There was a guy, who wanted to know the truth. He explored around the world to listen to the people who claimed to know the truth and the path to ultimate bliss. The information filled him with cloud of questions and stifled him in a world of confusion leading to nowhere. Sphered by dark, suffocated by doubts, the only thing he could ask for was - a divine light.
And comes a Guru with a torch of knowledge to rescue him. He disperses the clouds and breaks the sphere of dark. Enlightened, the guy sings in joy in the rain of right knowledge. Expands his wings of knowledge he starts to learn the world by flying high and salutes the feet of Guru.
Gradually the light gets clearer and clearer, until the guy gets confident. Now he know the truth and next step is the journey towards the path to ultimate bliss.
Misfortune strikes with mix of immaturity! Now the guy listens to sermons of the Guru with less devotion. Because he is overconfident, also can figure out the minute faults in the preaching by the Guru. The old habit of negative thinking from multiple births persist, and it hampers his progress towards the path. Because now he is happy and satisfied with his achievements and deviates in the directions of negativities because of not having strong pursuit of the path to bliss.
2 comments:
Devotion is really a thing which is as hard as much simple it is . when we r with less knowledge that time we believe in someone and we think it as over devotion , but when u r really devoted to ur guru or anyone u have no argument before him . one may has questions like Goutam swami had but he had no argument with Lord Mahavira . it was his devotion only which made him guru goutam . Even if the shishya becomes more gyani than the guru than also he never has any such feel and respects his guru even more and more . gyan ke sath saralta ho to hi gyan ka hona sarthak hai nahi to wahi gyan hamare patan ka karan ban jata hai
shrish, you have captured the human pscyche so very well - it is very difficult to overcome the bad sanskars we have acquired over the past infinite lives and it comes in the way of having unqualified respected/samarpan bhaav towards guru even after you become aware of these shortcoming.
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