There is pyramidal structure
to Creation, your position in the pyramid is determined by your
desire. Every being is born with a specific desire and matching to that desire
finds a Guru. As one holds the hand of the Guru, he/she moves to that level of
the pyramid and the desire manifests. The problem begins after, as then,
usually the person gets caught in the desire and is unable to move further. So
he/she slips, and begins the downwards journey.
The problem of kalyug is that our
desires are embedded into the physical, physical is what the majority
understands, so even when one sets on a search for Guru, he/she measures him on
physical yardsticks – how big is his ashram, how many factories does he own,
etc. Beyond that, one is unable to comprehend, missing out on the essence of
what the Guru is. In present times one would give more respect to a Math’s
teacher than a Guru, for the thought pattern is – ‘At least he will teach me
something which I can use”. What the Guru has to offer, hardly anyone can
comprehend or has the desire to receive.
Its ok to be embedded in the
physical because for majority that is the starting point, but if you have found
a guru and are walking his path and over a period of time your desires are still
as they were, then you need to think, whether you are wrong or you are in the
wrong place.
Long back, a Babaji had come to meet
me from Gyanganj (it’s a village enroute Kailash Mansarovar, where many yogis
dwell, and who are apparently taken care of by the Chinese government). He was
in Delhi for treatment of cancer which was yet to manifest in his body, but
which had been intimated to him by his Guru. He told me, that in the forests of
Madhya Pradesh, there is a lake of crocodiles where a Mata ji does her sadhna.
She is among the few, who in present age has some state in yoga. She lives with
the crocodiles who do her no harm, such is her sadhna. I told him,
“Ok, then I will go to meet her.” Babaji replied, “What will you achieve by
meeting her? Her sadhna is her state of mind, the level you are at, you will
not be able to understand it. It’s her sadhna, if you want to achieve it then
just go and sit there. Anything short of that would amount to disturbing her
and you will achieve nothing.”
Yoga is not about achieving more in
the physical, it is the journey of leaving the physical and achieving sidhhis
to go beyond. You need not leave immediately, but the desire to leave should be
there in you, then as you walk the path automatically things will leave you and
you will realise the ultimate.
Rahim in a couplet explains that
bishop, a powerful piece in the game of chess, can never become the queen, he
walks diagonally. Even though he kills a lot of powerful pieces, achieves a lot
of physical feats, he cannot achieve the ultimate (which is the queen in game
of chess). An ordinary pawn on the other hand, only walks straight and has
capacity to achieve little in the physical, but if its focus is fixed on
the last square, it becomes the queen. Similarly in life, if you have
focus and desire for the last square, you too will achieve that. It is Guru and
focus on desire for the Ultimate that will take you up the pyramid
of evolution, else you will keep going in circles, achieving
physical.
When you meet a Guru gradually
desires change from lower to higher...As you move up the pyramid of
spirituality, the accommodating power at every subsequent level reduces. So
there are lesser and lesser number of people around. Like you find
very few people in the upper reaches of Himalayas, only a few bodies can
survive in that environment. A move up the pyramid is a move away from the base
which symbolises physical desire and physical creation. So if you are looking
for networking, building contacts, collecting assets, expansion of business,
showing off your position in an organization etc, you are actually working on
the reverse principle and moving towards the base of pyramid.
The present understanding of the
term guru is rooted in the physical with innovative terms like ‘love guru’,
‘business guru’, ‘management guru’ etc becoming popular. Earlier there was
just Guru. This is indicative of the wrong thought process and desire
pattern of people. Even pilgrimages have turned into picnic spots in present
times, where people go in the hope of fulfilling material aspirations. If your
desires are rested in the physical, then you need not go to a Guru. Simple
charity and service and following the laws of creation is enough to
achieve physical desires. Guru is needed when you want to understand what lies
beyond, and desire for siddhis of yoga to go out of the ambit of life and
death.
The higher you are in the pyramid of
spirituality, the greater is the impact of the fall and the more you hurt
yourself. The fall takes you to lower dimensions and births, and you fall only
if you lose focus and guru’s hand slips away from you. Kabir has said, Kabira
Te Nar Andh Hai Jo Guru Kahate Aur. Hari Ruthe Guru Thor Hai Guru Ruthe
Nahi Thor.
Gurus
don’t ask you for wealth, so it is a risky proposition.
When you go to them,
you go for your evoltion, not to fill
their coffers. There has to be a reason
to find a Guru, desire
should be firm to achieve the ultimate and siddhis of
yoga, not
for physical gratification and pleasures, but for going beyond.
The article was published in Babushahi
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