Guru is the non secular trainer who exhibits the aspirant the trail to greater data. He brings mild to his disciple by exhibiting them the means to seek out the everlasting mild. Religious gurus are seen as a hyperlink between the person and the divine and due to this fact given nice significance in Vedic philosophy. Gurus open the eyes of the aspirant to their greater self and present them the divine mild the place they, the aspirants could have been struggling in darkness. Due to this fact honored and revered for hundreds of years greater than every other particular person as solely the Guru can present the aspirant a path again to the divine and convey them from darkness to mild.
Guru Purnima is the day on which one expresses one’s gratitude to 1’s Guru. In India, for hundreds of years, the Full moon in Sagittarius after the summer season solstice is widely known in honor of the divine gurus. Ved Vyasa is considered the Guru of all Gurus and the Guru Purnima is devoted to him. Vyasa edited the 4 Vedas and wrote the 18 Puranas, the Mahabharata, and the Srimad Bhagavata. He additionally taught Dattatreya, who unfold Vyasa’s data to the opposite gurus.”
The historical past of Guru Purnima is fascinating. Sarabini Rath discusses it says:
” In yogic lore, it’s stated that Guru Purnima was the day that noticed Shiva turn out to be the Adi Guru or the primary Guru. The story goes that over 15,000 years in the past, a yogi appeared within the Himalayas. His presence was extraordinary, and other people gathered. Nevertheless, he exhibited no indicators of life, however for the occasional tears of ecstasy that rolled down his face. Folks started to float away, however seven males stayed on. When he opened his eyes, they pleaded with him, desirous to expertise no matter was occurring to him. He dismissed them, however they persevered. Lastly, he gave them a easy preparatory step and closed his eyes once more. The seven males started to organize. Days rolled into weeks, weeks into months, months into years, however the yogi’s consideration didn’t fall upon them once more. After 84 years of sadhana, the yogi checked out them once more. That they had turn out to be shining receptacles, splendidly receptive. He couldn’t ignore them anymore. On the very subsequent full moon day, the yogi turned south and sat as a guru to those seven males. Shiva, the Adiyogi (the primary yogi) thus grew to become the Adi Guru. Adiyogi expounded on these mechanics of life for a few years. The seven disciples grew to become celebrated because the Saptarishis and took this information the world over. Guru Purnima is held sacred within the yogic custom as a result of the Adiyogi opened up the likelihood for a human being to evolve consciously. The seven completely different features of yoga that have been put in these seven people grew to become the muse for the seven fundamental types of yoga, one thing that has nonetheless endured.”(From Sarabini Rath).
So take a time off and luxuriate in deep meditation and celebration and spend time together with your non secular group.
I’ll depart you with a phenomenal quote from one of many nice non secular lecturers from my non secular custom, Swami Brahmanada Saraswati Jagaguru Bhavan Shankaracharya of Jyoti Math:
To get a human physique is a uncommon factor. Make full use of it. There are 4 million sorts of lives {that a} soul can collect. After that, one will get an opportunity to be human. To get a human physique, due to this fact, one shouldn’t waste the possibility. Should you don’t worth this, then you may be left with nothing in hand and you’ll weep in the long run.
Since you are human, God has given you the ability to suppose and determine good and unhealthy. Due to this fact it is best to by no means take into account your self a weak or fallen creature. No matter could have occurred to date could also be since you didn’t know, however now watch out…after getting human, for those who don’t attain God, then you might have offered a diamond for the worth of spinach.
So particular because of Komilla Sutton, Sarabini Rath, and all my non secular Gurus!
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