Catch the Guru's words
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27 April, 2015
The first time you hear Guru's words, with so much of seeking, interest, excitement, you enjoy it, start picking up many things and internalizing them as part of your life. Then after some time, your seeking comes down, you listen but you tell yourself, "He talks like this only, it's ok, I have heard enough.' Slowly, slowly, you start taking the Guru's words for granted,
When you take the Guru's words for granted, no matter how many years you listen to satsang, you create a huge iron wall around you, so that the Guru's words never penetrate and become part of you. Because, with each word you have already created a pain pattern - how to not allow that into you, how to keep it
away from you, how to
never allow it to get
internalized. Either your
earlier failures, or your
thinking that you tried
but it is not working out,
or your thinking that he
is great but it is not
going to happen for you
- developing some of these kind of patterns and thought trends. When the seeking is lost, even if you live around the Guru for years, listening to satsang for years, nothing happens to you, because you have become a dangerously un-trainable, non-transformable.
Taking the Guru’s words for granted, not taking them into your heart and making your life align to it, not using the words of the Guru and reinventing your life and restrategizing it, is the worst thing that can happen to you, because, other than the Guru's words, there is no anchor available to planet Earth. Please understand, for anybody who has drowned in the ocean of samsara, the ocean of delusion and bondage, the only anchor available to raise yourself to the next level, is the Guru's words. From the other plane of existence, the only bridge available to this plane, to this universe, is an enlightened Guru's words.
If you don't catch that and raise yourself, nothing else - no puja, no meditation, no spiritual practice - can help you. The highest spiritual practice is catching the Guru's words and constantly reinventing yourself and re-strategizing yourself. Reinventing yourself with every word of the Guru is Seeking.