Guru-Purnima is the pious festival that reminds you of your innate all-pervasiveness howsoever small you may be in physical and material status. If a wave believes itself to be an individual entity separate from the sea, it proceeds towards death. However, if it considers itself to be the ocean, it comes to know of its vastness. Similarly, if the Jiva, sees himself as Supreme Brahman, as Pure Consciousness, he will experience his all pervasiveness.
Even though you have a small body, are occupied in a small vocation and are engaged in small endeavours, you are an eternal part of the all pervading Brahman. The Purnima that reminds you of this fact; develops in you virtues of shama (the attainment of calmness), dama (self control) titiksha: (forbearance; to tolerance; the ability to withstand opposites like pleasure and pain, heat and cold, etc., with equal fortitude) samadhan (removal of doubts) and Ishwarapranidhana (offering of one’s life to God) and intiates you into a healthy, happy and honourable life is known as Guru-Purnima. It is called Jnana-Purnima as well. It falls in the month of Ashadha. Therefore, it is called Ashadhi Purnima as well. In honour of Maharshi Veda Vyasji, who compiled and edited the Knowledge of Vedas systematically in four volumes and wrote the first philosophical treatise of the world, this Purnima is called Vyas Purnima also. On this pious day, the Jiva worships his Brahmanishtha Satguru the living embodiment of Maharshi Veda Vyasji and by merging his little self into the all pervanding Supreme Self, experience all-pervasiveness.
One who worships his Gurudev on this pious day, in effect worships all that is to be worshipped. No deity remains to be worshipped after that. Even if you worship all the deities known to you, some deity or other entity worthy of worship may remain yet to be worshipped but if one has assimilated the Knowledge of Brahman in his life by the grace of a Brahmajnani Satguru, no entity remains to be worshipped by him. One, who worships the Satguru, who imbibes the knowledge imparted by Satguru, need not worship any other entity.
Vyas-Purnima teaches us that one who venerates the Satguru becomes venerable. I venerated my Satguru; I cannot count the number of people who venerate me. Had I been devoted to wealth or luxuries, my life would have fallen into the pit of absurdity but and I devoted my life to the Guru and it was imbued with divinity. Crores of men are making themselves holy by partaking of that Prasad of divinity. You see this with your own eyes.
When you worship Shaligram, you are not worshipping a piece of stone, you are worshipping a piece of stone, you are worshipping Lord Vishnu; when you are worshipping the Shiva-Lingam, you are worshipping Lord Shiva. In the same way, venerating the Guru is venerating Knowledge; it is revering the Consciousness, Supreme Self for revealing That in one’s heart. So long as man thirsts for knowledge, for real life, the pious festival of Guru-Purnima will continue to be celebrated.
The message that Guru-Purnima gives is that you should cut off the intricate knots of individuality and awaken the memory of the Guru Tattva, the all pervading Consciousness hidden in you. Lord Krishna’s message is memory of the True Self and self control. Maharshi Veda Vyasji’s message is memory of the True Self, self-control and realization of one’s all-pervading Being.
The Lord is in you; the Lord is in me;
The Lord is in all the beings.
Love one and all; nobody is an outside to you.’
Even though you have a small body, are occupied in a small vocation and are engaged in small endeavours, you are an eternal part of the all pervading Brahman. The Purnima that reminds you of this fact; develops in you virtues of shama (the attainment of calmness), dama (self control) titiksha: (forbearance; to tolerance; the ability to withstand opposites like pleasure and pain, heat and cold, etc., with equal fortitude) samadhan (removal of doubts) and Ishwarapranidhana (offering of one’s life to God) and intiates you into a healthy, happy and honourable life is known as Guru-Purnima. It is called Jnana-Purnima as well. It falls in the month of Ashadha. Therefore, it is called Ashadhi Purnima as well. In honour of Maharshi Veda Vyasji, who compiled and edited the Knowledge of Vedas systematically in four volumes and wrote the first philosophical treatise of the world, this Purnima is called Vyas Purnima also. On this pious day, the Jiva worships his Brahmanishtha Satguru the living embodiment of Maharshi Veda Vyasji and by merging his little self into the all pervanding Supreme Self, experience all-pervasiveness.
One who worships his Gurudev on this pious day, in effect worships all that is to be worshipped. No deity remains to be worshipped after that. Even if you worship all the deities known to you, some deity or other entity worthy of worship may remain yet to be worshipped but if one has assimilated the Knowledge of Brahman in his life by the grace of a Brahmajnani Satguru, no entity remains to be worshipped by him. One, who worships the Satguru, who imbibes the knowledge imparted by Satguru, need not worship any other entity.
Vyas-Purnima teaches us that one who venerates the Satguru becomes venerable. I venerated my Satguru; I cannot count the number of people who venerate me. Had I been devoted to wealth or luxuries, my life would have fallen into the pit of absurdity but and I devoted my life to the Guru and it was imbued with divinity. Crores of men are making themselves holy by partaking of that Prasad of divinity. You see this with your own eyes.
When you worship Shaligram, you are not worshipping a piece of stone, you are worshipping a piece of stone, you are worshipping Lord Vishnu; when you are worshipping the Shiva-Lingam, you are worshipping Lord Shiva. In the same way, venerating the Guru is venerating Knowledge; it is revering the Consciousness, Supreme Self for revealing That in one’s heart. So long as man thirsts for knowledge, for real life, the pious festival of Guru-Purnima will continue to be celebrated.
The message that Guru-Purnima gives is that you should cut off the intricate knots of individuality and awaken the memory of the Guru Tattva, the all pervading Consciousness hidden in you. Lord Krishna’s message is memory of the True Self and self control. Maharshi Veda Vyasji’s message is memory of the True Self, self-control and realization of one’s all-pervading Being.
The Lord is in you; the Lord is in me;
The Lord is in all the beings.
Love one and all; nobody is an outside to you.’
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