Guru Is A Window

Guru is a window who provides the first glimpse of eternity. Guru is like a door through which one crosses into transcendental world of truth. Guru is a friend who sees himself in us and knows the possibilities which are lying as seeds in us. Guru is the compassionate one who loves us for no reason and is never judgmental.

The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and Guru knows who he is. Knowledge can be gained from books but true knowing happens with master alone. Guru is not a teacher but one who lives knowledge, a seeker has to make a bridge with the master to receive the deep subtleties of spiritual world.

A MODERN DAY MYSTIC

Mesmerizing persona, piercing eyes, a crystal clear mind, the wisdom of the ages and a beautiful demeanour - such is the personality of Anandmurti Gurumaa. Defying definition, pragmatic, realistic, of liberal views, she is open-minded like the sky and intense like space. Gurumaa had a wonderful childhood - when other children were learning nursery rhymes, she was listening to the philosophy of Vedanta. While other children dreamt of dolls and cars, she was learning the art of awakening from dreams. A bubbly spirited teenager, she was not seen with girls of her age but with yogis and gurus. Meditating and lovingly serving spiritual masters, she had her awakening at the tender age of sixteen. Soon life groomed her to be a master and a guide to other seekers. As fish to water, so did poetry come naturally to her.

She is a sufi when she speaks on Sufism;
a rishi when she speaks on the upanishads and the Geeta; a Shankrachraya; a Buddha; a Zen Master; a poetess; a singer.
Gurumaa is all of these and yet, she is none of these!

Gurumaa has written hundreds of poems. She has also set them to music and sung them in her mellifluous voice. People sometimes wonder how an apparently simple girl has achieved such heights in such a small span of time. In thinking so, are they not merely looking at the physical and missing the important point that spirit is ageless and the mind carries all its achievements from one life to the next? Gurumaa’s early speeches carried such fervour that she was branded a rebel. While the young ones loved her for her modern thoughts, the elders felt challenged.

She has simplified meditation for the masses and made it of such ease that no one ever felt that this path was for a chosen few only.

Gurumaa says she does not belong to any one tradition, religion, path or label. She considers herself a citizen of world and is not limited by narrow considerations. She is a free-spirited, transendentalist and is carving out a path-less path for seekers. She says that no guru can grant you enlightenment; no master can awaken your kundalini; one has to toil hard oneself - but without making the effort seem a strain. Seek, but with patience; meditate, but without any goal; sharpen your awareness so that you rise above the ‘me-mine-I’ syndrome of identification with the self.
Today Gurumaa resides in a beautiful ashram in Gannaur, Harayana, India. Ever welcoming to seekers.

Gurumaa has spoken on almost every subject: psychology, religion, family, society, mysticism. Her talks are interspersed with beautiful music and her soul stirring singing. She is a sufi when she speaks on Sufism; a rishi when she speaks on the upanishads and the Geeta; a Shankrachraya; a Buddha; a Zen Master; a poetess; a singer. Gurumaa is all of these and yet, she is none of these!
Anandmurti Gurumaa is a living master who is so ordinary in her extraordinariness! She is a challenge to the intellect, a pleasing sight to the eyes, humorous, and a lively new age Buddha. She is the embodiment of love and knowledge.

GURU- A Master

‘Gu’ means darkness and ‘Ru’ means ‘light’, thus become Guru, the one who brings light in our dark life. One can be very rich, can have multiple, and fabulous lighting system all around in his home, but are we talking about this light! Even a poor person can have light of laaltein or Deepak, so what’s that light we are talking about.

To understand this light, first we need to understand the other aspect the darkness. I want to ask here, ‘what is darkness’. “Have you ever thought that our life is full of darkness, We have to come out of it, have you ever!”

Darkness means unconsciousness, unawareness. The one who doesn’t know about his own true self, the one who is unaware of his core being, that is called ‘darkness’.

Have you seen animals, they take birth as a brutal and live whole life as a brutal and then one day die. Do they have any scope to know about their conscious being, no but man has a wide scope to explore this mystry, to explore ‘who am I’, what is the power through which this body works, what is that power!

Our body is like an electronic appliance and the spirit within us is like electricity power. We people are always concerned with the appliance but we have never thought of the electricity through which this body is working. ‘Guru’ is one who makes us aware that you are not this body, you are not this mind, neither this intellect nor these senses, but you are the divine one.

But one must be thinking that ‘we are divine’ this statement has been given by many saints since ages, this statement can be read in ancient Vedas & scriptures as well, so what’s new if a Guru is saying the same thing.

Through scriptures or Vedas, we can just read them, we can try to put them in our intellect but they would remain mere statements, they does not provoke us to work on ourself. But when we listen to them through a Guru, through a Master, then we realize the true essence, of those statements given in scriptures and Vedas.

There would remain darkness until and unless we have no source of light.

There was an incident, a husband and wife was very confused, they were very upset about the darkness in their house, they went to a fakir(a saint) to ask what should we do to bring that ghost of darkness out from the house. We had put water, we tried to beat him with sticks, but it is there as before.

The fakir said ‘you want to send darkness out’, the couple answered ‘yes’. The fakir said ‘no need for such hard efforts, just lit a lamp, and darkness will be gone on its own.

As in this story there is a fakir, same way there is a need of a Guru, a Master who can give us the trick to remove the darkness of ignorance from our lives. We people can come out of this darkness (ignorance) when we can let the lamp of knowledge in our lives, and only a guru can give us the trick.

Enlightened Mystic Master

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