42. ┩fD| gRDf Jki゚FB| ल~@q गkカIi゚@} じ गkLu} ネVfB@u Dfづ@् VfCD| गkカJfgग、?fJ् す くぎくす

jñダnaṁ vinダ muktipadaṁ labhyate gurubhaktitaḥ | guroḥ prasダdato nダnyダt sダdhanaṁ gurumargiṇダṃ || 101

101. By the devotion practiced onto the Guru (gurubhakti), one attains the state of liberation (mukti padam) even without knowledge. For those who tread the authentic path of unflinching seeking and devotion onto the Guru, no other spiritual practice (sダdhana) is needed than the grace of the Guru (guru prasダd).

His Intimate Life with Arunagiri Yogishwara

I am a simple being. My Guru Bhakti and all can never be taken away. Even with all My Vedantic Oneness, complete Paramshivatvaś I still retain My Guru Bhakti, my personal love for my gurus. Understand, My cosmic love does not mean My personal love disappears. My personal love for My Gurus is like a wave in the ocean of cosmic love. My cosmic Oneness with My guru Arunagiri Yogishwara is like an ocean. My personal love for My guru Arunagiri Yogishwara is like a wave. Waves don't disappear when ocean happens. Waves exists with ocean. So, how I miss My Gurusś Arunagiri Yogishwara,

only by remembering those stories, telling their memories with Me, telling My life with themś I fill Myself. So, it is personal love.

I am a simple, straightforward villager, I believe in personal love. Literally, my gurus have fed me breakfast. I tasted their fingers along with the idli when they fed me. I am not a Vedantic guy, "Oh, Guru Tatvaś let me be integrated to Guru Tatva" I am a simple village boy, deep personal attachment to Arunagiri Yogishwara, my guruś and simple obedience. I would carry food for Arunagiri Yogishwara just because He will feed me. When He eats, He will give me also two-three morselsś just for that only I will carry and make sure that food is like a sticky food, like Sakkara Pongalś that kind of a sticky food. Because, say if it is an idli, it will be like one piece. I can't bite his finger. I can't taste his finger. If it is like sticky food, like Sakkara Pongal, I can lick His fingers when He is feeding me. I will force my mother to make that kind of food, which sticks on the finger like halwa, Sakkara Pongal, etc. So, I will hold his finger, completely taste the finger along with the food. I lived that kind of a simple, very intimate life with My Gurus.

Kailasa's Nithyananda

Kailasa is the totality of the knowledge I received from my Gurus, and practiced, manifested in my life, perfected by teaching millions of people from all cultures, time zones, backgrounds, genders, nationality, race, from every creed. So, this absolutely perfected knowledge available to you, served to you in your home without even you moving out of your couch free of cost!

His Gurus' Micro-Management in His Training

My Gurus have taken care of me so well. The first public satsang I gave at around the age of 10. Before the satsang, Mata Vibudhananda Puri brought me to touch the feet of Isakki Swamigal and told Isakki Swami, "Today I am taking him to temple, he is going to speak." Then Isakki Swamigal looked at her and asked, "What is he going to talk?" Mata Vibudhananda Puri said in Tamil, "Something about spirituality he will speak." Then Isakki Swami said, "Brush the teeth with neem stick." That is the first instruction he gave, "Always before going to speak, brush the teeth with neem stick." Such extreme care and micromanagement of the Gurus I have enjoyed! I am the product of their sacrifice and dedication. Only when you don't have father, you will understand how much he means. When you don't have mother, you will understand how much she means. Only when you don't have a Guru, you will understand how much he means. I know how much my Gurus mean for me.

Second instruction he gave, in Tamil he said, "Whatever has not become enlightened, not become light, awakened in you, don't tell, don't talk about that subject."

Third instruction was a little longer. Beautifully he said in very beautiful Tamil, "To show yourself as intelligent or to show yourself something original do not compromise with the integrity, the highest truths." That is the most powerful teaching. Still I am absolutely integrated to that - "to show that you are intelligent or to show you have something original do not compromise with the truth of that Ultimate." That is something extraordinary.

I tell you, I am absolutely integrated to my Guru and Guru Parampara and all these three instructions. Even if I don't have neem stick in some places, I'll

knock the temple region on the head - whatever taste you remember and knock that liquid will fall in your tongue. It's one of the powers. If you want the nectar, remember Ganapati and knock this point, the nectar will drop in your tongue. Anything you want to taste, just remember and knock on the temple and that juice will get into your body. So even if I don't have the neem stick, I will do that and get the neem juice and then brush my teeth, only then come for satsang. Because some places when I travel, I may not get the neem stick.

K▼fゅL@L| Dfi☆ Dqg@ Dq@jg@ Rr マkg@} じ JDVf RचVf चrR VえJfLfCKqB्गkカJ् す くぎぐす

yasmダtparataraṁ nダsti neti netīti vai Wrutiḥ | manasダ vacasダ caiva satyam-ダrダdhayed guruṃ || 102 ||

102. Vrutis, the revealed and heard ultimate truths declare 'neti neti—not this, not this', and speak of something beyond which there is nothing—that tattva is the Guru in reality. One should, therefore, through the mind, speech and action truly worship the Guru.

[Manasダ vacasダ caiva are the trikダraṇa, three causative faculties of reasoning].

गkLu} कm FfネVfBqD ハ∋gR♂kgSRfBK} じ VfJす、JIजD् VRォ Vmg>ioAえるकJ、g? す くぎけす

guroḥ k条ipダprasダdena brahmaviṣṇuWivダdayaḥ | sダmarthyambhajan sarve s条iṣṭi-sthityantakarmaṇi || 103 ||

103. It is by the grace of the Guru's compassion that Brahma, Viṣṇu, Viva become fully capable of performing their cosmic responsibilities—creation (s条iṣṭi), preservation (sthiti) and dissolution (anta).

IMPORTANCE OF GURU TATTVA

BqRgकとLगぐRf、} gF@mKダf☆k @k・kカ} じ JkDKuऽgF D जfDiる गkカSkマlU?q gRgCJ् す くぎげす

deva-kinnara-gandharvダḥ pit条a-yakṣダstu tumbar┣ḥ | munayo api na jダnanti guruWuW条┣ṣṇe vidhiṃ || 104 ||

104. Even the Devas (Gods), the Kinnaras, Gandharvas, the inhabitants in heavenly planetary systems, Pitras, Yakṣas, Tumburu (Gandharva) and even the Munis (Sages) do not know the right method of serving the Guru.

(Gandharva – heavenly musicians, Yakṣas (nature spirits who are custodians of treasures) like Kubera (leader of yaska). Pitras (ancestor spirits)ś guru-WuW条┣ṣṇeŚ service, obedience, homage to Guru.)

@fgक、 कf」fゎVf「rR BrR┩f} कJ、<f} gネKq じ लvgककf☆q D जfDiる गkカ@ぅ| gDLfकk लJ् す くぎこす

tダrkikダWchhダndasダWcaiva daivajñダḥ karmaṭダḥ priye | laukikダste na jダnanti gurutattvaṁ nirダkulaṃ || 105 ||

105. O Dear One! People who are well-versed in logical scriptures (tarkaWastra), in Vedic chandas (science of vedic meters), knowers of divine beings like gods, those versed in ritualistic ceremonies and in worldly sciences—none of them know the Guru Tattva in its entirety.

JWfW┕fLगRォ? @@ugRひfHलqD च じ ヒJれq@i▼D् V|VfLq घ;jKろ| KAf FkD} す くぎごす

mahダahaṁkダragarveṇa tapovidyダbalena ca | b条amantye-tasmin saṁsダre ghaṭīyantraṁ yatha punaḥ || 106 ||

106. Because of great ahaṁkダra (the projected outer-identity), false pride, and by the strength of penance (tapas) and education (vidyダ), (people) roam about with confusion and self-doubt, self-hatred and self-denial in this world like the pots rotate in a potter's wheel, repeatedly.

Guru's job is to remove the tumor of arrogance

I tell you, do not go to Gurus who are very sweet with you. Really. If I am too sweet with you, I am just avoiding you or I don't trust you that you will stand that training. The work needed to be done is almost like I need to remove ten pound tumour out of you. And I am sitting with small toothpick. I am going to say, "Ooh, I won't hurt you. Don't worry." It means I am not doing my job. Understand. Sadashiva's face of Aghora is a teacher face, liberating face. That is the rejuvenating face. That is the liberating face. Even though the Ishana is considered to be the Anugraha, liberating space, but for all human

beings, south face of Aghora is the teacher face. If I am too sweet with you, I have not started my work. We are only just seeing each other, "okay," "wait," "no," "let's see."

यज्ञिनोऽपि न मुक्ताः स्युः न मुक्ता योगिनस्तथा । तापसा अपि नो मुक्ता गुरुतत्त्वात्पराङ्मुखाः ॥ १०७॥

yajño'pi na muktダḥ sy┣ḥ na muktダ yoginastathダ | tダpasダ api no muktダ gurutattvダtparダṇgamukhダḥ || 107 ||

107. Neither those who perform great sacrifices nor yogis, nor those who practice severe austerities are ever liberated without entering into the true knowledge and space of Guru Tattva, the existential truth of Guru.

D Jk゚f☆k गぐRf、} gF@mKダf☆k चfL?f} じ ऋUK} gVてBqRfひf गkカVqRfFLfङ् Jkखf} す くぎざす

na muktダstu gandharvダḥ pit条yakṣダstu cダraṇダḥ | 条ṣiyaḥ siddhadevダdyダḥ gurusevダparダṇgmukhダ || 108 ||

108. Those who are averse to the enriching service to the Guru, Guru Seva , cannot expect to be liberated from the cycle of saṁsダra (birth and death), even if they are Gandharvas, Pit条as, Yakṣas, Cダraṇas, 擾ṣis, Viddhas or Devas.

す इg@ マj%| BFkLf?q उぁLख|=q उJfJWq×L V|RfBq マj गkカगj@fKf| ネAJuऽめfK} す

iti Wrīskandapurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍe umāmaheWvara-samvāde Wrīgurugītāyāṁ prathamo'dhyāyaḥ ||

Thus ends the first chapter of Vrī Guru Gītā , being UmāmaheWvara Saṁvāda, the dialogue between Umダ-MaheWvara (Pダrvati-Viva), in the Uttarkhaṇḍa , later section of the Skanda Purāṇa .